Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-07-23
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Stanley Gallus, Ladysmith farmer,
shot himself with a revolver while in
sane.
! A million dollar airplane company
/ has been incorporated to manufacture
flying outfits in Milwaukee.
Sparks from well drilling engine
set fire to the fine farm home of Chas.
Harris, West Bend. $4,000 damage
was done.
Only five Of La Crosses 1913 sa-
looms have taken out licenses. They
will sell near beer and other imita
lions of beer.
Henry Bergen, Depere farmer,
drowned while placing fishnets from
the back of gasoline launch. Ber-
gen fell overheard.
Frank S. Griggs, BarabOo clOthier,
was asphyxiated in his room by IL
/ Illuminating gas. The members Of the
family found gas escaping from an
4 open jet.
80 cars were piled in heap near
| Portage when two freights collided.
Crews escaped by jumping. The en-
gines stood on the track where they
hit
Clinton Sleeves, Racine farmer, fell
thirty feet from the ceiling Of his
barn where he went to repair track.
Shelves struck on his head but hay
i prevented brain concussion.
Bradley Morey, 80, Neenah, was Sc
verely injured as the result of being
dragged several rods across a field
when the team hitched to hay load
er which he was driving ran away.
| Arthur Niles, Neenah, and Miss
| Margaret Scheffler, Menasha, paid
fines after pleading guilty to carrying
concealed weapons. The young peo-
| pie carelessly shot a young lady on
/ the front porch of her home,
til the signing Of the treaty of Brest-
suicide with gas after arraying him
! self in new clothing and carefully
stopping all cracks in his room. On
the table was a certified check for
! $500 to pay the funeral expenses.
Roy Davis was taken from the La
Crosse jail to serve five years in the
Illinois penitentiary. Davis was par
oiled to the Rock Island arsenal dur
ing the war but escaped Later he
robbed a restaurant at La Crosse and
was caught.
Paul Olson took orders from cream
cries for butter and sold the orders
obtaining several thousand dollars by
| fraud. He spent five months in Jail
I awaiting trial and then was given six
months in the Milwaukee house of
correction.
Albert Pitt, Whitewater, was fatal
ly injured while unloading boxes of
canned peas on an elevator. The Jar
started the elevator upwards and Pitt
was unable to escape being crushed.
He jumped but was caught between
the elevator and the floor above break |
ing his back
Charles F. Fishback, accused of en-
bezzlement of the Pillsbury estate
funds, is secure in New Mexico where
the governor shields him alleging that
Fishback was not properly a fugitive |
as the Wisconsin authorities had /
plenty of chances to arrest the man |
but failed to do So
Martin Beelen, IS, student at Law
renee college, is dead of injuries re-
ceived when he was pinned beneath
pile of logs in the woodward of the |
Kimberly-Clark Co., paper manufac-
turers at Kimberly. The young man
died while surgeons were performing
an operation in an effort to save his
life.
Herman Hoover, II, son Of Mr.. and
MIS-. r. II. Hoover, Jim Falls, was in
stantly killed near Bloomer when the /
automobile he was driving was struck /
broadside by an Omaha passenger
train at grade crossing. Hoover, ac-
cording to eye witnesses, increased
the speed of the car and tried to cross
ahead ofthe engine.
Judge Maxfeld GAINESVILLE, is the
first Wisconsin court to deal out rigid |
justice to violators of the dry enforce
ment act. Two local men who got |
drunk after July 1st were handed |
fines and Jail sentences. The men
were grilled to locate the source of |
their booze and the names of the par
ties dealing it out will be forwarded |
to Washington
The State Historical society may be |
able to reconstruct prehistoric mon
ster as the result Of the discovery byI
j. Il. Maruer, agent of the Northwest I
ern road at Bains station of two great /
bones. One is apparently the femur
OF a tremendous animal, being more
than four feet long and more than 25 |
inches in circumference at its mar
rowest part The other bone appears I
to be vertabra and is more than a
foot across.
Advices firm Kewaunee county indi-
cate heavy damage to the crops from
the extreme drouth and some dairy
men plan to reduce their herds be-
cause of a prospective fodder short
age. The dry area extends from the
western part of Brown county up to
the southern portion of Door. Crops
have been cut to fifty per cent yield.
Practically every county in north
eastern Wisconsin has received rain
with the exception of Kewaunee and
a narrow strip of Brown
me state inheritance tax of $751;
S74.37 on the estate of ORION H. In
gram, pioneer lumberman. is the larg-
est inheritance in the history of Eau
Clare county. 1t was based on a net
taxable estate of $2,336,000. The fed
eral inheritance tax on the estate was
more than $205.OO0, also the largest
on record in that county The pctato