Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-11-24

Elliott Trott of Eau Claire, slept
set the house on fire. The flames
reached the bed where Trott was
slumbering, but he failed to awake.
He was carried to safety.
Arthur Walker, a farmer living near
Hayward, in the Round Lake settle
ment, recently killed buck deer
weighing 374 pounds, with % cali
bre rifle. The animal had thirteen
prongs and the base of the horns was
said to be almost as large as that of
moose.
Charles Hultgren, aged 45, home
stead farmer residing ten miles north
of Iron Mountain, mysteriously disap-
peared from his home about two weeks
ago and has not been since then, al
though the woods have been diligert-
ly searched by parties. 1t is thought
he became mentally unbalanced and
wandered away.
y
KenOsha, went to Silver Lake one
morning last week to shoot ducks and
failed to return home in the evening.
That night about 10 o'clock party of
men crossing the lake in launch ran
onto Dean clinging to the bottom of
his overturned boat in an unconscious
and almost frozen condition. Grave
& go 11I fCv h ic
Mack Bugdo, the road worker who
killed John Erickson in a Praire du
Chen pool hall few days ago, and
has been confined in the Lone Rock
Jail since, pleaded guilty last Wednes-
day to the charge of manslaughter be-
fore Judge Clementson sitting at Prai-
of five years in the Green Bay reform
atOry.
Mike Murray and William Welsh,
two tramps confined in the jail at Sun
Prairie on a charge of having threat
ened to cut farmers throat if he did
not give them money and food, set fire
to the jail during the night and nearly
| lost their lives. Examined in court the
next morning the pair said they were
| too drunk to know what they were do
ing They entered pleas of not guilty to
the charge of arson and were held
! in $4,000 bail.
| Dennis Smith a farmer near La
Crosse, received a sentence of life i'm
prisonment for the murder of Robert
Brewster a young man who had just
returned from the west to see his dy-
ing mother Brewster came home to
find his mother dead and was talking
to Irene King, young woman en-
ployed in caring for Mrs. Brewster
in her last illness. Smith, farm hand
and would-be sutton of Miss King, came
into the room and in a fit Of jealousy
shot Brewster dead with revolver. He
fled, but later gave himself up. Smith
said when he received sentence that
he thought he had done the right thing
when he killed Brewster.
Detectives Arthur Burns, Edward
Biersch and chauffeur John Keeling OF
the Milwaukee police department driv-
ing a car down Grand avenue, drew
long breaths and shuddered tremulous-
ly after colliding with another autOmo-
bile while Burns held twenty-four
sticks of dynamite in his lap. The Of
ficers had been sent to obtain the ex-
plosive which was hidden in prairie
by the polka dot" bandits, Richard
Becker, William Billnowski and Ray
Evanson. The officer held the dyna-
mite high in the air when he saw the
collision was inevitable and waited for
the end. The bandits informed the po-
lice where the explosive was hid, as
they were afraid some one might lat
er be killed by it.
Forty-one head of shorthorn cattle
sold under the hammer at Waukesha
brought total Of $25,190, or $615 an
animal The sale which was held al
Anoka farm, is an annual affair. There
were several hundred people present
at the sale, including some of the best
known stock breeders in the country
many of them bidders. DR.. Caledonia
Pereda, of Buenos Aires, Argentina
South America, purchased three head
shipping them to his home. The Tex
as and Pennsylvania agricultural
schools were represented by buyers
who purchased several thousand dol
lars worth of stock. l. r. Kirkwood
of Kansas City, Mo-, purchased Clip
per of Anoka for $1,115, the highest
price paid for single animal. Den
mark the II. was sold to ]. A. Kilgaur
for $1,000 Included in the forty-one
head which were sold to twenty pur-
chasers, were six head belonging to
Carpenter & Carpenter of Baraboo,
Wis, one of which brought $1,000, DR..
Pereda making the purchase. Frank
w. Harding is president of the AnOka
stock farms.