Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-08-28
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Crosse. He suffered from mental
trouble.
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The Racine county farm at York
vile, was auctioned off last week. It
consists of 120 acres and was an
praised at $120 per acre.
1000
Bad robbers blew the safe of the
American Express Co., Rhinelander,
and obtained $500. Nitro-glycerine
was used to effect the entrance.
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Phil La Toilette, son of the senator,
was n of 200 to win a commission
at FIT. Sheridan last week. Phil goes
back to the university to await call.
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Charles Skalk, 8, while playing in
the stables of the Hilker Brick COM
pany, Racine, was kicked in the head
by a horse. His skull was fractured.
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Frank Schaettle of Mondovi, for
mer assemblyman and one-time may
or of Alma, goes on trial at La Crosse
this month for violation of the Mann
act.
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Members of the war labor board
are in Madison taking testimony in a
controversy which two weeks ago
threatened to tie up thirteen plants
working on war contracts.
600
The kaiser received another slap
on the chops last week. At Westby
all German school books were put in
a public bonfire and burned to ashes.
Wilhelm's picture topped the pile.
1900
Superior officers ~confscated over
$500 worth of whiskey in transit be-
tween Chicago and oliver under an
ordinance which prevents shipments
of liquor into Superior, a dry city.
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Evelyn O'Shea, 3, daughter of Mr..
ana Mrs. James O'Shea, Kenosha,
died of strychnine poisoning. She OBJ
tanned a box of pills prescribed for
her aunt and ate several OF them.
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Wisconsin threshermen are leading
all other states in signing pledge
caro- agreements to thresh according
to the wheat-saving rules. The to-
tai is SO more signed cards than any
other state.
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Come on, run over me, kill me, l
want to die" Historically begged an
unidentified m of the motOrman
of a Kenosha street car. She was
carried off the tracks by the motor
man and conductor.
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The Ashland sheriff had an Ameri-
can flag stolen last week and the
Stevens Point sheriff lost a muskrat
fur coat when some unknown enter
ed the Jail and passed through steel
doors to the sheriff's office.
1000
Private Lewis A. Klemmer recent
ly fell fighting the huns in France.
Klemmer, an American of German
anscestry, was a state guardsman. He
leaves a wife and baby six months
old who never saw its father.
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Delmar Glow, 10, Winona, while
playing in the street at Kenosha was
fatally hurt when struck by the au-
tomobile of Charles e. Rollins Jr.,
Chicago. Rollins took the boy to the
hospital but he died on the way.
900
Geo. j. Marshall, Brodhead, killed
himself instantly when he discharged
a double-barreled shotgun into his
body. The cause is given as temper
ary insanity. Mr.. Marshall has a son
in France with the American troops.
1000
Roy Meyers, self-styled az the thu
man fly" fell to his death a fell to his
death a few days after climbing the
walls of the New Park hotel, Madison.
Meyers was killed climbing at Joliet,
III. While at Madison he said, Some
dial / will get mine, but it won't be
my fault. 1t will be because Of a
loose brick"
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A saloon at Stevens Point operated
for forty years, first by John Zim-
mer and later by his son-in-law and
%grandsons, has been closed, Carl,
Fred, George and John Oertel, the
proprietors, having Joined the army
or gone into useful occupations.
1000.
Frank Thompson of ViroQua, re-
Gently bough 200 acres OF land on
Buck Greek near that village. n
land is covered with native hardwood
timber never touched by an axe. This
is the first time the land had changed
nduUS SllGG II SOAAS 49, o.
eminent.
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Mrs. Augusta Krause and Mrs. Am
ale Schumann, both aged so, were
killed and Miss Martha Schumann
seriously injured at Waterstown,
when an interurban car split a
SWITCH The women were on their
wav home from church. The street
car was thrown to the sidewalk.
600
Ohicers at Camp Grant hurled adj
monitions when Private Walter Szy-
manski failed to sharpshoot in mil
itary form. The boy did not hold his
gun properly, his aim was poor and
his n of squeezing the trigger,
execrable. But when the scores were
turned in Walter had plunked twenty
three successive bullseyes. He con-
fessed to having been a deer hunter
in The wisconsin north woods. Here
after he will shoot as he likes.