Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-07-16
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Mrs. Susan Kommers, 81, Sheboy-
gan, died Of acid poisoning due to de-
/ spondency.
Ed. Shaver, 27, was drowned at
bingham while bathing. Cramps
caused his death.
Ole Halberg, Superior, is dead and
thirty are i'll as the result of eating
poisoned sausage.
Uuane Scnalos, 10, WilmOt school
boy, was drowned at Kenosha while
hunting for CLAIMS
Mrs. Bertha Mas, Sheboygan, died
of blood poisoning due to running a
crochet hook in her hand.
4 Melvin Theodore, IA, was drowned
near Oak Ridge. The boy stepped in
a hole IA feet deep while swimming.
! Chas. Tritten, 20, GAINESVILLE, met
his death while setting tobacco when
his team ran away and dragged the
man.
Odin Guam, z years, fell from the
Stoughton dam while fishing and was
drowned. He was rescued in an hour
but could not be revived.
II Reno Muscetti, a Mendoza farm
hand, lost his life while swimming in
the lake. The body was found by
isearchers from the university.
4 Arnold Lehnherr, Monroe farmer,
took his life by shooting off the top
of his head with a shotgun. Worry oy-
er i'll health caused the action.
Mrs. Fred Eenz, 81, Oshkosh, died
at the home of her parents near Neen-
iah while preparing the evening meal
Heart failure was the trouble.
Brooding over the death of his wife
and little daughter who were drown
ed in a food three months ago, Ben
Bullman, Dorchester, committed sui
!, eide.
Arthur Frommelt, 10, was killed
while wading in a mud puddle when
: a high tension electric wire carrying
struck his foot during a storm at La
Crosse.
! Unrestrained running of dogs is
: blamed for the dec4 tease of Brown
county sheep from 1888 in 1911 to 95S
in 1918. Sheep growers are despond-
ent over the situation.
Archie Kincaid, Rockford, drowned
i in the Wisconsin river at Kilbourn
where he was on a vacation. Otto
: Wendt, %, drowned at Merrimac.
Both men were in swimming.
Lawrence Dionne 10, Oconto, plow-
| ed on his fathers farm and a storm
came up. The boy went to tree
which was soon struck by lightning.
The youth was knocked unconscious
J and the horse killed.
"A gypsy woman who picked the
pocket of confiding citizen at Elk
horn, was sentenced to seven years
in Waupun and fine of $500 and
costs. Sentence was RENTED on
condition that the woman keep out of
the state.
Rosetta and John Matson, and 5
years, were drowned in mudho1e
near Windsor, their parents home.
The family was busy setting tobacco
and did not notice the children's abb
sence. They waded in the creek and
sunk in the mudhole.
Four men at La Crosse drank wood
alcohol diluted with sugar and water.
AS result they will lose their sight.
The men found unconscious are Ray
Sasman, Trempeleau, Jack Miller, La
Crosse, James Jeffries, Des MOines,
and G. Bergson, St. Paul.
i Christ Christensen, So, sat in de-
pot at Silver Lake for six hours wait
ing for train. The man was struck
by switch engine and his collar
bone broken aside from severe bruis-
es to his head and body. He crawled
to the depot and sat six hours before
help arrived.
Miss Helen Horsfall, South Dakota,
was injured by being shot in the leg
by a 80 bullet during the Ath of July
celebration at Neenah. Miss Horsfall
sat on porch as a party of people
passed by. The revolver in the hands
of one girl went off and the bullet
hit the girl on the porch. The shooter
was arrested and fined.
School books belonging to the Lu-
theran church at Fox Lake were
burned by unknown parties who raid
ed the school at night. On the black
board was the inscription, ITO H
with the kaiser and the German lam
guage" The pastor, Rev. Deniger,
taught summer school in English hut
instructed in church work in Ger
man.
The largest damage suit verdict in
years was awarded Miss Nellie Krue-
/ ger when jury at Green Bay award
ed her $6,500 She charged DR.. Hickey
with malpractice and sued for $10,-
1000. Evidence showed that while the
patient was under an anesthetic, hav-
! ing tooth extracted, filing from
another tooth was Jared loose and
went into the windpipe and the lung.
where an abscess formed, resulting
in tuberculosis.