Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-08-23
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| At the risk of his own life, Harold
Harrison, age IA, of Madison, saved
the life of his companion and fellow
scout, Ralph Zwicker, while hiking
on the south side of Lake Wingra. The
Zwicker boy sank to his waist in
quicksand and the other boy pulled
him out and dragged him to solid
ground.
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John Gray, charged with mayhem,
was bound over to the upper branch
of the Amigo municipal court. 1t is
alleged that on July Is Gray attacked
| former Assemblyman William Reader,
proprietor of the Market Square hotel,
chewing his left thumb so badly that
gangrene set in and it was necessary
to have it amputated.
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Mrs. Maria Devine, of Beloit, aged
| 90, colored, was careless in lighting
her pipe in the home of her son Henry,
last week. Flames from the match
set fire to a curtain and the house
was burned. Mr.. Devine has had such
demands upon him because of sickness
that he let his insurance lapse re-
Gently, so his loss of 81, 100 is total.
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A barn raising on the Beardsley farm
near Fairfield in Sank county, had an
staging upon which several men were
working, gave way and threw them
to the ground. One man was caught
under the falling timbers and knocked
unconscious, but recovered later. The
others were uninjured beyond being
severely shaken up.
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Sydney Mennell, Sc years old, night
engineer of the plant of the Simmons
company, was electrocuted in the en-
CINE room of the company at Kenosha.
His body was found behind a switch
board in the engine room. He was
the first of the men employed at the
Simn ons plant to die since the recent
insurance plan was adopted and his
widow was paid 5000.
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Following the freight wreck at New
London July %, in which large num-
Der of cattle were killed, warrant
was issued for the arrest of Louis
Waimer, Forest Tate, Albert Marasch
and Albert Buelow, charged with
stealing two calves, five hogs, a COW
and a bull, all valued at $237, from
the wrecked cars. The Northwestern
railway made the complaint.
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rr:...o4t.- n,D,;o,, :; cont ,od 70 n
Fond du Lac hospital with a fractured
hipjoint, a dislocated hip and a broken
nose, sustained when a carriage in
which he was riding was struck by an
automobile driven by DR.. ]. E. Nc
Carthy of Eden. His brother, Frank
O'Brien, also sustained a broken nose
and several bruises in the accident,
which occurred about three miles east
of Eden.
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A gang of five men robbed and beat
up Erwin Mayer, fair follower at
the GAINESVILLE fair grounds, during the
night, taking $40 and a gold watch.
Mayer resisted when the men strong
armed" him and was beaten uncOn-
scious He was picked up later by
special policeman and implicated Jim
Swan, half-breed Indian swipe. Swan
was arrested but refused to tell who
his accomplices were.
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John Speedy Allen, milwaukee,
aged %, and colored, became angered
when a fellow Ethiopian, Robert Bur-
rell, aged %, called him good for
nothing colored trash" Allen whip
in the left chest. Burrell will get
we'll The quarrel grew out of a dis
pute over board bill owed by Allen
and his wife. The latter man got away
but is being searched for.
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Mrs. Anna Spies, of Milwaukee, Is
years old, told the police sensation
al story of being gagged, bound and
blindfolded by armed burglars who
entered her home and took $40 in
cash. She was discOveed by neigh
Dor, who reported the matter. Upon
being closely questioned she broke
down and confessed that she concocted
and carried out the affair herself.
That her husband went to picture
shows without her was given as a
motive.
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The polluted water in Fox river is
causing the death of thousands of fish,
and thousands more have left deep
water ard are swimming on the sur
face of the stream to secure air and
to escape the more putrid water at
the bottom Minnows can be seen in
the shallow water along the shores,
while thousands Of crabs are leaving
the water and climbing up the banks
of the rivers. Fishermen have stop
ped catching crabs because they die