Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-05-12


when pulling teeth she swallowed sew
real pieces, including some silver
filling which caused pneumonia and
abscess on her lung. The case was
tried before jury and she was
awarder some $4,000 on her petit
ton for 100000 The supreme court
was convinced by a careful reading
of the record that Dr.. Chase did all
any reputable practitioner could have
done. 1.-THE accident" the court
states, was rather the result of un-
avoidable accident for which he is
not liable"
Less than "a hours after his return
to Kenosha from the asylum at Men
dota where he had been held for six
months, victim of melancholia, Rab-
roll Calageri 55, fired two shots into
his body which resulted in his death
He used a 45 caliber revolver, firing
a bullet into one ear. 1t passed out
of his head at the base of the skull.
He fired a second bullet into his
breast above the heart. Fearing such
a tragedy, Mrs. Calageri had locked
the only revolver in the home in a
trunk in the attic. The victim is sup
posed to have picked the lock with
button hook
gitive from justice, escaped a posse
at Withee, Wis, when he leaped from
a window of his mothers home and
amid fusillade of bullets made his
way to a swamp nearby After many
hours the search was abandoned The
incident recalls the battle" of Krueg-
er farm in September, 1918, when
Harry Jensen, station agent at Owen,
was killed and four other possemen
wounded and which brought life SEN
fences for Frank and Leslie Kruger,
brothers of Louis. The two brothers
are now serving their sentences in
Waupun prison.
A double funeral took place at
Franksville, near Racine, when the
body of Leo Crane, 33, of Kalamazoo,
Mich, was laid in the grave beside
his mother. Mrs. Crane, wife of a pi-
Oneer merchant and postmistress, was
taken dangerously i'll. Word was sent
to the son who fastened to make
connection with a fast train using a
motor car A wheel flew from the
car and The young man was instant
ly killed. His mother died an hour
later and the body of the son was
brought 10 his old home for burial
The new nOxious weed law, which
the legislature directed the state de-
partment of agriculture to enforce,
has drastic provisions. Among other
things it provides that any town chair
man, village president or mayor who
shall neglect to appoint one or more
commissioners of noxious weeds, and
to make reports to the state depart
ment of agriculture, shall forfeit not
less than $50 and not more than $780,
Appointment of weed commissioners
must be reported not later than May
15.
Henry Smith, aged %, fell rs feet
from scaffOld while repairing a hay
fork on the William SPAIN farm near
Waunakee. He suffered a broken neck,
fractured skull and body mutilations.
The scaffold had been erected from
the ground to the haymow and Smith
had worked more than an hour on the
hay-fork and carrier before the mis-
hap. Mr. SPAIN was near the barn
when Smith fell. 1t is believed the
door or the window was blown open
knocking Smith off the landing.
A pint of blood transfused from the
veins of Annette Pelliter, was unable
to save the life of Margaret Murphy,
both of Chippewa Falls. Miss Pellit-
| y
to Miss Murphy and was cleaning out
her desk when a revolver accidentally
discharged Miss Murphy being hit on
the jaw. Hemorrhages from the
wound prevented healing and Miss
, Murphy died. The other girl is pros
trated with grief
Fond du Lac police searched for
hours for four members of the school
board who played hockey" to pre-
vent quorum. After four unsuccess-
full attempts to hold meeting the
board president was compelled to call
it Off The recalcitrants held out UNI
til new board took office a few days
later preventing the transaction of
business by the old board.
A mail truck driver desiring to
cross the Oshkosh tracks after the
bars were down caused a tieup in
traffic. His engine stalled and the
train stopping prevented smashup.
AS a result of the abrupt stop three
cars were derailed in the middle of the
train, there being an engine at either
end.
Is pupils in the Eau Claire high
school were suspended for ducking
two members who refused to join the
majority when they formed an overall
CLUB. The two boys were thrown in
Half Moon lake. They Immediately
complained to the faculty and the
suspensions followed
A gasoline tank exploding in an au-
tomobile near Pleasant Prairie SER
iously burned William Jabrowski and
John Legaiso, both of Milwaukee. The
men were repairing the car at night
and one of them struck a match too
close to the gas tank.
Ice cream sundaes and soft drink
prices have been increased at Madi-
son fountains, following an advance
in sugar prices. Sundaes and matted
milks, which have heretofore cost II
cents have jumped to 20 cents.
Deputies searched the home of Jno.
Conn, Elton, and found three gallon
jugs full of ''moonshine." Conn
slipped out in his undershirt and
pants while the deputies were search
ing and made his getaway
A number of Beaver Dam farrnnrS