Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-05-11
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current Inter
est by Telegraph
and Mail.

Lake. The old redskin was native
OF the state.
Mike Golinski and Peter Jacubines
we're arrested by dry agents when
they found still in pig pen on
farm near Superior. The men were
held under $500 bail.
Despondent over i'll health, James
Coney of Cascade, aged so, severed
his iugular vein with knife and bled
to death The body was found by the
mans aged mother.
Neenah and Menasha bakers have
reduced the price of bread to and Ia
cents loaf, drop of one cent. Sweet
goods were reduced in proportion. The
cut was the first in three years.
Lightning struck the barn Of Peter
Pierce, French Island farmer, and
burned the structure to the ground.
The loss was $4,000 One horse was
killed and a quantity of farm produce
destroyed
Robert Christman, Yost Park far
mer, had his leg broken while pulling
stumps. Christman was demOnStra-
ting a tractor on stump grubbing and
one foot was caught in chain be-
tween the tractor and stump.
The bodies Of John Sargent, 10, and
Robert Neddo, 81, OcOnto, who were
drowned in lake at Markton, which
thew attempted to cross in leaky
boat on April 10, were found floating
on the surface Saturday. The bodies
were taken home for burial.
Ed. Laget, a prisoner who recently
ESCAPED from an automobile while be-
ing driven from the convict camp at
Taycheedah to the county Jail at La
Crosse, has been captured at Junct-
ion City, and returned to Waupun He
was recognized in a railway lunch
room.
Lawrence Larson of Murdoch, Mimi
student at Stout Institute, MenOminee
was drowned in the lake when canoe
in which he was padding capsized in
a high wind His friend, Morris Pei
to, was unable to save him though he
made every effort The body was re-
covered after three hours search.
Richard Ladwig, SO, employe of the
Manitowoc Construction Co., was in
stantly killed when a hopper attached
to a cement mixing machine fell on
him. The hopper, weighing ton and
raised and lowered by the means OF
steel cables, fell just as the man pas
was broken.
Miss Frieda NEEDING, Merrill girl,
asks $500 in a breach of promise
action against Louis Latin, son of a
farmer. Miss Needing has ring, other
gifts and many love letters as evil
dence. She asserts that Latin prom
ised to marry her in April, 1919, and
at several later dates. Finally she
tired of his tickle conduct.
Young men of West Bend who
could not bear to see the wild ducks
swimming in the lakes near the town,
shot number of the feathered visit
ors The game warden heard of the
shooting and made two arrests. The
men pleaded guilty and paid fines of
500 and costs apiece. In addition to
the fine they paid S. for each duck
they had shot One man paid $65 ex
ira and the other $50.
A young farmer known as "the
speed king of the town of Hebron"
Jefferson county, was taken to court
where he pleaded guilty to charge
of reckless driving. The young mans
reckless and insolent conduct, endang-
ering the lives of people on streets and
crossings, that the police determined
to "get him" The young man was ar
rested and allowed to lay in Jail for
several weeks as no one would go his
bond After he had several weeks to
think it over the speed kings" mother
furnished his bail The aspirant for
speed honors was fined $50 and costs.
The action taken could be emulated in
MANY other sections of the state.
A band of gypsies drove into Fort
Alhnaun and made the usual rounds
of the stores. At one place a gypsy
woman got at the cash drawer before
the proprietor saw her When chal-
1enged the woman volunteered that
she was blessing" the money. She
then laid the bills down and ran out.
when the merchant counted up he
was $50 short. The officers intercept
ed the band as they were driving rap
idly away from town. The woman
made her getaway in a car but the
rest of the band were hauled back and
when threatened with arrest the chief
paid $50 and was advised to beat it.
Gypsies nowadays travel in cars and
this band had two Fords and Hudson
bearing Nebraska, Iowa and Illinois
number plates
Asserting that his character has
been DETAINED and stigma attached
to his good name because of remarks
made about him, Michael Baumann
Jr., 16, schoolboy in the town of Kos
suth, Manitowoc county, through his
father. has instituted action for $4,000
damages against former school
board of the town, and Mrs. Viola
Watt, his teacher. Young Baumann,
according to his complaint, was ac-
cused by the teacher of taking some
OF her personal belongings, including
a sweater and books, and burning
them in the schoolroom stove. The
boy denied the charges and then, the
complaint says, the teacher appealed
to the school board, who with the
sheriff. put the boy through a third
degree" but without shaking his story.
Ever since the alleged offense occur
red, the complaint states, the boy has
been reminded of the affair, resulting
in disquietude of mind and subjecting
him to the taunts of companions. The
case has attracted much local attent-
ion.