Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-11-24

was badly hurt when he drove his
car into a passenger train. The auto
was wrecked.
4 Lawrence college trustees have bar
red the use of cigarets by undergrad
yates and the rule will be strictly en-
forced on the campus.
Albert Farney, White Rapids, shot
four bears while hunting. He killed
the mother and three cubs in their den
but father bear escaped by flight.
Il. Milwaukee still holds it position as
the safest place in the country to re-
Iside in. 1t has the low large city muir
der record of 2.5 per 100000 populat-
ion per annum. Memphis remains
first with rate of $50 and Chicago
is 18th with a rate of 11.6.
John B. Southmayd, master of the
Milwaukee Lafayette lodge 265, F. & A.
NJ, in 1906, recently travelled 10000
miles to attend the silver jubilee Of
his lodge. Mr. Southmayd came from
China where he now resides.
j. P.Schultz, West Bend, masquer-
aiding as a federal prohibition officer.
at Appleton, was arrested and placed
in Jail. Schultz carried two police
stars to convince inquiring parties
that he was "the goods" but his act
, ivities as a whiskey runner gave him
away.
When authorities found J. Felzma II.
aged inmate of the Sheboygan county
J farm. on his knees begging that he
be not taken back to the institution
but instead given an implement 20
commit suicide with they started al
investigation. Mismanagment and
| cruel treatment Of inmates is charged.
Mrs Harold Haltaufderhelde, Man
/ itowoc, went to Milwaukee and eXhib-
t tied papers purporting to show that
: she was heir to million dollar estate.
t She was able to borrow several hum
| dred dollars from a bank and broght
t costly wardrobe with the money.
Then her dream faded. Getting out of
that scrape the woman was recently
arrested for stealing $50 from her
brother
Secretary Scheibel of the state CON
, servation commission states that
wild game in Wisconsin is plentiful
and that the state is an exception in
, that respect. Scheibel says that old
hunters are more careless and will
fully neglectful Of the game laws than
are young hunters. Wild ducks are
plentiful but not seen any more OH
banquet boards as banquets are sold
. and the law forbids selling game.
Mrs. Viola Brinkman, Milwaukee,
the woman who killed her husband,
e Jack Brinkman, in August, because he
1 was too familiar with other women,
4 attempted suicide last week by jump
ing over a banister in JAIL Mrs.
Brinkman broke leg but will recov-
4 er. She insists that her husband is
I waiting for her and that she wants
= m h
of death.
: A Fond du Lac jurist was impartial
e when he fined Mr.. and Mrs. E. J.
: Coughlin of Milwaukee S. each for
: disorderly conduct The couple had
u quarreled in their boarding house and
Mrs. Coughlin hit her spouse with the
: soft side of stone jar. When the
wife was arraigned the husband de-
= MED her guilt but the court fined both.
Fewer lake accidents have occurred
on Lake Mendoza this season than
ever before, according to Capt. Frank
4 Isabel, lfe-SaVer employed by the uni
4 versity to protect canoeists and bath
ers. While in former years the num-
/ Der of capsiZed canoes and other boats
was about So or 40, this season only
Is rescues were necessary. In the
past five years Capt. Isabel has res
cued $50 passengers from capsized
craft
Louis Kreuger of Owen, sought for
1 two years as a draft dOdger, was re-
cOgniZed at Chippewa Falls. A former
friend named Grams recognized Kreu-
ger and spoke to him. Kreuger pre-
tended not to know Grams and stepped
on. Grams called a policeman and the
arrest followed. Frank and Leslie
I<reuger, brothers of Louis, are in the
penitentiary for the killing of Harry
Johnson, station agent at Owen Ennis,
another brother, was killed while re-
sisting arrest.
: A skin game worked on farmers of
several Wisconsin counties has come
to light. 1t is related that smooth
tongued individuals appear at the
home of German farmer known to
be sympathetic toward the fatherland
After working on his sympathies the
farmer is informed that his Liberty
bonds are below par. He is then in
duced to trade his bonds at the mar
ket price for "first-claSS" German
bonds that later proved to be worth so
cents per hundred pounds at the pre-
vailing rate for old paper
Three prominent residents OF Card
HoT, w IS, MISS LOUISE OdHueIS, Il,
school teacher; Arthur Delwiche. 27.
and Clements Denil, %, were killed
Wednesday evening when an auto
mobile they were riding in went
through the railing of the Sawyer
toll gate bridge at Sturgeon Bay. The
girl and Delwiche were engaged to be
married and it is said that they in
tended 70 buy diamond ring while
in Sturgeon Bay. When the machine
crashed through the railing, electric
wires strung below the bridge. which
carried $4,000 volts, were broken and
Miss flanders and Denil became en-
tangled in them and were instantly
electrOcuted before plunging into the
water The machine fell i'll two feet
of water at the edge of the bay and
! Delwiche was unhurt. Rescuers threw
a rope to him and started to pull him
out When he had been raised half
the distance to the floor of the bridge