Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-11-02
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items Of Current Inter
est by Telegraph
and Mail.

Truman Dustin, VirOqua lineman
fell fifteen feet from a pole and sus-
tainde a broken arm and cut head and
bruises. He was coming down and
lost his balance.
Abe Katenago and Edward Asken-
aview, Menominee Indians, were taken
to OcOntO, charged with a statutory
CffenSe against q minor on the resef-
vation They pleaded guilty and re-
ceived five years in Waupun. Both
are married.
Paul Howe, % charged with rob
bling the Milwaukee road ticket office
at Wausau, was sentenced to serve
eight years in prison. Howe held up
three men in the depot and forced
them to kneel almost an hour while
he looted the safe Of SIS.
Wisconsin potatoes are bringing
higher prices than those of surround
ing states, the state department of
sales announces after receiving the
sales reports from the Chicago mar
kets. An effort is being made to
raise the quality of the product by
grading and culling inferior stock be-
fore it is shipped.
Mrs Frank j. Fisher, wife Of an
OcontO county farmer, was attacked
stairs in her home The rodent put
it's teeth in the back of the wOman's
heel Hearing her cries for help, Mr.
Fischer dashed to the rescue and dis
patched the rat with blow from a
club 1t was II inches long.
Blackmail threats made against DR..
A. s. Pfeiffer, Racine, were cleared up
with the confession of Edward OntkO,
81, who admitted that he wrote a let
ter to the doctor threatening to blow
up his home unless he deposited the
tidy sum of $4,000 in the Pfeiffer
garage. The youth was employed at
odd jobs around the doctors home.
Clarence Dahl, Rutland farmer, who
eloped with 1S-year-old Hazel Olson,
pretty 18-year-oid, while his wife was
in the hospital recovering from child
birth, is in the Dane county Jail The
couple We're arrested where they were
living as Mr.. and Mrs. Claire Hanson.
Dahl pleaded guilty to a statutory Of
fcnGe and was given year sentence.
An outbreak Of hog cholera in So
Wisconsin points has been reported by
the state department Of agriculture.
Grant, Iowa and Lafayette counties
are included in the report Vaccina-
ton and confinement of infected ami
mails to distant parts of the farm are
recommended as we'll as doping and
spraying. An early diagnosis is the
only hope of preventing a heavy loss.
John Policy, La Crosse, after shoot
ing his wife twice in the head, COM
mitted suicide the edge of bridge.
His body was found floating on the
edge of a slough by the police. A
bullet wound was in the head. The
pair had quarreled over the division
of money from the sale of a farm i'll
Saskatchewan. The wife may live
The timely arrival of his wife saved
Darwin Hauck, 40, Stevens Point,
death by hanging. Attracted by his
struggles, the woman entered a bed
room and found her spouse hanging
by bookstrap from the bedpost. She
cut him down and called the police
Hauck pleaded guilty to drunk and
disorderly but had no memory Of the
great adventure he had undertaken
so sanguinely. He was released on
good behavior.
Frank Stacker aud George Bleiler
Monroe, were held up and robbed
after a futile fight of miles against
a high-powered car driven by motor
bandits. The men were relieved of
car had been stopped when the pur-
suers crossed the road ahead of them
three miles out of Brodhead. After
the robbery the bandits drove south.
The bandits wore no disguise and
were Enthusiastically Italians. The
Italian quarter at Beloit is under
watch for suspects
Marcus A. Fee, former head of the
defunct Valecia Condensed Milk Co,
whose sentence Of three years in FIT.
Leavenworth was affirmed recently
by the U. S. supreme court. has sur
rendered himself to the Z. s. mar
shall and awaits transportation. With
two associates Fee was found guilty
of using the mails to defraud. His
fight for freedom covered three years.
One of the other men escaped Justice
by being killed in an automobile ac-
cident and the other skipped out and
has not been located.