Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-04-12

A pet fox escaped at Lacrosse and
was tracked by amateur hunters and
CANNES to it's hiding place under the
steps of the German Lutheran church
in that city.
Burglars broke into the Hub cloth
open They were able to get away
with $500 cash, but left checks and
watches worth $500.
Tom Levert of Fond du Lac, negro,
aged As, dropped dead from heart
failure as the sheriff was about to
place him in a cell. Exposure and
i lack of food brought on the disease.
Beloft people may not bet accord
/ ing to a fine of 81 and costs assessed
upon L. C. Webb of that city. Webb
who runs a billiard hall, bet upon the
result of a billiard game.
Mr.. Fredericks defended himself
vigorously and escaped without in
I jury. He later swOre out warrants
for the arrest of the mob leaders. Mr..
Fredericks is so bitter in his attacks
that he has been labelled the fight
ing parson.
Walter Meinest of Manitowoc, miss
ing since last August, is being search
ed for by his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
John Meinest. Meinest left home with
the intention Of seeing a circus at APP
pletOn. He has not been heard from
or seen since then.
Violent denunciatiOn of the liquor
traffic brought forth an attack on Rev.
a. F. Frederick Of Kendall, who was
addressing an audience at West Sa-
lem. A half drunken mob gathered
outside the hall and attacked the
minister as he was leaving.
Epidemics Of smallpox and scarlet
fever are feared at Plover following
the recent high water which covered
the roads to depth of four feet. The
entire country was badly flooded and
traffic completely halted. School
children were conveyed in vehicles.
R. p. Russell, a citizen of Depere.
is dead. Mr.. Russell was a veteran
of the civil war and served forty years
as deacon of the Baptist church. He
was Sunday school superintendent for
thirty-three years during that time
and missed only eleven Sundays dur
ing that time.
Five minute telephone talks were
given by Gov. Hiram Johnson of Cal
ifornia, r. L. Donnelly, president of
the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES club, Presi-
dent Letter of the Los Angeles Rotary
club and other notables, to the 800 Su-
perior Commercial club banqueters.
The occasion was the celebration over
the shipyards and new steel plant in
the northern Wisconsin city.
Three Ridgeway men named Mike
Conley, a restaurant man, Chris Refs
sen, hotel man, and Lou Meyer, will
probably be prosecuted at DOdgeville
for the illegal sale of liquor. The Of
! ficials found beer and brandy in
wholesale quantities on the mems
premises. Because of the illness of
the district attorney the case will not
come to trial for the present.
The Prairie du Chen Courier says
/ that, Otis Johnson, postmaster and
proprietor of the general store at
Waukon Junction was found dead in
his home with a self-inflicted bullet
wound in his head. The dead man
was cripple about 40 years old and
unmarried. 1t is said that shortage
/ in his accounts, reported to have been
! discovered by a pOstoffice inspector
was the cause of Mr.. Johnson taking
his life.
Indigo brought high price at Man
itowoc the other day when Walter
Bahr of that city sold a small quaint
ty of the) day for $120. At one time
Mr.. Bahr's father operated bluing
factory, but was compelled to close it
on account of foreign competition.
The barrel containing the indigo,
worth at that time 40c a pound, was
carried home and left in old shed.
When a man telephoned Bahr MAX
ing him a handsome offer and the lat
ter scraped II pounds out of the bar
rel
Rosy checked and black haired,
Chester Lorrain, who posed as Keith
Edward Dalrymple, heir to 100000
estate in Port Allegheny, Pa, will not
break the hearts of women for the
next five years, for Judge Backus of
Milwaukee, committed him to Waupun
for that lenght of time.
AS a deceiver of women Lorrain,
alias Briggs, was accused of many
receptions. One girl, 16 years old,
was found apparently i'll in his fiat