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Otto Sell. 22 years old. a condensery
worker at Juneau, died after being
scalded in a tank of hot milk.
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The coroner at Chilton is investi
gating the identity of an unknown man
who was found on the Milwaukee road
tracks with a bullet through his head.
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Edward Allbrecht, 24 years old,
Janesville, wandered from home while
delirious from pneumonia and is be
lieved to have been drowned in the
river.
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John Olson, Jr., 18 years old, son of
the Soo line section foreman at Jew
ett, accidentally shot himself through
the head while target practice. Death
was instantaneous.
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Miss Anna Strey of Oconomowoc,
a restaurant employe, fell on the tracks
while delivering meals to the trainmen,
and was struck by a switch engine.
Her left leg was broken.
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The removal of one eye was neces
to save the sight of the other in the
case of 3 year old Mary Japke of Mer
rill, who fell down a stairway last fall
and suffered serious injuries.
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Ben Terpanier of Oconto, fell from
a loading dock when a falling timber
struck him on the head, and was in
stantly killed. He was 29 years old
and leaves a wife and three children.
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Four alleged bootleggers were fined
SIOO and costs each at Galesville, a
dry. town. They also face indictments
by the federal grand jury sitting at
Superior this week.
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August Schwartz of Green Bay, had
a narrow' escape from drowning while
endeavoring to cross Fox river on the
ice. The mild weather of the past few
days had rendered the river unsafe to
cross. 4
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Frank Spark, a Milwaukee saloon
keeper, cashed a check for S4OO and
disappeared. While the cheqk was os
tensibly cashed to obtain change for
the saloon over Sunday Spark’s w’ife
fears he has gone for parts unknown.
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After beating her way in box cars
and on bumpers from Mason City la.,
to St. Paul, 150 miles, Miss Annie
Hambly, 18 years old, of Eau Claire.
Wis., was arrested and will be return
ed to her home.
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Mr. and Mrs. William Will of Water
town, Wis., celebrated their fiftieth
wedding anniversary last week. They
are natives of Germany. Six children,
fourteen grandchildren and one great
grandchild attended the celebration.
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Frank Mullins, 65 years old, a farm
laborer, was instantly killed by an in
terurban car north of Racine. The
man was blinded by the heavy bliz
zard and stepped onto the track to
avoid collision with an automobile.
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Somewhere in the Pacific ocean are
a pair of sacred white deer, consigned
to Madison. The deer are being sent
to Wisconsin from Singapore and
were part of a purchase made by Dr.
Corydon G. Dwight, of the zoolological
society.
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Max Wozniak, proprietor of a Mil
waukee meat market, drove his auto
mobile through a draw in the Kinnic
kinnic river bridge, when he failed to
notice that the bridge at Lincoln ave
nue was open. Wozniak clung to the
piling until rescued.
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Earl F. Stupp, a Janesville butcher,
• w T as fined $25 and costs last week in
charged by the food commissioner
with using fallow in his lard, not hav
ing proper labels on the containers
and short weight. Stupp pleaded guilty
and paid his fine.
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The body ot Fred Fulton, who
jumped off a Beloit bridge last Nov
ember, was found on Sunday floating
near Rockton, a hour three miles south
of the ertv. Accoiding to the police,
the body was identified by a photo
graph of Fnlton’s mother, which was
found in a pocket of his clothes.
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and spitting.
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a man money—a little chew lasts and satisfies. A 10c.
pouch goes twice as far as ten cents’ worth of the old
ordinary kind of chewing.
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After a sleep lasting eleven days,
Miss Delia Anderson, daughter of J.
T. Anderson, Coon Valley, awakened
on Friday of last week. She did not
recognize her parents, and, apparent
ly can not even remember her name.
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Mrs. John Schaurer of Hartford,
owned a large farm which she recent
ly sold to a neighbor. Apparently the
parting made her despondent as she
was discovered in a lifeless condition
hanging at the foot of the stairway,
by her invalid daughter.
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Entering through a transom over
the front door, the Oshkosh jewelry
store of Krumrich and Konrad was
robbed of goods valued at S6OO. A
number of valuable watches and
jeweled rings in the display window
were taken.
