Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-07-20
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cut of cents an hour, reducing them
to 80 cents, and went back to work.
Abe Goodman, Marinette business
man, was killed and several others
injured when a sedan car overturned
on the road near Menominee.
Thomas J. Shaughnessy, KilbOurn,
was fined $118.37 for driving car in
an intoxicated condition. He colllded
with another car and a child was in
jured.
Henry Hanson, a deserter from
the IT, S. army was picked up at
a brother. The youth enlisted at the
age of 10, deserving at Camp Lewis,
Wash He was taken to Ft. Sher
idan for trial.
Two raids by Sheriff Stanley Bud
Yak on the Sachapple farm near the
city of Florence resulted in the
seizure of 13 barrels and 20 cases of
home brew, cases of malt, 1 barrel
CT hops and 1 bottling machine. The
proprietor was arrested.
Sandy Wilson went to sleep with
his head on the rail Of the Green
Bay & Western right of way at La
Crosse. A switch engine came along
and scOOped him off the tracks, in
ficting serious injuries about the
head and shoulders. Sandy will re-
cover.
Warren, 8, son of Albert Buchanan
Of Amberg, was severely injured by
the prong of an iron pickett fence
when the limb of a tree on which he
was climbing, brok and he fell IL
feet His side was pierced and one
rib broken. The boy had been ex-
ploring an abandoned orioles nest
While diving at bathing beach
near Two Rivers, Carl Praussa, II,
fractured his spine. Prausa dove off
a pile and struck his head on the
sand bottom, injuring his spine at the
eighth vertebra. He was unconscious
when companions pulled him from
the water.
The Rev. John T. O'Leary, pastor
of ST. Patricks church, Green Bay,
will have to pay Mary Henderson
$2,700 as a result of a jury's verdict
in a personal injury suit. The com
plainant charged she suffered a bro
ken hip when she jumped out of the
path of the pastors automobile.
Mrs. Josephine Eckert and Charles
Fisher, charged with contributing to
the delinquency of Margaret Koeppen,
also known as Margaret LiebOld, IA,
were held in Jail at Waukesha. Mrs.
Eckert is a sister of the girl. Fisher
is a Milwaukee taxi driver said to
have taken the girl to Milwaukee in
company with Mrs. Eckert
Driven to desperation by his love
for pretty Mabel Magazine, 16, Ste
phenson, Mich, Stanley RatchfOrd, 10,
son of an Oconto alderman, tried buc-
cancer tactics of forcing his affections
upon the girl. When they met in a
hotel he is alleged to have chided her
for not answering his letters and to
have drawn a revolver and threatened
her.
Two years at hard labor in Waupun
was the sentence pronounced at Mad
isOn by Judge Ray Stevens upon d. H.
Rivers, charged with trying to black
mail e. S. Johnston, president of the
First National bank, Baraboo, for
$685. 900. Mr.. Johnston received a let
ter demanding that he leave a package
with $4,000 at hotel desk. He was
threatened with death should he refuse
to comply. Rivers is IS years old
The steamer Midvale of the Hanna
line steamed into Superior with a
crew composed of officers. Commo-
dore Mathew Anderson was the mas
ter of the vessel. He had captains for
mates. First mates held down the
jobs as wheelsmen and watchmen and
second mates were deck-hands. The
same condition held forth in the en-
gineers' rooms. And it may be our
last trip at that" said Capt. Ander-
son. "hTere are no cargoes."
Parents of Milwaukee youths have
made a complaint against the officers
of the Goodrich liner, Carolina, for the
treatment the boys received enroute to
Sturgeon Bay to pick cherries. The
boys claim they were herded below
decks like cattle, forced to sleep in
the coal room and on baggage and
when they complained were cursed at
by the officers. The boat company
says the boys were mischievous and
had to be disciplined.
Kenosha police were mystified at the
refusal of a well-dressed youth, about
20, whose back was broken when he
dived into the lake at Simmons beach,
to reveal his identity or give any in
formation regarding his home or rel
atives The youth dived into three
feet of water. He was taken to ST.
Catharine'S hospital with a broken
back While conscious the youth re-
fused to give any information about
himself beyond saying that he had
been visiting Kenosha friends.
Four persons, three of them bro
theirs. were drowned in the Wisconsin
river at Bergen when they attempted
to cross the river. Two others in the
party of nine which tried to cross the
river, escaped drowning. The four
bodies were recovered after search
ing parties used graphing hooks and
poles. The men drowned were: Otto
Patzer, 20; Arthur, Clarence and Geo.
Kills, brothers, aged %, Is and Is
Charles Patzer, brother of Otto, and
William kits, brother of the three
drowned men, escaped drowning. Ed
ward and Herbert Patzer and Rudolph
kits were able to cross the stream.