Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-04-03

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Madison, ran to the bank of Lake
Monona, plunged into the icy water
and rescued the child.
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Tommie, 13, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
M. Doudican of Fond du Lac, drown
ed in the Fox river when a spear he
was using became lodged in a heavy
piece of wood, which dragged him in
to the water.
Crazed with pain from earache for
many days, Wunibald Kiefer, a La
Crosse telephone installer, shot him
self in the head. The bullet went
through one eye and emerged from
the top of the skull without touching
the brain. 1t is expected that he
will live.
With the going out of the ice in the
Mississippi river at La Crosse, river
/ pirates began their annual depreda-
lions. Owners of summer homes at
city, including w. V. Kidder, pub
Usher of a boating magazine, report
ed thefts to the police.
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| Because she caught her dress in
| the door of an elevator she was OPP
Grating, a Madison young woman
claims that she was frightened so
badly that she was confined to her
bed for a month from nervousness,
loss of appetite and sleeplessness.
She has filed claim for damages un-
der the workmen's compensation act.
Three years ago a body identified
as that of Joseph Pappan was found
in the lake at Kenosha. 1t was bur-
led with ceremony. Word just receiv-
ed from Mr.. Pappan at San Francisco
tells that he is alive and superintend-
ent Of tannery there. A brother and
fellow society members are wonder
ing who they buried three years ago.
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Owing to the fuel situation the sal
oons will close in Merrill on Sundays.
The question arose as to who should
make the complaint for a continual
| ton of the enforcement of the Sun
day closing law. The attorney gen.
eral held that the district attorney
could not shift the responsibility but
it was his duty to make the complaint
| if he knew of violation. The attor-
| ney general suggests that those who
have through custom kept their plac-
es open on Sunday be notified.
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When a man leaves an open pen
knife on his knee and a cat suddenly
! jumps toward him and startles him
so that he knocks his knees together
and the knife falls cutting an artery
in one of his legs, can he collect for
the injury under the workmen's COM
! pensation act? That's the knotty
problem that the industrial commits
sion will have to unravel in the case
of Milwaukee laborer, who has filed
a claim for the pay he lost while un-
able to work, owing to the injury to
his leg.
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Pictures of Victor L. Berger, social
list candidate for United States Sen
ator, posted on bill boards at New
Richmond, have been daubed with
mud. In River Falls and other towns
so much i'll feeling was aroused by
the appearance of the pictures that
the local councils of defense ordered
their removal. The voters of the I'm
ion high school district at Roberts,
unanimously decided to discontinue
teaching of German. The principal
of the school was ordered to burn
all German text books Immediately
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Declaring that he would not fire
any man guilty of beating another if
the latter in any way praised the Ger
man flag, Justice J. E. Carew of Fond
du Lac, found James Finnegan not
guilty of the charge of assault and
battery preferred by John Fox Fin
negan admitted striking Fox several
times and also knocking him down
and in defense of his act declared that
Fox had stated he could place the
kaiser's flag on his house if he wanted
to. Fox said that the remark, if he
made it at all, was made before the
United States declared war on Ger
many. Fox denied that he had made
any utterances against the American
flag.
Jacob J. Auer, editor of the Eau
Claire Herold, a German language
paper, was placed under arrest under
! the espionage act by U. S. Marshal
Frank P. O'Connor of Madison. Auer
was taken from Eau Claire to Madi-
son where he waived examination. He
was then placed under $4,000 bonds
and as he could not give them went
to jail The publication Of alleged
seditious articles led to his arrest.
Charles E. Erickson of Madison
fireman, took a short cut across
Lake Mendoza and fell through the
ice. After struggling for ten minutes
! he was rescued FricLxcOn 1r,oc ox