Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-06-27

Henry Holmes, 80 years old, was
struck and instantly killed at Racine,
by limited train while driving an
automobile across the tracks.
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A load of cheese weighing 400 lbs.
and worth more than $1,000, was re-
Gently hauled to Amigo, from near
by cheese factory. The consignment
was shipped to Texas. A shipment
of Langlade county cheese was sent to
England a short time ago.
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Mrs. Fred Hassenauer, Jr, is lying
at the point of death with a fractured
skull, Edith Engott suffered a broken
leg and two young men escaped with
bruises when a team ran away while
the party were returning home to
GAINESVILLE from a fishing trip.
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With a dare to his companions,
Richard Hazeltine, II years old,
climbed pole which carried a high
voltage at Portage. AS he reached the
top of the pole he grasped a wire
which carried the death dealing cur
rent The current, which tore through
his body, ripped off the sole of his
shoe, but did not kill the youth.
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After being "kidded" for several
days over the fact that he registered
for army service, Mathew holster, "a
years old, suicided by hanging, in the
town of Forest, near Fond du Lac.
holster was a Norwegian and had
taken out his first papers for natural
ization. He leaves sister in Oregon,
Wis, and another at Stoughton.
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Roland Held a Wisconsin Univer-
sity man who was on his way to Chi
cago, to enlist in the Northwestern
for France, was temporarily placed
under arrest because he could not
show his registration card. He later
showed his card and enlistment pap
ers and was released with apologies.
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The body of Oscar Dunn, who in
jealous rage shot and killed his wife
clump of bushes not far from the
house by a posse of armed men who
had been searching the woods for him.
Death had been caused by a bullet
wound in the temple 1t is believed
the man killed himself Immediately
after killing his wife.
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D0h4
81, manager of the Maytag Implement
! Co., was instantly killed when his
Ford roadster overturned near Yer
Ona, burying him beneath. Miss Glad
VS. Branegan, daughter Of the victim,
! jumped clear and was uninjured Mr.
Branegan was on his way home from
business trip and his daughter, who
had completed a term of teaching at
Platteville, accompanied him.
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Arrested for not registering for
Eau Claires long pending auditor
iun- armory project is again held up.
This time it is an injunction, notice of
which has been served on the city Of
fcials, the contractors to whom the
contract for the construction of the
$4,000 building has been awarded,
and the three sponsors for the site of
the building The action is return
able in circuit court in 20 days.
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Two Kenosha women, one of them
said to be prominent in society, were
disciplined by federal agents on Fri
day week ago. The authorities, who
came from the office of the U. S. Mar
shall in Milwaukee, refused to divulge
the names of the women, but it is un-
derstood they had been charged
with disloyaIty. Each woman was
compelled to swear allegiance to the
United States, it is said, and both
were ordered to place a silk flag in
a window of their homes for the per-
iod of the war
Fire of mysterious origin destroyed
the Ashland high school building and
endangered other structures. The loss
is more than $25O,000. A woman liv-
ing nearby saw strange automobile,
without headlight or tail light, circ-
ling the building about ten o'clock
at night. After watching it for some
time she telephOned ner son of what
she had seen. He went at once to the
school to investigate and found the
fire already well under way in the as
sembly. There was no Waterman in
the building.
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military service, Ferdinand Shulz
told secret service men and police at
Green Bay, that he had fought with
the German army in Russia, and that
upon being taken prisoner he paid a
Russian officer to release him. He es-
capped by way of Holland and Den
mark to England, he said, and had
then made his WaV to the Init ed