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The state Supreme court will de
cide whether or not the resolution of
the La Crosse county board to build
a tuberculosis sanitarium at La Crosse
may stand. Judge Higbee of the cir
cuit court has dissolved an injunction
stopping further progress and the case
was appealed.
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Dr. N. J. Hamilton, 73 years old. of
Madison, was found guilty of man
slaughter in the second degree, on a
charge of causing the death of Mrs.
Grace Haskell, of New London by an
illegal operation two months ago.
Hamilton was given a five-year sen
tence.
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A cablegram received last week by
Mr. and Mrs. Eigel Neilsen of Beloit,
announced the safe arrival of their
son Orson, ot Moscow, Russia, where
he has gone to be connected with the
American consulate. Orsen Neilsen is
a Beloit boy and was formerly a
newspaper reporter.
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William Nelson, a Neenah jeweler,
remained late at work one night, and
as he was preparing to leave, heard
some one picking the door lock. Nel
son surprised the burglar just as the
latter had gained entrance. He fired
two shots, one of the smashing the
plate glass window. The thief es
caped.
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Accordiag to a Grand Rapids dis
patch a potatoe embargo has been es
tablished :n Wood and Portage coun
ties. The public, exasperated by high
prices, refuses to buy, the farmers re
fuse to bring in their potatoes at the
slump in prices, and dealers are not
looking for them. Scarcely any spuds
are brought to town, and it is expected
that the farmers will be left with lots
of potatoes on hand.
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A record document for Vernon coun
ty was filed in the register of deed’s
office at Viroqua last week. The dgc
ument was a $20,000,000 bond or mort
gage and was executed by the Wis
consin Power company, the concern
which recently purchased Viroqua,
Sparta and Tomah lighting plant. The
document will require the space of
over a hundred pages of one of the big
record books in the register of deed's
office.
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After being out eleven and one-half
hours a jury in Circuit court at Elk
horn, brought in a verdict of guilty
of second degree murder in the trial
of James Glover, charged with shoot
ing Charles Viso at Whitewater on
Jan. 8, with the result that the man
died in a Milwaukee hospital on Jan.
30. Judge E. B. Belden sentenced
Glover to 14 years in the state peni
tentiary at Waupun. He is alleged to
have shot Viso with a sawfl-off shot
gun after the two had auarreled.
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Maurice A. Petty of Beloit, aged 24
and married, was given one year in
the county jail for stealing a car from
a blind relative. Petty took the ma
chine and his fami'y and went to the
Dakota harvest fields last fall. Com
ing back he ran out of funds and
traded the car for a smaller one and
some cash at La Crosse. He was
picked up and brought to Janesville
for trial. Litigation may ensue over
the car as it had been traded a num
ber of times since Petty had it.
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GRANT COUNTY HERALD, LANCASTER, WISCONSIN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1917.
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An inquest into the death of Adam
Malinowski, a Dewey farmer, who died
suddenly with no doctor present, was
held at Stevens Point. It was found
at the autopsy that an overdose of
kerosene, taken to relieve stomach
pains, had caused the man’s death.
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A Richland Centre woman bought a
dozen eggs from her grocer and had
the item placed on her charge ac
count. She then took the eggs to an
other grocer a couple of blocks away
to whom she sold them for cash. In
the evening she and the four childrcif
went to the movie theater with the
proceeds.
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Otto Collins, aged 58 years, was
scalded to death at Fond du Lac where
he was employed as watchman for a
furniture concern. The superinten
dent noticed that Collins was not
making the rounds and investigated.
He found the body in a vat of boiling
water. Collins leaves a wife and fam
ily.
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Sam Powell. 23 years old, is at the
Kenosha hospital and Mrs. Mary Om
arzo said to be his sweetheart, is held
at the county jail on charges of at
tempted murder. Powell was shot
through the head with a twenty-two
calibre revolver at the apartment of
Mrs. Omarzo and may die. The wo
man declared the shooting was acci
dental.
