Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-06-01
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items Of Current Inter-
est by Telegraph
and Mail.

sing since May II, was found in the
river at Sheboygan.
Cold weather and frosts the early
part of the month did much damage to
northern Wisconsin crops.
Anton j. Balza, Green Bay, walked
in front of a Northwestern train and
was thrown to platform with his
skull fractured.
A bolt of lightning struck the barn
OF William Rethke, Sun Prairie far
mer, doing $4,000 damage. The barn
and contents were total loss but the
stock was saved
Robert Dawson, %, Sun Prairie,
farmer, was instantly killed by being
struck by bolt of lightning while on
the way to his barn to do chores. He
is survived by his wife.
The Superior council proposes a
cut of 500 yearly for all city en-
ployes. Firemen and policeman ere
organizing to fight the cut but it ex-
pected to pass nevertheless.
The steamer, Capt. Thomas Wilson,
loaded with 1900 tons of coal, was
wrecked off the east end of Gull is
land, near Ashland. The crew was
saved by lighthouse keeper.
Leslie Mats, clerk in the Kaplan
grocery store, Madison, took hospital
treatment following being bitten by a
taTantula while cutting off bananas.
His condition was not regarded as
serious.
George Burch, Green Bay, died of
heat prostration and his wife followed
him in death "a hours later from heart
failure induced by shock over her hus-
bands passing A double funeral
was held.
A 5-year lease was granted to w.
S. Munger of BelOit, by j. j. McNair
the Sugar river near the city. An
amusement park to cost $4,000 will
be erected on the tract.
Charged with the murder of her
newborn child by suffocation, Myr-
tie Larson, Strum milliner, will be
placed on trial before Judge Higbee
at Whitehall on June 20. The body
of the child was found in the rear Of
store at Strum.
On complaint of many fruit grow
ers in Sank county, claiming that
wild deer are menace to their crops,
W. E. Barber, chairman of the state
conservation cOmisSiOn, was sent to
BarabOO to investigate the matter.
A storm that swept Wausau did
thousands of dollars in damage. In
the height of the storm Edmund Brush
aged s. was crushed beneath a street
car as he was crossing the street. He
had become blinded by the storm.
The city of Madison was presented
with the collection of 512 animals in
the Villas park zoo by the collector,
DR.. G. G. Dwight. DR.. Dwight said he
expected the city would make some
provision to enlarge the zoo he had
built up in the last eight years.
Victor Morrisey, 10, Madison, was
struck dead by bolt of lightning
while standing under a tree waiting
for a bus to take him home. Morrisey
had been swimming in Lake Mendoza.
The tree was struck and Morrisey fell
dead just as the bus approached.
William Allen, engineering student
was killed in a Madison garage as he
attempted to drive car onto an ele-
vator platform. He lost control of the
machine and the car plunged down the
shaft, turning over. Allen was crushed
beneath it. He was taken to a hos
pital where he died.
A north bound passenger train out
of Madison plowed through the herd
of VIM. Schillinglaw, Mendoza farmer,
and killed eleven animals. The man
had the cattle shipped to his farm and
they were unloaded at the Mendoza
station to be driven along the road
toward the farm. The road crosses
the tracks and the cattle were eros
sing just as the train came along.
Henry Towne, warden at Waupun,
has resigned a position paying $4,000
to become member of the state
board of control at salary of $4,000
A better chance for public service is
TONNES motive for making this un-
usual change. He is an expert in
handling criminals having spent 40
years in the work While known as
strict disciplinarian he also has a
reputation for justice and kindness
when dealing with convicts.
Although his legs were run over by
a steam roller at Green Bay, S. H.
Ashton, an inspector for the Wiscon-
sin Insurance Inspection Co., es-
capped death and unless complications
set in will live. Ashton was crossing
q street which was undergoing pave
ment operations. A steam roller was
smoothing over the newly laid asphalt.
The big roller was backing and the
driver did not see Ashton nor did Ash
ton notice the roller. When the three
ton machine stopped both of Ashton's
legs were impressed in the soft as
phalt. No bones were broken but the
ligaments and muscles were badly
wrenched.
Tony Menenro. aged 8, Be1oit, while
watching the unloading of a carnival
train, fell under moving train and
had one leg crushed below the knee.
The school board in the town of
Randall, near Kenosha, has filed a
complaint against John Reynolds,
farmer, alleging that Reynolds is the
owner of a ferocious bull. The bull