Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-07-09

WISCONSIN BRIEFS.

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A Superior steamer visits the Apos-
tie Islands twice a week now for the
hay fever sufferers. Victims of this
disease camp on the lakes during the
summer coming as far as Nebraska.
The islands afford an immunity to the
affliction.
May Conrady, 6 years, died at a
Racine hospital from burns. An UNI
known youth lit a newspaper which
] lgnited the girls clothing. She was
terribly burned before people could
wrap blanket around her.
A boy bather at Mayyille ran across
a 12-lb. pickerel which had been
stunned by fish dynamiters. The fish
was carried to shore.
| JOS. Weigel, a Lacrosse fisherman,
landed three catfish weighing 1876
pounds. He realized 20 cents a pound
| for the fish or $27.2O.
/ A green pea caused the death of
Lawrence DeNaul, 6 years, of Fish
erville. Little boys were blowing
peas and one lodged in the lads
throat strangling him.
| Forest fires have been raging in
| the peninsula wcst of Sault st. Marie.
Five lumber camps burned at Race.
The property loss is serious but so
far no lives have been endangered.
| Willie Hagenah, 9 years, Hillsboro,
drowned in the mill pond The youth
! played in a boat and fell in. His hat
led to search of the pond and the
body was found.
| School boys at Menominee Falls
risked their lives to save Elwood
r n q rdf xry6o y
beneath the collapsed roof of the
burning school Children discovered
the fire in the building. The loss was
S55 900.
| Joseph Pupsta shot and killed
Gladys Tanza and then shot himself.
The couple had been living to gether
but quarrelcd and the shooting fol-
lowed an attempt at reconciliation by
Pupsta.
| Some months ago Miss Edna Krause
was killed at Sheboygan Falls when
her hand caught in a factory ma
chine. Last week her parents were
awarded $1,092 by the Industrial COM
mission.
| Bumper crops of blueberries are
being picked at Tomah and shipped
| by the hundreds of cases. Most of the
crop is gathered by raking. Wild
| fruit is abundant further north in the
lake countries. Strawberries grow
wild in abundance and picking par
ties are common. Other ripe wild
berries are expected soon.
| VIM. Smith, GAINESVILLE, shot him
! self following an attempt at recolcil-
iation with his wife at Evansville.
The young man went by train to see
his wife who was living with her par
ents. She refused to return home.
| The husband went to the depot and
! used 80 pistol but just missed the
heart Smith, 20 years, will recover.
| The marriage covered nine months.
Thieves secured S215 in bills and
coin at Beloit where moving pic
/ ture house was looted. The manager
had hid the money in the basement
the day previous.
Within five minutes after Henry
Bertell Nelson, SO, Spring Valley, had
died suddenly of heart failure, his
wife, So, also dropped dead from the
same cause. Though not strong, Mr..
Nelson had been as we'll as usual that
day, and when his wife returned to
the house after hanging out the fam
| lily washing and found him in his last
gasp, she summoned the neighbors
and doctor, then sank to the floor
dead. Mr.. and Mrs Nelson had often
expressed the wish that they might
die as they had ed--together. They
were buried in one wide grave. They
are survived by an only son, Irwin
Nelson, Milwaukee.
A male child, weeks old, was dis
covered in a field in West Racine on
Friday. Because of exposure and the
fact that ants had attacked every pOr-
ton of the child's body recovery is
doubtful It is believed that the
child, wrapped only in a part of call
leo skirt, was placed in the field on
Thursday night.
Jos. Marmey, aged 81, Oconto, while
cleaning a shotgun accidently shot
himself above the heart, death occur
ing instantly.
Robert Wheeler, Is, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Fletcher Wheeler, Madison, de-
MES that he is a hero-but he res
cued four-year old boy from Lake
Mendoza. Robert was swimming near
university drive, back of the agricul-
tural buildings, Tuesday night. He no.
ticed a woman with two small chill
dren none of whom could swim, but
all wearing water wings, were out be-
yond their depth, so he kept an eye
on them. Presently one child cried
for help ard frantically grasped his
mother. The air was leaking from
his water wings. The woman called
desperately for help, but Wheeler al
ready was on his way, reaching the
little fellow just as the last of the
air left the water wings, and towed
him to shore.