Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-06-01


each to answer a charge of making
moonshine liquor.
! The Wisconsin legislature denied
the petition of loo farmers of Apple
Greek, asking for the removal from
Office of Assemblman Mark Catlin of
Appleton. The vote was 81 to II.
To stimulate building in the town
c. B. Pride of TomahaWk announces
that he will give anyone who will
build a home worthy Of consideration
a free lot on residence street.
After locking her two children from
the house Mrs. Dominick Baubonis,
/ Sc, Kenosha, hung herself to bed
/ post She left a note accusing her
neighbors of crankiness. The letter is
addressed to her husband WHO had re-
Gently gone to Pennsylvania to work
rattIesnakes ranging in length
/ from Is inches to 5 feet were cap
| tured in a den snear Prairie du Sac
! by C. H. Dinsmore and Ed. Clement
of Reedsburg. The largest snake was
| taken in a snare. 1t had IL rattles.
! The snakes are said to be numerous
this year.
Special policeman Fred Weber
/ of GAINESVILLE was relieved of his star
/ by the local fire and police commits
sion. Weber's discharge followed that
of Geo. Champion by two weeks. The
men were let out for inefficiency.
| Weber claims that it impossible for
man in uniform to regulate the
traffic in moonshine in the district.
David Wright of Oconto, son of a
prominent family, has been arrested
on the charge of a 16-year-old girl
who alleges that Wright took her in
an automobile to an unfrequented
spot and attempted an assault. The
girls screams attracted fishermen
who rescued the girl and took her
: home. Wright is held under bonds OF
$4,000
A. Paporich, Austrian of Juneau,
informed the sheriff that a fellow Ia
borer had stolen his life savings of
81, 500 and then run off with his wife.
The money was boarded in ten dollar
gold pieces and warrant is out for
Mrs. Paporich and Robert Jalace, a
Serbian. The pair also took most Of
household linens, clothing and jew
elry, the aggrieved husband states.
Six biologists and mining engineers
from Minnesota and Wisconsin will go
to China this year as consulting ex-
perts for the South Manchurian Ry.
Co. They sail from Seattle in June
and return in October. The men will
Investigate Manchurian iron deposits
and advise upon the best methods for
opening up and developing the iron
and coal deposits of the region.
Alfred Berth, Kempser, who ran
his automobile into that of Thomas
McDonough, White Lake, on a street
at Amigo, pleaded guilty before Judge
A. B. Goodrich to driving a car while
intoxicated and to transporting liquor
illegally. For the first offense he was
given 500 fine and a Jail term of
three months. For the second Offense
he was given a $500 fine and term of
four months.
Four Green Bay bakers were fined
$25 for selling short weight bread.
Two youths who broke their necks
diving in shallow water near Lacrosse
last summer are still alive. Clifford
Shepherd, 16, who came up from
dive, paralyzed, is now able to walk
after months of treatment for; dis
placement of vertebrae at the base of
the neck. Jerome BOIL, IA, who sus-
taind fracture of bone in the same
manner, is still in bed but improving.
Both were injured in June, 1920.
Charles White and Steve Rossler,
both 20, of Michigan City, Ind, were
sentenced to ten years in the state
reformatory at Green Bay by Judge
Backus of Milwaukee. The men were
convicted of holding up and robbing
workman of 1920 The men are
street car conductors and said they
were on their way to Montana to get
work. The sentence to Green Bay,
where they will be eligible to parole
in a year, was given out of consider
alton for Rossler who served a year in
France and Whites wife and baby.
Suffering from broken back when
caught by two falling trees and then
TO recover was the experience of Will
liam Williams, veteran woodsman OF
central Wisconsin. Mr.. Williams was
injured in January when two trees
fell on him near his home at Knowi-
ton, Marathon county. He was taken
to a hospital and lowered for many
weeks between life and death. He is
now able to sit up in a chair and to
stand He has taken several motor
trips and it is believed will be able
eventually to walk. Mr.. Williams, is
past so and has been a lumberman and
riverman all his life.
The state of Michigan is expected to
bring suit against the state of Wis
consin for the recovery of $50 square
miles of territory as the result of Gov.
Blaines refusal to negotiate the ques-
ton of boundary lines. The suit if
begun will involve more than $4,000
600 in property and may change the
map of the state. Should Michigan
succeed in winning her suit she will
annex the city of Hurley, 3,100 pop
ulation, and reputed to be the wettest
town in the country. Valuable iron
mines as we'll as innumerable islands
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