Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-01

scaIded when q steam pipe exploded.
Stanley Hill and Ella Wheelock of
GAINESVILLE, were arrested in a resort
which the police had raided. The
couple allege they were to have been
married the following day.
George Shulke of Prairie du Chen,
aged 20 and a civil war veteran, was
burned to death in his home. His wife
was rescued by neighbors in a dying
condition. The cause of the blaze is
unknown
! New homes, a new hotel, theater
and postoffice building will keep work
ers busy in Amigo the coming sum-
mer. The Langlade Lumber company
will also commence building large
sawmill and shops.
| Frank Sullivan, employed in a Mil
waukee rOundhouse, received severe
| injuries when a sandtank manhole
blew up. The fine sand penetrated the
bruises and acerations, causing a
grave condition.
Conrad Whitman of Grand Rapids,
chased fox that he had wounded to
point in the woods where he lost
the varmint After some delay a
search was made and the fox found
dead in a nearby tree.
The timber on $4,000 acres of land
is expected to keep the big mills busy
of the Langlade Lumber company at
Amigo for the next fifteen years. Saw
mills with an annual capacity of 25,-
0OO,0 feet of lumber will be erected
by the company.
Two gay clad fortune tellers read
the palm of Frank Boynton, q Mil
waukee garage owner and predicted
very bad luck for him. Later Boyn-
ton found that his till had been looted
of $110. The palmists were arrested.
Mrs. John Holum of Eau Claire,
went shopping and returned to find her
son John, aged 4, badly burned from
kerosene which he had poured on the
fire during his mothers absence 1t
is thought Re will recover.
The residence of Edward Dwight
Eaton, president of the Beloit college,
Beloit, was ransacked by thieves.
President Eaton and his family are
away for the winter. The value of
the loot is not known to the police.
A double-barreled shotgun with
one barrel discharged and the other
loaded with a string tied to the trig-
! ger at the home of Max Leagl of
Beaver Dam. Leagl was lying dead
nearby with a buckshot wound in his
stomach. He was about 65 years old.
Miss Lizzie Wagner of Wautoma, is
confined in a Fon du Lac hospital as
the result of an injury received while
riding home on hay wagon. A tele-
graph wire which was slackened by
sleet, caused a standard to fall on
the girl. Her jaw was broken and
her skull fractured. She will probably
die.
Max Affeldt, of Lacrosse, veteran
of the Spanish-American war and
president of the veterans and widows
relief commission, confessed to hav-
ing appropriated the Sc monthly check
of a soldiers widow. Affeldt wept as
he told the authorities the story of
his peculation. He is a wealthy gro
Ger.
After bidding his wife goodbye and
giving her all his property, August
Zitlow of Kaukauna, respondent be-
cause he could not quit drinking
placed a dynamite cartridge between
his teeth and lit the fuse blowing his
brains out. Zitlow and his wife had
been discussing their affairs and go
ing over their deeds and mortgages
when the tragedy occurred.
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Mrs. Ida WenZel of Kaukana had
her arm amputated at the left should
er in an Appleton hospital. 1t is
said that Mrs. Wenzel's husband came
home after she had obtained a divorce
from him, and beat her until he
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Neglect and complications setting in
necessitated the operation. The
children of the couple have been sent
to Sparta.
Mrs. Della Sanford, aged 81, and for
seventeen years assistant postmaster
at Sheboygan Falls, received bullet
from a 22-calibre revolver in the right
side of her head. Miss Sanford told
the physician that the accident had
occurred while she was engaged IN
cleaning out small drawer where
she kept the weapon. 1t is said that
she has been worrying recently over
TROUBLES in the postoffice.
Mrs. Dora Loose of Milwaukee, has
brought charges against Charles
Rathsack a we'll known young Mani
towoc business man, alleging breach
of promise. Mrs. Loose, who is a