Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-03-30

away. One of the cross reins broke.
The wagon, team and driver were
hurled down steep bank Ersland
will recover.
Henry Schultz, Stevens Point, was
burned to death in lis own barn. The
building was struck by lightning and
Schultz ran in to rescue horse. The
roof fell pinning the man beneath the
burning timbers.
Mystic passes, strange lamentations
and magic belt failing to cure him
Of epilepsy. Stanley Puhalski, Ken
osha laborer, has sought the legal
remedy to recover $500 that he paid
a practitioner of the arts occult.
With his lower jaw shot away and
the upper jaw fractured Simon Am
brosia. 32 a miner and the father Of
seven children, was taken to hos
pital at Hurley. He was shot acct
dentally while cleaning rifle in his
home near Montreal
The Wisconsin hotel at Oshkosh
was raided by the police and the pro
prietor George w. DiecKhoff and
several men and women arrested.
Dieckhoff was charged with conduc-
ting a disorderly house and selling
liquor All were fined $50 and costs
each.
Dorothy Pishelk, s. was instantly
killed in he home near Rothschlld
when a lightning bolt struck her on
the head and passed through her
body. The bench upon which she
sat was destroyed. The parents
were in the same room when the
bolt struck the little girl but were
uninjured.
Miss Emily Sorenson, 16, Kenosha,
was killed when North Shore Inter
urban car struck an automobile at the
Birch road crossing. Three COM
panions leaped from the car which
was stalled on the tracks, and es
capped death. The accident was due
to the driver mixing the foot brake
with the accelerator and driving the
car on the tracks instead of hating
for the electric train to pass.
Mrs Pauline Raasch, Fond du Lac,
was granted a divorce in, an uncon-
tested action againct Chris Raasch.
The husband was found guilty Of in
human and cruel treatment and using
abusive and threatening language.
The couple had been married 25 years
Thefts of various articles and acts
of vandalism committed in the Chip
pewa Falls high school caused the
principal much anxiety. After con-
Quoting a thorough investigation the
offenses were traced to the door of
a pet crow owned by L. A. Hart,
man living near the school.
Six families comprising twenty
persons, were driven from their
homes in the basement of an apart
ment house at Amigo when Spring
brook overfiowed its banks. The
stream rose rapidly in the early morn
ing and a number of women and
children had to be carried out.
Household goods were destroyed and
600 gallons of gasoline owned by
laundry were lost
A bitter war is on at Eau Claire be-
tween the Uecke Dairy Co. and some
thirty small dealers. The company
reduced the price of milk from II to
cents a gallon-a drop Of four cents
Officials stated that the drop was
made for the benefit of the public
hut the other dealers claim that the
move is game to freeze them out of
business and that after this is accom-
plished the price will move up again.
Edward Heinrich, Merrill farmer,
is without a COW as the result of
countrywide area test for tuberculosis
Mr.. Heinrich lost II of the finest
looking animals to be found in the
county and refused to believe that
his herd had the tuberculosis until the
animals had been slaughtered before
his eyes at Wausau. He is now pre-
pairing to build UP high-grade Hol-
stein herd and is determined never
again to have tuberculosis on his
farm.
Marshall O'Bannon, colored, who
recently killed the Rev. J. G. Fox,
and wounded j. A. Josey, both col
Ored, at Madison, was adjudgcd in
sane by doctors of the Wisconsin
Psychiatric institute and has been
recommended for confinement in an
asylum. O'Bannon is returned SER
vice man suffering from shell shock
He was previously listed among the
men having mental disease and it
was found that he committed the al
legged murder while mentally I'M
balanced.
Betrayed by woman Peter Kohl
OF Milwaukee, who escaped from the
WdtefIoWn jail III I9O2, was arrested
and taken back to answer a felony
charge. Kohl with three other men
escaped by cutting hole in the wall
of the building. One man was re-
captured but the others disappeared
as though the earth had swallowed
Item up. Kohl went the Pacific
slope and remained there until
year ago when he came back and
opened up dye business in Milwau-
kee. His wife went insane at the
time of his first arrest and is now in
an asylum. Jealousy is supposed to
the motive of the Milwaukee woman
who informed the Watertown officers