Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-12-28

the economy ak swung Dopp, instead
OF beWailing his fate, went to trap
ping muskrats in the harbor. To daIe
ne has received $500 for the fur.
Hendrick Christensen, Rock coun-
ty was pardoned by Gov. Blaine after
serving AZ years o. a life sentence.
He was sentenced Nov 10, 1879, after
pleading guilty. He is now 72 and
almost blind Christensen murdered
Edw G. Fogarty, one legged peddler
at whose mouse, Chistiansen, a me-
chanic, was stopping Oct. 1C, 1879
Fogarty lived near the village Of Mil!
| ton. He confessed that he killed
F,ogarty with an ak in the latters
| kitchen, dragged the body to clover
stacks and burned it. He burned the
| wooden leg in the kitchen stove. Mrs
F'ogarty aided him III washing up the
blood, but at her Trial at Elkhorn, she
was freed Relatives will look after
! the aged convict.
/ The 100000 Hotel Northern at
! Chippewa Falls, won by Peter Lay
man and others last summer III a
drawing or rattle held by the Elks,
remains in escrow. Stockholders OF
F! the hotel lately brought slut to have
| the hotel returned to them on the
ground that the directors acted with
out authority in taking part in the al
! legged rattle. The case will be heard
! this week when Judge Wickham will
summon Atty. Gen. Morgan, who
halted the rattle, and all interested
parties into court. Should the stock
/ holders win their contention they
will take possession Of the hotel and
! ignore the action of the Elks and di-
rectors in giving away the property
| by means OF rattle.
! There are E,ore foxes in WalwOrth
county than there have been for
years. Many scalps have been pre-
| scented to the county clerk and far
mers report many depredations by
| the animals.
Mrs. Tillie Nelson was arrested at
Kenosha, charged with kidnapping
her son, aged s, while the child was
on his way home from school. Mrs.
Nelson was divorced from Julius W.
| Lentz and the boy was awarded to his
father. The mother married again
and lately felt unable to be happy
without the child. She now lives in
| Chicago.
The state board of health is CO.
operating with the city authorities
at Green Bay in an effort to check .
diphtheria epidemic prevalent among
school children.
Steve Banczak, Sloyak farmer liv-
! ing near Amigo, had his Skill frac-
tured in a quarrel with Carl Sklener,
| youth of 16. The boy said he hit
/ Banczak with a SHOVEL to prevent
l.. l. n 70 oh oil
! Sklener. Mike SkIener was first ar
rested when boots he wore were
| found to fit in tracks in the snow
where the fight took place. Then the
| story came out BancZak, the boy
said. had come up behind them when
| they were driving home from hauling
! cordwOod to a siding. When opposite
the Sklener sleigh Banczak seized
the old man and hit him in the face
and knocked him off the sleigh in
such a way that his foot caught and
dragged Banczak then picked UP
sleigh stake and hit Sklener across
! the wrist. Then Carl dropped the
/ lines and worked on" Banczak with
shovel. The latter may die.
Never again" said three winsome
maids in chorus at Eau Claire when
! they were arrested by police The
girls, Olga BlOomquist, 20; Edith, her
sister, 25; Hilda Anderson, 20, and a
! youth, Werner Newman, %, left their
/ home in Ironwcod, Mich, for trip
/ to St Paul, hobo fashion They had
! donned Overalls and rode the rods OF
freight and the ''blind baggage" on
a passenger train. After riding many
miles the party found themselves in
l. fboIy n
Camp Douglas and then Eau Claire,
beating their way. At the last place
the girls decided that home looked
pretty good and wired their parents
for funds.
Otto Mueller, iron worker, fell SO
feet from the top Of the steel columns
erected at the Security bank, She
boygan, and though painfully bruised,
was able to walk Mueller slipped as
he went to change his position ana
grasped rope but was unable to i'm
pedo his fall.
G. Schaar editor Of the Neko0sa
Tribune and former postmaster, was
fined $2,197 in u. S. dist. court at
Madison for enlightenment of the
governments funds. He paid the fine
Anton Jeire, 20, Green Bay, is mis-
sing tn $1,000 he took along when
he told a hotel clerk he was tired Of
his surroundings and would look for
a new location Relatives are making
d search for the old man.
The theft of 81 cases of bonded
whiskey from the Du Frame ware
house at Fond du Lac, has been
cleared up The liquor was stolen IN
January, 1921 Two physicians OF
Princeton and two saloon keeprs
have been arrested but their names
were withheld by the police.
number of others are involved. The
whiskey was stolen and hid under a
bridge and later distributed through
various saloons.
Walter Sieger, Racine, was SEN
fenced to 30 days in Jail and to pay a
fine of 500 as the result OF an &C
cident which took place while Sleger
was driving a car intoxicated. The
machine collided with another car,
hurting it against a building. Others
in Sieger's party were less severely
fined. Sieger will appeal to the cir
cult court
John X. Zujewski, Peshtigo farmer
no