Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-08-03
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ton when his motorcycle colllded win
a truck The handle bars penetrated
the boys stomach.
Harold Foster and George Bell, Chi
cago, were arrested at Kenosha after
they had stolen a car and conducted
running gun fight with the police
Fifteen Sheboygan county farmers
invested $5,146 and drained 300 acres
of swamp with $4,000 feet Of tile, in
creasing their silage yield three tons
to the acre.
William Moss, Madison lineman,
came in contact with current at
$500 volts pressure while at work on
the poles in Madison. He died later
in a hospital.
D. B. Scnick, La Crosse, was ar
Taigned and held for trial on charge
of having set fire to his own home.
The place burned on June 16 under
suspicious circumstances.
Wisconsin marriages struck q new
record last year with 22,923 couple be-
ing united for better or worse. The
nearest to this record was i'll 1913
when 21,052 couples were married
Explosion of kerosene in can
from which the oil was poured upon a
soft coal fire in a kitchen stove, re-
suited in the death of Mrs. Nick De-
rome of BeIoit. Three small children
are left motherless.
Nick Bonefide, Beloit and II, saved
three small boys from drowning. Nick
saw the three boys-Joe Peliegr1no,
Joe Jakkalone and Gaspard Farrine-
wading. Then the boys stepped into
a deep hole. Bonefide, (who is evil
IDENTIFY not misnamed) dived and res
cued all three.
La Crosse bankers predict a return
to normal in business conditions if the
crops meet expectations. Farm pro-
ducts are rising in price and manufac-
tured articles are dropping. This out
look is rosy but the general belief is
that the worst of the panic is over and
conditions will steadily improve.
Arthur Lube, Unity farmer, was
shot to death in the presence of his
10-year-old daughter, by George Har-
berger, co. a bachelor, when Lube
went to get some cattle that had gone
through a fence onto Harberger's
land. Harberger, after shooting Lube
removed a shoe, placed the muzzle of
the gun at his head and with his toe
pulled the trigger, killing himself in
stantly. The girl said that Harberger
shot without warning. He was known
to be slightly demented.
When Judge Ktrwan of Manitowoc
granted divorce to Mrs. Gretchen
Luehr, a marriage of a single day was
ended, according to the girls story.
Robert Luehr and Gretchen BOde were
married at Waukegan, ILL.,, on March
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that she lived with her husband one
day after their marriage and that on
the second day the youth repudiated
his wedding vows and demanded that
she return the wedding ring, which
she did No alimony was asked.
Thomas Shaughnessy, Kilbourn,
motored to Baraboo to spend the even
ing and partook of considerable moon
shine AS he was going home he met
a Ford car occupied by a family by
the name of Risley. The Ford was
demolished and the occupants slightly
injured. When the sheriff came upon
the scene Shaughnessy was still under
the influence of the illicit grog and re-
sisted arrest AS a result the officer
had to knock him out before taking
the man to Jail The next morning
brought sober reflection and desire to
make amends. This was cared for by
a fine and costs of $11S.
Tanning himself with a hat to keep
away the mosquitoes while he sat on
a log in the woods to rest, gave Stan
ley karpinski the appearance of a deer
brushing flies from its body and made
him the target of the fatal shots fired
by Knute Wick, June %, when Karpin-
ski was killed. This angle was
brought out at the hearing in Rhine
lander when Wick was held for
trial on a charge of manslaughter.
That all the eight or nine men i'll the
= lrty were engaged in unlawfully
b,n ting deer at the time Karpinski
was hot, was testified to by several
witness. s. Wick gave himself up
shortly AFTER the shooting,
A lone han, dit in a Buick car held
I'M and robbed he American National
hank at Marshfielo last Tuesday and
escaped with $1,000 in cash he was
pursued by police officers put gave
them the slip at g. turn two L. lles out
of the city. A girl in an adjoining OF
flee picked up a Irritation with the
bandit as he sat in his car before he
entered the building and without
thinking took down the license num-
Der of the car. 1t was that OF the
Louis Kindling Co., of Milwaukee
The car was traced and local youth,
namodN May placed under arrest.
He had been reading of the bank rob
berries elsewhere in the state and de-
sired to emulate them.
Elmer Sundby, As, Eau Claire police
chief, died from bullet wounds recelv-
ed in a gun fight with a robber who
escaped with $1,036 after holding up
a messenger of the Minnesota Wis
consin Light & Power Co. Sundby
leaves a widow and three children.
He was leading a posse of men when
shot. The robbery took place IN
broad daylight near the company's
barns. A lone robbe1 forced the mes
senger and two guards into the barns
as they were leaving for the bank
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