Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-12-27
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beginning to complain about the ami
mails destroying their hay.
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The business center Of Park Falls
was practically destroyed by fire early
one day last week, the losses aggrega-
ting 100000.
Three drownings and eight narrow
escapes from drowning of skaters who
went through thin ice into the lakes
of the vicinity of Brentwood have been
recorded III two days.
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While blasting stumps on his farm
near Deerfield Robert Eggnew Of
Marshall dropped some explosive caps
and was instantly killed, his right leg
being blow off and his head badly cut.
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Harold Wesenberg, son of a mail
carrier at Oshkosh, was killed when
leaving school for his home when he
was run down by a motor truck. He
tried to make a short cut across the
street and ran ahead of a milk wagon
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Ezra Gauthier, 40 years old, fire
man on the fishing tug Indian, was
drowned at the dock in Keewaunee.
Members Of the coast guard found the
body in the water, after a search had
been instituted.
After losing sheep and calves in
70 Of
Merton, Sussex and vicinity have or
ganized a posse of about thirty to
hunt wolves. They report seeing
fresh wolf tracks and indications of
what might be wolf cubs.
DR.. w. w. Gregory Of Stevens Point,
has been elected president of the Port
age County Medical society. DR.. d. N.
Alcorn is vice president, and DR.. j.
d. LindOres secretary and treasurer
The society intends to take up the
matter Of health insurance and press
the matter before the state legislature.
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Joseph Bugaro, employed as a train
man by the, North Western road, was
fatally injured at Kenosha when he
was crushed between the bumpers of
two engines. He died in an ambulance
en- route to hospital He has a wild
ow and two small children living in
Chicago.
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Mrs. Mary Gallo, of Kenosha, mother
of seven children, and about to be-
come mother again, must stand trial
on charges of attempting to murder
her sister-in7la law, Mrs. Consetta Bis
cardi. Mrs Gallo slashed the other
woman with razor, as she declared,
to satisfy her honor"
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Mrs. e. E. Hughes of New London,
died of burns received when her cloth
ing caught fire while lighting a stove.
A neighbor threw water over the wo-
man when she rushed out of doors.
and succeeded in extinguishing the
flames. Mrs. Hughes was So years of
age, and had been resident of New
London since girlhood.
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In the effects left by Frederick G.
Hall, Green Bay hotel proprietor who
died recently, was a relic of early
days in that city, in the form of script,
with a face value of So, printed June
|, 1887. It was presented to the Ke1-
logg Public library. The paper bears
the signature of Morgan L. Martin,
president of the bank of Wisconsin,
first bank located in Green Bay.
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The Goodrich steamer Carolina,
which went aground on a reef off the
town of Algoma over a week ago, is
still fast on the rocks, and hopes of
relocating the craft are daily lessening.
Tugs and divers are still on the scene.
The boat is in good condition aside
from the hole slowed in the hull when
it went aground, but a strong east
wind would cause considerable dam
age, it is said
Investigations which are being made
by the district attorney as a result Of
fraud being practiced by parents who
are trying to evade the school law at
La Crosse, will probably result in the
prosecution Of several families. FOrg-
ed birth certificates and baptismal GER
tificates are among the evidence Sc
cured by the head of the Industrial
and Continuation school and have been
made by the parents of families.
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Judge Randall of the Municipal
court at Kenosha, is a staunch advo-
cate of speedy justice. He proved his
point in the case of Calvin Lewis, aged
%, who had confessed to having held
up Miss Wayne Bowman, a Kenosha
clerk and stole her pocketbook con-
tanning S.. 81 guess a year for every
dollar would be about right in your
case," suggested Judge Randall, and
promptly sentenced Lewis to the state
prison for a term of five years. With
in fourteen hours after his arrest Lew
is was on his way to the penitentiary.
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Lew Smith, husband of the woman
who was fOund hanging from hook