Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-04-06
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
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suicide with a shotgun while despon-
dent.
For storing butter and eggs in cold
storage without Indicating the date
of entry into storage the Fairmont
Creamery Co. of Green Bay was fined
SITS and costs on seven counts The
state dairy and food commission
prosecuted the case
Charles Niebuhr, La Crosse saloon
keeper, sentenced by Judge lands to
six months in the house of correction
for selling liquor, has taken steps to
have his case appealed to the u. S.
circuit court of appeals after serving
two weeks of his term.
To relieve unemployment La Crosse
officials have been calling on the
residents to furnish odd jobs for the
out-of- works in the city until such
time as industry shall resume. The
housewives are assured that the men
sent will not be buns but good Cit
liens who can be trusted and who will
know how to work.
Richard Matson, SO, proprietor of
a -four mill at Whitehall, was drowned
while cleaning debris from the dam
bask of his mill. The body was
found half a mile down the river
after 500 men had searched six hours
A widow and ten children survive.
Nick Kowaliszyn, Portage county
farmer, was fined 500 and costs for
violation of the Wulberger act.
Frank Knutn, owner of fine stock
farm near Green Bay, was badly in
jured by one of his thoroughbred
bulls Knuth was leading the animal
10 ho h1rII h1,Clzn 1nncn
and attacked him. He was tossed in
Farm hands, hearing Knuth's cries,
routed the bull with clubs.
Ensilage as the cause of tubercu-
losis among cattle was the unique
charge made by farmer before the
agricultural committe of the assem-
bly, in appearing on a bill licensing
veterinarians, DR., o.. Fl. Eliason,
state veterinarian, ridiculed the idea.
He said that ensilage and tuberculin
were discovered almost simultaneous
ly but that ensilage was a cause Of
the disease was ridiculous.
A food of immigration has set in
toward Kenosha 1t is estimated that
in the last sixty days between Is
and 100 immigrants have arrived
II OlLI llOI tLlCl IL lGetIy oACAAC' l. VI NAAC
most part the people who have so
far arrived had relatives living i'll
or near Kenosha, who had planned
to come here before the war stopped
migration in 1914 Many Of the men
served in the Italian army through
out the war some having attained a
high rank.
The artistic merit of the painting,
tfI ~ inn - FaiJnI m q
GAINESVILLE jury trying the case of
l.. e. Bartlett, Beloit artist, against
b. G. Wilson, Edgerton extract man
ufacturer The jury held that the
contract price of $500 already paid
was enough to cover all the work
done by Mr.. Bartlett in the Wilson
mansion at Edgerton. The jury also
rejected the counter claim of the de-
tense, alleging that the poor art of
Bartlett had caused $4,000 damage in
the Wilson home.
Pleading guilty to the charge of
robbing the Neva State bank the
Deerbrook garage and the theft of
articles valued at $109 from various
stores Earl Pillsbury was sentenced
TO twenty years and Wiskman Pills
bury to fifteen years imprisonment
NY GuuSC "a d. OOOuI lCh DIT AuJlSO.
John Kubeny pleaded guilty to the
last two charges and received a SEN
tence of only five years. Edward
Pillsbury, father of the boys, and Luz
ellie Kubeny, wife of their accom-
plice. are held on charges of having
stolen goods in their possession.
The last chapter on the romance of
Pierre Paul Author and Mrs. Char
kee last Thursday when the pair plead
ed guilty to statutory charge before
Judge Backus and were given three
years in Waupun. The penalty was
the maximum the law allowed Up
or his release Author will be deported
from the country. Author was non
chalant under the questioning of the
district attorney. Mrs. Franzen adj
mitted having walked the Milwaukee
streets and that she was inmate of a
disorderly house before she met with
Franzen.
There are 500 applications on hand
in the state department of agriculture
signed by breeders of the state, ask
ing to have their herds placed under
state-federal supervision. DR.. J. S,
Healy, in charge of the work, reports
that Ou AldECl luGI6 were OUU dC-
credited herds containing 1886 cat
tie. This was gain of 76 herds for
February. During the month 239
herds were tested. Wisconsin has
915 herds containing 22,959 cattle
which have passed the first real
clean test toward accreditation.
There are 1885 herds containing
4S,719 cattle under supervision.
The big new power dam of the Wis
consin Valley Electric Co. at Wausau
has been put in operation. The one
million dollar concrete dam and cleo
trio power plant has been built in
twelve months without a serious ac-
cident to an employee. The big dam
spans the Wisconsin river at the foot
of Big Bull falls, one of the most
noted landmarks on the upper river.
With the filing of the pond above the
dam the falls were forever oblitera
ted. The power plant is 104 feet high
or equal to a ten-story building. The
new plant is built to supply $500
kil0watts of energy. 1t will supply
Merrill, Brokaw. Rothschild, Wiscon-