Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-05-28
AROUND WISCONSIN
BY MAIL AND TELEcRApu


warden, rescued three hove fror,
drowning in the Mississippi at To
Crosse, when he sped to them IN =
motorboat. They hcd capcizcd a bunt-
ing skiff in which they were fishing
Mrs, Frank Marble, 65. RhineIandar
was brutality attacked and beaten nv
an unknown man who entered bar
bedroom, turned out the lights and
attacked the old lady with a cnh
The fiend fed before help arrived.
steve Splrof, Milwaukee burglar is
held for the murder of his cousin. Az
10 SWethoH, young man. The youtb
was strangled, his body weighted with
an auto jack and thrown in the Mil
waukee river, Spiroff nervously de-
MES the crime.
Philip Horki, aged &c, who recent
~ took so grains Of chloride of mer
curry, enough to kill several men. YES
terday made another attempt to take
his life by drowning but was caught
by Detective Jesse Smith. It is thougatl
the man is insane. He lives at M26i-
son.
Capt. Harry Davenport, Madison po-
liceman, found 81 800 in clothing and
silverware buried in heap of leaves
and brush near Black Earth. The
booty belonged to Prof ". A. Hen
man of the university. A stolen auto
was also abandoned and recovered
Madison officials are tracing the rob
bers.
While riding in an automobile,
Chas. Thorning, Milwaukee, stopped
the car in front of stone cutters
window and advised his wife to pick
out suitable tombstone, testified
Mrs. Ella ThOrning in her suit for di-
virce. She charged Mr.. Thorning had
often threatened her. She was grant
ed a divorce.
Earlier than for several years,
Capt. w. A. Thompson's river i'm
provement fleet left port for Genoa
where government dams will be built,
and another unit of the GiX-foot chan
mel in the upper Mississippi cCmplet-
ed Two more years, it is estimated,
will complete the channel between
Winuna and Prairie du Chien.
Joseph Rescr was found guilty by
a La Crosse jury of forging check.
AS he was leaving the courtroom,
Sheriff Lund arrested him on a sec
ond warrant charging theft CT Lib
erty bond from Mrs. Charles Welch,
his accuser under the first warrant.
Reser told the jury that the woman
was angry because he could not re-
main friendly with her.
White bass fishing has begun III
Lake Winnebago. The fish leave the
lake for Wolf river to spawn. These
fish are a species of bass that are as
game as the black bass. They are
caught with live minnows on long
pole with a light Sinker, and also can
Sn1 hnT n
white bass fishing lasts for six weeks.
The fish weigh about one pound each
One of the largest real estate deals
ever cconsumated involving Oneida
county lands, took place last week IN
Milwaukee when 5000 acres of Onei-
da county cut-over lands were trans
ferred to the Wisconsin Land Holding
Co. The company will divide the land
into 80 and 100 acre tracts and place
returned soldiers and sailors who
have applied to the government for
farms.
II mad been drinking too much. l
am to blame for my wife's suicide,
said Rudolph Keppert, SheboygIn
Falls, to Coroner william Van Fan
ten when the body OF Mrs. Keppert
was found floating in the river me
woman disappeared more than week
ago. The body was found at midnight
by Chief of Police Ed. George. who
saw it floating and identified it in the
moonlight.
Il am crazy and want to go to the
crazy house." is the statement that
greeted Sheriff Holquist when he OPP
ened the door Of the Marinette jail
1T came from Levi Vinectein, cob
bier. His friends refuse to sign a
complaint which will bring him be-
for the county court. District Attor-
ney Murphy is in q dilemma. EHorts
are being matic to reach the man
relatives in Iron Mountain, Mich.
Eighteen years ago Mrs. Celia
Jaeger, La Crosse, was deserted anu
left with three children. Unable 10
keep the family together Mrs. Jaeger
went west leaving the children IN the
custody of a neighbor who placeo
them in an orphanage but accepted
money from the mother for their care
When the poor woman asked LOT an
accounting she was laughed at. Mrs.
Jaeger went to Denver to live anu
finally married again Last week she
came home and La Crosse newspap-
err undertook to find the children One
hoy. Frank, is a farmer near La
Crosse. A girl, Amelia, mas a good
home at Stoddard. Minnie, p, lives at
Cedar Falls. Ia. There will be nap
by family reunion.
Glimpses into the feelings OF the
people during the Civil war are pre-
sented by 100 Civil war patriotic en-
veIopes recently acquired by the state
Historical museum The regular Sc
cession envelope carried the stars
and bars on it. with the names OF
Jeff" Davis and Alexander n. Steph-
ems. Most of the envelopes show tne
Union attitude, and a typical one e
bears the picture of mule ana tne
words, after natures own sWees
model" Another has the picture y
a pickaninny and the words, me e, III
nocent Cause of the War" Anotner'
entitled "Jeff's Knave-y'' shows seven
pirates in tub at sea with the WORDS
"Seven wise men of Gotham Went 70
sea in a bowl" One envelope repre-.
sents two dogs, named Scott ana 1 81
respectively, fighting over oone Ia
beled Washington. "Why don't you
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