Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-06-27
50 Around Wisconsin by
@S Mail and Telegraph "

Bert Nusz, a Waupaca youth, was
found dead in the water tank on his
fathers farm. The boy was subject
to fits and fell into six inches of water
and drowned
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A Racine jury found VIM. Admadt
guilty Of man-slaughter in the fourth
degree for the running down and kill
ing Of Mrs. Mary Berg and her son,
James Scholler, on the night OF March
25th
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Mrs. Englisderber, a Blue Mounds
woman, was seriously burned when
she put oil in the stove. The can ex-
ploded with disastrous effect. The
woman was taken to the Mt Horeb
hospital in serious condition.
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Snowballing in June was the pleas
ant experience of several BaraboO
young men who found snow and ice
under the leaves at the ice cave in
the bluffs near Devils Lake Park.
The ice cave is known to many and
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After days Of fruitless searching ov-
er that section the disappearance of
Mrs. Ellen Hill, 70 years old, of Mon
dow, Wis, who came to Round Lake
to visit her son, remains mystery.
Over d hundred persons have aided
in the search and bloodhounds have
been employed to no avail.
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VIM. Hellman of Portage, has a
sore neck as the result of cast made
by an expert" fisherman in party
Hellman had joined for a days out
caught in Hellmans neck, and it was
necessary to go to physician at Par
deeville, to have it removed.
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Arthur Peters of Wausau and Ash
land, was found guilty in the United
States court at La Crosse of Operat-
ing a scheme whereby women could
home. Peters used the newspapers
for advertising and started a chain of
letters which brought him much mon
ey.
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Robert Krause lost his life at the
Cornelius Severson farm, near Wau-
;paca, which he was driving a car into
the barn. He was inexperienced and
lost control when the car entered the
barn and it drove clear through the
wall and fell seven and a half feet to
the ground outside, completely over
turning and pinning Krause under it.
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Jacob Kiefer, a Northwestern road
conductor, living at Baraboo, was
painfully hurt when VIM. Jaquith, a
neighbor and conductor, twirled his
line for cast into the Wisconsin riv-
er. Kiefer received the hooks with
full force in his neck. A physician
was secured to remove the hooks
which were deeply imbedded in the
mans flesh. The men were on a fish
ing and vacation trip.
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To open a central U. S. army re-
cruiting Office for Western Wisconsin,
Lieut.. j. w. McNeal of the u S. field
artillery, arrived in Madison last
week from Escanaba, Mich, where he
succeeded in enrolling the full quota
for that district. He was accompan-
led by four soldiers and a civilian
clerk, and expects six more privates
soon to assist in the work One of the
regular privates in the party is Matt
B. Kurth, Madisonian
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A heartless and brutal murder was
committed at Milwaukee last week
by Choice Jackson, a II year old COL
Ored youth who threw a piece of Stag
at Edna Tyrell, years old, when he
became enraged because the child's
father would not give him a meal at
a cook car. The father, after an ar
gument with the negro, called to the
little girl telling her to come inside.
AS she did SO the negro threw sever
al chunks Of Stag one of them striking
the child in the forehead. Jackson es-
capped but was captured on his way to
the paymaster where he intended to
draw three days pay coming to him.
He said that he had expected to leave
at once for Green Bay.