Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-01-26
COUNTY AND
NEARBY ITEMS
General News Notes of
Interest to Herald
Readers.

after days of painful suffering. 1t is
related that two children of her fam
likewise died from burns.
Mrs. /. G. Curry, Darlington, so and
deaf, narrowly escaped death while
crossing the Milwaukee tracks near
her home She was struck by an ex-
press train and thrown from the track
escaping with only slight injuries to
her head.
Judge Landis's jury sitting in the
Iquor cases at La Crosse, rendered
verdicts of guilty in the first three
cases tried n two actions men were
killed for resisting federal officers.
Tony Vardo, i'll car transporting liq-
u0r from Hurley to Milwaukee in
which John Chiappucio was killed,
was found guilty. Nichola Nedemo-
witch, Baraboo farmer, was found
guilty of having moonshine in his pos
session His brother, Joe, was shot
by Prohibition Agent Lehr. Pierre
Carlos Of Iron county was found guilty
OF having five barrels of raisin mash
and barrel of moonshine i'll his
dOmicile.
Harry Ross. Dubuque, paid a fine
of $126O for being intoxicated. He
Oh-Be-Joyful for $40 from some UNI
known he met on the street. Harry
calls it an expensive drunk
Fred Bender, Muscoda rural carrier
for sixteen years and two months,
during which time he never missed
possible trip and thereby made a re
cord, has been placed on the pension
list.
The firm or Blaine & Kemp of Bos-
cObel has been dissolved as Mr. Blaine
feels that his duties as governor will
take about all of his time. Harry
Kemp will continue the law practice
Shafts & Son, East Dubuque retail
gr0cers, have filed petition as vol
untary bankrupts, They list their as
sets as $2.992.0S and their obligations
as $5,957.50.
Charles Lindner, the Pra. du Chen
policeman charged with the false ar
rest of Geo. E. Moore of Minneapolis
last August. was found not guilty by
a Minnesota jury last week. Captain
Harry Davenport of Minneapolis, CO.
defendant with Lindner, was also Civ
Ell clean bill Lindner held Moore
on receiving a wire from Davenport
saying that Moore was a crook. The
officers found the next day that they
had retained the wrong man and Mr.
Moore was released after spending a
night in jail.
The Hanover Wooden mill is a
thriving 10 Davies county industry
that the march of time and central
ICED production has failed to kill The
company organized shortly after the
txTi1 no 1Nxyou nai6 biU div
fdends TO its stockholders and lately
has been running on a day and night
schedule to meet the demand for its
cloth A new building was recently
erected having twice the capacity OF
the old mill. 1t is said to be the finest
wooden mill west of Chicago.
Vim. T. Smith, Pra du Chen barber
and real estate man, died Sunday night
of last week at the age of 40 years.
He had been working all day and was
down town in the evening. Shortly
after reaching home Mr.. Smith was
taken with chest spasms and he died
before the doctors could arrest the
attack. Mr. Smith was a native OF
Scott, Crawford county. Death was
due to angina pectors induced by an
attack of the flu two years ago.
Charles Campbell, a veteran driver
of Crawford county, died suddenly on
the road while moving a load of fur
niture from Mt. Sterling to Pra. du
Chen A. E. Spencer, owner of the
load, noticed Mr.. Campbell lean upon
him heavily and was Mortified to find
life extinct. Mr.. Campbell was a ma
tive of New York who had lived at
Mt Sterling for As years. He was a
civil war veteran.
William Reese, DodgevilIe, Andrew
PetersonI STANDARD, and George Har-
rison. Mineral Point, all old settlers
OF Iowa county, died last week
a new motor car bought in Platte
Vile by Ella Maiden of Dubuque, a
former Cassville farmer, was wrecked
when it broke loose from its station
on West Third street hill and plunged
down the hill striking a tree further
down. The driver, Cecil Hendricks
left the car standing to call on an ac-
quaintance and supposed that he haC
set it securely. The front wheels Were
turned crossways and when the cal
started it backed for short distance
and then went head-first down the hill
Gaining a tremendous speed the car
turned completely around when it hit
the tree. The hood and radiator were
crushed, both front wheels and the
right rear wheel knocked off and the
sides and top of the car smashed and
bent. Maiden bought the car but was
awaiting delivery the driver being on
the way to his house when the acct
dent happened.
Mrs. William Armstrong, Darling
ton, died last week aged 81. The old
lady was one of a band of emigrants
who came to Lafayette county from
ireland in the early forties She was
an infant then and lived to be the last.
Two residents of Steuben started for
Texas last week to get four neighbor
boys out of bad trouble. The bows
started recently on trip to Dixie in
a Ford. All went well until they
reached Texas when their funds ran
out and they adopted questionable me-
thods to gain sustenance An effort
will be made TO have the boys pa
rolled on good behavior and Governor
Blaine is one of the signers of the
nntitiOn for clemency from the Texas