Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-07-17
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Soldiers of Camp Grant are being
detailed to Clintonville, where they
man trucks and drive them to the
seabord. Thirty leave daily.
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Lillian, the 3-year-old daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Spaulding of Sun
Prairie, is dead as the result of hav-
ing eaten a 4th Of July torpedo.
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E. B. Tanner of Richland Center, a
fire fighter in Montana, was recent
ly killed while fighting an enormous
forest fire. He was caught beneath
a falling tree.
The Lake Aurace, a 3,400 ton iron
steamer, was sent down the ways at
superior on July 4th. This was the
first Of Uncle Sans 800 merchant
ships launched that day.
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Losing her hold on an automobile
inner tube with which she was sup
porting herself, Margaret, Is years
old, daughter of Wenzel Banner, Web
ster, S.. D., drowned in the Chippewa
IlVGI uGdF Eau claire.
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For failing to make a certificate
for the sale of 1000 pounds of sugar
to an Oshkosh candy firm, Alvin E.
Jones, an Oshkosh wholesaler, was
fined $1OO by the food administration.
The money goes to the local Red
Cross.
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The family COW became enraged
when her calf was taken and attack
ed Mrs. Claude Mcintosh Of the town
of DOdgeville. The woman was
thrown into a barbed wire fence and
badly cut. She managed to crawl. to
safety.
Unknown parties defaced the church
and parsonage of H.. J. Prochnow of
Juda, Green county, not long ago.
Various inscriptions and several eros
ses adOrn the doors. 1t is said that
Prochnow's loyalty has been in ques-
ton.
w. H. Brown Of Madison, stole a
Ford and started for GAINESVILLE. He
was caught near the latter city by
the sheriff of Rock county who held
a warrant for an offense there. Now
he faces prosecution in two different
counties.
In Lisbon township, Waukesha
county, an Airedale valued at $1OO
killed $1,000 worth of pure bred sheep
as we'll as some grades and pigs. An
other dog bit and gave rabies to hors-
es, cattle and hogs worth $500, MAX
ing a loss of over $1,000 in one town
ship alone.
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Geo. Buchanan and Ephraim Gay of
Ashland, have been arrested for COM
plicity in the tarring and ~feathering
of Anton Anton on April 7th. The
men were previously arrested by To-
cal authorities and later discharged.
In the last instance an attorney vas
appointed by the state to prosecute.
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DR.. Karl Desmondre, Medford Ply
sician, was arraigned at Wausau be-
fore Court Commissioner James P.
Riley, charged with uttering disloyal
statements. He waived preliminary
examination. Unable to give a $10,-
600 bond, he is now in the county jail
awaiting trial in the federal court.
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A sad ending to a days outing
came at Round Lake, Fond du Lac
county. Mrs. Ida Liedtke, her daugh-
ter, Mrs. H%ildegarde Wunderlich, and
20 months old g%randchild, came up
from Milwaukee for a visit. They
went out on the lake in the afternoon
and a storm blew up capsizing the
craft. All were drowned.
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James Hyde, at one time head of
the Hyde Seed Co. of Plattonsburg,
memorandum book account of every
person or firm he had swindled by the
forged check route and when con
fronted with it in the La Crosse court
last Thursday afternoon, he entered a
plea Of guilty and was sentenced to
one year in Waupun.
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Hhorwald Christianson, employed
by the j. I. Case Co., of Racine.
had a miraculous escape from death
when his clothing caught on a shaft
ing and his body was hurled about
the shaft half a dozen times before
the machinery was stopped. All the
clothing was torn from his body. He
sustained four fractured ribs and in
juries to limbs and head.
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Carl Haasch, Ashland, a witness of
d recent tar and feather party at Ash
land, thinking two soldiers, who got
on a train at Ringle, were about to
arrest him, stepped into a toilet on
the moving train and cut his throat.
He gave his money and papers to his
wife, saying: They'll not get me-"
Mrs. Haasch left the train at Wausau
and was found soon after the train
left.
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A pathetic tragedy occurred at the
farm home of Paul Steger near Ra-
cine. The parents were at work in
the field. Tn the house were three
children aged Z, 4 and two months.
The eldest e~ndeavored to light the