Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-03-09


Earl Lamberton, Baraboo farmer,
found sixteen sheep mangled so bad
ly that killing was necessary. Rave
nous dogs are blamed.
Six moonshiners were nabbed at
Rhinelander when man supposedly
dead from the effects of drinking
came to life and confessed.
Albert Anderson, Stoughton, was de-
capitated by train the head and body
being found on the tracks. The body
was otherwise without mark.
GAINESVILLE police found the body of
two and one half year old Lois Wright
in Rock River. The child had strayed
away and presumably drowned.
Arnold Berdan, 10, Wausau, was
drowned in the Wisconsin river when
log he was standing on rolled AID
precipitated him into the river.
% to so head of Guernsey heifers
| imported from the Isle OF Guernsey
have been received at Plainfield for
foundation stock in Wood county.
| Mr.. and Mrs. George PEPPER and in
| FAINT son were struck and killed by a
Burlington train at COchrane. A b
year-old child was seriously injured.
500 gallons of hootch seized by the
federal agents was poured into the
La Crosse sewers by order OF Judge
Landis. Some of the stuff tested 100
proof
William Holloway, Green Bay, took
Is days in Jail in preference to telling
the court where he got his liquor. He
said he would rather serve time and
| keep the we'll intact"
Burglars broke into the Grand OPP
| era House at Eau Claire and rif1ed the
safe of $4,000 being the receipts of
| the theatre and three motion picture
houses for Saturday and Sunday.
Seventeen GAINESVILLE switchmen are
| to receive back pay of $500 as the
result Of an industrial award to men
working after midnight or before $50
a. m One man will receive $1,000.
The store Of Holtz & Son, Mishicott,
was entered at night by burglars who
loaded truck with merchandise and
escaped The thieves made entrance
without force and evidently used a
skeleton key.
Fond du Lac lost $2,260 in school
money because the census taker reg
istered but STA children of school
age when there should have been
1894 The state allows a given sum
for each child.
George d. Lereau, confessed slayer
of Mathew w. Daley, prominent Du-
buque politician, intends to defend
his own case. He has accordingly
filled his cell with books and is in
dustriously studying legal lore. The
two women hurt when Daley was
slain, are recovering.
John Marte1le, "a, La Crosse, died
at hospital from burns caused by
using gasoline instead OF kerosene to
start a fire with. Following an eX-
plosion he jumped into nearby
river to extinguish his burning clo-
thing. He is survived by wife and
| six children.
$50 employees of the state board OF
control public property department
| and state tax commission await a
legislative appropriation before they
can receive their salaries. A deficit
exists in the budget that must be met
before "the ghost can walk"
Lawrence O'Donnell, Manitowoc,
escaped from the county jail but was
at liberty for less than a day when
recaptured. O'Donnell was traced to
lime shed by a deputy who followed
his tracks in the fresh fallen snow.
| There the man was found covered by
lime he had used as a camout1age.
Roy Chapman Andrews, BelOit ex-
plorer, is home for ten days with his
wife and small son. He expects to
sail soon for China and from there will
start for central Asia to be gone five
years in regions unknown to whites.
Mrs. Andrews will accompany the eX-
petition as photographer being the
only woman in the party.
Thomas Williams, 81, Marinette, was
struck by passenger train and killed
Edward Pooler, brought back from
Australia to answer a charge of as
sault and robbery upon Edward Can
islaus last March, was given 9 years
in Waupun by Judge Graas at She
boygan Pooler struck the other man
with a sock filled with lead and got
away with $500 fleeing the country.
He was tracked to Australasia and
held there until Wisconsin official
could bring him home.
A yield of 1873 bushels of golden
| glow corn to the acre won the two
acre contest conducted by the Wiscon-
! sin Experiment association. Second
and third were won with yields of 12S
to 125 bushels to the acre. The three
winning corn growers of Wisconsin
! in order of rank are Jacobsen Bros,
Brown county; Fred Hubbard, Dane
| county; and j. Wielinga, La Crosse
county. The expansion of the corn
growing territory which this contest
shows began with the dissemination
of golden glow and silver king pure
bred seed corn.
The escape of two Grandon woods
men from a pack of wolves was told
when Mat Willis and Paul Poerger
were brought in for treatment, neces-
STATED by exposure forced upon them
when they had to remain in tree
over night. They were hiking from
one lumber camp to another when
trailed by the wolves. The men took
refuge in tree until the snarling and
swapping wolves gave up the task of
catching their human prey Both men
were dressed warmly but lack of ex-
ercise and the necessity of hanging on
the limbs of the tree caused them to
become numb and exhausted.
Reliable statistics show that Wis