Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-05-15
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Miss Grace Lusk of Waukesha, held
for the murder Of the wife Of DR.. Rob
erts, a veterinarian, will have her tri-
al this month.
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Harley Tellifson Of Rockdale, died
/ Of injuries received when ne fell un-
! der train near Jefferson Junction.
Both hands were severed.
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James McKee, a prominent citizen
! Of Newry, was Knocked down and kill
! ed by an automobile while inspecting
highways in his township Mr.. Nc
Kee unconsciously walked into the
j path Of a car.
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The 2-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs
Walter Fischer, ManitowOc, was scald-
/ ed to death when he fell into a tub
of boiling water which his mother had
prepared for the weekly washing. He
lived for two hours before death end
ed his suffering.
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In order to make che Fond du Lac
county fair the second largest exhi-
bition of it's kind in the state, the
board of fair managers has decided
to expend $4,000 in Improvement
work this year. The whole arrange
/ ment Of the fair grounds will be
changed.
The finding of the decomposed body
! of soldier in the La Crosse river 5
miles below Sparta, by VIM. L. Davis,
fisherman, has given the civil and
military authorities a mystery to
solve. The man it is believed is prob
ably listed as a deserter from some of
the companies that trained on the
Camp Robinson range.
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At the conclusion of the bond drive
Beloit heard an address defending
his part in the war by "the kaiser"
The part was taken by Judge John B.
Clark, defending in an ironic way the
"kaisers" military ambitions Then
an effigy of the arch-assassin was
swung in the breeze and filled with
bullets. Finally it was burned to the
music of a dirge. Beloit subscribed
over one million dollars.
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When freight train going at the
rate Of about twenty miles an hour
struck the automobile in which they
were riding, Eddie Seeman and Frank
! Nagler, Osceola school boys, sustain
ed injuries which caused their deaths.
Nagler died almost instantly and See
man expired on the way to the hos
pitoI. A short time before the tragedy
an auto containing Harold Woman
and several friends had nearly been
rund own at the same railroad cross
ing.
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$1,000 in cash was found at the
home of Reinhold Breutzman, cashier
Of the O'Neill Paint company, Milwau-
kee. Brakeman was a trusted en-
plOye for many years when an inves-
tigation disclosed defalcations of 49,
O00 He turned over $4,000 in secur-
tiles claiming that was all he had.
Later Mr.. O'Neill and an officer
searched his home with the result
stated. Breutzman will be prosecut-
ed.
After continued signaling to Engin-
eer VIM. Mann, aged So, to proceed
after a stop at North Tomah, Wis,
and receiving no response, a brake
man on a Northwestern way freight
found the engineer dead in the seat
of his cab and the fireman shOveling
COAL unaware of the death of his en-
CINE mate. The train was brought to
Winona by the fireman, and the body
of the engineer sent to his home at
Baraboo, where a wife and children
survive.
One year in the state prison at Wau-
pun was the sentence which Circuit
Judge G. A. Fowler of Portage, passed
upon John O. Markeson, a travelling
salesman for the Moline Plow Co.,
with headquarters in Madison, for an
offense involving a Madison woman,
Mrs. Florence Beach, who is q widow
with two children. They were arrest
ed in a hotel in Portage registered as
1 L. J. Standard and wife. MarkcsOn is
married and has three children. His
family lives in Madison. The man
was sentenced upon a plea of guilty.
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Between Friday night and Monday
morning entrance was gained to the
! BarabOO high school building and a
number of German text books are mis-
! sing. It is not known whether the
| books were burned, buried or thrown
into the river near the school. In a
number Of the rooms OF the school
inscriptions were found on the black
! boards that were not complimentary
to the continuation of German in the
school, The school board, to 1, re
Gently decided to retain German in
the BarabOo school.
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Raking industriously in her garden
on her husbands farm near Osseo,
Mrs. H. Seig suddenly spied a small
glittering object lying in the dirt
which she had uncovered, apparently,
with the rake. She picked it up, and
then there was a sudden terrific blast.
When she came to a few minutes af-
! terWard in her home she found the
thumb and three fingers of her left
hand gone, and big hole in the mid
die of her palm, while the skin on the
left side of her face was peeled off.