Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-02-07

after his release from the workhouse,
where he had been sent for beating
her, Mrs. Herman Maleika tried to
commit suicide at Appleton by taking
paris green mixed with water, the po-
lice say. A stomach pump saved her.
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After having spent ten years trying
to make alcohol from the digester
wastes Of paper mills, Charles Mar
chand, chemist, died last week at
New York City, Of apoplexy. About
two months ago he left for New York
to perfect his invention. His expert
ment plant is at Kimberly, Wis, and
it is believed that the company will
continue his experiments.
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Ole Oleson, eccentric La Crosse
county farmer, left his fortune Of $40
900 TO his daughter-in -laW, Mrs. Ole
Larson, and five brothers and a sister
failed to break the will in an action
before Judge Brindley. He held that
Oleson was Of sound mind and that
no undue influence had been brought
to bear upon him when he made his
will.
Sixty-one great-grandchildren sixty
five grandchildren and seven children,
is the unusual list or descendants left
by Mrs. Eleanor d. Lajeunesse, aged
80, who died recently at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. Julius Balthazor,
near North Fond du Lac Death was
due to senility. Mrs. Lajeunesse was
born in Canada, but had been a resi-
dent Of this country for over half a
century.
Mrs Rosie Ali of Milwaukee has
brought suit for $4,000 alleged damag-
es against William Dunkel, manager of
an Oshkosh boat line. The case will
come up for trial in Circuit court on
Feb. r. Mrs ALL contends that she
suffered personal injury while pas
senger on Mr.. Dunkel's gasoline
launch, Niobe, when he came into col
lision with dock at Winneconne on
June 27, 1915.
With fewer than a 100 voters, Banks
wealthiest town Of it's size in the
northwest. A powder company operat-
ing there is responsible for the pros
perity of the town and was assessed
$133,177 in taxes of which part
was income tax. Town officials have
set aside large part of the taxes for
improving roads and for the building
Of high school for farmer boys.
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Clarence Runte, aged twenty-five,
who was arrested on a charge Of bur-
glary at Milwaukee, attempted suicide
three times, first in the police head
quarters when he attempted to take
poison and was prevented, later by
hanging himself with a belt from the
door Of his cell, and finally when re-
moved to the county Jail, where he
was taken i'll, presumably from poison,
which he had taken. 1t is said he will
recover.
George T. Freeman, proprietor of
the McGregor-Prai du Chen ferry
line is having built a large covered
barge fifty feet long by fourteen feet
wide to be used in connection with his
two boats, the Rob Roy and the Alert.
He has operated two large barges for
a couple of years, carrying nearly a
thousand automobiles the past season.
The new barge will give him increased
facilities for handling the larger mot
tor touring traffic which is promised
for the coming season.
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Attorney General Walter c. Owen on
Monday of last week, rendered an
opinion to District Attorney Grady Of
Port Washington in which he ruled
that desertion Of a wife about to be-
come a mother could be combined with
a charge of child abandonment. Grady
sought information as to whether he
could prosecute a man who deserted
his wife while she was confined. The
man went to Minneapolis and tie child
was born later. Grady is expected to
apply for extradition papers.
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When the last payment of dividends
was made to the creditors and depos-
itOrs of the defunct Ashland Security
Savings bank about two years ago
there remained $1,000 uncalled for.
Under the law then existing this mon
ey would have been returned to the
state. But Senator Pearce Tomkins
of Ashland introduced a bill in the
state legislature providing for its dis
tribution amongst the depOsitOrs and
creditors. The bill was passed and
Attorney Tomkins now is sending out
the checks to the claimants.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Kohls and 3
daughters, residing just north of Ke-
nosha in the town Of Somers, were vic
Tins Of masked bandit, who pushed
his way into the house and covering
the members of the family with re-
volver forced Mrs. Kohl to give him
$22, the savings of the family for
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