Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-10-16

Mrs. Bernard Straits was killed
while crossing the tracks at Sheboy-
gan. She leaves a large family.
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ole Monshagen of Stoddard, fell
from the rear of a train and was
killed. He leaves large family.
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James Clark, a travelling printer,
was killed at Wausau by a train. He
fell fifty feet down from bridge.
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Mrs. Kitty Schwartz, 81, threw her
self in front of a train on the Milwau-
kee road at Random Lake. Her body
was cut in two.
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Frank Blahnik and James Schwei-
ger, Ashland, cousins, met in hospi-
tai in France where both had been
taken after having been wounded in
battle.
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Huldah Springburn, Reedsburg, has
filed suit at Madison against Anthony
Dueppen, Madison, for $4,000 damag-
es for alleged failure by Mr.. Dueppen
to fulfill a marriage promise.
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The conservation commission has
mailed notices to conservation ward
ems and county clerks to protect all
fawn. Mature deer may be killed this
year under the usual legal regula-
tions.
The new state guard companies
have been mustered into service, the
Thirty-siXth at Middleton, under Cap
tain H. G. Ruenzel, and the Thirty
seventh at Waupaca, under Captain
Roy Holly.
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Joachim Kluehs, champion rifle
man of Middleton, is in an overseas
hospital. Kluehs was found in a
trench with six dead Germans around
him. The "Yank" had a rifle wound
in his hip.
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Missing from his home in Camp
bellsport for three months, Charles
F. Schultz. believed dead, has been
found at work in a blacksmith shop
in Oshkosh. He was arrested for de-
sertion
Frank Beitlich, single and 80,
hung himself from a tree at Mormon
Coulee, near La Crosse. The only
motive considered is worry over hav-
ing to go to war and leave his farm
and other property.
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Two machines crashed into the au-
tomObile of Rev. Francis Ramps of
Green Bay diocese, and the clergy
man is now laid up with a broken
collar bone. The other drivers sped
away and their identity is unknown.
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People of Green Bay have been re-
quested to save their wood ashes to
keep the potash plant there in opera
ton to produce potash for govern
ment war needs. Shutting down of a
saw mill, due to fire, has reduced the
supply of ashes.
Francis Mullen of Milwaukee, "A,
was held UP and robbed of STA, his
quarterly pension, by Henry Blies-
mer, Louis Ritzin and Carl Schaller,
three Milwaukee toughs. Following
a strong lecture the judge sent the
men to prison for five years.
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Plans for motorizing the La Crosse
fire department, involving an eX-
penditure of $4,000, have been aban-
doned by the city council because of
the loss of income taxes and license
money. for next year by five brewer
les and $50 saloons going out of bus
mess
5000
One hundred and fifty saloons clos
ed Sunday, Oct. Is, and will be closed
Sundays as long as long as any Ra-
cine manufacturing concern has a
government contract. This was
agreed upon at a meeting of liquor
dealers and representatives of the
navy department.
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The body of John O'Brien. Brown
county farmer, was removed from the
Fox river in the dipper of a dredge
operating near the Northern Paper
Mill plant. Relatives identified the
body. Mr.. O'Brien disappeared last
December and the authorities were
never able to obtain a trace of him.
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Emanuel Markie, 81, sole surviv-
or of the Light Guards, famous Sec
ond Wisconsin infantry (Iron Bri-
gade) company of the Civil war. is
dead at La Crosse. He was shot Z
times at Gettysburg, all bullets strik-
ing his pocketbook, boots or haver-
sack.
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Mary Kuester, 5, was instantly
killed and her brother, s, suffered a
broken leg and internal injuries
when struck by an an automobile at
Racine. A funeral cortege at a
church prevented the chauffeur from
seeing the children as they ran into
the street in front of the automobile.
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One man was killed and four men
injured in running fight at Turtle
Lake, where four robbers blew The
bank safe and escaped with S6.5OO
Sid Ward, citizen, was killed. One
bandit was wounded but all got awav
and the police of the northwest are
looking for them. The quartet is
thought to be the same that robbed
the bank at Hopkins. Mimi. early
the same day and got away with
$4,000
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Only one athlete is reported among
the 1876 students at the university