Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-05-03

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The village pOstoffice was located in
/ the store.
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/ Pietro Milskowski of Kenosha,
charged with having sent improper
matter through the mails, was arrested
u by United States Deputy Marshal Nc
Cormick, and taken to the United
States court in Milwaukee for plea.
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4 Stepping from track to track to
avoid an approaching train, caused
the death of August Schultz of Racine,
aged SO and Augie Miller, aged %, a
companion. The men were run over
/ by a flyer on the track upon which
/ they were walking.
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\ Frank Lukaseski, II years Of age,
of Grand Rapids, was killed in the
Port Edwards paper mill while at
I tempting to put a broken sheet of
paper into a revolving roll. He was
drawn into the machine and his head
was crushed to pulp.
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Andrew James, aged 81, and Gar
ret Groesbeck, aged 45, were found in
a small building on the outskirts of
Fond du Lac by an interurban car
crew. Both men had swallowed car
bolic acid. A suicide pact is suspect
I ed.
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The most up-to-date tuberculosis
sanitarium in Wisconsin is planned by
4 the county board of Marathon county
at Wausau. $4,000 for a hospital of
40 beds was first planned, but the sum
Y has been increased by $4,000 and an
addition with double the capacity will
\ be made.
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Pathetic is the case of Miss Sigril
Hills, native of Finland, who was re-
I Gently released from the Wood county
v asylum. Miss Hills saved for years
Y to come to America, and went insane
shortly after arriving, from the pri-
vations endured. She will go back to
/ her native land
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What is said to be the first silver
black foxes born in captivity in Wis
consin, arrived at the Reedsburg fox
ranch last week. The litter consisted
of four baby foxes of potential val
ue of $4,000. Others are expected soon.
Ten pairs of adult foxes from Prince
Edwards Island, Canada, stock this
unique farm.
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Lightning at Amigo set on fire the
warehouse of the English Manufac-
turing company which burned to the
ground and the entire mill district was
threatened for a time. twenty-five
carloads of wooden tubs were des-
\ troyed in the blaze. Three men and a
/ boy were injured by the bolt, and two
rendered unconscious.
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Heavy rains, combined with high
water caused the long earth fill over
Red Creek bottoms, two and a half
miles south of DeSOto, Wis, to col
lapse when passenger train No. IS
attempted to cross. c. j. Snyder, en-
gineer, went into the deep waters of
Red Creek slough with his locomotive,
but escaped with only a few scratch
es. His fireman jumped.
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Unable to stand prosperity, Willie,
the dog which was left 500 by his own
er, Mrs. Mary Johnson, of Lacrosse,
passed into the great beyond one
month after his mistress. Otto Arm
rud, lifelong friend of Mrs. John
son, was made the principal benefic-
! iary under her will, but died one week
I following the death of Mrs. Johnson.
Mrs. Johnson's sister and three broth
ers, it is said, will now inherit the
estate.
A G. Olson, a bank employee, and
said to be the handsomest young man
in the village of ElkhOrn, was arrest
ed at GAINESVILLE for violation of the
city ordinances, in that Olson drove
an automobile past a street car while
I it was discharging passengers. That
no one was injured is due it is said,
to the passengers agility in getting
out of the way. The immaculate de-
/ PENDANT paid a fine of SO and costs in
court after having wept and admitted
4 his guilt
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/ Ferdinand Nuremberg, a cave
dweller, was arrested by the Milwau
/ kee police who hauled him from
burrow in the city garbage plant.
Nuremberg was in such filthy condi-
tnon that it took several hours with
hose and washing powders at the
police station to render him approach
able. Nuremberg betrays absolute ig
norance and has lived on the refuse
4 from the garage plant, Will occupy
7 ing his lakeside home. He will serve
80 days for vagrancy.
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/ Four ropes were used by Prairie du
/ Chen fishermen to secure an enOr-
nous female sturgeon that had been
ensnared in a trammel net by Charles
aud En- Unua KurtS The man fastened