Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-03-04
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was struck down by hammer nurled
by her brother when he aimed at q
COW and missed it, near Nekoosa. The
child's skull was fractured.
Chas. E. Patterson, Beloit, 76 years
old and Civil war veteran, was shot
three times and probably fatally
wounded by an unidentified man, be-
lieved to be foreigner, within hall
Cracksmen entered the Palace the
alter at Superior some time Monday
night, blew open a safe and escaped
with $500 in cash. 1t was the second
time the theater had been broken into
in less than a year.
Contracts have been let by Bishop
A. J. McGavick of La Crosse Diocese
for st. Joseph's home for the aged,
to be erected at La Crosse. The
structure is TO cost $128,000 and
house 80 persons.
a block of his home. Physicians held
out little hope for his recovery. 1t
was found that one of the shots, 81
calibre steel jacketed bullet, had
struck him in the chest, another in
the abdomen, and the third in his right
hip. The bullet penetrated the walls
of his abdomen and pierced his intes-
tines and other vital organs.
The Bekkedal Lumber Co. at COu-
deray has resumed operations in the
huge saw mill there, and will be busy
until next autumn. This seasons cut
will finish the timber cutting on the
Couderay Indian reservation, which
has been the scene of the company's
operations for the last 20 years. In
that time more than 150,000000 feet
have been cut on the reservation.
Fire, attributed to spontaneous COM
bustion, Monday night destroyed a
new warehouse of the Miller Paper
Stock Co., at Menasha, with a total
los ESTIMATED at more than $4,000.
Three freight cars, loaded with paper,
were on a siding close to the doomed
warehouse, and firemen were unable
to save them. These cars and their
cargoes represent loss of more than
$4,000
Testimony of Keith Van Pool, Is, of
GAINESVILLE, now an inmate of the Wau-
kesha Industrial school, during a hear
ing Friday proved sufficient to the
court for holding the fashionable Mrs.
Margaret Carey, alleged feminine "Fa-
GIN for trial on IL charges. Police
claim that the defendant, the wife of
a GAINESVILLE barber, planned robberies
for her son Elger Carey, now under
arrest, and Van Pool, who pleaded
guilty.
After tramping 100 miles over rail
road ties, three little Indian boys were
glad to stay in Jail at Winona, Mimi,
until officials from the Tomah school
70 hI.iT1 hO
giving their names as John, Henry
and August Staples, aged 8, 10 and r.,
respectively, were almost famished
when picked up at Winona, and ate
food set before them with great dis
patch The boys escaped from the In
dian school.
Maylon Winegarden, IS, Adams Co.
farmer, is near death in a hispital at
Wisconsin Rapids after being kicked
and trampled upon by a horse at his
home near Vandiesen. Winegarden's
face was crushed, three of his ribs
were broken and one lung was pune
tured. Winegarden, who has three
daughters and seven sons, went to the
barn to feed the horses. A son, who
followed him a few minutes later.
found him lying unconscious upon the
floor of a stall
Mrs. Peter Meyer, So, Random Lake.
was burned to death at her home last
Monday. She was starting fire, in
the kitchen range with kerosene. After
trying to start the fire with kindling
wood and not getting good results
she resorted to the kerosene. A gas
formed as the kerosene struck the
Goals and an explosion resulted. Mrs.
Meyers cloths were saturated with the
.nuId and in an instant she was a mass
OF flames. Terrified she ran into an
otner room of the house, where her
tnree children were playing, and there
fell exhausted. She died a few minutes
later.
The city council at Waupaca has
ADOPTED resolution to discontinue in
terchange of current for power be-
tween the city and the Waupaca Elec-
trlc Service and Railway Co begin
nlng Feb. %, or until an agreement is
executed that is satisfactory to both
partles. The resolution intends to com
pei the company to agree to a nrica
Tor future current it receives from the
city and also to obtain what the civ
CLAIMS is due for current supplied in
E'N'N. nc CouIpdly, III turn has
failed to bill the city, claiming the
clty's rate is not satisfactory. A copv
OF the resolution was ordered sent 10
the railroad commission.
Somewhere in the student BODY of
northwestern university, Chicago. au-
thor1tles hope to find a coed and a.
young man, who, they believe, can
throw some light on the death of Rob
ert Minahan, who committed suicide
at Milwaukee as a climax to disap-
polntment in love- Young Minahan's
Dody was identified by his father, John
h. Mmahan, prominent physician at
Green Bay, who fastened to Milwau-
kee when he heard an unidentified
youth had been found dead. The boy.
VINO had been a student in the mdeical
department of the Northwestern uni
Verslty. few days earlier had written
note to his father, declaring: I'm
tired of life and / am going to kill
myself. However, I'll come home and
talk with you first" He committed
suicide Monday without fulfilling his
promise to talk things over with his
father.