Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-09-25
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John Clerkin, a Madison boy, was
killed in France on July 18th.
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Gerald Anderson, 8, GAINESVILLE, was
run over and instantly killed by a
street car.
Hundreds of quarts of preserved
fruits are missing in Neenah follow
ing raids on cellars. No arrests have
been made.
The floor of the building used for
registration in Beloit gave way while
crowded, and twenty persons fell in
to the cellar. Several sustained slight
injuries.
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An overturned oil lamp caused the
bad burning of Elizabeth, infant child
of Mr.. and Mrs. John Buhr of Waun-
akee. The mother had gone to bring
in the milk.
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Billie Voss, 13 years, of Madison,
was struck by a freight train while
driving a milk wagon to a condens-
cry. The horses cleared the track
but the boy and rig got the blow. Bill
! lie will recover.
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All gas and electric power will be
shut off at the Milwaukee saloon of
George Becker for thirty consecutive
nights as punishment for his failure
to observe the lightless night order
and also for ejecting a deputy fuel
official from his saloon.
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No infections of late potato blight
have been found in the fields of cen
trail and eastern Wisconsin by the in
spectors of the college of agriculture.
The disease is we'll under control in
the twelve fields in Barron county,
where it was found last month.
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Yeggs who dynamited the safe in
store and p~ostoffice at Gordon escap-
ed with several government bonds,
war savings stamps, some registered
mail and a small amount of cash. The
burglary was the fifth that had oc-
Cured there in the last few months.
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When his clothing was caught in
the shafting at the mill of the Rhine
lander Box and Lumber company,
Bernard Mocknee was whirled about
the shaft at terrific speed and prac-
tically crushed to death. Every bone
in his body was broken before the
machinery could be stopped and his
release from the shaft made possible.
900
A common law marriage" cannot
be legally entered into in Wisconsin,
according to Attorney General Spen-
Ger Haven. In another opinion he
held that an Indian in the Lac Courte
Oreilles reservation could not be
prosecuted for abandonment under
the laws of Wisconsin, as he was not
subject to the criminal laws OF the
state.
1000
Herman Heller, alleged enemy al
len registration evader, who was be-
ing held in the Appleton police sta
ton awaiting the arrival of a United
States deputy marshal from Milwau-
kee, committed suicide in his cell by
hanging himself with a rope. Upon
Investigation of Heller's effects at his
room, nothing was found to attach
him with the German government.
1000
Although he had never shot an army
rifle previous to his entrance to the
school, Kevill Larson, 10, Neenah,
competing in the national shoot par
ticipated in by men from colleges
throughout the country learning to
become military instructors at Camp
Perry, o., captured third place in the
5%00-yard range. He scored 81 out of
a possible 100. Second place went to
the man who shot 80.
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Judge w. G. Palmer in Racine pro-
bate court, refused to admit the will
Of Theodore w. Johnson to probate,
holding that the signature was not
that of the eccentric shoemaker. Mr..
Johnson's estate was worth approx
mately $50 700, and will now go to
heirs in Denmark. The will was pre-
sented by Mrs. l.. G.. Hahn, several
weeks after his death in March, 1917.
She witnessed the instrument which
was written in an account book in her
millinery store in 1895, and was nam
ed as executrix as well as the resid-
uary legatee. She would have re-
ceived about $50, 900 had the will been
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