Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-08-14
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LIZ INMATES VI the roma Qu lac
county jail were paroled or released
on the work or fight order.
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Five men were killed and one fatal
ly injured in a powder plant explo-
slon at Barksdale last week.
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Married women whose husbands
are soldiers may enroll in the army
nursing schools. The need for nurs-
es is great.
The Rev. Victor Meagher, pastor
Of Sacred Heart catnedraI. SUPERIOR.
mas resigned to become a chaplain in
the U. S. army.
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Andrew Bronsberg appeared in
court at Marinette charged with will
fully cutting off the tail of a cow
owned by e. J. Ransom.
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ESQ orphans quartered on the sec
ond and third floors of st. Joseph
Orphan asylum, Milwaukee, marched
to safety when a fire broke out in the
institution.
For failure to register, Robert Mil
Ter. Whitehall, has been held under
$4,000 bonds by the federal court.
Miller claims he was under 81 on reg
istration day.
Beloit pop factories closed down
last week for the period of sugar
scarcity. The so per cent allowance
of the government was not sufficient
to pa ythe firms to operate.
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Upon a plea of guilty of Albert OIL
son OF Stoughton, at GAINESVILLE, to
forging checks, the prosecuting at
torney recommended that he be plac-
ed on a farm instead of being sent
to Waupun.
Mrs. Gertrude West, fat lady with
the Zedman-Pollie Carnival company,
died last week at Milwaukee. Death
was due to fatty degeneration of the
heart. Mrs. West was AZ years old
and weighed 658 pounds.
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Mrs. Rose Dittman As, Fond du
Lac, awaiting trial on a statutory
charge, committed suicide in Jail by
piercing her neck with button scis-
sors, which she found in a sewing
basket after she had pleaded for
work.
Anton Leitgeb, Milwaukee, attempt
ed to interfere when some railroad
detectives arrested two women for
stealing coal on the right-of-way.
Leitgeb knocked down one officer
and the other shot and mortally in
jured him.
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Donald Herzberger, aged 5, was
brought into court at Milwaukee as
the result of an attack by his father.
Herzberger, a painter, brutally bat
tered his little sons face beyond rec
ognition. Herzberger was held on
$500 bonds.
Four men and one M have
been arrested at La Crosse in a cam
paign to prevent the sale of liquor
to Camp Robinson soldiers. One
man was charged with selling drinks
in his room at the Y. M. G. A. to mil
itary officers.
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Living up to their reputation a
large delegation of Missouri farm
ers leave Hannibal August Oath for
Wisconsin points. They want to be
shown how we dairy. The expert
ment station at Madison will come
in for especial attention.
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Vocational schools for wal emer-
gency training will be continued in
thirty-one cities of the state, accord
ing to Madison officials. Within the
past few months these schools
through night classes have provided
special war training for 1883 boys.
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Fred Bieder of Eau Claire, is a
sound sleeper. Bieder slept while his
house was burning and did not awak-
en- until the flames singed his hair.
Then he jumped from his bed and
fed from the house. Neighbors res
cued a sleeping baby in the room adj
joining Bieder's.
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Magnus Swenson, state food admin
istrator. has fined the Horlick Malt
ed Milk concern of Racine, the sum
of $4,000. Mr.. Swenson also confis-
Gated 1000 barrels of -four. Gross
misconduct and covering up by the
officers of the company caused the
heavy sentence which has been con-
frmed by Hoover.
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over $1,000, 00c worth of peas have
been canned in three canneries in
La Crosse county in five weeks. The
meas were raised on 5000 acres. A
large percentage of the output was
purchased by the government. Doz-
n of high school students found
employment in the canneries. The
plants are located at Holmen, Onalas-
ka and West Salem. A larger part
of the crop was sold at the rate OF
81 per dozen cans, a record price.
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There were 7,4S5 deaths in the sec
ond quarter of the yea for Wiscon-
sin. Pneumonia leads with 1,lO9
deaths, Pulmonary tuberculosis sec
ond with CSC deaths. Cancer took
4S1. Violence caused 42S endings.
Diphteria caused So deaths. Deaths
of children under n year numbered
1913; from 1 to 4-years, 4O3; at the
ace of SIS and over, 2,31O. Deaths