Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-01-26

J u, fell on the ice While skating ana
broke his leg. When examined at the
hospital physicians found an acute
case of appendicitis, caused it is said,
by the fall.
Mrs. Julia Miller, aged 81, confined
in the Mendoza hospital for the insane,
took twelve poison tablets from a med
icine packet while the attendant nurse
was temporarily out of the room. She
died in a short time.
The domestic science department
of the Depere high school came into
practical use during the recent cold
snap The pupils meals to large eX-
tent, were prepared by the department
and all foods were sold at cost
Carl linn Of Milwaukee, went to
Lake Pewaukee to watch his friend,
Robert Hine, fish through hole in
the ice. Zinn pulled out his handker-
chief and a pocketbook containing
$3.50 in cash dropped into the hole.
S. NJ. Darlington, a pioneer resident
of Oakfield, near Fon du Lac, swallow
ed two ounces of choral as a result of
brooding over i'll health. He was work
ed on all night by physicians who fin
ally brought him out of danger.
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Rudolph Kartes of Milwaukee, re-
ceived the surprise of his life when a
neighbOr woman attacked him with
red hot poker and attempted to burn
out his right eye He was taken to
hospital in a badly burned condition.
Mrs. John Schiller, of Freedom, an
Oneida Indian woman, was found froz-
en- to death and holding her dead baby
in her arms. 1t is said that a drunken
Indian with whom she was riding
home, knocked her from the sleigh
with a club.
Frank Morse of Akron, Ohio, aged 10,
was taken from the city Jail at Sheboy-
gan to the hospital, when his feet were
discovered to be badly frozen. Morse
had ridden freight train from St.
Paul to the lake city, where he was ar
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Oscar Holcomb, aged Is, of Portage,
had his skull fractured when a flying
tenpin in a bowling alley where he
worked as pinsetter, struck him on the
forehead. Holcomb was resetting the
pins when a player who was trying
for a spare, threw the ball. An OPP
Grafton on the skull has been perform
ed and Holcomb is believed to be out
of danger.
gang of boys in search of lead
lpipe, broke into st. Mary's Polish
Catholic church at Manitowoc and
icaused great damage to an expensive
lpipe organ. School books left behind
gave clues that led to their arrest
The church authorities agree not to
prosecute if the parents of the boys
repair the damage.
A recent investigation conducted at
the Milwaukee hospital for the insane
at Wawatosa, disclosed that the lives
of 400 patients were endangered by
the inadequate water supply. While
the building is provided with a sprink-
Ter system, the inspectors say that it
is not properly installed and would
be worse than useless in case of fire.
The county board will take immediate
steps to remedy conditions.
Mrs. Newton Bartholomew, Steuben
postmistress, is endeavoring to make
good a shortage in her accounts of ST.
452 which Postal Inspector Nicholson
found at this Office. A temporary ap-
pointment has been made of a former
pOstmistress for a period of sixty days.
If Mrs. Bartholomew and her husband
are able to make good the shortage it
is said that no prosecutions will fol-
low.
The village of Cambridge, located 10
miles from Madison, which has been
served in a railroad way for the past
10 years by the Chicago e. Lake Su-
perior line, two miles in length, and
said to be shortest road in the world,
is now hauling its supplies from Lon
idOn, nearby town. The lone engine
went into the ditch last summer and
has remained there ever since. The
citizens hope to get a real road soon.
Charles Ehlert of Columbia. was
brought into court on a charge fur
finished by Game Warden Lanning of
Black River Falls, stating that Ehlert
had shot a doe in the woods near his
home. Ehlert told the court that he
found the doe with it's leg broken and
as an act Of mercy, dispatched it. lie
is reliable farmer and his story con-
WINGED the warden and the court that
he was telling the truth. The case
is being further investigated.
County Highway Commissioners In
gelse of ShebOygan, was thunder
struck to find that a section of the
state highway known as the Cedar
Grove-Random Lake road had sunk
iSiyteen and a half feet for a distance