Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-10-19
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items Of Current Inter
est by Telegraph
and Mail.

ABLY lose the use OF MS IISHL arm dS
a result Of a hunting accident sun
day.
Upon authorization Of the Lacrosse
common council, Mayor A. A. Bentley
appointed a special committee OF six
aldermen to study the local unem-
ployment situation and recommend
a remedy.
Central Wisconsin farmers, a large
majority Of whom are potato growers,
welcomed the first killing frost of the
season which came last week. They
were anxious to have the plant
growth stopped on late varieties in
order to begin digging and complete
the harvest by Oct. 20.
Potato shipments from Amigo for
this season total 222 cars to date,
within GA cars of the total for the
entire 1920-1921 season. Large guam
titles of potatoes still remain in the
farmers hands. Shipments for Sep
TENDER tOtaIled 189 cars compared
with So in the same month of 1920,
Failing to find a mysterious
stranger who followed him out of a
saloon and requested him to keep a
S271 roll OF bills for him while he
went to a dance. William Gillette
turned the money over to the La
Crosse police The police have been
likewise unsuccessful in their quest
for the visitor.
Alleged to have forced boy near
Centerville, at the point of a gun, to
take a drink OF moonshine whiskey,
two men giving their names as w. j.
Lee and Leo Slingham and their resi-
dcnce as Minneapolis, were arrested
at Galesville They were held under
$500 bonds on the charge of having
mOOnshine in their possession.
Ergart Frederick Pick, 20, died at
his home at Fond du Lac as result
of internal injuries received in an air.
plane accident at Payne field Miss,
where he was in army service. The
plane in which he was riding struck
an air pocket and fell 200 feet. His
injuries at that time were considered
slight, but later necessitated an oper
alton which failed to save his life.
Adolph Carignan, Superior hotel
proprietor, was found not guilty of
violating the federal Mann act, by
jury, which returned a sealed verdict
Monday in United States district
court. He was indicted by a grand
jury at La Crosse, Dec. 8, 1919, on
four counts, charging him with trans
porting two Superior girls from
Iron River, Wis, to Duluth. The
jury reached a verdict after ten
hours deliberation.
Hugh Lambie, a Wrightstown far
mer, is in a hospital in a critical con-
ditiOn caused by a peculiar accident
Lambie was blowing with tractor
and stopped to adjust the scrapers.
Motor vibration threw the machine
back into gear and the heavy tractor
backed over him, crushing his left leg
and body. Occupants of a passing
truckk witnessed the accident. They
removed him from under the tractor
and rushed him to the hospital.
Playing with shotgun may cost
the life of 6-year-old Charles Chat
land, CObban. The gun, a 16gauge,
was leaning against a wall. The lit
tie boys fingers were not strong
enough to pull the hammer, but he
set his foot on the trigger. His foot
slipped and the hammer fell, dis
charging the gun. The powder and
shot entered the left side of his chin,
tearing away the f1eshy part He
was taken to the Chippewa Falls hos
pntal.
Injuries which he received falling
from a scaffOld two weeks ago were
partly responsible for a prison sent
ence of four years being imposed on
Joseph Adams, a farmer Ashland
man, in municipal court at Manito-
woe. While employed at Two Rivers,
Adams was injured. Two companions
who stole an automobile at Ashland
were traced to Two Rivers, where
they were found with Adams in his
room. Their arrest implicated their
injured friend.
Fire caused by sparks from
machine caused damage
to $4,000 on the farm of
S. ]. Hart. near Green Bay. The en-
tire crop of hay was lost as we'll as
valuable farm implements. Neigh
boring farmers formed bucket brig
ade I'm an attempt to halt the confia
grafton, which was famed by high
wind. Heroic efforts on the part Of
the Hart family saved some valuable
cattle, the COWS being led out Of
flaming building.
Charges that G. c. Schmitt, sales
of the KenUsha office of the
Gas and Electric company,
came to her in one of the salesrooms
and threw his arms around her and
kissed her were made by Mrs. Edna
a former employee, III the
preliminary hearing of Schmitt on
charge of technical assault in Ken
osha municipal court. 1T takes an
old married man to show you young
girls how to love-" the witness de-
clared Schmitt told her.
An errand of Kindness was turned
into tragedy when Dorothy Reinke,
3, daughter of Mr.. aid Mrs, Arthur
Reinke, Oshkosh, was run down and
fatally injured by an automobile driv-
en- by E. H. Huesener, general man
ager of the Universal Motor Co. Mr..
and Mrs. Huesener were on their
way with a basket of fruit to the bed
side of a sick child The Reinke
child had gone to a store to buy an
ice cream cone with pennies her ia
Their had given her. She waited for
two automobiles to pass and then ran
TO cross the street in front Of her