Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-05-31

Pushed under the trucks OF NOV
ing train at Beloit by a companion
in play, Durward Land, aged six
years, had his left foot taken off at
the ankle The boys were playing on
the North Western tracks in that
city.
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Patrolman Jay Hymer of GAINESVILLE,
acting for the sheriff, recently con-
veyed to Waupun, one W. n. Bently
a man of 60 years, who was arrested
and convicted in the Rock county city
for forgery. This is the second time
Bently has been in Waupun, and 1t is
said the fourth term served for the
crime of uttering bogus paper. 1t is
said that all of Bently's crimes are
of a bungling order, and that in each
case the forgery was detected in
stantly. New crimes followed each
release it being impossible for him to
desist.
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The Supreme court recently decid-
ed that the dependents Of an employe
whose death was caused by the drink
ing of polluted water in the course
of his employment, were entitled to
compensation under the workmen's
compensation act Applications on
the case were filed with the industrial
commission by the dependents of John
RObbelard, Chris Holtz and Joseph
Vernon of Eau Claire, for compensa-
ton against the New Dells Lumber
company. These men, it is charged,
caught caught typhoid fever and sub
sequently died from drinking pollut-
ed water, alleged to have been fur
nished by the company.
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John Sybeldon, a Chippewa Falls
man, got funny following his consum-
ing an enormous quantity of chop
suey in the restaurant of a local
Chinaman, Yep Yah, and walked away
without paying for his meal. Sybeldon
met Yep Yah on the street few min
utes later and when the celestial ask
ed for his money, struck the latter,
knocking him down breaking several
teeth. He then picked up sign and
broke the window glass in the eating
place. The court failed to see the
humor in Sybeldon's actions and in
flicted a fine of $21 and costs, re-
quiring also the replacing of the plate
glass worth $3.50, at his expense.
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Plans to burglarize the Irvine jew
elry store in La Crosse were found in
the pockets of a man. arrested at Kan
sas City, Mo-, and forwarded to Mr..
Irvine. The plans contained rough
drawings of the store interior show
ing how entrance could be made
through a sidewalk manhOle. The
man arrested claimed that he had OBJ
tanned the plans from a cellmate in
Joliet prison who, prior to his con-
finement, lived in La Crosse where he
did odd jobs for Mr.. Irvine. 1t turned
out that this man was a refugee from
Joliet prison and he was returned to
that institution. Mr.. Irvine recently
received letter from the mans wife
asking his good Offices, as a former
employer, in obtaining her husbands
parole.
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The Wisconsin railroad commission
recently heard the testimony on a pc
tition asking authority to remove the
dam at the outlet of Big MuskegO lake
in Racine county at it's confluence
with Wind lake, and to thus drain
practically all of Muskego lakes wa
tiers into the Fox river. The petition
is opposed vigorously by many re-
sorters and residents along the lake
who claim that it's natural beauty and
value as fishing ground would be de-
stroyed should the dam be removed.
They also claim that the petition is
simply the beginning of scheme to
use the lake bed for agricultural land
for the benefit of spectators. Big
Muskego is only fifty minutes from
Milwaukee by rail and highly popular
with people of that city. 1t has been
heavily stocked with game fish.