Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-09-14
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children in barn at Lubin, Taylor
county, last week was sentenced to
twenty years by Judge Risjord in cir
cult court at Ashland. After an in
vestigation made by Dist. Atty. An
dresen, state fire marshal, Mrs. Kos
cielny was arrested for firing the barn
in which Eleanor Marszielek, 10,
daughter of Mrs. Koscielny, and Kath-
crime, IL, and John s, children of Mr.
Koscielny by former marriage, were
burned to death. The woman was
taken to Medford before the justice
court, where she confessed firing the
barn with the intention of burning
the children to get revenge on her
husband, who she said mistreated her
The three children were in the habit
of sleeping in the barn during the
summer months. The night of the
fire, Mrs. Koscielny got out of bed,
locked the barn door from the outside
and set fire to the barn and then re-
turned to her bed. When the fire was
discovered she ran down the road and
notified a neighbor, then rushed into
the barn and carried out pig. Dur
ing the investigation she showed no
emotion and was seemingly more con-
cerned oyer the loss of a pig, heifer
and hay than over the death of the
children. The family is Polish.
Months of search have failed to re-
veal the whereabouts of Herbert r.
Hedden, 80, Beloit machinist, whose
invention of an electric brake would
bring him a fortune if he could be
found, Investigators for the Southern
Railway Co. announced at Beloit
Hedden disappeared mysteriously
three years ago. He had been en-
ployed as a machinist at the Fair
banks-Morse Co. plant, and left to
go to Cincinnati. He has not been
heard from since. During the war
Hedden tried unsuccessfully to inter-
est several railroads in his invention
Since his disappearance railroads
have become interested in his device
and are eager to buy his patent. The
Southern Railway Co. instituted q
search for Hedden but could uncover
no traces of the mon. 1t is the theory
of some that Hedden became discour-
aged at failure to sell his patent, and
may have committed suicide Neither
his wife, who with three children
lives at Rockford, ILL.,, nor his mother,
Mrs. May Hedden, of Beloit, have
heard from the missing man for three
years. Hedden was a university
graduate and had attended a medical
college two years when he was forced
to quit school due to the death OF his
father.
Mrs. Sophie Hoyer, 43, was shot to
death, her husband, MOritz, probably
fatally wounded and their daughter,
Emily 10, had her right arm shot off
Wednesday when they resisted four
bandits who attempted to rob the
Hoyer farm home, Is miles north of
Milwaukee, According to Benjamin
Koopman, farm hand, the quartet
called at the house and asked permits
sion to use the telephone, saying their
automobile had broken down. Sud
denly one of the men turned, KoOp-
man said, and ordered Mrs. Hoyer to
throw up her hands. The woman, who
understands little English, asked
what they meant. She was shot with
out another word. Her daughter was
shot three times in the arm. Mr..
Hoyer, hearing the firing, was shot
as he came downstairs to their as
sistance Koopman, who escaped
gave an alarm, and posse OF ZOO
neighbors in fifty automobiles set out
to scour the countryside in search OF
the gunner.
Beware of the partly filled silo
which has stood closed for several
hours" says E. B. Hart, OF the ag11-
cultural chemistry department, Uni
versity of Wisconsin. RECOMMENDATIONS
take place very rapidly and IN few
hours carbon dioXide, deadly gas,
is given off," says Mr.. Hart. Thls
gas is heavier than air and so IN deep
silos and in silos that are closed, the
gas settles in the bottom and VIII XIII
anyone entering without proper pre-
cautions. The safest way to test the
presence of this gas is to lower
lighted lantern into the sllo. IL the
fame is snuffed out, the gas is pres
ont in dangerous quantities. The silo
doors must then be opened and the
pas driven off by circulation of all"
Alice Steffen, 17-year-old Lena girl,
was chased by a pack of timber wolves
when she went to the pasture for the
family bessie. She reached the house
safely and a posse was soon formed.
one Chas. Cook brought down three
of the pack but the others disappeared
in swamp. Cook will receive $12O
bounty.
The feed and fertilizer division OF
the state agricultural department has
sent out a warning about a certain
stock food that contains oat hulls as
its main constituent. The feed ap-
meals to many farmers because or It's
cheapness. However, it has no 1000
value.
when he slowed down his car at
a railroad crossing at Onalaska, hve
miles north of La Crosse, Paul Otter,
Holmen, was held up and robbed OF
SIS by two men who jumped on the
running board of his car and pressed
reviewers against his body
while being dressed by nurses one
week after the birth of child, Mrs.
Beda Sharpe, q, wife of DR.. H. K,
sharpe of Fond du Lac, suddenly
died. She was being made ready to
90 home from the hospital.
number of Madison housewives
were deceived by two smooth young
men VINO sold them sugar at
are looking for two men, 20 years
who wore brown suits.
Frank E. Murphy, wealthy Green
Raw man who is building a S3bU.VOO
&11n l.