Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-07-02

1922 cows in the township. yiroqua
Censor
Racine, WiS.-Ye ggmen got away
with $4,000 blowing the safe and
Wrecking the home of William Cos
mler, wealthy Yorkville farmer. while.
ne and his men were working in the
neldS. The explosion was so violent
that gold and silver coins that had
been IN the safe were bent and brOk-
en- and driven into the floor of the
basement, to which the robbers had
carried the safe for the opening opera
tlon The explosion was heard by Mr.
GoSmler and his Workmen who saw
strangers running from the house.
The farmers gave pursuit in vain. Mr.
Gosmler, bachelor of so, said it was
nobody's business but his own what
money or papers he lost, and the
sheriff is somewhat handicapped nv
the mans reticence.
KenOsha, WiS.-Frank Brobanski. 8
was shot through the abdomen and
lis near death. John Juzicks. 10. is in
jail Both have been in court as the
result of series of burglaries and
Juzicks was to be taken away. He
l.will say nothing in explanation of the
shooting. Brobanski made state
ment to the police just before he was
/ given ether for an operation He said
he and Juzicks had started out for a
certain house that they had talked of
entering He had a fashlight and
Juzicks had a revolver, both stolen
from a taxi cab, the injured boy said.
He said that Juzicks demanded both
articles, they quarreled in an alley
l. and the shooting resulted
Stevens Point, Wiss-AlI records for
heavy rainfa1ls here were broken
when the government guage register
| ed 37a inches of water in a little more
than one hour Streets were flooded
for hours and streams of central
Wisconsin overlooked their banks. I'M
able to carry off the surplus of wa
ter. The falling water resembled a.
Icloud-burst
Oshkosh, visa generous rain
which came in the nick of time saved
Winnebago county crops from inn
pending drought and means benefits
to farms to the extent of thousands of
dollars
Edward Simonsen, who is buying
| tobacco for Sam Grundy, Janesville
bought three crops in the vicinity of
| Oregon. From John Cusick he pur-
chased ten acres at Is cents straight:
from r. j. Murphy five acres at 16
cents straight, and from Dave Nc
Av0y,lthree acres at 1914 and eight
cents. Mr.. Simonsena says the prices
now paid range from IA to 16 cents
for average crops, while damaged to-
bacco brings about 10 cents.
La Crosse, Wis.-Louis Ruehl, Mil
waukee road detective, who shot ard
killed Fred bunker and John B.
Schommers, discharged soldiers, while
they were said to he trespassing in
the local yards on March 10, was ac-
Quilted of the charge of murder by
jury in circuit court. Ruehl pleaded
self defense
FaH Claire. WiS.-Irvin Anklam, 13,
Fall Greek, near here, lies in local
hospital badly burned as the result
of an electric shock Irwin opened
the iron gate in front of the house
right after heavy storm and was Civ
en- severe burns about the feet and
hands Investigation. as to the source
of the mysterious electric current re-
vealed the fact that two miles away
a high voltage electric wire had been
blown down, falling across a wire
fence which carried the juice to the
gate.
OcOntO, Wis., Marvin Dagen, is, of
this city, working on farm at Plain.
Sank county was driving a herd of
cows when he was attacked by bull
After breaking the bones in the right
shoulder and left arm, the bull tossed
him over a wire fence, preventing
further attack
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