Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-03-02
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN

Petitions have been circulated at
/ Eau Claire calling for police woman
on the force to protect the hayward
| youth of the community.
Mrs. Marie Drummer of Clintonville,
Of the law firm of Drummer & Drummer,
was recently appointed as court COM
missioner of Waupaca county.
Albert Johnson, Vernon county sol
! der who served over seas and was
! gassed in the ArgOnne, died at the
government hospital at Madison after
months of suffering.
The First National bank at Darling
| ton plans to build in the spring at a
| cost of 100000. The new structure
will be devoted to bank and office
| quarters.
! Herman Schultz, Sc, Fond du Lac
| farmer, was the victim of an explos-
| ion in his home when a carbide gas
plant blew up. Schultz was hurled
| through a window and his entire body
| burned.
Mrs. w. B. Borte. Superior set fire
| to her hair and clothing sustaining
probable fatal injuries. She was at
| tempting to look under a couch when
her hair was set afire by burning
match she was carrying.
Judge Higbee, sitting at La Crosse,
sentenced Emma Cooper to Waupun
! for theft from a man in a question
able hotel. The man proprietor drew
year for keeping disorderly house.
A record for mid-Winter travel be-
tween Chicago and Green Bay was es-
tablished by R. A. Tetzlaff. The dis
lance due to detours and bad roads to-
70 fnd q noH a a
trip in eleven hours.
Sleeping sickness claimed it's first
victim at Eau Claire when Mrs. H. w.
Richgels, 55, died after an illness of
seventeen days, the last twelve OF
which were spent in deep sleep.
Five other cases have been reported
at Eau Claire.
Paul Lever, %, confessed to Judge
Lands at La Crosse, that he had
helped to rob freight cars, duplicating
five young men of Superior The wit
ness said that with the railroad de-
tectives trap was laid and the men
arrested.
Mrs. Rudolph, Jessner, wife of a
Madison taXicab proprietor committed
suicide by drinking carbolic acid. The
woman was found unconscious in the
back yard of her home and rushed to
the hospital where she died. She had
been respondent.
An explosion in the engine and com
pressing rooms of the Wisconsin Gas
& Electric Co. at Racine, caused a
loss of 100000 The blast rocked the
entire city. Omar Wolfe, engineer at
the plant, was badly burned about the
head and body.
The Northwestern ticket Office at
New London was entered by a gang
OF thieves who took $4,000 in cash and
checks. The men forced a window in
the station. Before leaving town they
entered a Chinese laundry where they
made away with 5000.
Harry Glaze and Maria Van Duzen
of Reserve, have discovered a new
way to kill timber wolves. They saw
large wolf on Lake Court O'Reilles
and Immediately started a Ford in
pursuit. The slippery ice prevented
the wolf from making Roadway and
the Ford overlook and ran over him.
Mildred Elaine Erickson, aged 4.
Wausau, was shot and killed by her
elder brother, aged nine, The youth
picked up p rife to play rabbit,
and not knowing the gun was loaded,
pointed it at his sister and pulled the
trigger.
r. V. Fegley, Madison jeweler, was
held up in his store in broad daylight
by an unknown man who forced the
jeweler to hand over $1,000 in dia
monds and $50 in cash. The man es
capped with his booty although Feg
ley Immediately called the police.
William Thompson, cashier of the
J. l. Case company at Racine, died
from injuries received in an auto ac
cident. Thompson was riding with
friend when his car skidded and he
vas thrown through the windshield.
He sustained fractured skull and his
right eye was torn from the socket.
Mrs Albert Nohmer, 81, TT. Atkin-
son, died as the result of burns re-
ceived when a cook stove exploded
setting fire to her clothing. The ex-
pIoSiOn occurred when the woman
poured a cup of kerosene into the
stove to accelerate the fire. Most of
her clothing was burned from her
body.
Sig Arneberg, logging superinten-
dent of the Heinemann Lumber Co,
at Merrill was killed when three cars
loaded with logs got away from their
blocking and went wild on the tracks
finally striking the caboose of freight
train, telescoping it and wrecking
three fiat cars. Mr.. Arneberg was
standing in the door of the caboose
when the collision occurred.
Jefferson county authorities are on
the lookout for F. c.. Pritchard, well
TODD Johnson Creek farmer who dis
appeared from his home without Ieay-
ing trace. His wife was left alone
with three small children AS the
man was in good shape financially and
had committed no crime the police as
sumo that he is demented. He was
last seen on the high road driving his
Ford truck.
Eight fishermen who were reported
lost when the ice fields on Green Bay
started moving for the open waters
of Lake Michigan, succeeded in get
ting to shore near Juttner point about
four miles north of Marinette. The
ice disappeared in the bay carrying
the nets and other equipment of the
fishermen. Several shanties were car
ried away and the total loss is placed
at $4,000. The ice started moving out