Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-04-20
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current Inter
est by Telegraph
and Mail.

oil tanker. outbound from Whiting,
Indiana, locked at Duluth, the head
of the great lakes, last Monday. This
marked the official 1921 opening of
the harbor to traffic. The CoWan car
ried $4,000 gallons Of gasoline.
Jakey Hall, "a, said to be a Boston
boxer, was sentenced to five years in
house of correction, and Thomas Raj
lerty. II, of Tacoma, Wash, was SEN
fenced to five years in the Green Bay
reformatory, by Judge A. C. Backus
Of Milwaukee, for automobile thefts.
The state supreme court denied the
motion of the Milwaukee Sales and
Investment Co. for an injunction re-
straining the railroad commission
from using it's general appropriation
to operate the Milwaukee rent bureau.
The decision was given by divided
vote
Under a law passed by the legisla
ture and taking effect last Monday the
costs of a court case are nearly
doubled. The law grants $3.50 a day
witness fees and mileage of s cents
instead of $3.50 a day and cents
mile. The guilty defendant pays the
bill.
IlE Village VI w IIlCIlcllA, A-tA CAONNS
county, has ruled out the shimmy.
Dancing in the town must hereafter
pass the critical eye Of censor, &C
COrding to an ordinance passed by the
board of trustees Faces OF partners
must not touch and a dancer is forbid
den to place his or her arm about the
neck OF a parner.
Olaf Johnson of Lafayette county has
been appointed private secretary to
John M Nelson, Madison, member of
congress from the third congressional
district and has left for Washington.
During the 1920 campaign he was
secretary of the nOnpartisan organ
jzation in Lafayette county.
Barricaded in the attic of his home,
Frank Ostrosky, Superior, held po-
lice squad at bay for several hours
with an unlOaded shotgun. The of
ficers were summoned by a neighbor
who declared that Ostrosky was
beating his wife with the soft side OF
a shovel The man was charged with
assault and battery.
The city of Manitowoc will be COM.
PEELED to fight the $4,000 damage
suit case filed by the J. E. Rappell Co,
DIS JIlG result vi d UOOu WnlCu U6tIiCiSoCu
goods in the warehouse of the COM
pany last spring. In decision in the
circuit court, Judge KirWan overrides
a demurrer filed by the city and holds
that the Rappel Co. has cause for an
action.
BY unanimous vote, members of the
La Crosse County Medical society de-
cided to refrain from writing liquor
prescriptions under the Volstead act
for gain The action followed the
reading of a transcript of proceedings
in United States court at La Crosse
when Judge Lands examined local
physicians alleged to have written
prescriptions freely.
After dragging the Fox river for
nearly II hours, Appleton police and
about 100 volunteers were convinced
that Fred RaWsom. SO, perpetrated
hoax when he left his Overcoat on the
river bank. A note in the pocket in
structed the finder to take it to a rel
alive who would know the rest
Rawson had not been seen since the
previous Sunda morning 1t is be-
lieved that he " planted the coat and
then left town. Relatives said he had
been acting queerly but knew of no
motive for suicide.
Kaukauna police are working on a
slight clue left by thieves who looted
IA nail sacks and seven pouches con-
tanning registered mail at the North
western station. Two large handker-
chiefs, pasted on the window pane to
hold the glass when it vas broken.
we're found. A month ago the Thil-
many Pulp and Paper Co. fioated a
100000 loan, selling bonds to EN-
ployes, and it is believed by the au-
thorities that the thieves had inform
alton that the bonds had been mailed
to purchasers by the First Trust Co.
ot Appleton.
John Quimby, Gorge Footit ana
Lloyd Duncan, members of three
prominent Stevens Point families and
all 10 years old, are in jail charged
with burglary and highway robbery.
Two counts are made on the latter
charge in which one of the trio is
alleged to have relieved his victim of
SIS. A hardware store was broken
into twice in succession and reVOl-
vers. ammunition and knives taken.
Much of the loot was found on the
three boys Their most sensational
exploit was an attempt to hold up an
automobile party of four persons. The
driver escaped amid a shower of bull
let's which punctured tires and pen
etrated doors of the car The boys
have heretofore borne good reputa-
tions.
Sixteen boxes of cheese taken from
the cheese house of c, E. Blodgett of
Osceola were found under woodpile
on the Hamilton farm near st. Croix
Falls. The authorities surmised a
plant" and allowed the cheese to re-
main but kept watch nightly Two
nights later a car came along the
road near the farm. The sheriff's
men blocked the road and ordered the
car to halt. Instead of doing so the
driver took to the ditch. Revolvers
then came into play and the car was
hit several times. Two men in the
car jumped out and fed making good
their escape. The driver, who gave
his name as Olaf Berg of ST. Paul,
was captured. Thieves from the
Twin Cities have been thick in the
nearby Wisconsin towns recently.