Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-06-16

Two uSaLnS from measles nave Oc-
Cured at Menasha and an epidemic of
the disease is sweeping tine twin cities
of Neenah and Menasha.
| Lawrence L. Hale, %, Plover, died
at his home from ptomaine poisoning
due to eating sausage ten days be-
fore. He leaves wife and baby
daughter.
| Leonard Gebauer and his landlord,
! by Wausau authorities who allege
that the two men burned barn on
Dodge's farm so that insurance might
be collected
The New Jersey Zinc company has
closed three of its mines at Highland
owing to depression in prices and one
hundred miners are thrown out of
! employment. 1t is said that the COM
pany will close all the mines for the
! same reason.
! While adjusting clothes lines on
clothes reel on the roof of a shed in
4 the rear of her at in Manitowoc, Mrs
Theresa Cuthbert slipped and fell 20
feet to the ground. She sustained a
fracture OF the left arm and spinal in
Jurles which caused partial paralysis
Charges against John Westburg
and George Prang were dropped at
Neenah when Chas. Schultz, druggist,
testified he could not positively state
the amount of liquor stolen from him
or the time of the theft. Upon re-
lease Westburg and Prang were re-
,arrested on a similar charge.
Earl Wretland, 7-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wretland, was
drowned Friday night in the Baraboo
river. He was rolling a stone along
the foot bridge which spans the river
in the Ringing brothers former win
ter quarters, when he lost his bal
ance and fell into the water. F. F..
Perkins, neighbor, rescued the
body
Alice Grossman, 3 years, White
water, procured some matches and
went to an clubhouse turning the wood
en- catch. A few minutes later, Ern-
est, her brother, noticed smoke issu-
ing from the building and called his
mother who endeavored to open the
door and rescue the child but was I'M
successful. The firemen found the
scorched body inside.
1t is estimated that close of 10000
people from all parts of Wisconsin,
Michigan and Illinois visited the
cherry orchards in Door county the
past week. There is a toll bridge
entering Sturgeon Bay, over which
every vehicle has to pass, hence the
task OF counting the visitors was
comparatively easy. The cherry or
chards were in full bloom.
The price of an acre of land for
the sod on it was realized by George
Ella, Burlington farmer, when he sold
the SOD on ten acres to Milwaukeeans
Tor 500 an acre. The concern is
cutting the sod and hauling it to Mil
Waukee by truck. The high price
was paid because it was the only
grass to be found near Milwaukee
that was free from dandelions.
A motor party composed of Earl
Zerkle, Harry Westcott, Oscar Hem
ming and Harry Gilmore, Fl Atkin-
son youths, went to grief while
speeding in a Velie coupe on a sharp
turn near the city. The car left the
road turning completely over and the
top was smashed to smithereens on
the first turn. 1t turned again the
young men being thrown out the sec
ond time and knocked unconscious
and bleeding. The car finally landed
upright and crosswise with the road
A driver coming along rendered as
slstance. The young men were badly
hurt Westcott sustaining a fractured
skull. Hemming and Zerkle had
broken ribs while Gilmore ESCAPED
with bruises. The car top was wreck
ed, two wheels broken and the fend-
ers and body damaged.
Raleigh Ives, the Fond du Lac
cIubman serving two years in Wau-
pun for the murder of Herbert P
Loehr, IN March, 1919, was success
Iully sued for divorce by his wife.
Mrs. Almena Ives, who alleged inf
deity and cruel treatment while
Ives was awaiting his second trial
MRS. Ives was awarded her daughter.
e. WhlIe the son, 10, goes to Ives
parents. The Ives case deyeloped
when in March, 1919, Herbert P. Loehr
Fond du Lac insurance man. was
shot to death by Raleigh Ives. fruit
commission man, in a cigar store in
Fond du Lac. The latter Immediately
telegraphed his father, eve killed
Loehr," said to associates. GIVE done
a good job and gave himself UP. A
jury IN Fond du Lac, before Judge
9. A. Fowler, disagreed. A second
jury, in West Bend last November,
before Judge Martin Lueck, agreed
on verdict of manslaughter in the
fourth degree ard a sentence of two
years in state prison was passed.
The defense relied on a statement
signed by Mrs. Ives in the presence
4 of her husband and a detective. in
which she confessed to relations with
Loehr. This statement she later re-
pudiated and attempted to recover
from her husband. Mrs. Ives sat with
her husband during his trial, but
} neither she nor the widow of the slain
man were called upon to testify. A
third woman, Mrs. Maude Hubbard.
was brought to the trial by the prose-
cution, but she was not called as a
witness. Ives admitted that he had
gone to saloon with her the night
before the homicide. Regarding
Loehr, it was testified that he be-
triended Mrs. Ives when she and her
husband wer at outs, but Ives, with
the help of detectives, obtained in
formation that made him conclude
that the friend had gone rather too
far.
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