Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-02-16

A Scotch collie rescued 80 head of
cattle from a burning barn at Eau
Claire. He drove them one by one
from the stalls.
Slipping on an icy incline. Earl
Burchell, II, La Crosse, was killed
when he plunged 70 feet over bluff.
He was on walking trip with several
companions.
Wisconsin has 1000 named lakes
and many not designated. There are
more than $4,000 miles of inland
lakes, $50 miles of Wisconsin shore
line on the great lakes and $4,000
miles Of river banks
James F. Stewart, a GAINESVILLE CT
gar maker, was arrested for boot
Logging when the police heard that
he had attempted to sell two men a
pint OF whiskey apiece The police
raided the Stewart home and found
the liquor
By burning hole through the lath
and plaster ceiling of his cell, Walker
Anderson, colored escaped from the
county Jail at Racine and fled to Ken
osha where he was recaptured. He
used wad of paper to burn hole
through the ceiling.
Roland Hanson, Edgerton, met his
death when run down by an auto
mobile driven by Scott Hatch, a
youth of Is. Hanson was walking to
his home when run over Hatch was
attempting to pass another machine
and struck Hanson. The latter's
neck was broken and he died in
stantly.
Joseph Anderson, II, under sentence
for 80 days for vagrancy, and Perry
Hull, under sentence for stealing a
bicycle, dug their way out of the Rock
county jail, stole a car belonging to
w B. Davis and drove to Juneau
where they were nabbed and placed
i'll Jail When picked up they were
driving a Ft. Atkinson car having
abandoned their first car.
Gov. Blaine granted a second par
don out of 16 applications at his first
hearing Nicholas Quartuccio, Dane
county, convicted May is, 1912, of
murder and sentenced to Is years in
prison, has been given his freedom.
Joseph Jenkins, Racine county, SEN
fenced in June of last year, was con-
ditionally released. Other applications
were denied or continued.
Judge Henry Graas, Green Bay, dis
solved an injunction restraining the
local health officials from enforcing
the state vaccination laws. The in
junction was issued by the same judge
on Jan 80 to one Daniel Gaffey who
sought the action in behalf of his
daughter, Lenora, and other persons
affected by the health commissioners
order. The order said that school
children would be barred from at
tendance for twenty-One days unless
vaccinated
Mangus Larson and two other
growers residing near Cashton, mar
keted their tobacco crop at 40 cents
a pound netting the three $4,000. The
other farmers in Vernon county
were aroused when they heard OF this
as they were paid but 20 cents pound
for tobacco of exactly the same quail
ity Tobacco growers are now making
a concerted effort to obtain more
uniform price for their crop
Interest in the finding of the body
of a dead baby frozen to the ground
near Kenosha, was revived last week
when Jack Hart, we'll dressed and APP
parently wealthy, was arrested in con-
nection with the case. Hart refuses
to talk The coroner's verdict was
that the infant was probably dead be-
fore being left in the field. The dis
trict attorney states that the arrest of
q certain woman will probably clear
the case up.
With her eyes gouged out and the
flesh on her neck, face and scalp
gnawed away, apparently by a starv-
ing cat, the badly decomposed body
of Mrs. Elizabeth Brasson, 70, was
found by neighbors in the womans
ramshackle home IN $40 E. Water St,
Milwaukee. When the police opened
the door a huge Angora cat darted
through the opening. From the con-
dition of the mutilated body it was
evident that the cat had lived on the
flesh of it's mistress following her
death three weeks before
The Wisconsin law prohibiting the
marriage of first cousins was applied
at Manitowoc following the arrest of
Walter Lawaecki, %, and a girl aged
Is. The two were arraigned in the
municipal court charged with a statu-
tory offense According to their story
Lewaecki persuaded the girl to ac-
company him to Menominee, Mich,
where they were married The law
of Michigan permits first cousins to
marry Returning to Manitowoc they
lived with the girls mother. The man