Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-11-09
NEIGHBORHOOD
BREvITIES AND
NEARBY NOTES
Important News Events
of Week From Tri-
State Area.

William Mathews, SO, Rockbridge,
Richland county farmer, shot ard
killed his wife, Francis, aged 80. Tie
couple were married in 1917, Ms.
Mathews being the divorced wife of
another man. They were estranged
in 1919 and she sued for divorce.
They later made up and lived together
but not happily. Recently Mrs
Mathews left her husband and went
to work as housekeeper for John
Kennedy, Buck Creek farmer Mat
ews made threats not long ago that
he was going to end his life and
bought an automatic revolver lie
went to the Kennedy home while the
farmer and his son were in the field
When Kennedy came home he found
the house locked Breaking in he
found the couple lifeless on the floor,
their blood in great pools around the
dead bodies. A key in the womar'-
hand showed that she had made u
vain effort to escape. They leave one
little girl
Dr.. r. d. Shireman, Richland Cen
ter, lost his Dodge roadster when the
car caught fire from defect in the
wiring near Cazenovia. The doct }"
worked fast and using mud and loose
dirt, apparently put the fire out. He
caught ride to town and next day
sent a man after the car. In the
meantime the blaze started again and
the car was a wreck when the tow
arrived, everything burnable being
being consumed
Floyd Ableman, Monitor youth, les
a wireless telephone apparatus with
fOur-wire flat-top antennae, the type
used by amateurs and commercial
stations. Through the Westinghouse
Electric Co., sending station at Pitts
burg, organ music, preaching, grand
opera singing and other treats have
been listened in" on by various
Montfort people who have availed
themselves on the young mans wir,--
less.
Roman A. Eckstein, q, was sen
fenced to serve Is years at the state
prison in municipal court here Mon
day when he pleaded guilty to charges
of embezzling and obtaining money
under false pretenses. Twenty nine
victims" were in court during the
trial. The state contends Eckstein
had obtained $3.50, Milwaukee
Journal
Robert Tweed, FerryV1lle farmcc.
went to Chicago last summer to sell
goods for a stock concern, He was
home on visit in August and short
ly after his return TO Chicago was
found dead in his car. A corener's
jury returned verdict of foul play
Tweed had been beaten and 20bhea
and left to bleed to death The per-
petratorS of the crime are unknown,
The big trade day held in Dodaa
willie last week Saturday, all the r12,r-
chants contributing enormous asa~-
gains, proved TO be an immense bust
ness getter. Despite the rain the
clerks were kept busy all day. Coed
advertising, naming and describing
good and giving a price made the, sale
what it was. The public responded
generously.
A child named KinziK@s, R5chlarG
dragged about thirty feF1 by a ccT
Mathews. The child scrambled 10
his feet after fEe accident and be
You'd a few bruises, was unhurt 'Tsl2
young men drove on bitt were lafe2r
identified
man, SO years old, was killed. in she
Milwaukee road yards at Pra. du
Chen while making a car coupling.
The man was caught between 4w0
cars and crushed. % years ago his.
father, aged 81, met his death at Eos
cOiSel in the sznne manner. He leaves
a wife.
E. ]. .Seaver- Beloit's pied piper has
signed a contract with McHenTy
county, ILL.,, residents to rid the cOun-
ty of rats for $500. .Seaver has gone
to Woodstock to start determinations
1t is the largest order
the Heloit man has taken since ne t',-
gan business several years ago.
Shortstop D. Fleming of SpartG
died Friday week ago as the result
of being hit on the head by pitched
ball from the hands of Jimmie Dodge
at the Sparta-ReedSburg game at the
HillshOE0 tournament faree weeks
ago. Mr.. Dodge is we'll Known in This
region.
The old bell on the Congregational
church at Pra. da Chen that toI1eG
at the death of Abraham Lincoln, has
been sold to the Evangelical church
in that city and VIII be hung in the
belfry of that church. The old bel
has a remarkably sweet tone.
George Oswald, resident of Pra dn
CHEN for So years, was found dead
in his home in that city Monday
morning of last week. Mr. Oswald,
a pioneer business man and veteran
Of the Civil war, was IS years old. He
leaves two daughters.
J. B. Houston. formerly of Mont
,ort and recently secretary of the
American Society of Equity, was
busted from office at recent meeting
IF the directors who gave economy
as a reason for letting Houston out.
Mary Catherine. two year old
laughter Of Harold Lahmeyer, Bells
gue, got hold of can of brass polish
md drank the liquid. She was made
very sick but responded to medical
treatment
Anton Rosner, Johnson. was fatally
wounded when his shotgun dis
charged as he sat on stump to rest
While hunting 1t is believed the trig-
ger caught on twig, discharging the
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