Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-04-25

j b0lO1C, Was muIu0I0u IuyS1CIduS
think Everett's death was due to
blow on the head. John Stoll of Har-
ward, H., who was last seen with Ev-
erett, is held by the authorities pend
ing an investigation.
For the first time in the history of
Green Bay, which is the oldest city
in Wisconsin, many persons were COM
PEELED on Sunday a week ago to go
without their usual morning bevcrag-
es. The saloons were closed from
1890 Saturday night until II O'Clock
noon on Sunday. This step was TAX
Ell voluntarily by the saloon keepers
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When Mrs. Patrick Golden of Bu-
chanan, inquired about her deed to an
eighty-acre farm in Outagamie coun-
ty, she was told that there was none
recorded. She persisted and reaching
into her stocking brought out a fad
ed deed, made out forty-six years ago.
It had never been recorded, the old
lady keeping it with her ever since
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The U. S. S. Smith, the first Amer
lean war vessel to fired at by a German
submarine, was commanded by Lieut.
R. T. Merrill, former Beloit boy, who
graduated from Annapolis naval acad-
envy seven years ago. Lieut. Merrill
commanded the Smith in the Gulf of
Mexico up to last February. While at
Annapolis Merrill won the interna-
tiOnal fencing championship.
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A factory is going up at Stevens
Point for the manufacture of auto
matte cradles. The cradle will be
self rocking by means of steel springs
which are wound up at will. Attached
| is fan which will keep the flies from
baby's face while mother looks after
her work. The inventor, John j. Bulk
oft, started in 1897 without a cent.
Today he has a large factory and en-
ploys hundreds of men.
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Marion Renick, just years old,
wandered away from his home on the
Sheridan road south of Kenosha, and
went over the fields to see the "choo
choo train" Five minutes later he was
standing on the track in front of an
express train running sixty miles an
hour. The train sped by and the lit
tie baby boy was thrown into the ditch
at the side of the tracks. The train
backed up and picked up the crying
child. He was badly bruised but no
bones had been broken.
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Mrs. C. H. Nye, wife of DR.. Nye OF
Viola, met tragic death while re-
turning from sanitarium at Wau-
kesha, in company with her husband.
Some where between Reedstown and
Viola the lady was missed from the
train. Prompt search was instituted
and bloodhound discovered the dead
body of the unfortunate woman lying
in marsh beside the track. The man
ner in which she came to fall from the
train is unknown as her absence was
not noted for some time after the oc-
currence.
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| The first steamer to be launched
in the United States for French in
terests from an inland yard will get
into the waite at Superior on Satur-
day. The vessel will be christened
Toulouse" for the French city which
| is the headquarters of the owners. 1t
! is OF Welland canal size, a standard
OF lake built ocean craft, and will be
taken at once to the seaboard to be
put into service. The keel is being
laid for another boat, a duplicate of
the Toulouse.
What is believed to have been an
assassination plot was uncovered at
La Crosse, Wednesday night. when
five dynamite caps were discovered
partially wired to the battery of the
electric automobile of Daniel Cum
bingham, railroad official Had the
wiring been complete, starting the car
would have set off the caps and blown
Cunningham and his wife to pieces.
The caps are believed to have been at
tached while the Cunningham car
stood outside the residence Of Frank
lin P. Hixon, local capitalist.
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Men in the employ of the Chicago
& Northwestern and Chicago, Milwau-
kee & st. Paul railways, on the Su-
perior and Lake Shore divisions out
OF Green Bay, are enlisting in what is
to be known as the Railway regiment,
which will consist of companies or
ganized by the larger corporations in
the United States. The men in the SER
vice Will go into camp once a year
for fifteen days field training, and in
time of war will be ready to answer
call from the president In case the
regiment is called into actual service,
the men answering the call would not
lose their road rights or qualifica-
tions for a pension.
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Clarence DOdson, alleged disIoyaI
schoolboy, whose statements against
the nation threatened to disrupt the
school system of Kenosha when the