Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-11-15
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train at Madison on Monday week
ago, and died four hours later. Both
legs were cut off below the knees.
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$4S5 was the sum secured by thives
who broke into the H. Cook harness
store at Neenah and found an open
safe. No trouble was experienced III
getting into the cash drawer.
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A lump of pure copper valued at
SIS and weighing 80 pounds was plow-
ed up in a Jefferson county road by a
gang of workers.
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Joseph Schneider, a Milwaukee
sausage maker, received a broken
neck when his clothing became en-
tangled in stuffing machine. He was
taken out dead.
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While saving wood with a machine,
August Bettcher, Marinette county
farmer, accidentally slipped against
the revolving circular saw and his
right arm was nearly severed.
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Charles Perry, a Milwaukee waiter,
was arrested while trying to sell an
overcoat, for having held up and rob
bed the saloon of Charles Meinke.
Perry pleaded intoxication as a cause
for his crime.
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eff you want your life. leave $500
under the Commercial lock-" This
warning, signed by ralph Barstow,"
and several skulls and crossbones,
was received by Chief of Police w. I.
Blair Of Ashland.
600
John Calder, a Neenah youth, lost
an arm while clipping" freight trains.
Two companions fled when the acct
dent occurred and Calder would have
bled to death but for the arrival of
the police.
Dead at the age Of 27 was the sad
ending of Roy Bennett, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Bennett Of Alderly.
Young Bennett was a member OF a
Canadian regiment fighting in France
and died in action on Oct. Fl.
600
John Norris Of Dodgeville, got be-,
tween two automobiles on a country
road and came out of the impact with
a broken collarbone clavicle and bad
Iy bruised legs. He saw one car and
avoided it, but didn't see the other.
1000
August Ondrick, aged 16 years, Mo
quah, had the terrible misfortune to
shoot and kill his sister while clean
ing a shotgun. The youth did not eat
or sleep for several days following the
fatality and was thought to be go
ing insane.
Owen L. Baldwin of GAINESVILLE, aged
67, was struck and killed by a street
car while walking on the trolley
tracks. Baldwin had recently sold his
property and expected to leave soon
for the south to spend his declining
years with his aged wife
1000
Because his two brothers and his
brOther-in-law had been killed in the
war Ignatz Weltzak, Milwaukee
Pole, procured a gun and threatened
to kill himself. He was found with
the revolver in his hand by friend,
who called the police Weltzak drew
fine OF 81 in Judge Pages court.
1000
Ole Lium, a prosperous Vernon
county farmer, fell from a wagon he
was using to transport hogs to market
and was instantly killed. The rig
went off the embankment and Lium
lost his balance. The team went on
home and Lium was found later with
a broken neck.
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When Joseph Seller opened the back
door of his Ashland home he found the
dead body of his brother-in-law, Frank
Blahnik, As years old, lying on the
porch Blahnik used 32-calibre re-
volver to commit suicide. He is sur
vived by his widow and six children.
Dependency caused his act.
900
$1,000,0OO is the huge sum now men
toned by Green county good roads
enthusiasts who will come before the
county board this week asking for
that amount to be expended for high
ways during the next few years
Should favorable action be taken by
the board a referendum vote will fol-
low next spring.
900
James Kucera, the man who fired 4
shots at John Bailas, his wife and ba-
by at Mauston, went to Waupun for
six years. Kucera was caught in Chi
cago and at first pleaded not guilty.
While the trial was in progress he
changed his plea and threw himself
upon the mercy of Judge James
O'Neill.
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Suit for $4,000 damages has been
brought at Green Bay by Michael ].
Reidy Of Chippewa county against
Martin and Patrick Cain of Cosco.
Reidy alleges that the Gains dug up