Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-08-02

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Emil Laird, daredevil aviator, ex-
hibiting at La Crosse, fell seventy-fve
feet when his "'baby" Curtiss biplane
struck an airhole while 500 feet aloft.
The machine righted itself and Laird
landed safe on the ground.
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A horse dropped eight feet into
hole on the Mericale farm in Wauke-
sha county and was rescued with diff
ficulty. Mr.. Merricale had cultivated
the field for fifty years and for the
first time noticed the crevice.
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A white slave case is on the calen-
dar of the special term of the federal
court at Madison. Lewis Goldberg of
Superior, Wis, charged with having
transported for immoral purposes from
Chicago to Superior, Gene LaRoy, on
Aug. "a, 1914, is being tried.
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A head-on collision of two freight
trains at New London, wrecked two
locomotives, five cars and caused the
death of a large number of cattle,
hogs and sheep. The engine crews of
both trains jumped and escaped in
jury.
Crazed by the intense heat of the
last fortnight, Joseph Bartsch, pros
porous farmer of the Mormon colony,
at La Crosse, ended his life by touch
in off a stick of dynamite held in his
mouth. His headless body was found
in a dry creek bed on a neighbours
farm.
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A miscreant crept into the barn of
John Gugel, Madison, and slashed a
horse across the hip with a sharp
knife. Mr.. Gugel borrowed another
horse to use and had the same expert
ence the next night, when the second
horse was badly slashed. The police
are looking for the one responsible.
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Allen Side, employed on a barn be-
ing built in Harmony township, Yer
non county, was struck by lightning
while descending a ladder with his
arms full of tools. The bolt knocked
him to the ground 20 feet below. Side
received fractured skull and numer-
Gus bruises rendering his recovery
doubtful.
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A craving for morphine that could
not be satisfied caused the death of
Frederick Raymond Kenyon of Rock
ford, and nearly cost the life of his
wife. The couple were in a Shawano
hotel and took an injection of strych-
nine in lieu of morphine which they
could not obtain. Kenyon died in four
hours, but it was thought his wife
would pull through.
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Oconomowoc was visited by a Sc
we're storm that swept over that city
last week, uprooting trees, lifting
roofs from barns and doing other
damage. The streets were flooded and
several buildings struck by lightning
among them being a livery barn where
a $4,000 loss was done. A tent show
was blown down and put out of COM
mission and the street lights put out
for several hours.
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wisconsin is remarkably free of
livestock epidemics at the present
time, according to DR.. w. r. Clausen
OF the veterinary department of the
state board of agriculture. Aside from
slight outbreaks of hog cholera at
Rhinelander and Beloit and the oc-
casional appearance of a case of tu-
berculosis among the dairy herds of
the state, there is nothing in the way
of disease among horses, cattle, sheep
and swine.
Lester Ruchalski, aged p, Edward
Remick, aged IS, dozed on railroad
track near Chippewa Falls, where
they had stopped on their way to
the harvest fields. A train came
track bruising them so badly that they
cannot live. William Ruchalski, aged
IS, escaped with bruises and owes his
life to the fact that the bodies of the
other two young men protected him
from the train.
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Andrew Anderson, Poplar Grove
farmer, was held up and robbed of
$29 at GAINESVILLE by three men, who,
according to his statement, lured him
to a shed and there went through his
pockets. James Mccormick, of Apple
ton, arrested in connection with the
affair, was released later by the po-
lice who could not obtain evidence suf-
ficient to warrant holding him. 9th
er "bos'' are being searched for in the
vicinity Of Evansville.
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Mrs Carrie Wakeman Hackett, Of
Oshkosh, has sued Mrs. Mary Ziper-
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