Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-06-14


tried in municipal court at Oshkosh.
Complaint for his arrest was made by
L. E. Spencer, state deputy health Of
ficer.
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Miss Myrtle Finholt, 20 years old,
of Oshkosh, was seriously hurt when
she was jolted from the rear seat Of
a motorcycle. Her face was mass of
decorations and bruises. The accident
occurred on the Omro road Saturday,
a week ago. She was brought to Osh
kOsh to hospital
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The body of Lester Kuether, 7-year-
old lad, who drowned in the Milwau-
kee river back of the Lake Shore Stone
company, Milwaukee, was recovered.
The body of Roy Erdmann, 1922 Eighth
street, was found floating in an aban-
dOned we'll in the rear of his home.
He had been missing several days.
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Found guilty of holding up and rob-
bling the saloon of George Stoll, Green
Bay road on May 81, Otto Laven was
sentenced to eight years in Waupun.
Clarence Wesnor was given a five-year
sentence in Green Bay. William Feige
arrested with the other lads, was ex-
Generated by them of guilt. He was re-
leased.
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Wallace Siegert, 10 years old, resid-
ing near Kelley, has been missing since
Monday of last week, when he went
into the woods with his dog and gun.
The dog returned home at night alone
which caused the family and neigh
bors to search for the boy. 1t is fear
ed the boy has become lost or has met
with an accident.
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While Torkel Larson, a farmer, was
getting into his wagon to go home
from Spring Valley, he stepped with
one foot on number of dynamite caps.
The explosion which followed, blew
off his foot, scattering pieces of it and
the shoe in the street, made a hole in
the ground and shook the windows of
nearby stores.
Jasper Karba, 40 years old, will die
as a result of a handcar collision
near Moquah. The handcar carried
section men. The car ahead was dis
abled and the rear handcar collided
with it in the dark. Karba struck on
his head on the railroad ties. His
skull was fractured. The other sec
ClOn men escaped unlnJured.
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Erskine Wolcott, of the town of La
MARITIME, Fond du Lac county, is still
insane and must remain at the North
ern hospital at Winnebago, Wis. That
is the decision in the county court at
Oshkosh, following habeas corpus
proceedings in which application was
made for the release of WalcOtt, who
Ix1-ac RI hn fo1
! ago. Walcott is a prominent farmer.
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The breaking of a rear wheel of
an automobile on a sandy stretch of
road near Okauchee, one day last
week, caused the auto to tip over,
throwing the occupants out. Arthur
Walther received several bruises and
cuts about the face. Louis Frederick
son, Jr., son of the owner of the car,
also was bruised Curt Jacobs and
James MathesOn, the other occupants,
were unhurt.
Three carloads of sheepshead, So
900 pounds, have been shipped from
Lake Winebago to Oshkosh in the last
two weeks. One haul consisted of
80, 900 pounds of sheepshead and only
127 game fish were in the net. These
being sent back into the water un-
harmed. Sheepshead are classed in
state law as rough fish," but they
command a good market at Chicago,
st. Louis and New York and other cit
ties, retailing at eleven or twelve cents
pound.
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Fire resulting from lightning, one
day last week, laid waste large barn,
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cows, seventy-five tons of hay, six
hundred bushels of oats, partly dam
aged a machine shed and silo on the
farm of Platten Brothers, at the
northwestern limits of Green Bay,
causing a loss of $4,000, partly in
sured Three COWS at Luxembourg
were killed by lightning, and house
in Green Bay was struck during the
same storm.
Two men were carried over the dam
on the Wisconsin river at Merrill and
into twenty feet of the falls, one day
last week. The men were employed
on the river driving logs and were
standing on a boom which gave way
under them. The rapid current car
ried them over the high falls. One of
the men Doodle Frisch, swan to safe
ty near the Park street bridge, dis
lance of about seventy-five feet. The
other man, Ted Fellows, is believed
to have been drowned.
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The sacrifice of George Beaver, a
Pleasant Prairie farmer, who twice
submitted to operations for transfu-
sion of blood in an effort to save the
life of his young wife, were in vain,
end she passed away at Kenosha hospi-
tai. Mrs. Beaver was victim of an
aemia. A year ago it was declared
that TRANSMISSION of blood would be
necessary to save her life, and her
husband had part in the operation.
Less than a week ago he submitted to
second similar operation. Mrs.
Beaver was 80 years of age and is sur
vived by her husband and one son.
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