Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-06-21

who has not been absent or tardy dur
ing the past seven years.
900
Seven hundred tooth brushes have
been purchased by the Kimberly-Clark
company of Neenah, for the use OF
their male employees.
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a. ]. Plowman of Wausau, former
assemblyman and democratic candl-
date for congress, was tried and found
not guilty of the charge of unlawfully
procuring John Rasmussen, minor,
to vote at the April election.
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Mrs. Margaret Lawrence, aged 20,
Caledonia, was instantly killed by
limited train on the Chicago & Mil
waukee electric road. She failed to
heed the frantic signals Of the train
crew as she walked along the track.
900
Mrs. Mary Lorenz, so, was struck
by an Interurban car at the Five Mile
road, north of Racine, and instantly
killed She had been to a cemetery
to decorate the graves of relatives. She
was thrown against a fence, the i'm
pact breaking her neck.
900
The state fire marshal recently IS
sued "a circular warning against oily
rags and other sources OF spontaneous
Ignition, which are reported to have
cause 127 fires within the year, with a
loss oof $232,S0 All oily cloths or
clothes should be put IN metal contain
ers where fire will not spread.
900
Ed McMullen who left Emerald 20
wears ago to make his fortune in the
gold fields of Alaska, recently adVls-
ed his friends that IN company with
five other prospectors, he had made an
important placer gold strike on Notch
Creek, a gold bearing region in the
Northern territory McMullen, it is
said, will reap fortune.
1000
Letters from every part OF the state
are flooding the governors Office al
Madison asking for the pardoning OF
John Dietz, the defender of Cameron
dam" They are the result of a cam
paign that the wife of the convicted
man is carrying on To influence the
ROkETHOI
900
George HUM of Appleton was cross
ing the joint North Western and Mil
waukee road bridge over the Fox
when he saw train approaching. He
He stepped upon the wrong track to
avoid it, and was struck His leg was
broken. With the gates open just
above the dam, he faced almost GER
tain drowning if he had been thrown
into the water.
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While Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn Lewis of
the town of Eagle were on the way to
a RichIand Center hospital in their
automobile the stork overlook them.
Mother and babe are reported to be
"doing we'll" The baby is a twelve
pound girl. Mrs. Lewis was taken to
the home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
L. Elders of Balmoral, six miles
away. and DR.. G. G. Gobar was called.
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A number of Fond du Lac baseball
PLAYERS were severely injured when
the automobile they were OCCUPYING
struck a rut in the road near Green
driver, John J. Burke, drove to one
side of the narrow road to allow an
other car to pass. Burke received a
fractured right arm, lacerated right
eve and other bruises, and four OF the
team numerous bruises. The men
we're picked up and taken to Fond du
Lac by parties who witnessed the ac-
cident.
A man giving the name of William
Cooley. aged 81, of Marinette, who
claims he is a widower with three
children, was arrested at GAINESVILLE,
on the charge of having tried to GRIM
inaIIy assault two girls, 8 and 10 years
of age. He enticed the girls from their
homes in the southern part OF the city
to a deserted house two miles north
of GAINESVILLE, where they were later
found, the police say. One of the girls,
Lillian Tyrolt, escaped and ran to
neighbor's house, and the nelghDor
notified the police.
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With her 2-year-oId boy in her arms,
Mrs. Vicelke Patronios, 719 Wells
street. ran two blocks to Trinity hos
pital. Milwaukee, in vain effort to.
save the child's life. He died an hour
later. The child was playing in the
kitchen of the home when he tipped
over a can of gasoline onto the stove.
An explosion followed. The mother
smothered the flames and grasping the
lad. dashed toward the hospital. She
was badly burned about the arms and
hands. The explosion set fire to the
house but the blaze was eXtinguished
with little loss.
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August Alsheimer, Madison youth,
died at St. Mary's hospital in that
city from burns about the face and
hndv received ii is said III mis- own