Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-07-28

the deed as he was IN eXcellenC
health. He had been divorced six
months ago, after married life of
about year.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Liddicoat, Of
Linden, are the proud parents of
triplets born a week ago, the stork
leaving two boys and a girl. All
are doing we'll. Theodore Roosevelt
please write.
Henry Lorenzo living at Eagle
River, Trempealeau county, has been
killing rattlesnakes this season for
both diversion and profit, and numbers
rs last week as the number of scalps
or rattles on his belt. The county
clerk g bounty for fifty cents for each
snake killed, is making dozens of
boys hunt the rocks along the river
for the reptiles.
Kelsey White, IL years old, went
to his death in Delavan lake on July
18th where he had gone in bathing.
He dived into the water and struck a
rock under the surface. This is the
first death by drowning at Delavan
this year.
Lyle Drew age 9, was fatally in
jured when driving a cultivator on
the farm of .. Jennings, near Bethel.
The horses became frightened and
ran away, dragging the boy under the
machine and through barbeG wire
fence. His face and body were badly
mangled and he may not live.
Conductor r. C.. Cook fell be-
tween the cars near Clyman Junction,
when the train he was walking on
broke in two. He had stepped from
one car to another just as the train
parted and fell so close to the rails
that the tail of his coat was severed.
He has broken ankle and many bruises
but lives to tell the tale.
George Ritzenthaler a citizen of
Baraboo, became vexed over a con-
troversy following the purchase of an
Ingersoll watch and threw a stone
through a jewelers. window. He
was caught Immediately but the
jeweler refused to prosecute.
Clara Viola Stumpf, ten year old
girl living at Dubuque, came near
being Kidnapped and the attempt
might have succeeded had not her
mother fought off two strangers.
The little girl was playing in the
yard which on the shore of the river
when launch pulled up and two men
disembarked and seize her. Her
screams attracted her mothers atten-
ton and she fought the strangers
until help arrived when the men
escaped. The little girl recognized
one of the men as her uncle, Louis
O'Connell of Chicago, but the other
was stranger to her. Trouble over
the ownership of property and the
fact that her mother had married
again is given as a reason for the
attempted kidnapping.
Edward Gibbons of Fond du Lac,
was shot three times in the head, hip
and arm, and his nephew Robert, is
held as the assailant. The injured
man 8 condition is regarded as critical.
Alfred Kringle of Mikana, has been
bound over to the grano jury on
charge of manslaughter. He was
driving car from Campia to
Mikana during the night time and
the machine went over the embank-
ment, killing Mrs. Anthony Killing
and her sister Julia Paczkowski, of
Evidence at the inquest
showed that Kringle had been drink
ing.
Wilbur Bull of Rio and Ia months
old, swallowed several kernels of
corn and for several days nothing
happened. But finally pneumonia set
in and an X-ray being taken showed
the kernels in his windpipe. An
operation was performed and the
kernels removed, the last
one dropping out when the doctor
turned Wilbur up side down. The
child is recovering finely
Bert Birkett. employed at the
Lawrence mine near Hazel Green,
was instantly killed when a boulder
fell from the top of the shaft down
100 feet, and struck him on the
head. He was standing at the
bottom of the shaft.
Mrs. j. I. Kneebone, who lives
on farm near Galena, had an excit-
ing moment when gathering eggs not
long ago. She had almost put her
hand in the nest when she found a
huge snake coiled up sucking the
eggs. The reptile put up fierce
fight and managed to get away be-
fore she could kill it. Mr.. Snake
had eaten nearly all the eggs but