Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-10-15

"a W. OIOuud1l, Mdu1SOu banker,
was seriously hurt at Marshfeld
where his car turned turtle.
A disconnection between the stove
pipe and the chimney filled the house
of Ole Odegaarden, Westby, with coal
gas. The wife died. The husband was
discovered in time to save his life
The Chas. Weisse tannery at She
boygan, was destroyed by a fire that
originated in the engine room. Loss
$250000.
Edward Shilling, Green Bay, 40.
foreman of the VIM. Larson stock
farm, was killed by a passenger train
which struck the automobile that he
was driving
Three Chicago bandits entered the
Milwaukee jewelry store of VIM. H.
Schwanke and bound and gagged the
proprietor. they then rifled the store
while posing as proprietor, clerk and
customer Schwanke worked his way
loose soon after the men left and ran
for policeman The bandits were
arrested ten minutes later as they
boarded Chicago train. They were
given heavy prison sentences the next
day.
Frederick Burkhalter, Monroe, 5.
playing in a corn field where his ia
ther was operating a binder, climbed
up a hill OF extra strong corn stalks.
The stalks were moved off by the
binder, carried into the machine and
tied with the boy in a fat bundle.
The boy was not hurt.
Philip Van Engen, Waupun convict,
hung himself because he faced a Is
year sentence and his family had dis
owned him. A year ago Van Engen
registered at the Wisconsin hotel in
Milwaukee as Captain Gordon Nc
Donald, U. S. A." He ordered a uni
form sent to him and then strapped
the salesman to a chair while he DOM
ed the outfit Van Engen was arrest
ed at Chicago and sentenced for as
sault and robbery.
George Reed was bound over to the
Oconto circuit court under 1000 bail,
and in default was remanded to Jail.
He was charged with attempt to MUIR
der Ole Johnson in the town of Stiles.
Johnson on the witness stand posi-
lively identified Reed as the man who
came from behind a clump of lilac
bushes on the morning of Sept. IA
and shot him four times, first in the
leg then in the left arm, when he
started to run, then in the groin and
the left leg. The shooting occurred
in the yard of Mrs. Martin, divorced
wife of Reed. 1t was brought out that
Johnson had gone over to Mrs. Mar
tins by her request at midnight to
protect her from her former husband
and was leaving at 4:30 when the
shooting occurred.
'The muskrat, greatest fur pro-
ducing animal in this section of the
country, is practically extinct" says
A. w. Hall. conservation warden for
Green, Iowa and Lafayette counties.
''The early opening of the season, Oct.
25, enacted by the legislature of 1917,
is to blame. The ground is not solid
ly frozen this early in the season
and naturally the muskrat left trail
to his den in the mud that is plenti-
full alOngthe river bank this early in
the fall. The trapper set his trap at
the entrance to the excavation and in
the morning the muskrat was no more.
Two years ago l could stand on hill
overlooking the east branch of the
Pecatonica river at Argyle and count
many time in the neignborhood of
% muskrats swimming up and down
the stream. Today there is not one.
During the past six months / have
Travelled up and down every stream in
Lafayette county looking for violat-
ors of the fishing laws and in all that
time have seen but three rats. Before
the early opening of the season I
would easily have seen that many
thousand"