Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-11-09

| 1OUy ITOZduSkl, 90, d. Tue
| Twohy Smith store at Superior, was
| killed by unknown burglars. He was
| found dead near the door Of ware
house the morning after the murder.
! One shot had demolished Gozanski';
! fashlight and the other pierced his
chest. There were empty shells in his
| gun, indicating that he had shot 1t
| the murderers. A sledge hammer at
I the fireproof door of the. warehouse
| showed that the murderers intended
| TO force an entrance. They were sur
prised by the faithful Waterman, shot
aim down and fed.
! George w. Osborne, tried at Elk
horn for criminal assault upon the
! wife of his employer, Mrs Edith Fl.
Buell. at their farm near Darien on
Aug. 8, was found guilty by a jury
and sentenced to ten years in prison
/ by Judge jerks Of Dodgeville, who
heard the case After the attack
Buell. whipped Osborne who fed but
was later captured at Delavan Os-
born's wife was given divorce and
granted the custody of her four little
children.
Three country girls and three boys
{ taken by the Milwaukee police i'll
raid on an alleged love nest" were
arraigned in court on a statutory
charge. Mamie Mueller of Fl. Atkin-
son and Harriet and Luella Nelson
CT Whitewater, were placed on pro-
! baton for six months and warned D
return home. Albert Price of White
water and VIM. Sala and Anton Sey-
manSi Of Milwaukee, were each fined
$780,
VIM. Loyeless of Lincoln county
tried by jury at Merrill for a stat
utory offense upon Loretta Glenn, IA
was unconvicted but will have 10
stand trial again. The girl, Loretta
| Glenn, testified that LOveless, engaged
to another girl, came to the home
where she was staying and took lib
critics with her. The jury stood 10 to
2 in favor of acquittal. Loveless is 25.
E. L. Bellman, Evansville, has taken
court action against six insurance
companies for payment of his losses
In recent garage fire. The building
was set afire by Bellman's partner and
the companies have refused to settle
with Bellman although he was entire
ly innocent OF any completely in the
crime. The partner is in the peni-
tertiary on long sentence.
Ernest Kalfus and Ray Thompson,
Mikesville, went duck hunting or
Lake Winneconne and failed to return
when light fell A search for their
bodies went on all through the night
but the lake has a soft mud bottom
and is feared that the men have beea
sucked down in the mud and slime
! and Will never be found Both have
| families
A wOmans courage backed by deft
use of a six shooter, put an intruder
to rOut at Kenosha when Mrs Mary
Conforti drove Ralph Decicio out Of
the kitchen of her home. She fired
at him with a revolver The man,
who had persisted in making adj
vances to her, fed.
Percy Strong OF La Crosse main
tains he was working in his shop on
| Sept. % when a rifle bullet struck
/ him in the head near the temple. He
] brought suit for $4,000 against Ralph
Bradley, who it is alleged, fired the
shot while at target practice in his
/ back yard.
Much talk about high freight rates
and the revival Of river traffic, led
Geo. Billings, De Soto farmer, to load
a barge with block wood and take it
/ power. Billings received SIS for 5
cords of wood. He will continue the
practice until the river freezes.
John Dover of GAINESVILLE, North
western road conductor, has been re-
tired on pension after SO years ser
! vice. Dover in his time travelled a
total of 2,820,O00 miles, or enough to
take him around the world 113 times.
He never had a train accident.
George Weisloger, Whitewater, was
buried alive in a ditch 13 feet deep he
was digging for sewer line. Other
wOrkmen came when the ditch cayad
in but the man was dead when taken
out half an hour later. He leaves
wife and three children.
Besides slight paralysis of her
tongue, Mrs. John Policy, of La Crosse
shot ten days ago by her husband,
who at the same time committed sui
eide, has recovered despite the fact
that she has two bullets in her head,
her physician states.
VIM. c. Loughan, II, Sparta, went
hunting with shotgun and came
home with a hole through his abdo-
without telling how the accident oc-
Cured
Mrs Worth AltenGerg, 62, wife of
Portage county farmer, died sudden
ly in an automobile driven by her huS-
while 'the couple were on their way 20
Stevens Point to an entertainment
Death was due to heart disease.
John F. Diehls, cattle buyer of
Dundee, H., was killed, and FRANK
Schaurette, taxi driver injured, when
the car they were riding in collided
with street car at Fond du Lac.
The car was demolished
wild duck killed by a hunter at
Albany, was labeled No. so, by the
Manitoba Trading Co., which released
it in the summer. The labelling was
done to determine the length of fowl
migration.
The city dads of FIT. Atkinson have
notified the chairmen of the outlying
towns that the city will not send out
its fire equipment in the cases of fU-
ture fires outside the corporation.
The Burnett Heating System Inc,
will erect furnace making plant 20
employ 1000 men at Rice Lake. The
factory will be the means of doubling
the population of Rice Lake.
Counterfeit tickets at prices rang
ing from So to $25 were sold at Mad
ison prior to the Wisconsin-Minne-
sofa game. The authorities were un-