Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-01-26

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Sheboygan river a few years ago. In
1917 two sons enlisted and year
later Serg. Chas. Gerald was killed in
action. Five days later Lieut. Chas.
Gerald fell on the battle field. Last
week the father, George Gerald, fell
from a scaffold and broke four bones
in one foot and twelve in the other.
He will be crippled for life Earl
and Arno are the remaining sons.
For the murder OF Albert Roskin,
Milwaukee storekeeper, four negroes
who had previously been given long
terms for robbery, were brought back
from Waupun to stand trial for MUIR
der. Roskin was held up and beaten
on Dec. Is when two negroes entered
his store, two others remaining out
side on guard. The two holding the
man beat him on the head with bill
lard cue until he became unconscious
but bOlted when they saw the pool of
blood. In short time the police
located the bandits and they were
sentenced to prison. Roskin fingered
for month and died. Now his as
sailants must stand trial for murder.
While Pastor Hargett of the Racine
Methodist church was urging the aud
fence to get behind the election of a
Christian mayor someone stole the
minister's motor car parked outside
the church.
Rev. George Jecklin, Oregon, helped
his congregation to cut down trees for
tirewood A tree fell striking the
dominic on the head and cutting him
badly Peculiarly enough the blow
restored sight to his right eye that
had been blind since spring. An OPP
Grafton had previously failed to bring
reliet.
Herman Pideerit, Al, baker, roomed
for five years at the home of William
kamrath, Milwaukee. Last week he
was held for contributing to the de-
linQuency of Lillian, 13, daughter of
the household. His attentions to Lii
liam, Clara, Is, and Gertrude, 8, were
not suspected until Lillian became a
mother.
!; Joseph Ziecks, inmate eof the Sank
county asylum at Reedsburg, was ac-
cldentally killed by a train while as
sisting Frank Fulton, asylum truck
driver. Fulton, had finished unloading
butter and with load of coal started
across the tracks for home when he
noticed switch engine ahead of him.
He backed away and his truck was
hit by an inbound passenger. Fulton
was thrown out and hurt. Ziecks was
hurled under the train both his legs
being cut off,
! An Indian chief war bundle-one
Of the few owned by museums in the
country-was recently presented to
/ the Wisconsin historical museum at
Madison by John Blackhawk of
| Greenwood, Wis.,, great grandson of
Winnebago Blackhawk, Indian chief of
the Mississippi valley tribes. Most Of
these bundles are kept in the possess
ion of the family and are handed down
from generation to generation. The
entire bundle is wrapped first in mat
ting and then in skin. 1t is valued at
5000. 1t contains several ermine the
sacred animal of the tribe, medicine,
herbs of various kinds, charcoal i'll
skin bag, three war clubs, several
flutes. fire hearths and dagger sheath.
The only other bundle of this kind in
| the museum came from the same
tribe but different elan.
Figuring the states population at
| 100000, it cost each person in the
state twenty cents in 1920 to care for
the states insane. To care for the
| feeble minded, it cost each person II
cents; to care for the criminal, &c
cents; to care for the blind, cents;
to care for the deaf, three and four
fifths cents; to care for the tubercular
patients, cents; to care for depend
ent children, 4c To put it in another
form, it cost each person in the state
about 80 cents to give the criminal,
defective and dependent people proper
humane care In addition to this it
cost about ten cents a person for the
year to make permanent improvements
in the buildings in which these
classes are housed
Herbert Ryan, one of the three men
charged with holding up the State
Bank of Superior, pleaded guilty after
testimony had been given by the last
witness for the prosecution. Bank en-
ployes positively identified Ryan as
one of two men who forced them to
| lie in the vault while they made their
escape with $1,000 in cash. The men
were traced to Omaha and arrested by
detectives who heard them talking Of
Superior. Ryan and his companions,
BONNER and Stewart, were given 30
years in prison.