Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-08-18
COUNTY AND NEARBY
Matters of Current Interest BY
Telegraph and Mail.
Crimes, Casualties and Remarkable
Incidents that have Lately
Happened Hereabouts.

the railroad track to sleep and was
killed by the fast train. A tramp dog
made frantic efforts to save the unfOr-
6Unate mans life by Juggling at his
coat until the train was almost at his
on him, when the dog jumped to safe
W.
Sheriff Miller, of Richland county,
was driving his car into the village
OF Viola and pulled out of the road
20 pass a team. The weeds on the
side of the road covered a hole, and
Mr.. Miller dropped into it. In en-
G1eavoring to pull out he gave the
steering wheel a quick turn and the
car turned completely over burying
the sheriff beneath it. Mr.. Miller
managed to elude the steering wheel
and crouched in the mud under the
car while, in the meantime, the en-
8ine was running. Some wOrkmen
released him and righted the car. A
broken windshield was the only dam
age done.
The coroner's jury sitting on the in
quest of DR.. Pitts, the young physi
clan, who was killed at Mt. Horeb re-
Gently, returned a verdict that the
North Wesern grade crossing west of
Mt Horeb is unsafe and that the
&ANHDduY uOG6 uOL pIOpOI
signal at this point.
Bertha Elite EIey, a pretty 24-year-
old nurse in the Madison sanitarium,
was supposedly drowned last Tuesday
afternoon in Lake Monona. She had
been working nights, and in the after
moon procured a boat for a pleasure
ride. An hour later the boat was
f0und empty near Murphy's creek.
The body was found floating in the
lake
Contracts for more than 100000
Eeet of hemlOck and mixed hardwOodS
were recently closed by the Milwau-
Ezee road Bumper crops ripening in
ghe territory tapped by the roads, make
Rhe lumber necessary for grain doors,
IN the cars.
A motor boat funeral followed
the motor boat hearse containing the
body of Max Cardin, who was drown
ed liz the Wisconsin river at Lansing,
mot long ago. The procession went
down the Wisconsin and up the Miss
lSssippi rivers, thirty miles to the bur-
Eal ground.
Wolves in Bear Valley are causing
loss 10 farmers in that section by the
killing sheep Lone Rock Review
says "A pack of wolves is
committing many depredatiOns in
Bear Valley. The animals are bold
and very destructive. They killed
mine sheep on the farm of Julius Her
pel and three on the Kaney farm oc-
cupied by n. Moore. This isn't the
first visit they have made to the lat
Tter's place. Henry BabcOck and E.
Cunningham went out Thursday to
hunt the animals. They found cave
where the wolves had stayed but were
rnnc able to locate them. Residents
lf Bear Valley have heard them Of
ten during the night, but thus far have
been unable to kill any of them. 1t
Ms said there are two packs and an eff
tort will be made to run them down"
Harry Manning and a companion
named Harper, held up Walter Mart
IN ( conductor for the GAINESVILLE Trac-
zen company, and relieved him OF
SssVen dollars in money and his gold
watch, while Martin was alone in his
car al the end of the line. Both dis
appeared, but a good description was
furnished to Patrolman Jesse Rattle,
OF Madison, who recognized Manning
on the Madison streets. A revolver
duel followed in which both fired
.olOlS- ndlIlC OdPIuA Gu
who was sent back to GAINESVILLE, and
received a sentence of twenty years
lust a few days after the crime had
been committed. His companion es-
capped
Three million feet of lumber in a
gigantic raft, was taken down the
Mississippi from Saltwater, Mimi, to
Fort Madison, Iowa, not long ago,
raf hos hnnr1 hntIdino If iC said
for three years and marks the last of
6he big RATS that formerly run the
river"
Edward Cunningham, aged 45, Sex
7EOnville, killed himself at the home of
mis- sister while alone on the place.
When found the body was hanging
so low that by bending his knees he
could have easily touched he ground.
Cunningham had been afflicted since
childhood, and had made several at
8empts on his life.
a wood nymph, who has eluded
THE Sparta authorities and served as
a perpetual mystery to the soldiers
al Camp Robinson, was captured by
the sheriff and brought to town. The
soldiers attributed the loss of a tub
IUu of ammunition to her as prints
oDf female foot gave the officers the
oEIew- When captured the young lady
who is described as a handsome
blonde type, about twenty-four years
old, refused to talk about herself, al
though she seemed perfectly ration
al The sheriff thinks she is a nature
Iaddist.
Five gay young men took the car
belonging to F. NJ. Rhomberg, and
started out for joy ride Saturday
might a week ago. They were coming
down the drive from Sandy Hook
which is located on the top of the hill
on the Wisconsin side, opposite Du-
buque, and, in attempting to take a
slight turn in the road the driver ran
olff the embankment into Sunfish
lake The car turned a somersault
and landed with the wheels down in
the water twenty feet below. The &C.
ocupants beyound a ducking, were unin-
IuTed.
A party that left Highland Junction