Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-04-19

ison, were given two years in the state
penitentiary.
Playing around a bonfire may cost
the life of Willie LorrisOn of Beloit,
aged years The lad was seriously
burned.
Mrs. III. Rieder of Milwaukee, aged
SO, was probably fatally burned when
she fell down stairs and landed in
tub of scalding hot water She was
taken to the Emergency hospital.
City garbage collectors at Racine
ask a raise in wages from $50 to 500
monthly. Collecting begins May 1. The
city health department demurs say
ing the city cannot afford the increase
and the garbage men will petition the
council
Ira c. Enders of Beloit, aged rs,
stood in front of looking glass and
/ fired a bullet at his right temple. The
projectile fractured the old mans
skull but did not kill him. He died
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wealthy.
! Miss Barbara Tilkens and William
/ Shnaekel of Green Bay, narrowly es-
capped death when their motor car was
I struck by a heavy touring car and
4 hurled into the ditch. The machine
was wrecked but the occupants not
seriously injured.
/ George Batnias of Arcadia, commit
I ted suicide after his defeat for reelec-
ton TO the office of village clerk, a
position he had held for eighteen
years. After checking Robert BallOw,
his opponent, into office, Bathias sent
bullet into his brain.
Joseph Gardipee, aged p, held in
the Brown county Jail until he could
commence sentence of one year at
Green Bay for burglary, secured per-
mission from the janitor to use the
telephone in the sheriff's office and
then slipped away.
A railroad torpedo placed on the
North Western tracks at New Maple
ton, to stop a freight train, injured
B. L. Smith a.railroad employee. Smith
was riding down the tracks with
railroad motor car and struck the tor
pedo which exploded.
I Mrs. Thomas Lynch, of near Port
age, aged AZ, was found in dying
condition by her daughter. Mrs.
! Smith, who was farmers wife, chop
ped her left forearm off with a sharp
axe. Prompt medical attention was
without avail. The husband and six
children survive.
Aubrey HOgben, aged two-and-one
half years, of Milwaukee, ran on the
street car tracks despite his mothers
warning and was struck by a car and
killed. Mrs. Hogben accompanied by
her two children, had been attending
moving picture show and the three
were on their way home.
T. NJ. Balm, of McGregor, Iowa, a
student at the University of Wiscon-
sin, was seriously injured about the
eyes when a solution of caustic acid
and caustic potash he was working
on in the chemical laboratory, eX
ploded While the burns are serious
he will not lose his eyesight.
An auto containing Ben Crogan of
Galesville, his mother, Mrs. Hattie Gro
gan and his sister, went off the road
leading to the high wagon bridge
across the Mississippi river and the
trio was drowned. They were en-
route to. WinOna, using a macadam
road built across the Wisconsin bot
toms to accommodate farmers. The
road was level with the Mississippi
due to high water.
High water in the Mississippi river
drove many muskrats from their bur
rows on the island opposite McGregOr.
1t is said that trappers reaped rich
harvest from the animals as they were
crowded together and unable to get
away. Shooting and spearing were the
methods used, instead of traps as US
ual One man caught forty-five in a
few hours. 1t is said that the skins
excel during March and April and that
prices are high.
DR.. Carlyle Watterson, the Lacrosse
dentist who was sued for breach of
promise by Miss Nellie Dummer, and
ordered to pay the woman $500 damag-
es, was hailed into court for failure
to comply with the court order. Wat
terson emptied his pockets producing
$3.50, saying that was all the money
he had. A receiver has been appoint
ed to inquire into the dentists cir
cumstances.
An explosive stored in the base
ment of a Kenosha shanty occupied by