Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-12-18
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jumped from train near Lake Mo
mona, and was killed.
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Mrs. Anna Smith %, pretty wife of
Grover Smith of Milwaukee, sol
der, died of influenza. The husband
is at Camp Grant.
Robert Boies, River Falls farm
er, rid his place of pest and reaped
500 bounty when he shot a large tim
Der wolf recently. The animal was
very large.
Fred Lesky, one-armed automobile
driver, La Crosse, whose car knocked
down and dragged Miss Alvia Ander-
son thirty feet, is held pending the
outcome of the girls injuries.
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Louis Bussler OF Jefferson, enroute
TO FIT. Atkinson, slipped on the icy
platform as he stepped from the train
and fell between the coaches. He
died without regaining conscious
ness,
John Mockey, slav, is held by the
Dane county authorities charged with
giving Frank Macolect, a 10-year-old,
a drink of booze. The boy wandered,
drunk, and died of exposure, his mo-
Their states.
The Viola News says II. w. Rock
well exhibited a freak of nature in
the shape and form of white owl.
1t is rare sight to see an owl with
pure white feathers. He will have
the bird stuffed.
Christ. Templin, SO, Milwaukee, re-
Wiled his two sons who are in France
with the colors. He was arrested on
charges made by his wife and daugh-
ter but hung himself with a towel in
his Jail cell.
Joseph Cadieux Of Superior, tried
for numbering his wife while drunk,
was convicted of third degree muir
der and given ten years hard. Cad
leux was stoically Indifferent during
the trial but broke down when Judge
Scion Perrin pronounced sentence.
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Panic stricken residents of Seneca,
a village in Richland county, wired
governor Philip that 700 cases of
flu existed in that vicinity with three
deaths in "a hours. The village is
without a doctor. The governor di-
rected the health board to provide
medical assistance.
The Jackson county Journal re-
ports that the Winnebago Indians
that inhabit that county in great
numbers, are not escaping the pre-
vailing influenza. In some camps
they have escaped death, but in others
the fatalities have been numerous.
Carl Michaelson of Black Earth,
writes relatives from French hos
pital that he is recovering from a
bullet wound. Michaelson has eight
noches in his rife indicating eight
boches to his credit before the Huns
got him. He will get we'll.
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The influenza epidemic exists all
over the state according to recent
dispatches At St Michaels orphan
age, La Crosse, 143 children are ILL.,
Tire attendants are too i'll to proper
ly care for their charges. At Green
Bay and Waupun penitentiaries many
of the inmates and employees are ILL.,
New cases developed daily all over
the state last week.
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Military police from Camp Grant
will be on duty in GAINESVILLE each
weekend until the army has been de-
modified. 1t was impossible for the
local police to prevent soldiers from
obtaining liquor while there on pass.
With only seven policemen Chief
Champion decided to request military
police They arrived Saturday even
ing, made several arrests and order
ed the soldiers off the streets after
dances had let out
To aid worthy and needy students,
especially returning soldiers and S.
A. r. G. men, who wish to remain in
college, the University of Wisconsin
regents voted to devote $4,000 to ad-
ditional scholarships this year They
established fifty scholarships Of SIS
each and fifty of $25 each for under
graduate student residents of the
state These will be followed by fifty
scholarships of 800 in succeeding
years.
The state hygenic laboratory at
Maison is sending out a serum in
tended to avert or curD lnHuenZa.
There are half dozen serums on the
market, says State Health officer Dr.
c. A, Harper, but with none have ex-
periments been sufficient to show it
is an absolute cureo or preventive.
This applies to the serum produced
at the Mayo hospital at Rochester
Mimi, he SAYS Prevention by avoid
ing all chances of contagion is rec
commended by Or. Harper as the best
means OF curling influenza.
Alfred Stanizewski of Milwaukee,
employed at the American Foundry
company, thought it was a great joke
to place a compressed air hose
against the body of Louis Miller, a
fellow employee, as the latter stopped
for a drink The air caused a rup-
ture of MiIler's bowels and he died,
The joker was found guilty of fourth
degree murder but the sentence was
committed as he has wife and fam
lily. He will be required to aid Mil
1er's widow and orphaned children