Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-10-27


a young man and to show his disap-
prevail, took shotgun and discharged
it at the fleeing pair. Mr.. Graziano
was so excited however, that his aim
was poor and instead of finding it's
mark the charge went into the tele-
phone and put it out of commission.
The couple escaped.
Willard Bowers of Oak Grove, near
went squirrel hunting week
ago Sunday and while walking around
a tree fell into a deep gulley. His jaw
was broken at the chin. Young Bow
ers walked home after the accident
and as heavy rain was falling did
not receive medical attention until the
next day. The Montfort physicians
found the dressing and setting of the
injury a difficult matter.
John Burns, of GAINESVILLE, used an
old gas heater for a bank and con-
cealed therein $4S5 in bills. Mrs.
Burns, not knowing where the money
was, lit a fire in the heater and when
John went to look for his money he
found only bunch of charred paper.
The remains were sent to Washington
and after the experts had looked them
over, Mr.. Burns received a new roll in
full for his loss, and 50 in addition.
Edward Weitzel appeared before the
Madison municipal court on a charge
of wife and child desertion and drew
the walls of the courts and the attOr-
ney's wrath, by his f1ippant manner.
The attorney scored Weitzel severely
and asked him if he expected his in
themselves. Weitzel was sent to Jail
pending an investigation into his
family's circumstances.
Henry Hucke, Charles Haberman
and Alfred J. Lund, Madison mail car
riers, driving an automobile from Mad
ison to Middleton, were nearly killed
when the machine skidded on the S.
formed Mendoza hill and ran into a
tree. The car was badly damaged and
Lund was rendered unconscious for an
hour Hucke received a dislocated
shoulder and a broken leg. Haber-
man was badly shaken up.
Arthur Woller, a Milwaukee man
aged II years, lost his life at the Musk
wonga mill pond eleven miles south
of Waukesha. Woller had gone hunt
ing with his brother and another young
man, each renting separate Skiff.
When coming on some ducks young
Woller stood up in his boat to fire
and the discharge of the gun upset
his balance and he fell into the water.
He sank Immediately and the body was
not recovered for an hour.
The town of Wisner, located in
Smith county, boasting of 500 citizens,
has moved itself a distance of twelve
miles and all this in one weeks time
The town is the headquarters of the
Gardner Lumber Co., and
has, beside mayor, aldermen, and
full set of ordinances, a Y. M. G. A.
postoffice, general store,
drug store, meat market, electric light
plant and many other cOnveniences
of the modern city.
The two-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Shaftrie of Oconomowoc
wandered away at dusk and during
the night his distracted father, assist
ed by 200 farmers, hunted for the lit
tie fellow Toward dawn the party
came upon the wee lad under a hay
stack, fast asleep, his face and hands
very dirty and his curly hair filled
with burrs. He was carried home
where during the night little sister
had come to be a playmate for him.
DR.. N. j. Hamilton, a Madison phys
ician, awoke during the night not long
ago and heard sounds that indicated
that a disciple of Dick Turpin was in
his home. The gritty physician arose
and grappled with the thief in the
darkness endeavoring to force him
to the back porch and over the rail
ing. The stranger finally broke away
from the doctors grasp and escaped.
Ut. f1dIullIOu was Udu1y cut WuOIC lie
grasped the robbers hand, which held
a knife.
F. F. Wheeler, a citizen of Muscoda,
writes the Progressive of that city that
he deer which was picked up on the
farm of John Rue and shipped to Mad
son on orders of the conservation
was again shipped to Mil
waukee and sold as food in a hotel.
Mr.. Wheeler says the deer had been
lead for thirty hours when found. Mr..
says the one giving the or
Ter for the selling of the deer as veni-
son is liable under the statutes and
quotes Section 1907 G Wisconsin laws
TO substantiate his assertion.
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ected by the Wisconsin, Minnesota
Power Co., for a dam that will be