Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-01-31
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A straw vote on ''wet and dry is
being taken at Neenah and Menasha
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DR.. Edward Rhodes, a prominent
physician of Galesville, has been ar
rested on a charge of violation of the
Harrison act prohibiting the use Of
drugs. Dr. Rhodes was indicted by the
federal grand jury in session in De-
cember at La Crosse. He pleaded not
guilty and was released on bonds of
$500.
President C. r. VanHise of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin will appeal to the
legislature this winter for an increase
in the salaries paid to university pro-
fessors. The reason given by the
president is the high cost of living
The new plan, if put into operation at
once, will involve an increase of $62,-
900 to the university budget of next
year.
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After four days trial the jury in
the case of VIM. Rust VS. the Santa Fe
and 500 roads wherein Rust claimed
negligence on the part of the roads in
not properly caring for a shipment of
sheep being sent from Kansas City,
Mo-, to Ashland, Wisconsin, awarded
the plaintiff $156.O1 from the Santa
Fe and nothing from the 500 road.
Rust charged that 217 sheep had been
killed from rough handling. The
roads in return claimed that deaths
were due to RuSt's own carelessness.
The case was tried at Waukesha.
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After a search of five months by the
sheriff's department, Clifford Peter
son, charged with desertion and non
support, has been arrested in Terre
Haute, Ind, and will be brought back
to Fond du Lac for trial The war
rant for his arrest was issued August
IA, and the authorities traced him to
Aberdeen, S. D. No clue to his where
abouts was found again until this
week, when he was located in Terre
Haute. Peterson's wife is the com
plainant in the case against him
They have no children.
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William Coles, an Austin, Mimi.
tailor who has been engaged for the
past two years making clothes and re-
pairing garments for his fellow towns
men, was taken into custody last week
by Wisconsin officers as an escaped
prisoner from Waupun. Coles was
serving a life sentence when he got
away. He claims now that he made
his escape to find the man for whose
death he was convicted on circumstan-
tial evidence. A farm house was de-
stroyed by fire, a handful of bones
found in the ruins, and Coles was ar
rested and convicted. He refused. to
give the name Of the man supposed to
have died in the burning house or the
location of the farm.
Thomas st. Germain, native of the
Odanah reservation and Carlisle In
dian graduate, was married on Janu-
airy 9 to Janet Wilkins, a Chicago So
cial worker and the daughter of a
wealthy Iowan. A few days later
Miss Annette Black of Philadelphia,
appeared in court with a child claim
ing that st. German was the father
and asking for support. German, who
was married two years ago and di-
vorced, claims that Miss Black wreck
ed his first marriage with tales of his
indiscretiOns. It is said that Germain' S
: popularity when in Carlisle and Yale
: proved his undoing as silly women
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head.
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A string galvanometer for register
ing in diagramatic form the .pulsation
of the heart the second to be con-
structed in the United States has Just
been completed by J. S. Nipple, expert
instrument maker, employed in the
medical instrument shop at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin. A German ma
chine Of the. same nature was used as
a model. Since the war stopped the
importation of medical instruments
from Germany, the medical schools
throughout the country have been
forced to manufacture their own. Mr..
Nipple, who is making instruments for
the University of Wisconsin, began
work on this instrument last June and
completed it recently. A kymograph,
/ a similar machine, which serves to
record muscular actions, the ebb and
/ flow Of blood in the arteries, and a
) number Of other minute bodily move
; ments, was also constructed by Mr..