Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-05-04
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current Inter
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and Mail.

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GAINESVILLE police had five revolvers
in their possession
Four Milwaukee men charged with
footing Schmidt's garage and Olsen's
hardware store at ElkhOrn, were held
tor trial in bonds of $4,000 each.
The Tomahawk Steel & Iron Works
burned to ground with loss of $75,-
600 when the city water system failed
at a crucial moment. 100000 insur-
ance was carried. The company will
rebuild.
Patrick Collins, Joseph May and
Clarence Shay, three merry Irishmen,
pleaded not guilty at Green Bay to the
theft of wines and liquors from the
bone of Antoine Hoberg, paper mill
magnate. The evidence" disappear
ed after the arrest.
For selling home brew beer over
his bar, Frank Kratzer, La Crosse,
was sentenced by Judge Lands to six
months in the house of correction at
Milwaukee. The sentence was the
stiffest imposed III the western dis
trict of Wisconsin since prohibition
went into effect.
PatroIman George La Page, Super
i0r. who shot and killed Anders Erick-
son, when the latter entered the La
Page home at night by mistake, was
freed in justice court after hearing
on manslaughter charge. La Page
will not rejOin the police force.
A night fire at Boomer did damage
of thousands of dollars. The bus
mess section seemed doomed until an
engine came from Eau Claire to raise
the water pressure. The hotel and
ether buildings including an imple-
rrent shed containing $4,000 worth OF
machinery, were destroyed.
Eau Claire has appointed woman
police officer, effective May 1. The
woman officer will work under the
direction of the chief of police safe
guarding girls of the city. Parks,
public dances, movies and places
where young people gather will be
under her special supervision.
Riparian land owners along the Fox
and Wolf rivers, through their organ
izations have appealed to the war de-
Yartment for relief from high water
which, they say, is flooding their es-
tates. They claim streams are swOl
len and the water in the lakes and
rivers has reached the danger point
1t is reported that the Kenosha
gambling syndicate was "nicked' for
the tidy sum of $4,000 by the old wire
tapping game. Men purported to be
from Waukegan got bet on a race
Daylight saving figured in getting the
returns an hour before the local
dupes got wind Of it. The strangers
got away with the cash.
The Holy Rosary church in Little
Italy" KenOsha, was sealed up on or
ders Of the archbishop of the diocese,
The action followed a demonstration
against the priest due to alleged mis-
management of the church affairs.
The property was placed in the hands
of the sheriff pending referendum by
the people as to the future of the par
ish
Insisting that his wife made a mis-
take when she called him an ''ignor-
ant Dutchman," Herman F. Duester-
book was divorced at GAINESVILLE from
his wife, Carolyn. The couple were
married at Delaven in 1910 Duester-
beck declared his wife liked the com
pany of other men better than his and
that she was constantly scolding and
nagging.
Julius Sucky. prominent farmer
of Phillips, shot and killed Frank
w dAnbO, d luIlIbGl JdChs WIZ AcI
stopped at the Sucky home on his
way to a camp. The story is that the
men INDUCED in mOonshine and that
Wambo attempted an attack on the
woman members of the Sucky family.
Sucky gave himself up. The man who
sold the mOonshine was arrested and
fined $500,
The Hook & Sinker club at Green
Bay was entertained at banquet at
the Beaumont hotel the piece de re-
sistance being a Alb steclhead sal
mon trout, caught at Clay Bank creek
north of Algoma. The fish was Al
inches long and gave the fishermen
battle for three-quarters of an hour.
This variety OF trout is now rare in
Wisconsin.
Six horses persisted and barn con
tanning 60 tons of hay and large
amount of vegetables was destroyed
when lightning struck the farm OF
Reinart Kellar. one mile west, of the
village of Brooktield. Both Kellal
and his brother, Robert, are in the
hospital as the result of injuries suf-
feTed while trying to save the prop
erty and animals.
Jesse LAWYER and Phil Jones, Beloit
college students, who set out in May
1920. are now half way around the
world they set out to encompass, by
working their passage. They are now
in India and their next stop will be
Java. On reaching Bombay they up
set an established precedent of the
whites, by carrying their baggage to
the hotel on foot, much to the disgust
OF the whites and the amazement of
the natives. The boys felt they could
not afford carriage
An attempt to lift chain from high
tension wires of the Wisconsin, Mime
sofa Light & Power Co., caused the
death Of John Casey, 40, a farmer OF
New Richmond. Casey's children had
thrown the chain in play The far
mer climbed on step ladder and tried
TO diSlodge the chain with a wet chunlS