Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-11-29


the track. He was 40 years old and
leaves his wife.
Andrew Open, Sc years old, resi-
dent of Ashland for more than twenty
years, ended his life by shooting him
self in the head with a 38-calibre re-
volver.
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Two skaters, Miss Iva Peet 10 years
old, and Henry Mark, Is, drowned at
Cranberry creek, north of Cameron re-
Gently. The couple skated into an air
hole. The bodies were recovered.
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Capt. A. r. Robinson of the steamer
William ]. Olcott suffered a stroke of
apOplexy in the ships bathroom at
AlgOma and died before medical aid
could reach him.
Three cases of smallpox have been
discovered at Stoughton, according to
local health officials. Mrs. Herboirg
Oslon, Mrs. Stoley Nelson and a child
are victims.
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Miss Agnes Blakowski, "a years old,
employed as domestic in a hotel at
Branch, committed suicide by hanging
herself with a scarf which she threw
over water pipe in the laundry.
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Harry Callahan, of Neenah, paid a
fine of $14.95 for raiding the chicken
coop of Ben Schultz A duck in the
coop began to quack which caused
the neighbors to send in an alarm
which ended in Callahan being arrest
ed.
Fire at the Columbia county fair
grounds at Portage destroyed all but
six stalls of the string of stock barns
at the north of the grounds, and killed
Col. Anderson, a famous stallion that
has been shown at the state fair and
many other exhibitions.
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Charged with shooting a dog belong
ing to August Vita of Hull, while
hunting recently, Anton Cyran, 10
years old, Of Stevens Point, has been
bound over to the Circuit court under
5000 bond. The charge against him
is cruelty to animals.
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Del Burns pleaded guilty in circuit
court at Wausau to charge of having
robbed store at Tomahawk, was SEN
fenced to Green Bay reformatory for
two years. The sentence was sus-
pended and he was paroled to the
state board of control.
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The mother of John Read, last heard
of in Ashland county through a let
ter from her daughter, Mrs. Edward
Lightner at Charlotte, Mich, has in
quired of the police at Ashland if her
son resides at that place. Mrs. Read
is seriously i'll at Charlotte.
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In an effort to obtain relief from
present high prices of coal, the Central
Labor council will communicate with
the railroad rate commission to cause
an investigation, if possible, to deter
mine whether or not the price demand
Wal
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William Denman, an emplOye of the
Eisendrath Tannery at Racine fell
down a stairway of the Drexel hotel
one day last week and sustained
fractured skull. He died the next
morning in a hospital Denman had
been working in Racine about month.
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A suit for $4,000 damages has been
started by John M. Konzelman, stock
buyer of McDill, against Elmer Carley,
Arnott potato buyer. The plaintiff al
leges that his horse and buggy we're
damaged and he was injured when
Carley's automobile struck Konzel-
mans rig
That a probe should be made to de-
termine the condition of the cemeter-
les on the ground of the various coun-
ty institutions, was the consensus of
opinion of the Racine county board of
supervisors at it's session last week,
when it was intimated that the GENE
terry of the Racine county insane asy-
lum was located in a slough, and un-
fit as a burial ground. Supervisor
Knuth Holland said that he made up
his mind to inspect the cemetery
ground at the Racine county poor farm
when the board went out last week to
visit the farm, but that he had to give
it up when he was told that it would
be difficult to reach on account of the
soft condition of the ground.
His wife dreamed three times in one
night that he was untrue to her and so
she started a suit for divorce. That is
the startling answer made by George
Gerbig of Vernon county in an answer
filed in Circuit court at La Crosse to
the charges preferred by his wife, An
ma. Gerbig says that his wife believed
in dreams, fortune tellers and spirit
ualism, that she was told through
these mediums that he was unfaithful
and that after dreaming, she claimed,
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