Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-03-21
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After a sleep lasting eleven days,
Miss Della Anderson, daughter of J.
T. Anderson, Coon Valley, awakened
on Friday Of last week. She did not
recognize her parents, and, apparent
ly can not even remember her mama
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Mrs. John Schaurer Of Hartford
owned a large farm which she recent
~ sold to a neighbor. Apparently the
parting made her respondent as she
was discovered in a lifeless condition
hanging at the foot of the stairway
by her invalid daughter.
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Entering through q transom over
the front door, the Oshkosh jewelrv
store of Krumrich and Konrad was
robbed of goods valued at $500. A
number of valuable watches and
jeweled rings in the display window
were taken.
The state Supreme court will de-
eide whether or not the resolution Of
the La Crosse county board to build
a tuberculosis sanitarium at La Crosse
may stand. Judge Higbee of the cir
cult court has dissolved an injunction
stopping further progress and the case
was appealed.
DR.. N. J. Hamilton, 70 years old, of
Madison, was found guilty of man
slaughter in the second degree, on
charge of causing the death of Mrs.
Grace Haskell, of New London by an
illegal operation two months ago.
Hamilton was given a fve-year sem
tence.
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A cablegram received last week by
Mr. and Mrs Eigel Nielsen OF Beloit,
announced the safe arrival OF their
son Orson. OF Moscow, Russia, where
he has gone to be connected with the
American consulate. Orsen Nielsen is
a Beloit boy and was formerly a
newspaper reporter.
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William Nelson, Neenah jeweler,
remained late at work one night, and
IS he was preparing to leave, heard
some one picking the door lock. Mel
son surprised the burglar just as the
latter had gained entrance. He fired
two shots, one of the smashing the
plate glass window The thief es-
capped.
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according to a Grand Rapids rs
patch a potatoe embargo has been es-
tablishet. N Wood and Portage coUh-
ties. The public, cXasperated by h!"h
prices. refuses 70 tuy, the farmers re
fuse to bring in their potatoes at the
slump in prices, and dealers are not
looking for them Scarcely any spuds
are brought to town, and it is expected
that the farmers will be left with lots
of potatoes on hand.
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A record document for Vernon coun-
ty was filed in the register OF deed $
office at Viroqua last week. The doc
ument was a $2O,000,000 bond or NOR
gage and was executed by the Wis
consin Power company, the concern
which recently purchased Vlroqua,
Sparta and Tomah lighting plant The
document will require the space OF
over a hundred pages Of one OF the big
record books in the register of deeds
office.
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After being out eleven and one-half
hours a jury in Circuit court at Elk
horn, brought in a verdict of guilty
of second degree murder in the trial
of James Glover, charged with shoot
ing Charles Viso at Whitewater on
Jan. 8. with the result that the man
died in a Milwaukee hospital on Jan.
30. Judge E. B. Belden sentenced
Glover to IA years in the state peni-
Tertiary at Waupun. He is alleged to
have shot Viso with a sawed-off shot
gun after the two had uuarreled.
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Maurice A. Petty of Beloit, aged "A
and married, was given one year IN
the county Jail for stealing car from
blind relative. Petty took the ma
chine and his family and went to the
Dakota harvest fields last fall. Com
ing back he ran out Of funds and
traded the car for a smaller one and
some cash at La Crosse. He was
picked up and brought to GAINESVILLE
for trial Litigation may ensue over
the car as it had been traded a num-
Der of times since Petty had it.