Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-04-13
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current Inter.
est by Telegraph
and Mail.

The body OF Frank Pasha, 80, who
was last seen alive when he started
to skate down the Wisconsin river to
visit relatives at Mosinee, December
10. was found in a log jam at knoWl-
ton by lumbermen. The body was
identified by the clothes and by one
skate he wore. PaSha was an in
mate of the county home at Wausau.
Peter Neesen, of Arson, 8, was nurs-
ing a lame foot One of his brothers
picked up a little thing in the garden
and brought it to Peter, who sat be-
side the kitchen stove. Peter played
with the curiosity and firing OF 1t,
tossed it into the fir. 1t was dyna-
mite cap which blew the stove to bits
and nit Peter in the eye and on one
OF his arms.
Forbidden by his wife to enter her
he'd chamber, August Eller of Mani
tOwOc. for two years has been obliged
to sleep with the COWS i'll the barn
or on a kitchen chair, according to
his story related in court when his
wife, Minnie, applied for divorce.
Mrs Fller did not deny the story but
in reply told the court her husband
had not bathed in two years. The
HUSBAND
bathe in the winter. but said that in
summer he occasionally washed IN a
nearby stream Besides charges OF
uncleanIiness brought against Eller,
his wife said he waters" the milk
used in the household and IS generally
stingy. The divorce was granted.
Eli Long, alias George Hamilton, OF
Racine, is asking the state for $4,000
as a claim for false imprisonment
Long was sentenced in May 1918 for
the murder of Edward Warner, follow
ing much litigation. An appeal was
taken to the supreme court and the
case came back for retrial. The state
after two years delay, was unable to
obtain proper evidence and dismissed
the case. Now Long brings action for
damages incurred through the prose-
CutiOn.
The Brown County bred Hol-
stein association has won its point
with the Brown County Fair assocla-
ton. The Holstein men offered to buy
$4,000 of stock in the fair association
if it would erect a sales pavilion. The
fair association directors met few
days ago and accepted the proposition
and work will be begun Immediately
on the new building. 1t will be ready
for the Brown county purebred Hol-
stein sale, which will be held May 8.
Leonard Gonyea, Is, and James Sar~
gent, 16, Chippewa Falls boys, stepped
on a wooden wheel 8 feet across and
2 feet thick they found floating in
the river. The wheel swung to mid
stream and carried the boys rapidly
down the river. They were rescued
after a ride of three miles just as they
approached dangerous rapids.
Raleigh A. Ives, convicted slayer or
Herbert P Loehr is again free man
Ives was released from the state pris-
on and paroled to his father, A b.
Ives. Oshkosh He is planning to
work for his father until the parole
expires. Ives had served year and
four months of a two year term. His
parole will expire in August,
Odinah CaillOuette, Tomahawk, paid
$500 and costs in county court after
pleading guilty to the sale of intoxl-
eating liquor. CaillOuette was brought
before Judge H. G.. Bell recently on
similar offense and fined $500. Judge
M. c. Porter warned the defendant
that the next time he appeared in
either court he would be turned over
to the United States court.
Mrs Thomas d. Wheeler, Menasha
pioneer, was probably fatally burned
when an alright stove she was light
ing a fire in set fire to her clothing.
She rolled a rug around herself but
the flames charred her body to the
waist She was taken to a hospital.
Sheriff Reynolds of Oconto and dep
utiss. raided the farm of Joseph and
Michael MarkOs finding a 'moonshine
factory" The raid cleared up the
cause of much traffic in booze among
the farmers Of the neighborhood.
Alex Struchinska, Menasha, was ar
rested on complaint of mother who
charged undue liberties with her
daughter, IL years.