Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-15
EXTRAORDINARY ITEMS
FROM MANY SOURCES
Matters of Current Interest by
Telegraph and Mail.
Crimes, Casualties and Remarkable
Events That Have Lately Hap
pened In Wisconsin.

VI Ou uu Lac, IudI Mayor ICOUSlI
Haenze, who was i'll with grippe had
passed away, caused 5000 additional
calls to pass through the city tele-
phone exchange.
Leo. Walosek of Stevens Point, fell
through the ice, and is in st. Mich
aels hospital with badly scalded
foot. He struck a steam pipe under
the surface of the water He was
scalded up to the knee.
Thomas LAWYER, a farmer, near
Glidden, set traps in his chicken
coop to catch weasel he thought was
slaughtering his chickens. One Of
them was large sized trap, and when
he returned he found splitting and
snorting wild cat in it. He collected
the bounty on the beast.
Roy Hoffman of Chat, near Merrill,
was shot in the left forearm by an un-
known assailant when, during the
night he stepped from the house to the
barn. Hoffman was recently defendant
in an action brought by a woman, but
the case was dropped when license
was issued for them to marry.
Elf Olson, a Superior farmer, was
on his way to a ski tournment when
he saw wolf crossing field. Olson
saw more profit in the $40 bounty than
in the honors to be accrued from the
tournament and gave chase across the
country. After ten miles Olson wound
ed the beast but followed five more
miles before a second shot laid it low.
A three-day-old infant was found
crying on the 500 platform at PlOver
by r. c. Silvernail, the agent. The
infant which was placed in market
basket, bore a note on it's clothes stat
ing that the mother was helpless and
asking that the babe be taken to sis
ter's home. The Children's Home
Finding society took the child.
Leo Dargus of Marinette, held at
the county Jail in MenOminee for 3
months on a murder charge, was CIV
en- his liberty. Dargus was arrested
on the testimony Of two inmates of
Green Bay reformatory charging him
with having killed a man at Pembine
on Christmas day. This testimony
was later proven false
According to an OcontO dispatch,
five people have been i'll with the
sleeping sickness which afflicted Miss
Dora Peterson, and three of them
have died. The two recovering slept
five days Harold Bodie slept five days
and was fed while asleep until he
died Two others slept three or four
days when they died.
Elwood Smith of Rhinelander,
former student at Lawrence college,
left last summer to join the Allied
army in Flanders and was recently
reported as having been killed in the
trenches The students at the col
lege were wearing mourning in mem
DRY of their comrade when he walked
into chapel not long ago. Smith will
reenter Lawrence.
w. D. Westbury, an aged resident
d,
in dimes by the means of "chain let
ters'' which friends had started for
him when he was in need of aid West
bury is former railroad man. The
postal authorities have ruled that such
letters constitute an illegal use of the
mails and have issued a fraud order
against them.
The Wisconsin conservation COM
mission recently decided to send a
crew of trappers to Ashland, Bayfield,,
Price, Lincoln and Oneida counties
to catch beaver, which have flooded
a railroad line in that section and
are doing other damage there, and
take them to state lands in Forest and
Villas counties. It is unlawful to kill
a beaver at any time in Wisconsin.
Elizabeth O'Neill of Marinette,
aged Is, ran away with Eugene Sling
er aged 81, and the young couple
were married by a MenOminee judge.
They were met on their way home by
Miss O'Neill's father, who chastised
the husband and took his daughter
home. After two days OF tears the
parents relented and the pair were re-
married by priest.
o. d. Kellog of Depere, has secured
a contract from the Oneida Indians
to secure from the government $780,
600, which is their share Of the inter
est they claim Uncle Sam owes the
six nations on the 100000 which
the nation was paid many years ago
in settlement Of the Kansas claim.
The government settled the claim
without paying interest on the money
which it had held for many years.
Fifteen rolls of film left at Super
ior photographers to be developed
and printed, were found to be pictures
of the exterior and interior of the Russ