Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-05-30

/ Yeggmen looted the safe of the Di-
almond Market, Milwaukee, last week
and secured a haul of So 400. No clues
were left behind.
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A fire in the plant Of the Superior
4 Telegram did damage of $50, 600 and
! put the presses ana linotypes out of
business. The paper is being printed
at Duluth for the present.
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/ Governor Philip will formally pro-
/ test against the w. G. N. being sent
to southern camps for training. The
governor claims that the boys are not
acclimated to the south and diseases
may result.
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/ Seven persons were injured, three
probably fatally, at Manitowoc when
Two Rivers train struck an auto
mobile occupied by Harry Meisner, a
farmer, and some children. The car
was completely demolished.
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A shocking case developed recently
at Neillsville where two women, a
mother and daughter, were sentenced
to eighteen months and one year in
the house of correction for running a
disreputabIe house near Union Cent
en-
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Aloysius F. Gross left Kenosha IS
months ago to join the Artillery
Coast Defense of the regular army.
He was recently drowned in the Pan
anna canal The body will be brought
home and given all the honors due a
soldier.
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A horse stuck it's head through the
window of the Bakken shoe store, at
Hartland and after causing consider
able commotion in trying to release
itself, fell backwards and died by
hanging. The accident happened at
midnight.
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Elmer Johnson, employed in the
Mitchell Motor works at Racine,
sheared four fingers from each hand.
He was operating metal shearing
machine and his hands were caught
between the blades of the heavy steel
shears, the eight fingers being sever
ed cleanly from the palms of the
hands.
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George Klinkert, a wealthy Racine
brewer and hOrseman. was instantly
killed when the automobile he was
driving was struck by an electric ex-
press train. The car was wrecked and
Klinkert thrown Is feet. He was driv-
ing home from his country place and
race track, where the accident Occurr-
ed.
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A Monroe school boy named Carter
almost lost his life as result of a
hazing given him recently The boy,
Carter, came from the country and
was picked on by school rowdies.
They finally took the youth to the
gymnasium and hung him up by the
neck. He was pulled up and down
several times before a professor dis
covered what was going on. Since
then he has been i'll. The hazers will
be expelled and probably punished
otherwise.
Mrs. Ethel Carter of GAINESVILLE
aged 21, and VIM. Gleason, 80, father
of seven children, were arrested at
Evansville and placed in jail on a
serious charge. It is said that Gleas-
on eloped with the woman and baby
in an automobile and at the same time
kept her husband and friends
away with a revolver. Both deny the
charge of illicit relations and de-
mand trial. 1t is said that Gleason
took his employers automobile to
make his hegira with.
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Wearing a Victoria cross on his
breast and still limping from wounds
received in air battles in Europe, Will
liam Lee Robinson, a member of the
British aviation corps, is in Lacrosse
on a visit to relatives. He has been
granted an extensive furlough follow
Ing his recovery from wounds. Rob
A1oOh 10 OI0 OL I'VE DfOCnorS from
Los Angeles, Cal, who enlisted with
Canadian troops. He claims to have
brought down two Zeppelins. He ex-
poets to take a position as aviation
instructor for United States forces.
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Two farmers, giving their names as
Sasse and Ringing, were arrested by
game wardens on the charge Of illegal
fishing in Lake Poygan and brought
to Wautomo. The arrests were pre-
ceded by a skirmish in which revolv-
ers, hammers and clubs played a
prominent part. Between 500 and 600
pounds OF fish, found packed in ice in
boat house, were confscated along
with nets, 10000 feet of set lines and
other paraphernalia. Others are i'm
plicated and more arrests are to fol-
low, it is intimated.
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An automobile accident near Now