Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-10-24

byron MulQer, New Amsterdam; A.
Q. Tested, Holmen, and Sletteland &
Mikkelson, Holmen, were arrested for
selling eggs of dubious birthdays.
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The body of Miss Cora Scott of
Chicago, was cremated and the ashes
brought to Two Rivers for burial be-
side her mother
Alex Mucha, II year old, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Mucha, living two
and One-half miles from Coddington,
left home on May to carry a lunch
to his sister attending school at Plover.
He has not been seen since.
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The tWO-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ole Sperstad, Stoughton farmers,
died from burns received when the in
FAINT pulled a kettle of hot water on
his little body. He was scalded from
head to foot.
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Jolan Delap, 31s years, of Lake
Geneva, playfully shook a step lad
der her older sister was standing on
when the ladder collapsed falling on
the child. Internal injuries caused
her death later.
A birds nest in Marinette apart
ment house, caused an incipient fire.
A plumber heated a pipe extending
through the ceiling and the heated
pipe ignited the nest. Firemen hunt
ed for some time to locate the cause
of the smudge.
Thomas Lepine, fond du Lac
contractor, swears he saw one hun
dred wild pigeons in the wood near the
city. Lepine's statement was instant
ly challenged as the Smithsonian in
stitute has a standing reward of $10,-
900 for pair of wild pigeons.
Miss Gertrude Henneck, aged IS
years, of Lake Linden, died recently
of Hodgkin's disease This malady is
an affection of the Emphatic glands
and is invariably fatal. It is very rare
and only a few cases are known to the
medical history of the state.
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After an airplane ride of 100 miles
from Fort Sill, where he is training
to be one Of Uncle Sans fighting
aviators in France, Earl Reynolds
overlook train that had already left
the fort and was enabled to reach
Beloit in time for his sisters funeral.
Most Of the ride was made at two
miles q minute.
Jack Wilson of De Soto, aged 35,
was run over and killed by the cars.
Wilson left the restaurant where he
was employed late at night bound
for home. The body was found next
day but not identified until two little
boys came inquiring for their father.
Wilson left a wife and four small
children.
Joe. Davis, one of three alleged
Madison Jail on Sept. 10, was arrest.
returned for trial Jim Burke, an
Evansville, Wis, two days after his
escape. Robert Watson is still at
liberty Federal indictments have
been returned against the men.
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While searching for body of Louis
Kleinheinz, aged % years who drown
ed in Lake Wissota near Chippewa
Falls, three members of the local
guard company went to a watery
grave. Their names are Capt. Green
valid, DR.. Albert Nussie and Thos
Tibbetts. All had families of small
children. The three men were last
seen at dusk in a boat.
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Astonished workbench in Ripon
sawmill uncovered a den Of snakes
in a sawdust pile. Nearly every varie-
ty known to man wriggled out before
their gaze. All that could be caught
were killed at once. A snake charmer
who left the city hurriedly a few days
before, is believed to have buried his
pets for Information with the inten-
ton of returning later.
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The rails, ties and Their equipment
of the Chicago e Lake Superior road,
short line extending from London
to Cambridge, will be sold for junk by
the receiver. The citizens of Cam
bridge offered to give $4,000 for the
road put were turned down by the
court who held that $4,000 was nee
essary to re-estabIish the line in work
ing order.
W. H. Ludwig of Vesper, lost five
head Of cattle, during the past week
due to hemmorhagic septicema. The
disease is attended with high fever
hommorhages of the intestines and
tissues and bleeding at the nose.
Cattle thus affected live only short
time. A farmer near Marshfield
also lost a few head from the same
disease. The state veterinarian has
been notified of this condition.
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Louis Corbine, a Chippewa In
dian on the Couderay Indian reserva-
ton, still resorts to primitive meth
DDS in hunting when the occasion so
offers itself. He recently killed a
large gray timber wolf by following
it to it's den, then stationing himself
close by the mouth with a club, when
the animal finally reappeared he kill
ed him with the club; results $40
bounty and SIS for the hide.
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