Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-04-16
AROUND WISCONSIN
BY MAIL AND TELEGRAPH

Shiocton closed its cabbage ship
ping season with a record of 1850
tons. Eighty carloads have been
shipped from there each month since
December.
Madison has an estimated popula-
ton Of $1,000 according to the annu-
al school census. The figure includes
students attending the university
The estimated population of Madison
in 1910 was 1851.
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Smoky" Joe Bolack of Marinette,
held for robbing companion of a
$50 Liberty bond and taking $50 from
another companion, was sentenced to
three years at Waupun. VIM. Rein
hart was sentenced to the same prison
for two years for breaking his par
ole.
Three days after he began work
Edward N. Moussel, II, was instant
ly killed in the Nick Shannon saw
mill near Elk Mound A piece of
board being run through the mill
flew from the saw and struck him on
the side of the face, crushing the jaw
and part of the skull.
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A pathetic death occurred at Mil
waukee when Mrs. Marie Neubauer,
g. leaped into a park lagoon with
her three-year-old son pressed to her
breast. Police found both bodies a
few minutes later. Mrs. Neubauer's
husband died in December and the
wife was respondent since. Her hus-
bands picture was found clasped in
her hand.
Judge G. w. Hunt of La Crosse
pulls the latest and best Judge Hunt
is clerk of the local exemption board.
The other day he had a letter from a
young man saying he was working on
farm at a certain address and that
he was ready for the next draft any
time it was called. Either he doesn't
know the war is over or he is sure
enough exponent Of preparedness"
said Judge Hunt.
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Scores Of freshmen and several
sophomores have been thrown into
Lake Mendoza during hazing parties
between first and second year stu
dents at the university. Five hun
dred freshmen paraded the town in
against such performances by new
students. Sophomores retaliated.
The whole thing is lawless since the
faculty established the student court
to consider and punish violations of
student traditions.
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Six auto bandits supposedly from
Chicago swooped down on the Amer
lean boarding house at Racine and
held the place up. Sag Cappillan,
the Greek proprietor and padrone of
his courtrymen, was robbed If 500. |
Sag had that day placed $4,000 in
safety deposit and thus slipped one
over on the chagrined bandits. The
willy ROBBERS claimed to be revenue
men looking for blind pigs and thus
gained egress to the house. They |
searched completely cuffed Sag over
the ear in disappointment and then
fled for Chicago at a sixty mile clip
with the Racine police in hot pur-
suit. No captures were made.
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Claim of the highest price ever re-
ceiyed for one animal by Wisconsin
breeder is set up as the result of the
:S4,35O for which yearling bull was
sold at Watertown. At the Holstein
associations sale, Fred Albright, of
Watertown, had to bid this price to
get King Rachel Homestead, son of
Rachel Tritonia De Kol famous COW
that produced 81 pounds of butter in
one week and made a record of 721 !
pounds of milk IN a week. The I
young bull, sold by Robert Luodtke
Juneau, was sired by Canary Fobes
Oak Homestead. The total sales. lat
bead, brought $44,350. A herd of 60
head was sold for $4,000. Francis
Darcy, secretary Of the Holstein
Breeders association, arranged the
sale.
'All this stuff about the woman be-
ing to blame is rot, it's a fifty-fifty
proposition" Judge Maxfeld told Geo.
Whitney railroad switchman, Charg-
ed with beating Mrs. Amanda Haffey
THE other woman in ten million /
years couldn't break up your home or
any other moman's home unless the
husband is willing. A man who would
beat woman whether she's his wife, |
.anybody's else's wife or nobody's |
wife hasn't got the brains God gave
an ordinary insect and this court |
doesn't pin on blue ribbons for vir-
tue. IL developed JnaC MIS-. WHIT
ney went to Madison recently and |
Mrs. Haffey went to Wnitncy's |
Something went wrong according to |
the badly discolored optic which Mrs. |
Haffey displayed in the courtroom
Roadhouses and JOY rides were feat
ures of the testimony. Whitney plead |
ed guilty and the case was adjourned |
80 permit an arrangement whereby |
Whitney may be placed at his work
under the commitment law
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Anton Liegeb, Milwaukee, charged |
with the murder of his wife, Eliza
beth, and shooting his daughter and
another woman, was given life after
an hours trial. Before imposing SEN
tence Judge Backus asked Leigeb if
he had anything to say. mo, what can
I say?" responded the defendant az
intended to kill her and / did it. l
wanted to kill my son-in-law too. He
conspired with my wife in aiding her
to get divorce And l meant to kill
myself too 7 stuck the revolver in