Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-04-19
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Iington, Tho fell and broke his lesr.
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An empty house caught fire from
unknown causes at GAINESVILLE and $500
damage done Incendiary origin is
suspected.
Fred Manthy Of Minneapolis fell
under the wheels of a train at Grand
Rapids and was killed. Manthy was
enroute to Wausau.
Gulls and swans by the hundreds
have been feeding in Lake WinnebagO
near Fond du Lac, this spring. The
number of birds is the largest in
years.
Mrs. Elizabeth Renzelmann, of She
boygan, aged A, mother of the Rem
zelmann brothers, musicians, was
killed by a freight train while on her
way to mass.
Gust Johnson and family of Marin
cite. lost their home and its contents
by fire being also driven out by the
flames. $3.50 in gold, silver and cur
rency were consumed.
f. G. Hall, a Ripon college student,
arose from measles sickbed and won
second prize in an Oratorical contest
His subject was 1.-THE Cause and of
War and its Remedy"
Peter Youkowitz of Milwaukee, aged
So, employed on a coal dock, was
crushed to death when huge clam
shell coal bucket broke loose from its
moOrings and fell on him.
Dorothy Hoffman, of Ft. Atkinson,
lost her power of speech. The little
girl got up in the morning as well
as usual, but when she attempted to
tax was unable to greet her parents.
Five hundred men are wanted by the
LangIade Lumber company OF Amigo.
Jobs as wOOdsmen, bark peelers ana
section men, are open. Work is
started on the big sawmill to be erect
ed this summer.
Because a village clerk failed to
properly post and advertise the cleo
tion notices. the village of Highbridge,
near Ashland, which voted dry April
!. is likely to remain wet. The drys
carried by votes.
pan of hot milk placed on a table
IL cool. caused the death of twenty
months old George Cashier, OF Mil
waukee. The baby walking about,
reached up and pulled the pan over,
the fluid scaIding his head, face and
hands.
Fred Opperman who shot Miss Ed
mund Durham of WauwatOsa, IN
Jealous fight and eluded the officers
for a time. received d fifteen year SEN
tance in Waupun. Opperman put up
a terrific fight at the time of the shoot
ing and was able to beat of his as
saiIants and escape.
The highest water in years was Ihe
report of A. J. ellis, official guage
keeper at the Prairie du Chen wealth
er station. last Tuesday morning. AT
that time the river showed 16.7 feet
above low water mark, or z feet below
the mark Of 1908, the last record. me
wear 1883 registered mark OF Is feet.
Frank Engman and Brady Henry,
two alleged ex-cOnvicts, were captur-
Cd at Superior after a chase in which
100 citizens took part. Engman, it is
said. was released from Saltwater IN
February and Henry has a record. 1t
is said that the men plead guilty to
having shot a man in a recent hold
up at St. Paul.
Thomas Murphy, a Racine vagrant,
objected to being placed in a cell with
colored man, and endeavored 10
cremate the latter by setting fire to
the cell mattresses. Police officials
smelIed the smoke and arrived in time
to rescue the two men. The negro
named MOultOn, was found last
asleep with his clothing on fire.
Two Stevens Point young ladles,
Misses Lucy Pliska and Martha Mol
ski. assistants in the dental office OF
DR. ]. M. Bishop, were bound over
TO the circuit court on charge OF
practising dentistry without a license.
They furnished 500 bail each. The
complaint was made by the state board
of dental examiners.
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AIva Churchill, a young farm land,
was arrested in Rock county for forg-
ery. alleged to have been committed
IN Vernon county last Thanksgiving
dav. lit is said that Churchill endors-
ed another mans name TO check Tor
SIS at ReadstOwn, and disappeared
The Bankers Protective Association
ran down the case. Churchill was
taken to ReadstOwn for trial.