Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-15

ueI uISuCSOWn caught IRE. Inc DuTnS
caused her death the same day.
Ralph Sherman, a GAINESVILLE civil
war veteran fell from the top of a hay
wagon twelve feet to the ground and
landed on a cement sidewalk. He
lived only few days
Ada Eagles of Neillsville, while Wis
iting her daughter in Belleu, dressed
chicken and found in it's crop
gold ring which she had once given
her grandson for present.
The $4,000 damage suit conducted
by Mrs. Ruby Frank Abrams Of Osh
kosh, against John c.. Pierce of the
same city, was decided in Mrs Alb
rams favor, the jury giving her $125
damages.
Miss Nellie Radigan Of GAINESVILLE,
aged 20 years, was scalded about the
face, chest and arms when she slipped
on the stairs of neighbours home and
kettle of boiling water she was car
rying, upset on her. Her wounds are
serious, but it is thought she will not
be SCARED.
Samuel Witwer of Arcadia, was
thrown from the box of wagon to
the ground when the wheels struck
a rut, Witwer had his neck thrown
out of joint and was taken to a La
Crosse hospital where an operation
was performed replacing the dislo-
Gated vertebrae.
Because her husband threatened to
leave her, Mrs. Dell O'Neill of Ash
land committed suicide 1t is said
that O'Neill received letters from
friends who cast aspersions on his
wife's character. Mrs. O'Neill denied
the stories. The couple had been mar
ried two years.
Dora Peterson, the Oconto girl who
slept one hundred hours at a stretch,
has recovered so she is able to sit up
and be around. After her first sleep,
with the exception of awakening for
a few minutes at a time, in which
nourishment was given her, she slept
continually for ten days.
Because he stole 100 lbs of coal,
valued at 25c, from railroad right of
way, Howard Crubaugh of GAINESVILLE,
was given fifteen days in Jail. The
Milwaukee road has been experiencing
considerable loss from petty thefts of
coal and an attempt is being made to
stop tie practice.
The Kenosha police authorities are
searching for thieves who stole the
brass caps on the thermostats con-
nected with the heating plant in the
city hall. Other loose brass on the
pipes was about to be looted when a
flood of steam frightened the thieves
away. The police station is located in
the city hail.
Herman Schlosser, farmer in the
town of Lindsey, was fined $40 and
costs on a charge of "hOgging the
road" Schlosser, with a farm team
and sleigh, was overtaken by William
Paape in an auto. When Paape at
tempted to pass, SchIosser jeered at
him and held such a position that it
was impossible to get by.
Austin Doxtater, an Oneida Indian,
living at Depere, met his death in a
peculiar manner. DOXtater with 9TH
er redskins piled into sleighboX to
return home from Freedom where
they had been for the day. The party
stopped at a farmers house where
they intended to stay all night. Dox-
tater could not be reused and was
allowed to stay in the sleigh. The
next morning his companions found
him still lying, frozen to death. An
examination disclosed a broken face
and body bones, and it is thought he
was smothered to death by the other
men sleeping on top of him.
The next legislature will be asked
to strengthen and broaden the scope
of the mothers pension law. M. J.
Tappins, secretary Of the board of
control, declares that the law should
81 have known several cases where
widowers have been left with small
children, and have been so disabled
that they could not support them, with
the result that the children were sent
to the home for dependent children"
declared Mr.. Tappin. He said that
from fifteen to twenty applications
are received under the mothers pen
sion law daily OF the total cost the
state furnished one-third and the
county twO-thirds.
Shirley Morrison, Louis Shower and
Carl Standish, sons Of respectable
people in Viroqua, are charged with
having entered the jewelry store of @.
NJ Morrison in that city and taking
goods therefrom. The boys range
from II to 20 years in age. Young
Morrison sold one of the watches TAX