Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-11-26

Mrs. Ed. P. Robinson, an old Cobb
resident, died at the home of her
daughter, in Milwaukee, aged IS.
Miss Bessie Burns, Jonesdale. fell
and broke her left arm at the elbow
while on her way to school at Dodge
vile.
Earl Mitchell. Dodgeville farmer.
mad his right hand badly mangled by
catching it in the cog3 of corn
shredder.
John Molzoff, an old town Of Fen
nlmore resident, died a week ago of
cancer of the throat Mr. Molzoff
was born in Bohemia. He was Sc
years old
JOS. Dingle, bridge carpenter.
employed on the 1. G. near Galena,
was killed by large beam being car
led above by crane swinging
around and striking him on the head
Enos Rowe, a farmer of Willow Val
ley, R1chland county, took his own
lie by the carbolic acid route. The
frozen body with the empty vial be-,
SIDE 1t was found in a deserted barn
oy road gang. Rowe, 80, leaves a
Wife and two children.
The International Harvester ware
house at Dubuque, burned with a de-
structiOn of $250000. The Linehan &
Molo building, five stories, and the
Southern hotel, two stories, adjacent
buildings, were set fire by the burn
ing harvester building and Quilted.
Everett Stoddard, Little Willow
farmer. Richland county. was first
surprised and then ''tickled' to find
that he had unearthed $55 in money
while blowing on a new farm. The
money was buried foo+ down. This
story is spoiled by the money turning
out to be counterfeit silver dollars.
James T. Townsend Dubuque. tried
for the murder of his stepfather. was
found guilty and sentenced to penal
servitude for life. Townsend, a re-
turned soldier. beat the old man over
the head with window weight. He
then threw the body in catfish creek
after weighing it down with rock.
Murder will out and the body was
found a few days later
L. G. Gruenewald, the we'll known
Livingston red hog man. recently
bought Headliner, to head his herd.
This boar came from the Ira Jack
OOll AdI LII at OIllO. HIS Hall
brother sold for $4,000. Headliner is
8 years DID, weighs 900 lbs. 80 inches
lon~ end y inches around his heart.
Frank Pettora DIV Bono, lost three
fingers in corn shredder.
Grating at Camp Grant.
Disclosures of alleged graft among
workmen employed in building Camp
Grant, and evidence purporting to
show that over $4,500,000 was need
lessly expended in constructing the
cantonment at Rockford because of
the "cost-plus" system of contracts
awarded by the government featured
a hearing of the congressional sub
cimmittee investigation. Three wit
nesses testified that they and other
workmen were "milched" out of
thousands of dollars by dishonest
foremen and straw bosses. One of the
| trio said that the boss of a certain
gang collected So from each of his
men for permitting them to work on
Sunday and collec+ overtime wages.
| Two others, both transfers, alleged
that a Rockford cxpressman who
claimed to have the exclusive con-
tract for supplying teams to the camp
contractors, collected $3.50 a day for
each of the 200 teams employed at
Grant for a period of nearly four
weeks. The ''fee" represented the
difference between the governmnt
wag of 80 cents an hour for a ten
hour day figured upon an eleven hour
basis, or $3.50, and $3.50 which the
local employer" paid the teamsters.
1t totaled $3.50 day. they estimated
or over $1,000, until the time that
they discovered he had misrepresent-
ed the facts to them.-Galena Gazette.