Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-06-11

Peter Clement La Crosse farmer,
and are now IT, steur treatment
Corp. VIM, Sh1pIey, an overseas SOL
der, was drowned in Rainbow lake,
Waupaca. He succumbed to heart
failure.
e. Luebow was sentenced by Judge
Michael Kirwan to two years at Wau-
pun for a series Of burglaries at She
boygan.
David Praner, 10, Delaven, was kill
ed when he came into contact with a
live wire while doing telephone work.
He fell 25 feet.
Ernest Heidenreiter, A, Sheboygan
Falls, for 16 years rural mail carrier,
dropped dead of heart failure while
chasing young hog on his farm.
Bessie Smith, La Crosse, was
granted a divorce from Charles S.
Bonnell, who is in the state prison at
saltwater, Mimi, on a charge of big
amy
Richard Perry, 81, fireman on lake
steamer, tried to board a moving
freight train at Cedarburg but was
hurled to the ground and his back
was broken.
"A
court gave judgment OF $1,000 for
Elmer G. Ramstrom against the Mil
waukee road Ramstrom lost a leg
and part of his other foot while work
ing in the yards.
The body of Geo. A. Mack, returned
soldier, was found near Calvary GEM
etery, Superior, by party of Y. M. c..
A. mixers. An empty acid bottle was
found close by. Mack had sent his
mother a letter telling her where she
could find his body.
George borrow, Menasha, was SEN
fenced to thirteen months at Green
Bay reformatory and his companion,
William Jensen, also of Menasha, was
placed on probation fortwo years.
They pleaded guilty to the theft OF
an automobile at Brighton Beach.
John O. Jones, Al, assistant engineer
at the Simmons Co., Kenosha, was in
Stantly killed when live wire carry
ing a heavy current, touched his chin
as he was helping to remove some
wooden chutes from an electric driv'
en- crane.
Damages of $4,000 were awarded
Fred j. Levy for the loss of leg, by
"a jury in the Superior court. Mr.. Levy
was injured on the steamer J. F. Dur
stan, Oct. "a, 1918, being struck by
the unloading clam of Great Lakes
Coal & Dock Co.
ReinhOld Violin, farm hand who
left the Chas. Ford farm at Parnell,
when 5000 in Liberty bonds were
missed, was caught at Alpena, Mich.
AT the Walworth county HOlstein
bull sale q bull calves were sold at
an average price of $10S.S0. Many
erstwhile scrub and grade bull own
ers made purchases.
VIM B. Fraser was killed and Mr..
and Mrs. Geo. I. White injured when
the automobile in which they were
riding was struck by, Milwaukee
road train near Rugby Junction. Mr..
and Mrs. White are expected to re-
cover. Mrs. Frazer, also member
of the party, was uninjured.
Peter j. Meier, Hilbert, shot himself
through the head using his foot to
pull the trigger of the shot gun. He
has made his will, written a long let
ger to members of his family and ar
ranged his financial affairs. He leaves
his wife, four daughters and two sons,
one with the army in France.
Thomas Tomandel Stang lville, so,
had peculiar accident happen to him
when he got up in his sleep. He
walked to the window, jumped from
the second story, landed on a hitch
ing post and fell to the cement side
walk He had four ribs broken and
received internal injuries. He was
rushed to hospital at Green Bay and
is in serious condition.
The remains of an unknown man
were found beside the 500 tracks al
Dunbar. He had on only an under
shirt, shoes and stockings and his
hands were tied behind him. Investi-
cation showed that the man had tied
a rope to the limb of a tree, put the
moose about his neck and then jump
ed down the railroad cut. The cor
oner's jury found that he had come
TO his death by his own hand.
Every inhabitant of the 900 persons
who populate Washington island are
American citizens. Few if any town
ships in the state have this record
Seventeen residents of that township
recently took out citizenship papers
through the clerk of the circuit court
Some applying for papers had taken
out the first papers years back, even
as far as 1874, but had failed to fin
ish the job. The people of the island
established an enviable record in war
work, being 100 per cent plus in every
loan drive and war work activity.