Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-09-20
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James Jolan, aged IS, employed by
the Rhinelander Veneer company at
night, walked off the third story
platform and was killed.
900
Virginia Barrus, aged 6, Clinton,
was knocked down by an automobile
while playing in the street in front
of her home. The car passed over the
child's body, but none of the wheels
struck her. She was but slightly
bruised.
The Oshkosh municipal court has
taken the local automobile "cop" off
his beat on a decision that an ordi-
nance recently passed by the Osh-
kosh town board regulating automo-
biles and imposing fines for speed vi
olations is invalid.
900
Action for $1,318.80 damages has
been brought against E. H. Tubbs of
Clinton, following a collision at OAR
len on July % between two autOmo-
biles, in which the car of Geo. w.
Bresee was wrecked. Bresee claims
i
900
Chris Sorenson of Maiden Rock
was nearly killed by an angry boar
while taking the animal to a neigh
Dor. The boar attacked Sorenson
when the latter stopped to open a
gate. Great gashes were torn in his
chest. Unless blood poisoning sets in
the man will get well.
900
1921 longhorns, the product of 10
cheese factories, sold on the Sheboy-
gan market last week for 10 cents
the pound, this being the highest ever
paid for Wisconsin cheese at this
time of the year. The demand is en-
HANGED by European conditions and
cannot now be fully supplied.
900
A big auto truck driven by VIM
Tank, 33 years old, was struck at
Fond du Lac by a Northwestern pas
senger train and demolished. Tank
and Otto Bergman, "a years old, were
killed, and Arnold Zwicki mortally
injured. Tank was prominent but
ter and cheese manufacturer.
900
Raymond Haengsen, aged IT, was
severely gashed by a tame female
deer while the youth was hunting
small game at Rush Lake, near Rip
on. Haengsen stopped to pet the
deer when it jumped upon him,
throwing him to the ground and
horning him. A companion fright
ened the beast away with a shotgun.
900
Mrs. Chas. Mattlyn of Koshkonong
was severely injured by being thrown
out of buggy. Mrs. Mattlyn weighs
225 pounds and landed on her head
with great force. The fall caused
lesion of one of the neck verte-
brae, producing pressure on the spin
al cord. Bowel paralysis resulted,
causing gas that gave Mrs. Mattlyn
great pain. She is having special
care.
Albert Wetter, a young Swiss en-
ployed in Lycan cheese factory, ac-
cidentally shot and killed himself
while out hunting. Wetter, with some
other boys, stopped to drink at
spring. Wetter was the last one to
drink and his companions went on,
leaving him behind. Suddenly they
heard a shot fired and turning saw
the unfortunate man fall to the
ground, dead. No one knows how
the accident happened
900
Chief of Police w. o. Blunt, James
vile, Intercepted a youngster for a
slight indiscretion and receiving evas-
i've answers advised the youth to
make a clean breast of his trouble.
He was greatly surprised when the
boy pulled out a huge roll of bills,
declaring that he had stolen them
from the local opera house stage
There was $2,452 in the roll, but it
happened to be all ''stage money"
The youth thought he had stolen real
money.
900
The town of Sanborn, near Ash
land, was the scene of regular wild
west hOld-up when two yeggmen
robbed the pOstOffice, taking over
$500 in stamps and money. Patrol
ling outside during the loot was an
other armed yeggman, who fired five
shots while his companions worked
on the safe, to brighten away the cit
liens. None appeared, as they feared
the bullets, although many Sanborn
people were awake. The burglars
made their escape on a gasoline rail
road car, abandoning the vehicle
three miles out of town.
900
An oblong shaped boulder of al
most pure copper weighing half
ton, and worth nearly $500 at the
present price of the metal, has been
recently discovered on the farm of
Chris. Elmon of Rockmont, near Su-
perior The find was made in sight
of the station of Douglas county's
workhouse, in a ravine about 100
feet from the bank of the Amnicon
river, by workmen engaged in build
ing a bridge. They notified Obert
ElmOn, who lives on the place. He
dug the treasure trove out of the
mud and snaked it onto a "go-devil''
and dragged it to the farm house.
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