Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-07-19

Saengerfest given by the state German
singing organizations at Green Bay,
last Sunday.
Arthur NJ. Mikkelson of Kenosha, a
third year high school student, left
last week for West Point where the
youth will enter the military academy.
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I John Whalen of Lodi, aged 80, COM
mitted suicide, using 80 calibre re
volver. A wife and four small child
4 rem survive. III health is given as a
cause.
Mrs. Clarissa NJ Taylor, aged 81,
died in the town of Plover, near Stew
ems Point, last week. Mrs. Taylor was
born in New York, but lived in Wis
consin more than 60 years.
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Edward Samuel, aged 10, Of Mil
waukee, drowned in the river where
he and an older brother had gone
swimming. His cries for help were
not heard in time to save him.
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The remains of Paul M. Seigert, of
Wausau, hunter who disappeared
from home on May 20, were found in
swamp. Only the skull, a few bones
and a gun were found, animals having
evidently been at the body.
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An unknown youth attacked Mild
red Parson, aged IL, of Stevens Point,
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spot. The Parsons girl was berrying
with other children, and another girl
gave the alarm. The assailant escaped
ed. The girl will recover.
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William F. Hannum of Milwaukee,
a lawyer, plunged into Lake Mendoza
last week and rescued an unknown
young girl from drowning. The girl
was swimming with water wings and
was unable to right herself when her
head became immersed.
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George A. Nickle. of Appleton and
his wife and child jumped from an
automobile in time to save their lives
when the machine went dead" on the
Northwestern railroad tracks in that
city. An approaching train demolish-
ed the car.
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Albert Boyce, a carpenter, was
found dead at the foot of Washington
street in Milwaukee, where he was en-
ployed nearby a grain elevator under
erection. The mans neck was broken
and the theory is that he fell from a
platform.
Eight years in Waupun, was the
sentence given to Silas Boyd, the Ne
gro. who robbed two men on a freight
train near Caledonia, a short time
ago and resisted a detective who shot
Boyd in the neck. Boyd's shot broke
the cylinder of the officers pistol, but
the latter brought him down.
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Mrs. Rose Allen of st. Paul, was in
stantly killed at Scion Springs, where
she was visiting a daughter. Mrs. AL
len had gone to the station to meet
another daughter who was coming for
visit. She stepped out of the way
of one train and was run down by an
other.
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Ronald Fandrick, of Oxford, years
old found a railway torpedo along the
Northwestern right of way. He threw
stone at the torpedo, which explod-
ed. Pieces of rock cut the lall of his
right eye, cut his left eyelid, cut a
deep cash in his forehead and breast.
He may lose his sight.
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An examination will be made of the
mental condition of Louis Van Hout-
en-, an aged hermit who has lived on
farm in the town Of Bristol, near
Kenosha. The owner, who is one of
the signers of the petition, says that
he has never been able to get Van
Houten off the place.
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William Baptist of Beloit, preferred
drowning to being scalded to death by
live steam, and plunged into the river.
Baptist was fishing by the side Of
paper mill when a roar told him that
he was in front of q live steam pipe.
He managed to get ashore although
poor swimmer.
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A damage suit for $4,000 has been
brought by Alexander S. John, Pin
kerton detective, employed by the pa
per concerns at Appleton, against
Chief of Police Michael Garvey, who
St John alleges, treated him brutally
while the detective was confined i'll
cell for threatening to shoot a strike
er.
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Gov E. L. Phillip pardoned ]. A.
jerks, Eau Claire, who has been serv-
ing three-year sentence for bigamy,
so that he might accompany Company
E of his home city to the border in the
capacity of cook. The men of the
company appealed to the governor
that jerks was too good a cook to
stay in prison. He decided they were