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James Collins, a Milwaukee team
ster, paid a heavy penalty last week
for excessive drinking wffien he w'as
given ten years at Waupun. Collins
knocked James Murphy, a companion,
down with a club while drunk and
battered in his skull. Satisfied that the
homicidal act was done through liq
uor the lightest sentence possible was
given by the court. *
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The will of the late Otto Rudd, who,
began life as an immigrant track
worker in Minnesota twenty-five yeais
ago and died a week ago superinten
dent of Simmons company, at Kenosha,
was filed for probate in the local
court last week. He left an estate val
ued at SIOO,OOO, $75,000 of which was
personal property. The entire estate
is left to the widow, Mrs. Elizabeth
Rudd.
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A charge made by Freda Ladke. a
17 year old Durham Hill girl, that a
physician of Hales Corners was res
ponsible for her condition was proven
false’ and the medical man released.
The girl’s father who made the com
plaint. was then arrested as it is
claimed that Miss Ladke’s mother
questioned her closely and obtained a
confession that her father was respon
sible.
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The Norwegian consular service has
been appealed to and other efforts are
being made to trace the relatives of
Theodore Johnson, popularly known
as “Bulldog” Johnson, who died last
week at a Racine hospital, leaving a
large fortune. Johnson, who has been
a cobbler, shoe merchant and finally
a real estate dealer, it is estimated by
the public administrator, left a for
tune, in excess of SIOO,OOO. Johnson,
it is said, came to this country from
Norway in 1873.
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A mysterious throat infection ap
peared two weeks ago at Galesville,
that caused the authorities to close
the schools. With the physicians baf
fled the disease progressed until up
to last Thursday five persons has suc
cumbed. There are more than 109
cases in Galesville and deaths are ex
pected hourly in several families
where older people are afflicted. Spec
ialists have been called in from La
Crosse and Rochester, Minn. Think
ing the milk may be responsible for
the disease which first manifests it
self by sore throat, high fever, and
swollen glands, all the herds are to be
examined.
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George Peters, an Oconomowoc
farmer, uncovered valuable silver and
cut glass concealed in a suitcase in
his haymow. Peters notified the sher
iff who came at once with his deputy
and secreted themselves in the barn.
About 10 o’clock at night they heard
footsteps and saw a flash from a pocket
light. The visitors ran when accost
ed, but one was brought down with a
bullet in his hip. He refused to give
his name. The property was found to
belong to Miss Stella Merrick whose
house on Oconomowoc lake had been
ransacked the night before. Many
depredations had occurred around the
lake previously.
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A new wireless tower, rising 175 feet
above the ground, is to be built for
the University of Wisconsin radio sta
tion next summer on the crest of the
hill beside university hall. The tower
will be of steel on a concrete base and
from its top six antennae wires, 350
long are to be carried down to the roof
of the new Physics building, 100 feet
from the ground. In the present sys
tem the antennae wires are 125 feet
long, strung from a 120 foot chimney
behind science hall at the foot of the
hill. The new wires will be stretched
across the highest point on the camp
us. The work of setting up the tower
is to be done during the coming sum
mer. Later, with the assistance of
students, the aerial wires will be
strung so that they can be used early
in the fall. Last week Hoquiam,
Wash., a point on the Pacific coast,
heard plainly the messages sent by
the Wisconsin station. The transcon
tinental relay, starting from New York
via Philadelphia, Madison, and Den
ver, to the west was accomplished.
Sayville, Tuckertown, and other points
of communication with Germany were
heard.
An old mill that had been changed
into a barn, took fire near Dodgeville,
a week ago and burned to the ground.
Consumed with it were five horses, 11
head of cattle, five hogs, an automo
bile, farm machinery, ten tons of hay.
grain of all kinds and a silo with ten
feet of silage in it. The total loss ex
ceeded $6,000 with but partial insur
ance. Two brothers named Reese
own the farm. A few days after the
fire suspicion fell on a cheesemaker
named Nathan Smith whose factory
is near the Reese farm. He was ar
rested but released on SI,OOO bonds.
