Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-10-25

~ Oil VI u6I VI the INDUSTRIAL COM
mission the Falk company Of Milwau-
kee is directed to pay to Matthew Kali
son, within ten days, $1,08686 in full
for liability under the workmen's com
pensation law.
The hearing at Madison before the
Wisconsin railroad commission last
week in the case of the application of
the village Of Markesan for authority
to increase the rates Of its publicly
owned gas plant brought out the fact
that the high price Of gasoline may
cause decided increase in the rates
/ Of eli utilities that use this LIQUID in
/ any considerable quantity. E. w. La
per, secretary of the village board, tes-
tilted that at the present rate the plant
could not exist, and said that they were
paying 28 cents for gasoline delivered
at MarkGsan.
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/ Mr.. and Mrs. H. L. Ladell, recent
arrivals at GAINESVILLE from Stoughton,
according to the police deptrement's
personal mention" column, visited
vacant house in that city one day last
week and were found there when the
police answered a call from a neigh
Dor. In municipal court the next
morning they plead guilty to charg-
es OF lntoxication. Ladell got at fine
of ten dollars and costs or fifteen days,
and his wife fifteen dollars costs or
ten days. They went to jail to work
it out.
The body of John Loeb, 25 years old,
native of Russia, was found floating
in the Kenosha harbor on Friday of
last week. Loeb disappeared after a
dance at Tatra hall on Oct l. Sever
al days later members of the st. Mich
olas society, of which the deceased
was a member, appealed to the police
for aid, declaring they feared he had
been killed. The body had many cuts
and abrasions on it. Members of the
Russian society have been instructed
to appear at the inquest and tell why
they believed the man met with foul
play
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Drs. c. A. Cooper, Of NorwaIk, and
S. D. Beebe, Of Sparta, were complete
" exonerated Of the charge Of NAL
practice when the jury in circuit court
at Sparta gave a verdict for the defend
ants in the case of Emil Leuck VS.. G.
A. Cooper, ct al. Each of the various
questions in the special verdict was
answered favorably to the defendants.
The action was for $4,000 damages,
the complaint being based upon the
assertion that the amputatiOn Of Mr..
Leuck's hand was not necessary, and
that the operation was performed sat
isfactorily.
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Arthur 0. Dove, evangelist with the
Presbyterian synod, who was in Fond
du Lac for the synod meeting. one day
last week, is a unique character a
man who has been confined ia almost
every jail in Wisconsin, Fond du Lac
among them, and who reached the
Threshold of a new life only after
tasting the bitter dregs of the other
Mr. Dove, whose work about the state
is Of the human touch kind, paid a
visit to the city jail and saw the cell
he occupied nine years ago. Mr..
Doves conversion took place two
years ago at the Milwaukee Rescue
mission. During the period his life
was clouded he says he took every
known liquor cure without avail
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4 A barge carrying sugar beets from
the east shore Of Lake Winnebago to
Oshkosh sprang a leak on the thirteen
mile trip on the lake on Friday of last
week and tipped over when nearing
Oshkosh, SO tons Of the beets being
dumped into the water The barge
was in town of tug of the Cook &
Brown Lime company.
An offer Of 1926, 900 for it's holdings
near Bartlesville, Okla, has been re-
jected by the Whiting Oil company,
owned largely in Stevens Point, Wis.
William Sacks of st. Louis, and J. M.
Levy of Tulsa, Okla, have been nego-
tiating for the property. George Whit
ing is president, and F. A. Krembs,
secretary
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eff any man calls on business con-
Germs in Wisconsin and represents
himself as an inspector for the indus
trial commission, he should be requir-
ed to show his credentials. If he can't
produce credentials, just turn him over
to the police said Chairman J. D.
Beck of the Industrial commission at
Madison last week eve are search
ing for men who are impersonating
state inspectors. In one instance re-
ported from Sheboygan, a man claim
ing to represent the industrial COM
mission, insisted on examining the
books of a concern He was allowed
under protest to see the books and
actually copied the payrolls for the
past year. After the inspector de-
parted, the Sheboygan business man
became suspicious and reported the in
cident to the industrial commission -