Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-03-26

Ihe body of Clarence Olson, %, was
found floating in the harbor at Ra-
cine. The man was missing since
December 20.
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MARTIN Munson, Viroqua, had his
1907 nearly sawed off while cutting
wood for neighbor. Doctors sewed
the loot on and will endeavor to save
it.
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Frank Jacobs of GAINESVILLE. was
beaten to pulp with beer bottles in
the "Y' hotel, Chicago, where he Wis
TIED. Jacobs was lured in the strang-
ers' room
cases Of sleeping sickness puzzles
the doctors of Marinette and Sheboy-
gan. Emil Strom, Marinette, slept "a
hours. Oscar Wohlgezogen, Sheboy-
gan, slumbers for hours and is delir-
ious.
An invention of Carl Wender of
henosha, which safeguards handling
OF torpedo, has attracted the atten-
tlon OF the war and navy departments.
ana 1t is understood will be purchas-
ed by the government. The details
OF the device have been held secret.
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While searching for nine barrels of
whlskey which disappeared during a
raid in Ashland recently. it was re-
vealed that $4,000 worth of liquor was
shipped into Ashland from Iron River
and that small blind pigs were being
operated
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A. G. Allen, Portage, apiarist, found
his basement filled with dead bees
who deceived by the warm weather,
came out looking for spring. Allen
shovelled out eight bushels of dead
| money gatherers. The bees leave the
hives for air and do not return.
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Miss Edna Krause, 10, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Krause, She
boygan Falls, died from supposed
cerebral embOlism resulting from an
accident at the Falls Motors corpor-
alton plant in which the girls right
hand when caught in machine was
crushed.
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The bad quarter scare at Marinette
which resulted in rejection of many
1917 quarter dollars because they did
not bear three stars beneath the Eagl-
lie has subsidized. One of the quarters
sent to Washington brought the re-
ply that the bad" quarter was one of
few turned out with a bad die, but
is worth rs cents.
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When Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Conrad
Oshkosh, died of pneumonia, the two
deaths taking place within "a hours,
their four small children were left
alone in the world Mrs. Conrad nurs-
ed her husband during the first four
! days of his illness but was first to
succumb.
After drinking one and one-half
quarts, War Skipple, 10, Glenn Haley,
Is, and Roger Reynolds, %, stole an
auto, wrecked it, stole another.
wrecked it, then caused Skipple to
stab Joseph Eichmann The boys liv-
ed at Madison but got the booze at
Sun Prairie. They went to the state
reformatory for three years each.
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Damages of $4,000 are sought by
Mrs. Florence H. Gordon, widow of
i Percy H. Gordon in !. suit against the
Wisconsin National bank on trial be-
fore Judge E. T. Fairchild of the Mil
waukee circuit court. Mr.. Gordon
who was state manager of the Travel
ers' Insurance Co., was killed Feb. IL
1918, when struck on the head by ice
falling from the roof of the Pabst
building,
Upon complaint of neighbors, An
Ii
ined and pronounced sane in court
The case recalled Woraski's action
/ 10 years ago, when he refused the
Chicago & Northwestern railway per-
mission to build the ManitowOc line
through his property. Condemnation
proceedings were resorted to and he
! was locked up while the work was
under way. He is said to have de-
clared that the instruments of the
surveyors were "bewitched"
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Transporting several tons of INT
through the danger zone in the North
sea and having several fights with
submarines while engaged in this
mission and not receiving a scratch
is the war record of the U. S. S. Lake
Ontario, mine carrier, launched at
! ManltOWOc In November, 1917. The
record of the vessel and its crew
reads as fiction Following compile
ton of the boat it was ordered to pro-
coed through almost impossible ice
on Lake Ontario and the st. Lawrence
river to the Atlantic coast The jour
ney was only completed by continu-
Gus battles with the ice fields. A part
| of the boats record follows: "On June
! 90 we had our first battle with sub
marine. We were bound eastward in
convoy with II other ships. A sub
marine that had been following the
convoy for two days in an effort to
get a good shot at one of the ships
came up suddenly directly directly
abeam of the Ontario four and half
miles away The Lake Ontario warn
ed the other ships of the convoy by
siren and blinker and in seven sec
onds its guns were brought into play.
Five steady shots were handed to the
submarine and that was enough. 1t
disappeared Immediately and was new
er seen again. On our way back from
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