Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-07-19

road where the mail was being trans
ferred The mutilated mail and
ruined sack were found one hour af-
ter the robbery.
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Arthur Hume, aged %, of Mayville,
was instantly killed and John and
Louis Schweitzer of the same city, SER
iously injured, when Hume's car
struck a loose stone in the highway
near Chiffon, and overturned. Wen
dell Schultz of Chiffon, another pas
senger, escaped unhurt.
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John Lycan and family of Belmont,
out driving in a new automobile, at
tempted to pass another car they met
on the road. Lycan ran into deep
ditch covered with weeds and his car
turned over The machine and top
were slightly injured and Mrs. Lycan
was badly bruised and scratched.
Lycan escaped uninjured
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Convicts from the state prison at
Waupun will be used on a 100000
county highway system this summer
in Outagamie county. The labor stu
alton here has made it imperative
to get some kind of help. The county
will pay the state $3.50 day for each
man, together with living quarters
and food.
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J. Frank Notion of Blooming Grove,
township in Dane county, was struck
by bolt of lightning and instantly
killed last week. With several other
men, Notion was cutting hay. When
the storm broke he drove the horses
under a tree and was watching them
when the bolt came. Notion received
burns on the left side of the body and
leg and both shoes were torn from his
feet. The other men and horses were
uninjured.
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Preparations are making for the
celebration this fall of the hundredth
anniversary of old Fort Crawford,
which was on the site of Prairie du
Chen. The fort was washed down the
Mississippi in 1926, but was rebuilt on
higher land in 1882. J. P. Albee,
GAINESVILLE, Civil war veteran, is en-
gagged in collecting photographs and
other memorials of the old fort to be
displayed during the celebration.
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Mabel Sickles of Lake Mills, aged II,
was sentenced to serve one year in
Jail by Judge Backus Of Milwaukee.
Miss Sickles claimed that she had
abandoned her infant boy on a door
step in the city after she had vainly
endeavored to support the infant. 1t
is said that the father of the child
is the defendant in parentage action
pending in Jefferson county. The
child, aged II days, will be placed in
an orphanage.
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Caesar Fee, a movie actor, proved
that he was worthy of the name by
walking the plank at Milwaukee and
falling with his hands bound, in wa
ter over his head Fee is the leading
juvenile man with the Badger Film
company, and takes part in produc-
ton called "The Bold Bad Pirates"
Fee cannot swim a stroke, but did not
want to crab the picture. His pre-
dicament was discovered in time and
he was dragged out Of Lake Michigan
in an unconscious condition.
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Charles Amberling, youngest mem
Der of the Kenosha police force, saved
the life of Barney McGivern, a fellow
officer, by shooting Eddie Forbes, aged
30, who was attempting daylight
burglary, in the arm just as Forbes
had his revolver ready to fire on Nc
Givern. Amberling was in citizens
clothes as he had just left the station
for his annual vacation. He stopped
in the street when he saw McGivern
in pursuit of Forbes and companion.
Both men were captured and disarmed.
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Frank Foster, a we'll known Keno
sha character, plunged voluntarily
from the fourth story of the public
service building in that city and land
ed a crushed and bleeding heap on the
sidewalk SO feet below. Ten minutes
before the tragedy Foster had opened
his wrist veins in his own home with
pocket knife. His wife had called
on the police to seek him when the
sad news came to her. Temporary
insanity due to i'll health is given as
a reason for the act
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Judge Milo Muckleson of Waukesha
presiding magistrate of the municipal
court of that city, and an eminent jur-
list, was instantly killed when the car
he was driving was struck by an in
terurban train about a mile west of
Waukesha beach. The momentum OF
the train was so great that the auto
mobile was carried a distance OF 300
feet. A farmer, who stood on the run
ming board saved himself by jumping.
It is supposed that the jurist was en-
gagged in conversation with his pas
senger and failed to notice the oncom-