Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-05-25
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current Inter
est by Telegraph
and Mail.


Numerous moonshiners and vendors
of liquor pleaded guilty in federal
court at Superior last week and paid
fines to escape Jail sentences. The
fines ranged from $500 to $500.
Planting of fish fry in the waters
of the state is completed except for
bass according to Brayton o. Web
ster, conservation commissioner. Mil
lions of trout fingerlings were added
10 the streams Of the state.
August Pawells, 46, Kenosha, en-
ploye Of the j. [. Case Pillow Co., was
instantly killed by a Northwestern
3rain while walking on the tracks.
Pawels heard the whistle and at
tempted to run but fell and was run
over.
With their father at the workhouse
for 3O-day sojourn and their mother
an invited guest at the county jail
for the same period, the children of
the C. ]. Hattum family, Green Bay,
have been placed under the care of
of the Associated Charities none Of
the three youngsters is over H. The
charity workers will find a job for
the father when he is released.
Schuman j. Case, %, employed by
a Madison produce company, lost
finger when a ring he was wearing
caught on o nail just as he jumped
from a boxcar in which he had been
working Most of the flesh was pulled
from the finger. The ring remained
on the nail. Case was taken to a
hospital and the finger removed
Thomas O'Brien, prominent farmer
of Bristol, near Kenosha, died as the
result of blood poisoning developing
from a small cut on the index finger
of his left hand, received two weeks
ago when he ran butcher knife
through his fingers to clean it. On
The day after the accident, he built a
fence, using some old gloves in the
work, and infection set in.
The coal steamer r. c. Brown caught
fire from an explosion that took place
at Little Rapids near Green Bay. The
crew chopped a hole in the deck and
sunk the vessel in eight feet of water.
William Smith and Manuel Peterson
of the crew, were severely burned.
Otto Smith and Samuel Decker, far
mers, came to the rescue of the crew
with rOWbOats and conveyed them to
shore.
The stringenCy of federal laws in
regarded to endorsement on money
orders was illustrated at Superior
when James B. Mishilish, Proctor,
Mimi, was taken before Judge Luse
of the U. S court, on a charge of hav-
ing forged his employers name to a
money order. 1t developed that the
man had sent the money to his en-
ployer and because of this and his
having served in the army, he was
set at liberty.
The home of the Rev. Peter Per-
ardi, pastor of the Holy Rosary church
at Kenosha who was driven from the
passionate several weeks ago by angry
parishioners, was entered Tuesday
night and the rooms ransacked in a
search for private papers. Father
Perardi reported to the police that
nothing of value had been taken.
The Holy Rosary church has been
closed by Archbishop Messmer pend
ing his investigation of the dispute
between the pastor and members of
the congregation.
James Brown, Amigo, who pleaded
guilty to an offense against his IA
year-old sister, was sentenced by
Judge A B. Goodrich to thirty years
in states prison. Five years ago the
man was convicted of manslaughter
for killing his father. He was SEN
fenced to four years in Green Bay re-
formatOry, but served only one year
being paroled by the state board of
control. 1t took three men to over
power him recently when he threat
ened to attack members of the fam
lily with butcher knife.
Instead of spending one and one
half years in Green Bay, Andrew
Montag of Oshkosh, found guilty of
burglary, will spend three years at
that institution. Montag's sentence
was doubled by Judge Goss in NUM-
cipal court when in being conducted
from the court room, he suddenly
sprang upon Dist. Atty. d. K. Allen
and assaulted him. A near panic re-
suited. Sheriff Golz pulled Montag
away and took him back to the county
Jail The district attorney was not in
jured beyond bruise on the head and
bloody nose. Montag had just been
sentenced to a year and a half. The
judge made it three when excitement
of the battle cleared away.
According to James Neyins, former
conservation commissioner, the Brule
river, rising in Douglas county and
running fifty miles into Lake Super
Tor. is d fisherman's paradise. For
the past twenty-five years the Brule
has been stocked every year with
rainbow trout Henry Denny of Brule
claims to have caught more trout than
any other man in America and he has
caught them eli out of the Brule. He
says that on several occasions this
spring he could have walked across
She stream on the backs of the fish
and not wet his feet. He says that
millions of rainbow trout, none less
than five pounds and up to 20 pounds
came up the river this spring to
spawn. The river was full of fish for
80 miles and hundreds of people came
for miles to witness the sight The