Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-05-26

MISS CnarlOLIo a. stevenson, Mar
inette, died of ptomaine poisoning af-
ter eating ice cream in a restaurant.
A coed at the University of Wis
consin has adopted small turtle as
| a pocket pet. 1t is carried in d mesh
| bag. -
| The Bradley mill at Elkf6rn was
discontinued the first of May. The
company continues to operate Del
AVIAN plant.
Jack Dickie, North Freedom, was
thrown from tractor drag and run
over. Dickie's hip was broken in
the accident.
| Henry Gutsborth, II, GAINESVILLE
farmland, was kicked in the head by
horse on the farm of Miles Tanning.
His skull was crushed.
| Archie Reid ST., Sc, GAINESVILLE, at
tempted to alight from train at
i Fond du Lac and fell so as to leave
foot on the track The train passed
over the member severing it.
! Clarence Donahoo, years, Keno
sha, fell into a bayou on the Kenosha
river while hunting minlows with
] other children and was drowned. The
body was recovered an hour later.
John Stauffer, AZ, Beloit farmer,
was crushed to death by a tractor.
| He was making adjustments when
the machine suddenly took start
and passed over his body The body
was found by his wife.
/ Miss Ida Stoddard, GAINESVILLE, died
at Rio Janiero, Brazil, of nervous
prostration. Miss Stoddard went to
South America in January with a
corps of workers for the Baldwin Lo-
connective works. The body will be
brought home for burial
Albert, 10-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mr. Andrew Wikan of Albertville, is
in the hospital at Chippewa Falls
with a fractured skull as the result
of being kicked by a horse The boy
was driving horses in from the pas
ture when one of them kicked him.
j. A. Ternan, %, Beloit, attended
the Junior prom at Madison and
danced until three a. m. He then went
to a hospital and was operated on
for appendicitis The exertion had
caused the appendix to burst but the
man may get well.
Frank Kelly, 80, a GAINESVILLE line
man, came into contact with $4,000
volt electric circuit at the Samson
tractor plant and was hurled to the
ground. Kelly sustained severe burns
and a broken arm and his recovery
was despaired Of
John Randall, Dane county farm
er, was killed by a lightning bolt.
Randall and wife took refuge in a
shed during a brief rain storm. Light
ming struck the pole near where they
were standing burning Randall bad
ly. Mrs. Randall was unframed
The body of John Moe, 80, was
found near the Klueter ice run, Mad
ison. Two empty shells in a pistol
and one bullet wound in his head in
Dictated that Moe had fired two shots
the first missing but the second TAX
ing deadly effect A receipt for a
bill of lumber led to his Identified
! ton. The causes of the suicide re-
main a mystery. Moe lived near De
| Forest and worked for a cement con-
tractor
Edward t. Powell, Nekoosa line
man, was instantly killed when he
came into contact with a charged
wire on high pole. The power was
supposedly shut off the circuit but
! later a piece of bale wire crossing
from the dead circuit to another live
one was located. Powell was taken
down dead his safety belt preventing
fall when the charge struck him
He was 80, married and the father of
two children.
Orlin Pieritz, Is years, Fl Atkin-
son, killed himself with 80 revolv-
er in a clothes closet of the family
home while i'll and delirious. Short
ly before the shooting the mother call
! ed the doctor to ask him to do some
thing to reduce the youths temper
ature. She soon heard faint report
and rushing to the room found her
son in the closet bleeding heap. The
bullet entered the heart and death
was instantaneous.
Norman Cowlishaw, 20, overseas
veteran and gas victim of the Ar
gonne, begged Judge Maxfield, James
vile, to give hinnasan indeterminate
sentence in Waupun where he might
receive hospital treatment Cowlishaw
was in court for robbery He told a
pitiful story of his sufferings and
poverty since leaving the service. All
his teeth are gone and his eyes are
bad. The court directed that as soon
as he was physically fit the man was
to be released from the prison hospi-
tai
Three hundred persons in a Green
Bay motion picture show stampeded
to safety when film exploded in
the operators room Cool-headed
employees averted a panic. Across
the street in the Orpheum theatre
home talent play was in progress A
panic occurred there also but was
quieted down by the GOODNESS of the
players and Judge Grasse who Jumped
to the stage and explained that the
fire was across the street The total
loss from the fire was $4,000 with no
loss of life.
Arthur Herman, So, Racine motor
cycle cop, was killed instantly while
in pursuit of Fred Caldwell, a negro
refugee. Herman lost control of his
machine when it was going so miles
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