Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-05-31

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was not of voting age, but cast his
ballot at the recent election. Because
of this he paid fine of 800 and costs
last week.
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A fight among miners that took
place in Miff1in has landed George
Rodanovick of that village, in the To-
wa county jail on a charge of having
stabbed miner named Lazar, with
intent to kill. He will await trial at
circuit court.
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Miss Ruth Wilke of Manitowoc, aged
%. prominent society girl, was bad
! ly burned when, in lighting a furnace
fire, she threw kerosene among
smoldering Goals. The resultant ex-
plosion threw the young lady several
feet and burned her arms and body
badly, but not harming her face. She
will recover.
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When Mrs. Michael Bonn, wife of a
sailor on the United States cutter
TuscarOra, asked her husband for
money for her support, she was as
saulted by Bonn, who beat her up
badly and fed to the steamer. The
brawl occurred at Two Rivers, where
Bonn had gone to spend the day. AS
it is the second offense Bonn will be
prosecuted. He and his wife are sep
arated
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Theodore Sternberg, farmer of
Marathon county, was placed under
arrest following the death of his faith
er-in-law, Ferdinand Jacks, aged 80
years. 1t is charged that Sternberg
returned home from Wausau while in
an intoxicated condition and assault
ed Jacks, infiicting injuries which
later caused his death. Jacks was
said to be wealthy. His only child
was Mrs. Sternberg, now dead.
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w. B. Allen. a Chicago travelling
man, was instantly killed and Theo-
dore Geb, of Racine, seriously injur-
ed, when a taxicab in which they rid
ing, went into a culvert three miles
north of Racine at an early hour in
ness to find Allen lying dead under
the machine, and the driving missing.
Geb summoned help to eXtricate AL
lens body.
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According to a dispatch from Iron
Ridge, Herman Miller, farmer, weighs
2S5 pounds, but his son Walter, 16,
tips the scales at 295, and is as strong
and healthy as he is big. The faith
er is 5 feet II, and the son 5 feet 10.
They ride around Dodge county to-
gether in the fathers Ford machine,
when not too busy on the farm. Walt
er enjoys nothing so much as pitch
ing bundles of corn at silo-flling
time like ordinary big men pitch grain.
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Charles Cheeseman of Milwaukee, is
held for trial for a crime committed
five years ago. In June, 1911 Cheese
man was tried and found guilty for
having taken liberties with twelve
year old girl since married. He
fought the case bitterly and jumped
his bail of $500 while a new trial was
being argued. Recently arrested for
non-support of his wife, the old case
was brought up again. 1t is said that
the maximum sentence of ten years
will be imposed.
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Mrs. Elizabeth Merrity of Milwau-
kee, woman of 43 years, recently APP
piled to the district attorney for help
in getting rid of the morphine habit
Mrs. Merrity claims that she contract
ed the habit following an attack OF
asthma when a remedy containing
morphine was given her by physi-
cian The craving grew SO strong
later on for the drug that she forg-
ed a doctors name and this practice
led eventually to her arrest. Mrs
Merrity claims to have taken lac
grains of the drug in one day and has
had 800 prescriptions filled.
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DR.. J. Donovan and his chauffeur
Anton Brett, of Sturgeon Bay, had q
narrow escape from death when the
machine driven by the physician
plunged throug the rail of bridge
and into Green Bay. DR.. Donovan
had just purchased the machine and
with Brett, was driving it home. The
car skidded at the bridge and went
over, throwing Brett clear, but car.
rying the doctor to the bottom, four.
teen feet below the surface. The jail
and his struggles liberated him anC
he rose to the top. The car was tax
en- out later.
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Ellen Reise, the % year old wife
who poured acid on the body of hel
husband and gave the authorities Sc
much trouble when they arrested her
confessed to the deed before Judge
Backus of Milwaukee, but said thai
Reise had forced her into a life o.
shame. Mrs. Reise, who weighs about