Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-09-12
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of Shullsburg, where a sister still re-
sides, was killed in France last week.
Hammond was a member of the fam
Gus Foreign Legion.
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Nicholas Voss, aged 27 years, faces
prosecution because he shot a federal
officer who tried to arrest him at Man
itowoc Then he fed through a corn
field, but was captured.
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Ernst Kampe, well-known chimney
sweep and resident of Neenah for for
ty years, committed suicide by hang
ing in the barn at his home. This was
his third attempt. He is survived by
wife and five children.
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When he tried to pick up an electric
light wire lying in a pool of water on
the floor of the plant of the Clinton
Vile Four Wheel Drive company,
August Rolo, an employee, was cleo
trocuted. He leaves a wife and one
child.
Miss Theresa Becker and James
Brunette, both deaf mutes, were mar
ried in the Catholic church at Hart
ford The ceremony was performed
by the Rev. Stephen Hopper, who is
connected with st. Johns Deaf and
Dumb institute of st. Francis.
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The postoffice safe at Omro was
blown up and between $500 and $4,000
in stamps stolen 1t is believed the
cracksmen drove to Omro in an auto
mobile stolen from ]. H. Wall of Osh-
kosh. The machine with one wheel
broken was found at Beaver Dam.
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Ten thousand dollars is the sum
asked for by Charles Frankey of Mad
ison from the Jefferson Transit COM
pany of that city. Frankey's son was
run into and injured by taxicab
while coasting on the hills of the cap
ital city last winter. The defendant
concern alleges carelessness on the
part of the boy.
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/ Albert Peterson, who pleaded guilty
| in the Neenah municipal court to a
charge of petty larceny in connection
with the theft of copper cable valued
at $12 from the Eastern Wisconsin
Electric company of that city, was
sentenced to three years in the state
Ipenitentiary at Waupun.
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Excitement prevails in WaukeSha
over the discovery of a case of cere-
bro-spinal meningitis, an exceptional
ly rare and usually fatal disease sim
liar in type of attack Of the dreaded
infantile paralysis. The victim is
Tony Lift, 10, employed at a local
manufacturing plant The house is
being kept under strict quarantine.
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/ The income tax assessed in Wiscon-
sin this year will reach about $1,000,
900. It may be more than this amount.
This is the opinion of Nils P. Haugen,
chairman Of the state tax commission,
who has been examining the income
tax data for the present assessment.
This would be an increase of over ST.
100000 over the tax last year.
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August Finger, As years old, an APP
pleton truck driver, was thrown 100
feet and instantly killed by North
Wester passenger train. Lucille
Totke, IS, was thrown on rock pile
and mortally injured. Harold Finger,
a son, sustained two broken legs, and
Florence, his sister, may die of her
wounds The children were riding
with Mr.. Finger when the accident
took place.
Kenneth Hill walked from James
Vile to Beloit on eight-foot stills and
will undertake a journey on the long
Oh II do fIa
distance of fourteen miles from James
vile to BelOit in four and a half
hours. He has so mastered the art
of falling that he fears no injury in
his occasional tumbles. He got the
silt habit through the Y. M. c. A.
athletic club.
Three persons had a narrow escape
from death at Marinette when the au-
tomobile in which Hugh Bahlert Of
Pound, Wis, was riding with his wife
and little daughter was struck by a
Milwaukee road passenger train at a
crossing. The child was thrown sew
eral yards without being injured. Mr.
Bahlert sustained a broken leg and
was otherwise bruised. His wife was
injured internally.
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Five weeks after he was bitten by
tramp dog, Knute Alexander Vosven,
five-year-old son of Thor Vosven of
Dane county, died of hydrophobia. The
boy was playing near his fathers
barn when the dog attacked him, and
as he did not feel any i'll effects little
attention was paid to the injury. Late
ly, he became seriously ill, and when
physicians were called it was found
he was suffering from thed read dis
ease.
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Dr. Keshara Dew Shastri, anti-Brit-
ish Hindu lecturer, is under arrest at
La Crosse charged with obtaining
$1,000 under false pretense from Ed
ward Roesler, farmer. Roesler, the
police say, alleges that the Hindu col
lected $50 a day for hypnotic treat
ments given Mrs. Roesler. Shastri
lectured there last winter under the
auspices of the German-American al