Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-11-14
AROUND WISCONSIN
BY. MAIL AND TELEGRAPH

Furs, valued at $414.23, have been
stolen somewhere in transit from a
package containing property valued
at $500, sent by Thomas A. Sullivan,
Kenosha, to E. Albrecht & Son, st.
! Paul.
| Workmen. unearthing for a new
church near Appleton, uncovered the
remains Of two skeletons one of
which was twice the average size. The
remains were in a fair state of pre-
! servation and from the long black
hair indicate an Indian burial ground.
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August Hannamann, 60 years old
and his son, Gustav, "a years old,
were burned to death early Thurs
day morning when their home near
Wausau, was destroyed by fire. A
defective stove is thought to have
been the cause.
The first military funeral ever wit
messed in Racine took place on Thurs
day, when services were held over the
remains of Ensign Ervine Dewey
Peck, u S. Navy, who died suddenly
on Monday at the naval hospital at
the Great Lakes station.
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Mrs. Fred Fields suffered a broken
hip bone and other serious injuries,
Miss Maude Fields received a broken
ankle and Fred Fields, husband of
Mrs. Fields, was badly bruised when
their automobile was struck on a
Milwaukee road crossing near Depere.
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Rev. J. Graham Gibson, pastor of
the Methodist church at Augusta, now
in England, left his charge in August
to wed pretty English maid. But
when he tried to bring her back to
America he was refused passports
for his wife.
The steamer Paul L. of Oshkosh.
was forced to abandon its trip up
river to Tustin on account Of ice in
Lake Butte des Morris. Additional
steel plates will be put on to break
the ice. This is the earliest in years
that ice has formed in the lake.
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| Washburn county is billed to out
barnum Barnum. That community
declares, in representative number of
its residents, that white deer was
| seen ''scoOting" through the wildwood
! several days ago. Throughout the en-
tire country, it is said, creatures of
! this species are rarities
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| 1000 pounds of butter shipped to
Ashland, Wis, was seized because it
contained more than the legal content
| Of water. The standard allows not
more than 16 per cent water and the
shipment tested as high as PIT per
cent. Other shipments will be seized
| by the federal authorities
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| Maj. Lewis of Mondorri, celebrated
| his Tooth anniversary Oct. 26. Mrs.
Lewis is 81. Both are in good health
and the best of spirits. Mr.. Lewis
was born in Littleton, N. H., and with
Mrs. Lewis came to Wisconsin in
1848, when they settled near Durand.
In 1907 they went to Mondorri
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ManitOwOc's tramp station is to be-
come a memory. The building was con-
demned by the state board of control
and the county board having declined
to take any action in the matter, the
city will discontinue the station and
hereafter tramps and others will have
to seek shelter elsewhere, probably at
Tie county Jail where the burden Of
cost will be on the county.
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CarmellO MussO, the Milwaukee
Italian woman released from Wau-
pun last summer where she was serv-
ing a life sentence for killing her hus-
band in 1914, will go back again this
week to serve a sentence for theft
Mrs. Musso was caught shoplifting in
Milwaukee department store and in
trying to get away, choked the de-
tective
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Fred Deller of Necedah, claimed
that he was 30 on registration day
and was believed by the officers. At
Tomahawk last week he applied for
a hunting license and gave his age
as %. AS he did not have a registra-
ton card he was placed under arrest
until the federal authorities could
take the matter up.
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Noel Negley, state agricultural field
agent, declares the report of forty
nine milk testers in the state shows
there is no great danger of herds
dwindling because Of slaughter for
veal at present. The testers, repre-
sonting 1,470 dairmen with $4,000
COWS, all replied that there was no
moro killing than formerly, and all
but few replied that no blood heif-
ers or bull calves were going to mar
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