Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-08-24
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items Of Current Inter
est by Telegraph
and Mail.

A PRETTY young woman giving the
name Of Miss Grace AnderOn, is be-
ing sought by the La Crosse and Wi
mona police on a charge OF passing
several fraudulent checks for SIS at
stores III the two cities.
Edwin Boettcher, Merrill, and Eu-
gene Hoffman Ia Crosse. both IL,
are under $1,000 bail on the charge OF
burglarizing the Abe Lique saloon and
the Wausau Paper Mill store at Bro
kaW. The boys were paper mill en-
plOyes,
Charles Cox, Ontario, Canada, is in
a Ladysmith hospital with charge of
birdshot in his side and lungs from a
shotgun in the hands Of Marshall A.
a. Clouts of Bruce. Cox was shot
when he and another man were en-
deaVoring to rob the office of the
Bruce Lumber Co.
Rupert, 7-year-old son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Bernard Nelson of Surfing, was
shot above the right eye and seriously
wounded when he obtained .38 cal
iber rife, placed one OF the loaded
shells on q nearby fence and hit it the
first shot. Fragments of the exploded
shell struck him in the face.
Eli J. Long, Racine, was denied
compensation for false Imprisonment
in the state penitentiary at Waupun on
murder charge. Long was sent up
from Racine and was freed by jury
in new trial. He requested the state
to compensate him for the time he had
been in prison and upon the states
refusal so to do started an action to
compel payment He lost in both the
petit and circuit courts.
A peck measure full of poker chips,
$41O taken from gambling tables, a
roulette wheels, craps tables and faro
devices were cOnfiscated by Sheriff
James and deputies of Racine in d
raid on a miniature Monte Carlo in
operation at the Hotel Moore, the
large summer hotel at Brown lake,
near Burlington. Roy Moore, prop
rietOr, and ten men were arrested i'll
the raid. Several women at the tables
when the officers entered, were re-
leased because they had children at
the hotel.
Louis Hartnig, Stevens Point, home
from a twO-mOnths' visit in Germany,
says conditions in that country are
excellent Factories are running at
full blast" Mrs. Hartnig states, "and
crops are good. In ROttenberg, where
/ spent practically all Of the two
months l was in Germany, there was
but one difficulty Because of lack
rain there is a shortage of water. Hy-
drants are dry and all the water must
come from small wells" Mr.. Hartnig
came to the United States 81 years ago
With their five children, Mr.. and
Mrs. Steve Neuberger have sailed for
ST. Johns, Hungary, to make their
home after living at Stevens Point for
eight years. For two months the hus-
band and father had no work and he
thought it best to take his savings
and return to the land of his birth.
w. P. Hull of Oconto received a let
ter mailed at San Francisco on Aug.
5, with the edges burned. A note on
the bottom explained that the missive
was mutilated in a mail plane fire at
Elko. New Aug. 6.
Before learning that his small
daughter was in the burning barn on
his farm near Marshfield, Rheinhold
Hendricks ran into the barn and res
cued three registered Holstein calves.
The child persisted. Mr. Hendricks
children were playing in an automo-
bile in the barn when the structure
was discovered to be in flames. An
older brother tried in vain to rescue
his sister. When the parents learned
of the child's fate it was with difficult
ty that neighbors prevented them
from dashing into the burning barn.
Raids at Hurley recently indicate
that the burg is still trying to live up
to its rep as the "wattest iii OF spot in
America" and that the local author
tiles are doing their best to curb the
traffic in liquor. Pete Noh, bartender
in the First and Last Chance saloon,
paid 500 and costs for having moon
shine He said another fella" left it
there Frank Kalafitch, saloon man,
raid 500 for possession of mule. His
license was revoked. Matt Neimi was
sentenced three months for having a
quantity of moonshine. He walked up
the street in daylight with half gal
Ion jug.