Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-09-13

county, where the sheriff thought he
might find GaetanO Crisapulli, &c yrs.
old, who shot and killed Mary d'Ami-
CO. in Milwaukee this summer after
the girl had resisted assault. The
country over is being secured for
the murderer.
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Charles Morice, Madison grocer,
was shot and killed by men supposed
to be blackhanders who used a sawed
off shotgun. The Italian merchants
wife, who was rocking her 10 months
old babe to sleep on the porch of their
home, received several buckshOt in her
body. The store interior was riddled
and Morice literally filled with bullets.
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Two badly mashed cars and some
severely bruised men resulted from
a collision near Highland where a
Richland Center automobile, contain
ing w. G.. Berry, editor of the Demo-
crat, E. K Pier, Harry Bailey and
Aubrey King, collided with an Over
land car The accident came through
three cars attempting to occupy the
road at the same time.
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The Buick car driven by Hugh Nc
Ginnity and occupied also by his
brother Joe and Francis Spellman
went into a ditch, when the boys
turned to the roadside to avoid an
other car on the way home to Hol-
landale from baseball game. The
car was totally wrecked and the Nc
Ginnity boys cut up and bruised.
Spellman was unhurt
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A thirty minute fire did $4,000
damage to buildings and stock at the
W. ]. Wagstaff farm near Omro, last
week. The barns filled with hay and
grain, the Wagstaff residence contain
ing much antique furniture, forty
foot creamery, two hog houses and
half dozen smaller structures, were
destroyed Three thoroughbred Jer-
sey heifers were cremated.
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A smooth stranger calling himself
John Hill, drifted into Beloit and pro-
ceeded inside of ten days to ingratiate
himself with the merchants of that
city. He left the Saturday before La
Dor Day and on Monday morning bad
checks amounting to $3.50 began to
show up all over the city. Search was
made for Hill, who acted the part of
an engineer and bore blueprints with
him, but to no avail.
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Mrs. Julia Denim, aged SO, was
found dead in the hallway Of her Mil
waukee home with the skull fractured
with claw-hammer. Her husband,
Louis ]. Denim, was found uncon-
scious on the floor beside the bed
His skull was also fractured, and his
injuries mortal The only witness to
the tragedy was a child, Margaret, 4
years old, who was unable to grasp
its significance. The puzzled police
are still working on the case.
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The Northern Hemlock & Hard
wood Mfrs, association, with head
quarters at Oshkosh, has found that
the campaign of newspaper advertis-
ing in Wisconsin, conducted within
the last few months at an outlay of
$4,000, has been attended with most
gratifying results in the way of in
creased sales. A committee has been
appointed to confer on the best meth
DDS of extending the advertising and
birch campaign may also be put
under way
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Harold Winter, aged %, son of A.
E. Winter of Green Bay, was fatally
injured when a roadster, carrying five
persons, turned over on the Bay
Beach road when the young people
were returning from a dance given
for the Milwaukee fair boosters at
Bayview beach pavilion. Winter sus-
tanned fractured spine, and is not
expected to live. Winter is Cornell
student. The other occupants of the
car escaped injury.
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Through the death Of Frank r.
Brown, an Ashland Indian, his $4O,-
900 estate will soon come into the
hands of his widow, Mrs. Caroline
Rogers Brown of Avoca Georgia. The
romance surrounding the marriage of
the southern woman and the Indian
was brought to light when they were
married at Phoenix, Arizona, on Oct
s, 1915. Brown, who was one of the
wealthiest Indians on the Bad River
reservation, died three months later.
His wife iS his SO1n heir
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Out of five persons occupying an
automobile at Two Rivers that was
struck by a train last Sunday a week
ago, only one girl, Miss Theresa Bau-
man, lives. The car was driven by
Frank Kuchera, Two Rivers man,
who had not been driving long. Ku-
chera died in a Manitowoc hospital
the day after the accident, and Frank
Bauman's head was completely sew
cred. The car was reduced to a COM
plete wreck. The names of the two