Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-10-19

HOreD was instantly killed WH0H lie
was struck by bolt of lightning.
A toss of a coin, which drew for
Joseph Nasca, musician at a Geneva
summer dance pavilion the front seat
in an automobile, cost him his life
when giant truck crashed into the
car in which he and four companions
were riding. Nasca was crushed to
death.
Regina Kern and Peter Eta were
shot at Kaukauna when Joseph Kern
and Frank Eta. playmates, discharg
ed a shotgun, which had been left on
the porch. The scattering charge
struck Peter i'll the leg The Kern
child received some of the shot in
the legs and arms.
Alpha Hanson, II, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. H. o. Hanson of Dallas,
died of conclusion of the brain which
resulted when the girl and a younger
sister cOllided while at play. The
heads of both children came together
and it was at first thought that Meth
er was injured.
Lloyd Tuyls, farmer, living near
De Pere, 10 years old, pleaded guilty
to supplying money to two De Pere
girls which they used to run away
from home and reach Minneapolis,
where they were arrested They have
been sentenced to the industrial
school for girls in Milwaukee.
Levil Crandall, 10, died at the
Whitewater hospital from fractured
skull received when his automobile
struch a horse north Of the city. All
four legs Of the horse were broken
and the body was thrown up on the
radiator. His brother, Albert, %,
who was driving the car, was unin
iured.
Strange actions of cattle in a pas
ture led to the discovery Of the body
of John Halama, Amigo farmer, who
disappeared after firing three shots
at his wife Sept. %. The body was
found behind a windfall in a sitting
posture with both arms thrown out
ward and a rusty revolver in one
hand He leaves a widow and six
children
Gov Blaine Thursday granted an
absolute pardon to Roy Allen, Sank
county, serving a fve-year sentence
in the Green Bay reformatOry for lar
ceny. The governor said that his
penalty was too severe. Allen, while
employed by the Ringing Bros. cir
Gus, had taken SIG. The governor
said that his offense was not such
as to warrant a fiveyear sentence.
George Pray, young farmer liv
ing near Ogdensburg, net a sudden
and unexpected death Mr.. Pray had
been helping in the filling of a silo
and caught one of his fingers in a
corn cutter He went to a doctors
office in the village. Upon the appli-
cation of iodine, Mr.. Pray remarked,
cit smarts," and fell dead. Heart
disease was given as the cause of his
death
While his father stood helpless on
! the bank, Harry Beck, %, a meat
i dealer in Wilmot. drowned in the mill
stream dam near that village. With
companion John Hasselman, he
was leading a boat across the dam
when it dragged him into the middle
of the stream Hassclman almost
almost reached him, but his boat tip
ped, and he was almost drowned.
Beck was a former soldier.
Wolves travelling in packs, bears
and other wild animals in the south
ern belt of Douglas county are kill
ing off large numbers of sheep, and
threaten to exterminate live stock, ac-
cording to w. S. Allard, who lives on
/ the rural route north of MinOng.
| This region was made a game pre-
serve a year ago, and it is illegal to
carry a gun in the belt affected. The
leader of a pack of wolves is called
BLACK Back" by Allard
Mrs. Nicholas Synereck, 20, wife Of
farmer, living near New London,
lost her life in peculiar manner.
The woman went to barn to carry
her husband a lunch and on her re-
turn to the house, door with a heavy
glass panel blew shut. The glass
broke and a piece struck Mrs. Syne-
reck in the neck, seyering the jugular
vein. She died shortly afterwards
from loss of blood She is survived
by her husband and an infant son.
Following the disclosure that a IT.
year-old boy had been missing for
tWenty-fOur hours after becoming in
tOXicated from moonshine purchased
at st. Nazianz, Peter Fleming, pro-
prietor of a saloon and dance hall,
was fined $500 and sentenced to serve
two months in the county Jail. He
pleaded guilty. According to testi-
mony, the boy had become 5tupefied
and his condition was critical Two
physicians were called, who believed
the boys mird had become unbalanc-
ed
Isaac Weaver, former Madison
druggist, was found dead, shot
through the heart, on a road four
miles from Madison 1t is believed
that he lost his life as a result of an
accident hunting. Four boys return
ing from a fishing trip discovered the
body of Mr.. Weaver near a fence.
His car was about $50 feet from
where the body lay. Apparently he
had been returning to the automobile
and in trying to lift his automatic
gun over the fence, had accidentally
caused it to discharge, the shot
piercing his heart.
After the prosecutions attempt to
keep him in Jail on charge of as
sault with intent to kill Mrs. Max
SchIosser, Pennington, Aug. 8, Her
man Freitag was released on $4,000
bail F'reitag will be tried with two