Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-09-03

Herman Kruger, Sheboygan, lost
Two of his toes off his right foot when
1t caught in the chain of his motor
cycle.
Ernest Welch of Nation, ended his
life on his farm by shooting himself
through the head with Q revolver. He
was S3 years old and leaves a wife
and child
Despondent over illness, Mrs. Fred
Niquette, Marinette, ended her life
by hanging. She is survived by her
husband, six daughters and five sons.
She was pioneer resident.
Dewey Lesson, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Lesson of Wausaukee, saved
the life, OF a young man who was
seized with cramps while swimming.
The rescuer was exhausted when he
reached shore.
Two horses, valued at 1925 each,
belonging to Will Swart, were killed
by lightning near Plymouth and the
two farm hands and boy who were
under the wagon trying to escape the
heavy downpour, narrowly escaped
death.
Sheboygan grocery stores must
stop the sale Of near beer and all
other beverages of that kind, or face
by the common council. Saloonkeep-
ers will be issued licenses, many al
ready having obtained permission.
Considerable storm damage was
done on the farm of r. r. Morley.
Reedsburg A large part of a twenty
acre field of oats in the shock was
blown away leaving the field as clean
as If raked. On account of the dis
abled wires it was impossible to learn
the extent of the storm.
How can man get drunk on 2.5
beer in two hours? Chief Shaugh-
nessys force is puzzled G. F. Birch,
Madison, newcomer, was fined 81 and
costs amounting to $500, for drunk
senness, in superior court at a. m.
hast Wednesday. Saloons opened at
Y a. m. This is the first case of drunk
eenness in the Madison court this
month.
The Office of the e. P. Neuens Lum-
Der Co., Freedom, was entered by
burglars, two safes blown open and
$3.50 War Savings stamps, $40 dia-
mond glass cutter, railroad leases, in
surance policies and other valuable
papers were taken. After ransacking
the Office, the marauders set fire to
the building, which was saved
Mrs. Nick Vamosh, As, living at the
Highland settlement near Ashland,
was instantly killed when struck by
lightning while standing in field of
oats. The woman and her husband
had been shocking oats. They were
hurrying to finish the work before
4he storm became too fierce. They
were holding opposite sides of the
same bundle when the accident hap
pened, but Mr.. Vamosh was only daz-
ed by the bolt.
Mrs Michael Picucci, wife af an
Eau Claire farmer, lies in hospital
with her collar bone and arm broken
and internal injuries as the result of
AN attack by an ugly bull. The wo-
man, alone at home while the men
were at a neighbours threshing, was
knocked down by the bull when she
went after the cows, and would prob
ably have been killed had not a boy,
passing by, heard her screams and
ttr0Ve the animal away.
Smooth King, mosS valuable Poland
China hog in Wisconsin and one of
Iahe famous pigs of the country, re-
gently sold by J. d. Mcdonald, West
Salem, to c. F. Grummert, RenvilIe,
Mimi, for $4,000, died at West Salem
kept at West Salem to be shown by
his former owner at the big fairs of
the country this fall, and was about
TO start out on a tour when fatty de-
generation of the heart caused death.
Mr.. Grummert carried no insurance
on the hog.
Edward Murray, GAINESVILLE, II,
Brick Bat Bandit" who pleaded
guilty to robbing at least five sol
diers in the past few months, was
sentenced to ten years at Green Bay
reformatory by Judge Maxfield. The
boy said that he and a companion
made a speciality Of robbing discharg-
ed soldiers. He explained that their
service man to some out of the way
place, knock him Or the head with a
brick and take his money. A compan-
ion of Murray is in JAIL
A happy reunion took place when
Charles z. Knipp, whose name APP
peared on the gold-star list of KezI
waunee county's dead in the world
war, returned home wearing two ser
vice chevrons and bearing two wound
stripes from overseas service. Hell
was wounded in the back by shrap-
mel at Chateau hierry while trench
digging, and few days later, when
just out of the hospital. was hit by
a piece of shrapnel in the left arm.
He was reported dead and spent sew
eral months in hospital, later serv-
ing with his command in Germany.