Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-04-06

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nouncing cut Of 20 per cent on trac-
| tors and 10 per cent on plows.
| The George Sweet residence in Mer-
rill was struck by lightning during a
storm on March 21st The siding split
| in three directions and two blazes
| started
The Baraboo schools closed when
two cases of scarlet fever were dis
/ covered The authorities believe that
the prompt measure will prevent an
epidemic.
| The Wisconsin assembly killed the
bill to allow the taking rough fish from
Lake Koshkonong when reports of a
slush fund to put the measure through
reached the house committee.
Miss Sophie Skaff, 10, Lacrosse
Normal student, was killed when
struck by an automobile driven by
Raymond Ziegelmeier. The youth and
a companion were held by the police
but later released.
Walter Wyocki, 50, Milwaukee, was
given eight years in prison by Judge
Backus Wyocki entered a saloon
and knocked the bartender uncons-
cious with a billy He then rified the
cash drawer.
Judge George E. Page, Milwaukee,
in the case of the state VS. Edward
| Kennedy, a saloon man who treated
friends out of pint bottle, ruled that
| "hipping" liquor is not violation OF
the Wisconsin Mulberger act.
Rioting at the Northern Paper Mills
at Green Bay resulted in the beating
| by strikers of a score or more strike
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serves. The men walked out March
Ii when their wages were cut 20 per
| An Investigation of vandalism is be-
! ing made at Oconomowoc where the
Lincoln school was entered during the
summer. A large flag was torn from
! the wall and trampled on the floor.
Desks were broken into and other
moron acts were committed.
! The latest report on the milk war
at Eau Claire is drop to five cents
per quart on milk, the lowest price
in years. The thirty independents
went the Uecke Dairy Co., one better
cutting under the company's drop of
IL to cents with a drop to cents.
| A few too many "shots" of powerful
moonshine was the cause of Martin
| Ryder, GAINESVILLE, landing in hospital
and his companion on motor trip,
Thos. e. Hughes, being held under $500
bail The men went to BelOit and got
thanked up" Coming home their car
hit q tree.
The Goddard Rubber Co. is building
factory at Ft. Atkinson to manufac-
ture hot water and nursing bottles.
There are now 875 men working at
the Fairbanks Morse plant in James
Vile, where normally $500 are en-
ployed. THE plant was completely
shut down in February.
Raleigh Ives, convicted slayer OF
Herbert P. Loehr at Fond du Lac, will
be released from Waupun this week on
parole. His sentence expires in Aug
ust. Ives has been a model prisoner.
He shot Loehr March 25, 1919, in a
cigar store, asserting that the other
had broken up his home.
| Otis Breyenger, AZ, a Monticello
merchant, was killed when his auto
| turned turtle on the road between
| Monroe and Monticello. The dead
body was found with the car above it.
| The Baraboo wooden mills have re-
sumed operations with fifty per cent
! force, after a six months shutdown.
John Murphy, Deerbrook, was CIV
en- s years in prison on three charges
at Amigo For stealing tools from
Langlade county he received five
years, for the theft of merchandise
| from the Fish Lumber c., he got two
! years, and for stealing grain doors
from the Northwestern road he got
| one year.
! Laurel BosWorth and George Ben
nett, Rock county worthless, are held
in Jail for attempting to pass a twenty
peso Mexican bill of the defunct Ma
dero regime. The men tried picture
show and a store being unsuccessful
each time. Then a detective who had
been following them made the arrest.
100 pints of wine of pepsin and cyco,
two illegal drinks, with numerous
bottles of genuine whiskey "tonics, ;"
'laxatives," and other camouf1aged
booze, were dumped in the sewer at
GAINESVILLE under orders of prohibition
commissioner, f. r. Bloodgood. The
stuff was taken from the hotel London
last fall.
Thomas G. Buck, Wisconsin Rapids,
shot his wife four times and then took
his own life. A letter he left stated
an intention to Stay his wife and her
uiOIuGI UGIOIG hllIIuS nInS6ll. lie
mother-in-laW ran when Buck entered
the house hiding in a clothes closet
until help came. Mrs Buck, with four
bullets in her body, may recover. The
pair had been separated and Buck
claimed his wife had been unfaithful,
naming Minneapolis man.
The guardian of Layerne Kressin,
four years, GAINESVILLE. was successful
i'll an action against the Rockford &
Interurban r. r. Co. The Kressin
child was injured while playing with
other children around some standing
cars. One of them turned the power
on and the Kressin child was damned
between the cars sustaining injuries
The plaintiff alleged company negli
gence in not keeping the children off
the cars. Damages of $1,400 were
awarded the plaintiff.
Judge Hoppman. Madison, gave one
VIM. Ballentine of Medina, 80 days in
jail and fine of $50 and costs for
spearing pickerel on the marshes. The
court said that the sentence was extra
heavy because at this season the pick
erel are coming into the marshes to
on nd 40 lSi1lnH