Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-06-25

j. e. Leland, a fake ad solicitor for
telephone directory, was sent to
Jail for one year at La Crosse.
Arthur Charlesworth, 81, Portage,
was killed and other men hurt when
passenger train hit their car.
The skeletons of three unknown
persons thought to have been Indians,
were unearthed at Kenosha by road
workers.
! John Vavra, the pearl hunter who
drowned near Prairie du CHEN, left
fortune of $4,000 accumulated in
the industry.
Altai McAilister, 81, Waupaca farm
as he sat in the dining room A hired
man was injured.
Roy Puariea, 49, Fond du Lac farm
er, was found after six months search
by the police. The man was wanted
for horse stealing.
| Mrs. latina Bigga, Kenosha, was
brought back from Detroit whore she
had fed after taking $500 in Liberty
bonds from her husband
Four Oshkosh young people were
hurt when an unknown car endeav-
ored to pass their automobile on the
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The GAINESVILLE Press, a daily start
ed to buck the old Gazette, died Of
weakness after three months precar-
ious existence leaving $4,000 debts.
Joseph Kapusti Kenosha, quarrel
ed necessarily with his wife and then
shot himself with shotgun in the
breast. He pulled the trigger with
his foot.
Fred Jeweruck, 20, a Pound farm
er, lost thumb and finger in endeav-
oring to pull a bullet from cart
ridge. The man was going fishing
and had no sinkers.
| Bert Grodivant, GAINESVILLE we'll
driller, had his right arm torn from
the socket after it became caught in
well windlass. The severed jugular
vein caused the mans death.
A car driven by Edward Hamre,
GAINESVILLE, with eight passengers, col
lided with cement culyert and all
were hurt. Hamres accident was due
to bright lights on another car.
80 suits of mems clothes, Liberty
bond and $40 in cash were taken
from the Ironquist Clothing store in
the heart of New Richmond by rob
bers who came and went in an auto.
AL. Handbook, a Marinette paper
worker, has letter from relatives
in Cologne, Germany, the first in two
years Handbook lost brother in
the war and another brother is pris-
oner in France.
Little boys chasing an Grant ball
crawled under a building at Beloit
and found $1,000 loot taken from the
f. G. Stevens store by unknown rob-
bers The loot was hidden one hun
dred feet from the rifed store.
Alec Stalma, Racine, arrested for
the murder of his niece. Stephena
Zumbrowski, z, hung himself in his
cell. The little girl infuriatcd her
uncle by taunting over IN arrest and
he cut her throat with a pocket knife.
Heavy rain accompanied by light
ming and wind covered Portage scoun-
ty causing $4,000 damage to farm
ers. In Amherst, Almond and Grant
townships half dozen barns were
blown down and one house wrecked.
Heavy loss resulted to standing grain.
The potato leaf hopper. tiny in
sect that works under the leaf and
sucks instead of eating, threatens
Wisconsin tuber crops Tobacco or
kerosene emuIsions are used to kill
the pest. The spraying must be done
under the leaves and come in direct
contact with the insect.
Trempealeau county farmers are
puzzled by the killing of more than
a score of sheep. Helmer Paulson
found six Of his animals dead in the
fields one morning with a hole the
size of ten cent piece below the ear
in the jugular vein. They had bled
to death. Two of his neighbors lost
IA sheep. It is believed some animal
is committing the depredations. The
carcasses are not torn or eaten by
the killer.
Falling into a drainage ditch and
carried through a pIanked culvert to
the very mouth Of an overtaxed sew
err, Chester Klish. 8. Stevens Point,
was saved from death by presence Of
mind and quick action. The child
was swept through an enclosed water
filed culvert 40 feet. Frank Paw
alowski tore open the culvert. dropped
into the water and placed his body
against the mouth of the sewer. With
in thirty seconds he was struck by
the body Of the KIish boy, who was
revived with lungmotor.
James Polar, son of white faith
er and an Indian mother, one Of the
most interesting characters of the old
military road in eastern Langdale
county, is dead. He was buried on
part Of his farm which had been re-
served by him for an Indian burial
ground. The funeral was in the open
air with Indian rites, and was attend
ed by many Indians and a sprinkling
of whites. Although a child of the
forest he was taken to his last rest
ing place in an elegant casket and an
automobile hearse. He leaves a son
and daughter His wife died several
years ago At one time he was
stakeholder and director in the old
Langdale National Bank of Amigo.
The assembly committee on state
affairs has recommended for passage
bill introduced by Assemblyman
Porter authorizing the draining Of
Red Cedar lake, Jefferson county.
This lake, formerly a fisherman's
paradise, is rapidly filing up. said
Mr. Porter. 1t is now the habitat of
only sinners and bullheads, offers no
attraction to summer sresorters and is
destined to hncnn1a only a nlliSo MOO