Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-09-17

DrS. w. Is. Williams and FL. e.
Scott, both of Argyle, pleaded guilty
to charge of violating health laws
and were each fined SIS and costs.
during a recent epidemic of contag-
ious disease they failed to report.
Humbart Borsini, charged with Vi
olating the Mann act at Beloit was
sentenced to one year and a day at
Fort Leavenwolth. Borsini, it was
charged, contributed to the delin-
quency Of girls when he took them
over the line into Illinois. ,Borsini was
a taxi driver.
George Vallendorf, AZ, Northwest
ern road switchman,. was instantly
killed when he was run over by a
car at ManitowOc. He was a city fire.
man for IL years and quit the de-
partment four years ago to return to
railroad work. He is survived by a
wife and two sons.
Emma Smith, 13, is dead. Her
three-year-old sister is a hopeless
condition at the Reedsburg sanitari-
UNI. The Smith HON is in ruins. En-
ma was lighting fire with kerosene
to prepare supper while her parents
wore working in the field. An explo
sion resulted, setting fire to her
clothes and those of her smaller sis
ter. Both girls were rushed to the
sanitarium, where the older girl died
six hours later. Nothing was saved
from the house, which was complete
~ destroyed by the fire.
Officers from Shawano were sent to
arrest Joe Yellow Thunder, who lives
near Wittenberg Mrs Kate Davis and
Mrs. Dell Story, Indian women, ar
l4,ixyo OF Foil 90
Yellow Thunder making a murderous
attack upon his squaw "He chased
her to the home of Mrs Whitepine.
and stabbed her all over the head
and shoulders" the witness sale 'He
drove us away When We left Mrs.
!, Yellow Thunder lay unconscious in
pool of blood, just like dead. We were
afraid to tell the Shawano county of
ficers." 1t was reported that Yellow
Thunder had barricaded himself in
his home and defied arrest.
The $5,000,0O0 dam of the Wiscon-
in-Minnesota Light & Power Co. at
Wissota is developing it's maximum
of $4,000 horsepower, this being the
first time since it was built three
years ago that this hydro-electric
plant, third largest in the world, has
reached its maximum Besides sup
plying electric power to all the cities
and towns within radius of so or
so miles, power is also furnished to
many Minnesota cities, including the
Twin Cities, Red Wing, Winona and
others. The transmission line from
the dam to the Twin Cities extends
straight for the full distance of 100
miles.
Long distance telephone toll rates
in Wisconsin will be subjected to an
investigation and probably a formal
order by the railroad commission
Early in January, while the telephone
companies were under the govern
ment, these rates we're increased, but
telephone companies have now re-
| turned to private ownership and the
! federal law provides that their rates
and schedules shall be subject to
state supervision The state rate
making authorities resisted the fed
| eral advance of rates but the federal
authority prevailed during control un-
| der war powers. The commission
gave notice that federal control hav-
ing been extinguiShed, the whole mat
ter would be investigated.
Charles Hugh Wilson, recently par
doned from Waupun, has been SEN
fenced to three years and six months
in Sing Sing by Judge Waldhams, of
New York General Sessions court for
bigamy Wilson admitted having been
married eight times since 1900. Will
sons case attracted interest through
the activities of Mrs. VIM. E. Harl,
his sister, who said she was from
Kansas City and who haunted the ex-
ecutive chambers petitioning for the
release Of her brother. She attribut-
ed her success to praying for help
from the capitol dome. Wilson was
released Aug. IL and was taken into
custody by New York officers. He was
pardoned in this state after it was
ascertained that he would be called
to account Immediately for offenses
in New York. He was accompanied
east by his sister.