Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-09-07

FARMER, died Oh inquiries received as
the result of fall Of 25 feet from
the roof of barn. He leaves widow
in Poland.
On the strength of testimony Of his
wife and step-daughter, John Talonen,
Hurley farmer, was held for trial. It
is alleged that Talonen, 81, is guilty
Of improper relations with his step
daughter, aged IA.
Eight cases have been dismissed
and one man acquitted in the trials of
thirteen Shcboygan saloon keepers
charged with violating the new state
law requiring the removal of screens.
Nat Finnegan, IS, Gillette, and his
son, Francis, "a, wore killed instantly
near Pulaski Wednesday when their
automobile was struck by a North
Western passenger train. Four other
occupants Of the car were not serious
ly injured
Miss Eva Melby of Madison has re-
ceiyed the appointment as Presbyter-
ian missionary in China, and sails on
| Sept. II, from Seattle for Japan. She
will locate for five years at Foo Chow
i China, to teach English in the Anglo
Chinese university.
Frank Sellnow Jr., Harry Wendler,
! Lcona and Vclma Burton, all of
BrodheGd, were held at Denver on
request of Sellnow's father, banker
of BroGhead. Sellnow senior alleges
the young people borrowed his car
for an extended motor trip in the west
Mrs. Jessie Firkus, Stevens Point,
who said she went into the moonshine
manufacturing business to earn money
| to support herself and seven father
| less children, was sentenced to pay
fine of 500 and costs or serve 80
days in Jail She paid the fine.
| AS Chas. Close, attendant at the Eau
Claire Standard Oil service station
was unlocking his safe door, man
! slipped up behind him and - ,'uck him
blow on the head. When Close came
| to-, ten minutes later, he found ham
mer beside him and 5000 gone. The
unknown left no clues.
Walter Andrews, 81, cmplcye of the
Southern Wisconsin Electric Co., met
instant death by elactrocution while
repairing wires torn down at Lake
Geneva by storm. He came into con-
and was thrown to the ground. He
was dead when picked up.
Mrs. Theodore Macklin, wife of
L
culture, is recovering from burns in
which she had q narrow escape from
death. Her clothing caught fire from
the kitchen stove. Her cries for help
attracted JAS. Hamilton, who extin-
guished the flames after Mrs. Mack
lin had been badly burned.
The nose of Alexander Andrews, 81,
Thorpe, was cut off and his face badly
gashed and three ribs broken when
he collided with a telephone wire
while driving along the village street
A crew Of telephone mon was pulling
taut wire stretched across the street
when Andrews came driving along.
He failed to see the wire and it hit
him in the face His son, who was
with him, also was seriously injured.
That white women of Superior car
ried bundles to {, Chinese laundry as
a ruse to cover up their visits to an
opium dream land" in the rear of the
laundry, was the assertion of a federal
Investigator who arrested a Chinese,
Woo On, and seized dope plant. The
investigator made his assertions when
Woo On demanded examination before
w. K. Kellogg, u. S. commissioner. He
was bound over to the federal grand
jury.
A hastily-formed auto tour ended in
Jail sentences for four months for
four young people at Chippewa Falls.
Mary and Matte Lee, 10 and 81, sis
ters of Sioux Falls, S. D., and Joseph
Faast and August Helsemer, Huron,
S. D., were arrested at Chippewa on
a statutory charge. The party had a
total of four cents when taken into
custody. The court thought four
months in Jail would be the proper
climax.
1t took an Eau Claire jury less than
Is minutes to find Edward R. Allen,
alias Joe James, alias Ed. Smith,
guilty of assault with intent to kill
Acting Police Chief, George R. Wolf
Judge James Hickman Immediately
sentenced Smith to 80 years at hard
labor in Waupun. Last Wednesday
Allen took three shots at Wolf and
officer Lennie after they had arrested
him as Jail breaker from Everett,
Wash, where he was held on a charge
of safe blowing.
Thos. Tollefson, former bank cash
Ter in Superior and Grantsburg, and
former sheriff Of Burnett county and
official of other Wisconsin coun-
tics, was found guilty at Superior of
misuse OF the HILLS Ill connection Will
an alleged plot to bomb the LONE of
w. Nicholayson, former pres. of the I
Anchor Shipbuilding Co., Duluth. A
bomb found on Nicholayson's front
porch was introduced as evidence.
Letters sent NicholCysOn threatened
the dynamiting of his house unless he
paid certain moneys were also intro
duced.
Jerome B. Morse, whose deportation
from the Soldiers Home to a leper
colony in Louisiana, less than two
years ago, aroused a storm of protest,
is not leper. He returned to Mil
waukee Sunday having a certificate
signed by DR.. Denny, chief medical Of
ficer of the United States public health
service hospital at Carville, La, to the
effect that he is not afflicted with the
disease. The case was one of mistaken
diagnosis. For nearly Is months the
man was isolated at the home by
skin disease supposed to DE leprosy,
that was contracted in the Philippines
in 1906. After his discharge from the
service he was proprietor of a billiard
hall for four years, manager and cook
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