Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-11-09
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items Of Current Inter
est by Telegraph
and Mail.

GOV. Blame against Su6flH HANS hOu
by a Rhinelander citizen, asking the
sheriff's removal for failure to follow
the governors pardon order in the
Peter J. Christ case. The gOvernot
has ordered an immediate hearing.
Christ was released Wednesday aJ
the expiration of his four months
sentence for contempt of court. The
case now becomes a conflict of au-
thority between the executive power
Of the state and the judiciary Christ
was sent to Jail when he violated an
order against picketing at the Rhine
lander paper mill issued by Judge A.
H Reid OF Wausau. A couple of weeks
ago Gov Blaine committed the mans
sentence by executive order. When
the sheriff went to release him He
was advised by the Judge not to do 50.
The poor sheriff is now between the
deep sea OF the judge and the devil OF
the governor and the case may settle
who is really the supreme authority
the executive or the judiciary.
Mrs Sim Dorm. Mrs. Charles Meyer,
Mrs Frank Arnold and Mrs A. Arndt,
all of Barron, met their death at
grade crossing at Rice Lake. They
were the guests Of Mrs. Sim Taylor OF
Dbl Oi anu Wei Z OIl a oIOpplilS "a
petition to Rice Lake On their way
home their car stalled at the Omaha
road crossing and was hit in the mid
die by a passenger train The party
were hurled forty feet Mrs Taylor,
who was driving, will recover. The
dead women were all above sixty IN
age Four were caught and carried
on the pilot Mrs Arndt was hurled
nm fvaiO oDH bpp hood cnUDpnH
from her body
Eugene Birmingham, prominent bus
mess man of KenOsha, was sent to the
county Jail in contempt of court until
he sees fit to testify in the case of the
state VS. Julius BlOXdOrf the first d
the 65 KenOshaus indicted by a spec
ial grand jury to be tried. 1t is al
legged that BloXdorf sold liquor 70
Birmingham and the latter refuse
to answer any questions. Judge Bel
den set forth that any arrest arising
from the case would subject Birm-
ingham to slight fine at the most.
The business man refused to talk and
went to jail.
Mathew BOrnOn, IS, son of an Oc
onto farmer, escaped from choking 10
death while on a trip to town. While
waiting for his father the boy ate
picnic lunch and a piece of bread
lodged in his throat. Cut short OF
breath, he toppled over. Efforts to
revive were futile and a doctor was
sent for. After ten minutes work,
the piece of crust was eXtricated from
behind the epiglottis and the youth,
who had been given up as dead, re-
vived
A bald eagle having wing spread
of six feet and six inches was killed
near Rabbit Hollow, out of Dubuque,
by Ralph TrOwbridge of that city
The bird weighed Gb pounds. After
it had been shot with II guage gun
it took five % calibre bullets to kill
it, TroWbridge shot the bird when
it came sailing out of the woods and
at first wanted to capture it alive but
the birds gameness prevented this.
Jasper Meservey, SO, Eau Claire. is
in a hospital with severe wounds due
his being accidentally shot by Ed
Shubert. his hunting companion. The
men were out after rabbits and both
shot OF the same time when a rabbit
jumped out of a pile of brush. Mes
ervey took the full effect of the others
gun. His body was filed with shot
and he may lose one eye.
Mystery surrounds the loss Of eight
cases of whiskey, belonging to Hoes
Ter Bros La Crosse druggists When
judge Lands was holding federal
court there in February, he ordered
the LIQUOR seized Orders to return
the whiskey was not received until
a few days ago. Eight cases We're
missing from the original amount put
in limbo No one knows where they
went.
This tale is about a COW. not a bull.
When Max ScbOb of Fond du Las
went to milk his cow he found her in
toxicated. The COW had eaten two
buckets of mash lying about the field.
And she didn't even have prescrip-
ton" said Max, as he watched ta2
animal stagger.
Harold Finngean, TO- Green Bay, a
son of VIM. Finnegan, state fire mar
shall. was adjudged insane by com
mittee of examiners last Monday. He
was taken up on burglary charge.
He will be sent to the northern hos
pital for the criminal insane.
Judge Samuel Hastings of Green
Bay. a man of so years, was struck by
an automobile driven by a deputy
sheriff and sustained fractured
knee and severe bruises. he WAS
taken to a hospital.
Gov. Blaine has appointed Wilbur
f. Hurlburt of Omroe as circuit judge
for Winnebago and Calumet counties,
to take the place of Judge Geo. w.
Burnell, lately deceased.
Eight saloon keepers, pool room OPP
orators and candy store men at La
Crosse were fined $50 each for keeo-
ing punch boards in their places OF
business.
Mrs. John Janisch, so, an inmate Of
the Rock county poor house for 4
years, leaped from the second story
of the building and died few hours
later.
Henry Kreisch, Marshfield, tried the
second time for making moonshlne
was fined $1,000 and costs and given
60 days in the county Jail.
About 1000 trees are being planted
at cost of more than $1,000 in mem
ory Of Racine county soldiers who
served during the war.
To avoid being run down by an on
coming automobile, H. ]. Baker, Fond
du lac, jumped on the radiator of the
car and escaped injury.