Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-09-14

keSha school teacher, serving a nine
teen-year sentence for the murder of
Mrs. David Roberts in 1917, would be
freed from prison to appear before
Governor Blaine in person to ask for
pardon Sept IA. James Brodie exc
cutive clerk, declared that the gov
ernor was the only person who could
authorize such move, and that ne
had expressed no such intention, Miss
Lusk is said to be in delicate health
as a result OF prison confinement. She
was released from prison last May
to visit her dying father at Mosinee
Madison will have a new $750,00O
hotel overlooking Lake Mendoza and
adequate for the needs of the state
capital, it was announced following
a meeting of business men with Chi
cago promoters. The project is being
financed locally with three-fourths OF
the capital to be raised by stock sub
scription. Plans call for the open
ing of the hotel by June 1, 1922. The
site proposed is on the lake shore
off Langdon st. between Wisconsin
ave. and Carroll st.
Lightning for the fifth time within
two weeks caused fire that destroyed
farm property in Manitowoc county.
The barns on the Michael Gallagher
farm in the town of Maple Grove,
were burned to the ground. The
seasons crops and farm machinery,
together with the buildings, valued
at $5,5O0 were burned. Horses and
other stock were saved. The farm
is off the main road which handicap
ped neighbors in getting there to
fight the flames. Never in the history
of the county have there been so
many fires and heavy losses. Nearly
$50, 900 has been lost by the owners
of the barns, crops, machinery and
cattle destroyed by fires caused by
lightning.
John Frank, a farmer living in
Marengo county, near Ashland, re-
Gently shot large wildcat on the
shore of Mineral lake. The cat stood
two feet high. Frank presented the
hide to County Sheriff Quirtstorff and
collected a bounty of Sc, the first
paid in a long time. Wildcats are
uncommon in this part of the coun-
try. They are very destructive OF
small game, such as partridge and
grouse.
The attorney general has handed
down an opinion which will be a re-
lief to tax payers in Richland Center
and many other municipalities of the
state through which state trunk high
ways pass. 1t is to the effect that it is
up to the state and county to keep up
all bridges on state trunk highways,
whether inside of an incorporated
city or not Richland Democrat.
Art Dodge was arrested in a little
North Dakota town, and brought back
to Bayfield, to answer for the murder
of Mrs Eva Spaulding, who was killed
in a lonely log hut in 1910. The
search went on for Dodge for years.
The authorities heard he had died in
Canada A few weeks ago they re-
ceived a tip as to his whereabouts.
The arrest followed.
Col. All Alder, who lives i'll cot
tage on Lake Koshkonong, reports
seeing three pair of wild pigeons, of
the species for which he trapped
many years ago when they were so
plentiful as to be q pest to the farm
ers A Waushara county man claims
to know of two extensive nesting
places Of these birds, according to
Col. Alder
Eugene P. Schiller, &c, was sent
enced to three years at Waupun prls-
on when he pleaded guilty to a
charge of grand larceny in Green Bay
municipal court. Schiller was charg
ed with taking merchandise valued
at $4,000 from the Morley Murphy Co.,
by whom he was employed. He was
apprehended in Indianapolis last
week.
Appraisers at Stevens Point award
ed the sum of $4,000 or $40 an aSre
damage to Bernard Galccki Plover
farmer, for flooding of 200 acres
through the raising of the CONSOLIDATE
ed Pulp & Paper Co. Gam at Biron,
Wood county. Other farmers receiv-
ed about $40 an acre
Seven firemen Of Edgerton, enroute
to fight a barn fire in the country,
were injured when the touring car of
DR.. Fred G. Meyer crashed into them.
Grover Olson suffered fractured
skull and died. Albert Lyons, John
Hanson and Henry Beissman were
severely hurt.
William and Kenneth Park, Lowell
Bidwell, Merle Ellsworth and Walter
Bruce, young men members OF prom
inent Stevens Point families, were ar
rested in connection with series of
box car robberies and held under
heavy bail. Three of the young nen
confessed.
When deputy sheriffis called at the
farm of Pho Ricci, Barron, to execute
a warrant for the arrest of James
Ricci, father of Pho, an automobile
stolen several days ago was found
hidden under pile of hay. Both
men were arrested.
Collapsing after he had drunk sew
eral glasses of cold water while over
heated, Arthur J. Nelson, 25, a brick
layer, was taken to the Kenosha hos
pital late Wednesday and died four
hours later. He was veteran of the
World war.
Chris. haste, Mondovi farmer, COM
mitted suicide because of grief over
leaving the farm ne was born on and
had lived on all his life. He sold out
preparing to go west and then began
to brood. An aged mother survives.
Jos. Schaacherl, Kenosha, electri-
clan at the Nash plant, was badly
burned by $4,000 volts of electricity
when a wire he was uncoiling fell
across a high-power circuit. He will
live.