Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-09-19
50 Around Wisconsin by s.
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Activity of dope fends is suspected
in Waukesha, where medicine cases
are being stolen while doctors are
calling on their patients.
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Joseph Hagner of Okauchee, Sc, a
section man on the Milaukee Dad, was
killed instantly east of Okauchee on
Wednesday by an east-bound passen-
ger train. He leaves wife.
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The 31a-year-old child of Mr.. and
Mrs. Joe Anderson of Vernon county
drowned in a ten-gallon jar of
water. The jar contained less than
five inches of water, but it is thought
the child was stunned in falling into
it and was unable to help itself.
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George H. Call, 81 years old, print
er, was drown in Green bay when he
was stricken with commissions while
hunting ducks. He was formerly a
national guardsman in Oconto and or
ganized an independent military COM
pany here.
A. P. Cassiday, wanted in Valley
Junction on the charge Of forgery and
wife desertion, was arrested on a
farm near Delavan and taken to Elk
horn to await the coming of the Off
GERS from Valley Junction. He was
known as Alfred Smith on the farm
he was employed on.
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Arthur Ruschinski, 10 years old,
was killed and Helen Niemer was pos
sibly fatally injured on the Princeton
Geen Lake road when the car in which
they were riding overturned The car
tipped over as the steering wheel gave
way. George Duschinsk jumped and
escaped injury.
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Joseph Gambino, a Madison Italian,
shot his brother in the back because
the latter attempted to assault his
wife. This was last April. Gambino
has been in Jail since then awaiting
the outcome of his brothers wound.
Last week the court released him for
the sake of his wife and children.
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That Edwin Hauge, sought in con-
nection with the finding Of the body
of Mrs. Cora Miller in the cellar Of
the Hauge home near La Crosse on
July 81, soon will be in custody, is
Webe, who returned from South Da-
kota after spending three weeks on
the trail.
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A recent Canadian casualty list in
cludes the names of p. Egan of Kill
bOurn and George Baglie of Osseo as
having been killed in action. Baglie,
who was 27 years old, enlisted at Win
T1iy on Tow
La Crosse and moved to Osseo when
ten years old. He went to the domin-
ion to file homestead claim and join
ed the Canadian colors.
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Kenneth Lawson OF DeSoto received
wound Monday afternoon which
might have proved. very serious when
he accidentally shot himself in the
abdomen with the bullet of .22 cal
ibre revolver. In attempting to force
shell into a rusty revolver he ex-
ploded the shell, the bullet of which
entered the abdomen and lodged at
the hip bone.
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Among the exhibits at the state fair
IN Milwaukee last week was Senator
Johanna White, a pure-bred Holstein
COW owned by Kirkpatrick Bros. of
Reedsburg. Senator Johanna White
weighs 2400 pounds, has a record Of
613 pounds of milk or 31O7 pounds Of
butter in week and 26,494 pounds Of
milk and 1,146.78 pounds Of butter in
year. She has never been beaten in
show ring.
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Frank Fornecker of GAINESVILLE was
severely burned when he fell down the
cellar stairs with lighted lantern in
his hand. The lantern broke and the
ignited oil spread on Fornecker's
clothing. The fire department came
and eXtinguished the burning home,
but the unfortunate man died later in
hospital. A wife and three children
saw the accident.
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Willard Beimer, one Of the three
brothers of Beloit whose athletic aOil-
lty on high school and college teams
has gained them considerable repute,
lies at the point of death. A four
weeks fight against typhoid at his
home in BelOit has been a losing one
and at consultation Of physicians it
was stated that his chances for recov-
cry were very slim. The young man
was taken i'll while at work in Gary,
Ind, last month. He completed his
first year at Beloit college last spring.
He is a member of Delta Phi Upsilon