Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-03-28
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Caught in a feed cutter the 4-year-
Old son OF Edward Gosz, a Reedsville
farmer, had one Of his hands cut off.
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Consulting GAINESVILLE physicians
were perpleXed over a mysterious dis
ease that afflicted 17-year-old John
SCHNEIDER, a farmers son, who was
taken suddenly i'll and died within
four days. Young SCHNEIDER suffered
no pain, but complained OF dizziness
and his blood pressure was very low
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Sturgeon Bay went through a coal
famine last week when coal could not
be had because it was tied up on froz-
en- car ferries on lake Michigan. AS
a final resort the authorities were pre-
pared to close the light heat, water
and power plants in the city.
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Judge E. B. Belden sentenced Mrs.
Mary Guilo to serve two years at
Waupun for slashingl neighbor wo-
man with a razor Mrs Guilo was
in court with six little ones clinging
to her skirts The court later sus-
pended the sentence on account of
the family.
The sterelized kiss is the topic Of
the hour-also the rage-at La Crosse
Normal school. DR.. Allison has order
ed the men to keep away from the girls
because of scarlet fever, but the fair
sex have evaded the official manifesto
and the antiseptic throat sprayer in
the school at La Crosse is in constant
demand.
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Raffaelo Reda, Madison Italian.
swore falsely when giving testimony
in the black hand murder case OF
Joe Bastone. Judge Hoppman infiict-
ed the light punishment of $500 fine
and costs. The Madison authorities
are determined to break up the black
hand outrages.
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Mrs. Joseph Kaminski, wife of the
Marinette farmer who went to Wax
pun a few weeks ago for killing his
son, came from Chicago to claim ST.
300 as her share in Kaminiski's es-
tate. The farm went on the auction
block after the husband went to pris-
on, and sold for $4,000 Mrs Kamin-
iski will get a divorce.
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The Oshkosh Trinity Episcopal
church is the recipient of a gift of
$4,000 made recently by Mrs. James
Johnson, q wealthy parishoner and
widow of a pioneer lumberman. Mrs.
Johnson kept her name secret for
some time. The money will be used
to build hall near the church for
the use of the ladies' guilds.
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j. J. Steinbach of Evanston, Hi
nois, will stand trial at Kenosha on
charge of having set fire to the Har-
ry Lawler ice houses on Jan. 3, last.
A 100000 loss was incurred from the
blaze. The firm had had labor trou-
BILE with the Industrial Workers of
the World.
What was perhaps the last blow OF
Old Winter struck on Friday and
Saturday week ago in central and
northern Wisconsin. Trains were
stalled all over the state in snow
banks ranging from two to fifteen feet
in depth. At Grand Rapids conven-
ton train containing 200 persons was
held up for many hours.
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Patrolman John Dresser, of She
boygan, has been suspended for two
weeks, one week for spending forty
minutes in a saloon talking to his
brother-in-law whom he had not seen
in three years, and one week for tell
ing Chief Define he talked like a fool
when he demanded his star at $3.50 in
the morning.
Hans Ronning, a machinist at the
Gisholt Machine company, Madison,
bought .38 revolver and shells and
went to his home. A little while
later his wife called the family physi-
clan saying that ROnning was acting
strangely and that he should come at
once. When the doctor arrived he
found both husband and wife dead
with bullet holes through their heads.
Ronning had been in bad health for
some time and it is supposed that mis-
mind became deranged.