It is said that footprints in the snow
led from the cheese factory to the
barn. Bad blood is claimed to have ex
isted between Smith and Stanley
Reese.
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The size of the salaries paid to city
officials in Wisconsin cities has been
investigated by the Municipal Refer
ence bureau at the University of Wis
consin Extension division and record
ed in tabular form. The 128 cities
considered range in population from
352 to 373,875. In thirty-one cities the
mayor receives no salary. Superior’s
mayor receives $5,000 a year. Two
cities, Milwaukee and Oshkosh, pay
their mayors $4,000 a year. Eau
Claire and Green Bay pay $3,500, and
Ashland and Janesville pay $2,500. The
others range from small fees for the
attendance at meetings to $1,500 a
year. In twelve cities of the state the
councilmen or commission members
receive salaries of more than SI,OOO a
year; the cities are Antigo, Appleton,
Ashland, Eau Claire, Fond du Lac,
Green Bay, Janesville, Menominie,
Milwaukee, Oshkosh, Portage and Su-
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Auction Sale!
Having rented my farm I will sell at public auction at the farm just north of the
Lancaster depot, commencing at 1 o’clock p. m., on
Saturday, March 24
the following described property:
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20 Head Draft Bred Horses and Colts 20
Two good, big mares in foal. Full blood Clyde
mare. Six coming three years, well broke. Two
coming 4. Five coming 2 years. Two coming 1
year. Shetland pony and harness. Mare 14 years.
2 Head of Cattle Z-
Good family cow —Holstein and Jersey. Muley > F.W
Holstein yearling heifer.
Farm Machinery, Etc.
4-horse Bull tractor, 4-horse new Standard gang plow, 14-inch walking plow,
New Standard corn cultivator, corn planter, 16-disc grain drill, hay loader,
manure spreader, wagon with combination box, buggy and two sets of harness.
Lot of good seed corn. Other seed and articles too numerous to mention.
Terms as Usual Everything to be Sold
JOS. WRIGHT, Prop.
J. C. VESPERMAN, Auct. L. A. CLARK, Clerk
perior. In other cities they are paid '
by the day,*for attendance at meetings,
or a small monthly fee. City clerks re
ceive salaries in all Wisconsin cities.
In four cities they receive $2,000 a year
or more, in twenty-nine they receive
SI,OOO and $2,000 a year. In the oth
ers they receive from S3O to $1,009.
Milwaukee pays the largest city treas
juror’s salary, $5,000. In La Crosse $2,~
:700 is paid, in Racine $2,500. Other
city treasurers receive from S3O to sl,_
i 500 a year. Six health officers are
paid fees and three receive no salaries.
Milwaukee pays $5,000, Madison pa/s
$1,200, and other salaries range from
s’Otto SGOO. City engineers’ saffir.es
range from fees bv the day to $5,009.
COMBINATION
—SALE—
At the Lancaster Stock Yards
Friday, March 23, at 1 o’clock
The following items will positively be offered for sale.
FIVE HORSES
Bay horse, 11 years, weight 1,-
200. Standard bred chestnut
sorrel stallion, weight 1,200 lbs.
Pony 5 years, well broke, weight
750. Bay horse 7 years, weight
1,300. Black horse, 4 years, wt.
1,300.
Two bu. Yellow Seed Corn.
Quantity of Clover Seed.
MACHINERY, ETC.
Diabola separator, 900 pounds,
nearly new T . Two wide tire wa
gons. nearly new. Two 114-in ch
TERMS AS USUAL ATTEND THIS SALE.
J. C. VESPERMAN Auct. L. H. STEVENS, Clerk
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For Sale by J. D. Hatch.
20 HEAD OF CATTLE.
Jersey cow, 7 year’s. Jersey
cow 4 years, both to freshen this
summer.
11 two-year-old steers, all red,
wt. 700. Hereford yearling bull.
Five good last spring calves. Jer
sey cow 6 years, fresh last fall.
Nine yearling ewes.
work harness. Two collars. 14-
inch gang plow. 7ft Canton
seeder. Runabout buggy, good
condition.