Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-07-14
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H. Nelson, Windsor butcher, As,
committed suicide by drowning in his
own cistern. Nelson had been mar
ried twice and divorced. Melancholy
is blamed.
William Warner, Racine, lost two
fingers from his right hand due to
tamping powder into a homemade
cannon. The Internal machine went
off prematurely.
Olin Henthorn, Sylvia had a fork
loaded with hay fall on him and was
severely injured. Henthorn went in
to the barn without his assistants
knowing it and the fork was tripped
over his luckless head
Exploding fireworks wrecked the
Duchman-Greninger arcade store at
Racine. The fireworks were on dis
play in the windows and it is sup
posed that crossed wire ignited
them. The loss was $4,000 with no
one injured.
Supt. Coles of the Wisconsin Re-
formatory at De Pere took crew Of
men and anchored a new barn with
guy ropes when he saw a great storm
approaching. The building was saw
ed but other structures in the vicinity
were wrecked
Diving into Rock river Charles
Clark, son of DR.. and Mrs. C. P.
Clarke Of GAINESVILLE, saved Kenneth
Cover and Alan Decker from drown
ing. Cover had gone out beyond his
depth and becoming exhausted grabb-
ed onto Decker.
$4,000 new motor cars and 5000
new trucks have been bought by
Badgers since the first Of the year.
The total number of licenses up to
July l was 255,600 or $4,000 more
shan last year. The total for the year
is put at 100000.
Miss Eva Zabrowski, Stevens Point
"a, is held for trial on a charge OF
jnianticide it being alleged that the
girl strangled the infant and threw
it in the Wisconsin river where it was
found floating a couple of weeks ago
Miss Zabrowski is held without bail
Geo A. Nicholson Jr., wealthy Mar
inette lumberman, took his own life
by shooting himself in the abdomen
with a shotgun. The deed was COM
mitted in the arbor of his home and
the mans wife found the body. Mich
elson had suffered sunstroke and was
in poor health.
A federal agent walked into the
Hurley saloon of Pasquale Castagna a
former soldier, and caught the man IN
the act of buying a round OF drinks
for a crowd in front of the bar. In
vestigation proved the drink to be
mOonshine whisky Castagna was ar
rested and arraigned in mun1clpal
court where he paid fine OF $3.50 and
costs.
A supposedly harmless" sparkler'
caused the destruction of the farm
home of Fred Green, near Stoughton'
III is supposed that the sparkler was
thrown on the roof during the even
ing of celebration day as there was
no other fire around the premises
during the day. About one o'clock
The family awoke to find their place
in flames. Aid was soon coming but
little was saved.
Miss Ethel Peterson, girl worker in
2 summer home on the shores OF Green
Bay. has been arrested on charge Oh
concealing the death of her newborn
,habv According to the Marinette pO-
lice the girl admits that she gave birth
to the child, while alone and without
medical attention. She told them 1t
is alleged. that she feared consequence
es when her friends learned the truth
and so threw the baby into the lake.
a post norton disclosed that the child
was alive when born.
Mrs. w. F. Dietsch, a StOughton
woman left an electric iron standing
on her ironing board and went to bed.
The next morning the fire depart
ment was summoned on the run me
iron which had been left connected
had burned a hole through the IRON
ing board and dropping on the floor
burned hole through rug and then
through the floor 1t was stopped III
its downward career by the fire lad
dies. Fortunately the house was
closed and the entire absence OF draft
prevented a serious cont1agration.
Jacob Knutson, Amigo, was killed,
Fred Dallman was nearly scalped and
Max Goeman sustained fractured
iawbone as the result of an automo-
bile driven by Goeman crashing into
horse and buggy driven by Dali
man. The accident took place on
narrow road and while there was a
dense fog. The horse was thrown
about 80 feet and died after running
a short distance. Two passengers in
the automobile, who were uninjured,
summoned assistance for the wound
ed. The Goeman automobile is said
to have been running at high speed
when the accident occurred.
After lying unconscious for seven
days, following a gunshot wound at
the hands of boy companion, Henry
Hopp Jr. 16, Tomah. partially revived
for the first time Thursday. Hoop and
George Dams went after the cows.
George carried gun. Hours passed
and young Hopp failed to return to his
home. A searching party found him
lying unconscious in the pasture. No
one knows just how he was shot, as
Dams will not talk and Hopp cannot
as yet tell his story. DR.. E. A. Win
ter entertains hopes of a complete re-
covery after having extracted the bull
let from the boys head, where it was
lodged.
Grant German and party of West
Allis, enroute to Richland Center for
the Fourth, met with a disastrous ac-
cident near Black Earth German
driving noticed two cows grazing by
the road but as the way was wide gave
no thought of danger. Upon his APP
preach the COWS jumped directly in