Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-04-12
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Federal court at Green Bay, con-
vening this week may have 100 indict-
ments returned by the grand jury for
trial.
The P. A. Haertl jewelry store at
Neenah was entered during the night
time and $500 in jewelry and diamonds
were taken.
Mrs. Michael Ryana. citizen of
Beloit. dropped dead on her own door
step. Heart disease is supposed to be
the cause.
The body Of a newborn infant was
taken from the lake at Oshkosh near
the north park. 1t could not be iden-
tined as to its parentage.
Kenosha dairymen have joined the
Chicago milk war and refuse to ship
milk until the demands q the asso-
citation are complied with.
Alexander Fugate, the Athelstane
school clerk, was arrested at 500, Can
ada. where he had fed. He was
brought back on charge Of wife de-
sertion.
Licenses to trap muskrats and trans
port their hides in any season will
BE issued to 95 muskrat farmers OF
the Lake Winnebago region. The reg
ulatiOns are strict.
Tor fifty years had Rev. @. g. Klein
Iein of AIarinette served the German
Lutheran church as pastor. Recently
silver jubilee was held and the pas
tor presented with q welI-flled purse.
Twenty-Five men have applied at
Depere for permission to Join the new
battery to be established at Green Bay.
Their street car fares will be paid
ito Green Bay once a week where they
viii receive training.
About 1000 Oconto people we're en-
dangered by the recent high water in
that vicinity and many fed to higher
ground. The Holt Lumber company's
yards were flooded by water that rose
IL inches in a few hours.
Preferring death to being posted,
Theodore King, Of Stevens Point, hang
ed himself to a porch post at his own
home within six feet of his wife, who
sat inside darning socks while their
three children lay asleep.
Despondent over illness, August
Schoenbeck of 0cOnomowoc, aged 60,
endeavOred to sever his neck and wrist
arteries. He was found before it was
TOO late and will be cared for by his
brother Odd Fellows.
Salem Rayon of Neenah disappeared
three months ago and trace could not
be found Of him. The other day a
body was discovered floating in the
river at Little Chute and identified by
Mrs. RayOn as that of her husband.
For the Offense Of purchasing veni-
son out of season, three hOmesteaders
of the town of Waukaukee, near Green
Bay. face fines of from S25 to $50.
Three Indians were recently arrested
with green deer hides in their pos
session.
Thieves took advantage of the cop /
per situation and cut down and re
moved a SOO-foot span of copper cleo
trio wire in Prairie du Chen. As the
wire was in service the break was no
ticed at once by employees, but no
trace could be found of the thieves or
their booty.
Pat Ryan. a Dane county employee, /
was injured while on road construct
ion work and applied for compensa-
ton The industrial commission is
sued an order to the county to indem-
Nifty Ryan, but the authorities refused
to pay him compensation. Ryan is in
the poor house unable to prosecute
his case.
William ROever, an aged saloon
keeper of Racine, was held up on his
way home by two masked men who
demanded his money. ROever resist
ed and the two bandits becoming en-
ragged, fired four shots, one of the bull
lets lodging near the saloonkeeper's
heart. He is in a critical condition.
The bandits ran away.
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Sheriff Miller of Richland county
took into custody Earl Dawson OF
Ithaca township in that county, on an
automobile theft charge. An officer
from Montana arrived and took Davi-
son west for trial 1t is alleged that
Dawson, a young man, took the car
and drove it many miles finally aban-
doning it in a disabled condition. He
was on his way TO the cemetery to
bury his four weeks old child when
the warrant was served.
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George E. Nelson, line foreman
employed by the Interstate Power