Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-04-30

Kewaunee shipyards have two
100000 contracts for vessels to be
used on the lakes.
Frank Rick, 81, Milwaukee, shot
his wife, Francis, when she threaten
ed to leave him for non-support. Four
children are left motherless.
Hundreds of gallons of gasoline
were returned to the soil when a
valve in large oil tank on the She
boygan tracks broke. Three work
men who attempted to stop the flow
were drenched.
JOS. Geltz, AZ, held in the Milwau-
kee Jail on a charge of attempted
murder, hung himself with shoe
string. Geltz shot twice at his wife
but missed both times. He claimed
he did this to brighten her. The
boarder caused the trouble.
Mrs. Henry Fricke, So, Madison, was
struck and killed by an auto d. iven
by E. A. Fuller Mr.. and Mrs. Fricke
lodged one car to step in the path of
another. Fuller claims the darkness
and storm prevented him from seeing.
An unknown thief entered the Of
flee of L. T. Jourdan, insurance brok-
er, in Menasha, and stole a tin box
GOuLdlull5 PIUU WOILu VI WAL saw
ings stamps and papers of value to
the owner. The box was found near
the freight depot, the contents un-
touched.
The German carp, an Americana
ed enemy alien despised by fisher
men, as unfit for food, adds thous-
ands of dollars to the pockets of riv-
er men every year There is never
n tho ocfn n
mand.
John Santowski refused to break
Jail with Walter Weis and Charley
Cedowski. The boys were imprisoned
at La Crosse for robbing a freight
car. The breakers were given five
years at Waupun. Santowski got Is
days. In the attempted escape a
turnkey was beaten and the sheriff
came in the nick of time.
Judge Backus, Milwaukee, refused
clemency to Thos. Dray, charged with
assault on an old man. When asked
what he had to say Dray shouted
''Such men as | should be given a
chance to make good" II am dis
gusted" said Judge Backus" "You
scoundrel, how dare you ask for a
chance to be a good man after the
chances you have had. Four years in
Waupun."
Lumber companies of the North
west will attempt to get back to a
pre-war basis so far as wages of lum-
Der jacks are concerned. At lumber
mems meeting recently at IronWood,
at which most of the big lumbermen
of this section were represented, it
was voted to make a cut. The manu-
facturers say the price of lumber does
not justify the increase for labor
which the war brought on.
Michigan moonshiners have been
usineg green tea for whisky after
dosing it with alcohol. The immed-
late results are satisfactory but the
aftermath too sad for tears. Hun
dreds of stills have been confiscated
and merchants who offered the out
fits for sale prosecuted. Most of the
moonshiners of Detroit are aliens.
Siegel Conley, employee at the ST.
mons factory, Kenosha, had a miracu-
1ous escape from death. His clothing
was caught in an endless belt and
Conley dragged toward a machine.
Conley laughed when rescued and
wrapping a blanket around him, walk
ed to the hospital.
The school question has bobbed UP
again in bill by Assemblyman Roe
thai, providing for extension of the
principle of school consolidation and
transportation of pupils. The bill
which has passed the assembly, pro-
vides that after June 80. 1919, no pub
lie school shall he continued which
has an average daily attendance OF
fewer than ten pupils. The electors
are required to levy a tax to trans
port such pupils to a larger school
Senator Bird halted the bill in the
senate, charging that it might cause
abandonment of public schools in
territory where private or parochial
schools are strong, and ultimately
work to the disadvantage of the pub
lie school system. He said such a
step should be taken cautiously
when you get people of particular
view settled in q mass in a commun-
ity, it creates peculiar situation, ;
he said. "The hest wav to effect
Amoricanization is for all the people
without regard to political or reli-
gious views. to mingle freely. When
a condition is created so that all are
of one oninion. and it is regal ded as
to the disadvantage of others to set
tie among them tho tendency is to
perpetuate the condition" That Sen
ator Birds objection might be ex-
amined. the bill was sent back to the
committee on education and public
welfare.