Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-08-24

CTaZeG from drinking mOOnsnlne,
Eric Erickson, 40, Wisconsin Rapids,
committed suicide by placing dyna-
mite cap in his mouth and lighting the
fuse on his farm near Sigel.
Eugene Dooley, 20, Monticello, was
killed by bolt Of lightning as he
entered the barn on his fathers
farm. He is survived by his parents,
/ four brothers and four sisters.
Glen Harmon, president of the Me
nominee Falls farm bureau, has made
an agreement with the local mer-
chants to discontinue selling butter
substitutes after their present supply
is sold.
Fish taken under state contract in
the fall Of 1920, and the spring of 1921.
totalled 1.685,42O pounds and were
sold for $106,589, Of which the states
share amounted to $21,317 the con-
| servation commission announces. All
of this catch was made up Of rough
! fish from inland waters.
Stepping on the accelerator instead
of the brake while attempting to turn
around OH the bank Of a river at Man
itowoc, Miss Elizabeth Morse. accom-
panied by a girl friend backed her
car into the river. The two were al
most drowned When rescued by near
! by campers who witnessed their pre-
/ dicame1t. The car was pulled from
the river.
Thirty warrants were issued We'd
neSday for saloon men in ShebOygan
and Sheboygan county, following
series Of raids in the most sweeping
booze cleanup made in the district
/ Carl Henning, enforcement officer who
! directed the raids, stated that he had
found Sheboygan ignorant Of prOhibi-
ton laws. II arrests were made in
! Shboygan and Is through the county
John Panure, "a, Green Bay, pleaded
not guilty to an assault upon a girl of
Is years. He was held under bail of
! $1,000. According to the sheriff's of
| flee, the assailant called at the girls
home and declared that he wanted to
employ her in his home. While she
was accompanying him in a carriage
he is alleged to have thrown her out
/ of the carriage and choked her into
submission.
The Rev Byron E. Lewis, pastor Of
/ the Methodist church at ArkansaW,
Wis, was drowned while on an outing
with his boy scout troup. Lewis was
! an expert swimmer and it is believed
that he was stunned while diving. He
! failed to come to the surface and the
! boys who could swim began diving for
him and five minutes later dragged his
| body to shore. Efforts at resuscitation
j failed. Lewis was unmarried. He was
World war veteran and popular in
| the conference
Orders from the farmers of Bay
field county for picric acid for explo-
siVe purposes are coming in slowly,
so County Agent Brubaker says Each
farmer is entitled to 100 pounds of the
explosive, which is furnished by the
! government for land clearing. So far
the farmers have ordered $500 TBS.
Michael Rudy, New GIarus milk man
was killed when milk truck he was
| driving tipped over pinning him be-
meath. He was % and unmarried.
| A Chicago man is being looked for
for the theft of $1,000 worth of curios
from the historical building at Madi-
son. 1t is believed that the thefts were
the work of two men. They are sup
posed to have stolen a number of ex-
hibits and to have taken out of the
building in grip. Curator Brown
queried all curio shops in the country
with the result that many of the ar
ticles were recovered In a trip about
the country officers recovered the bal
ance of the loot.
| When E. T. Hill, Sawyer county far
mer, is brought into court at Hayward
on charges of killing his mother five
years ago, the state will move for dis
missal for lack of evidence. Hills ar
rest in July on murder charge was
the cause of sensation. Mrs. Hill
disappeared five years ago and no
trace of her has been found since.
After her son had been taken into
custody it was reported that her
bones had been discovered at the bot
tom Of nearby lake by Indians pad
ding by.
| Believing that abandoned stone
quarrie5 forming artificial lakes, are
being used as burial places for auto
mobiles of INSCRIPTIONS owners who
wish to collect stolen car insurance,
| Sheriff James of Racine county called
on expert divers to search several
small ponds in the county for missing
cars. This action followed the dis
covery of a truck that had been run
into a small lake three miles north
west of Racine Boys at a camp near
by saw two men back the truck into
the water and notified the sheriff.
! Loren d. Hauck of GAINESVILLE will
| file damage suit against the North
western road, as the result of his ar
rest at Fond du Lac on a charge of
stealing $4,000 in gems in the trunk
OF a jeWelry salesman. Houck will
base his suit on the mistake he alleges
the baggageman at Plymouth made.
Houck said he pointed out his own
trunk az the one to be checked to
Fond du Lac, but the baggagemaD
checked the jewelry salesman's trunk
instead When Houck called for the
trunk at Fond du Lac he was arrested
In an opinion given in case in
Monroe county, Atty. Gen. Morgan
| held that county was responsible for
the upkeep Of two persons who came
to a private home for the aged in
| Monroe county, and later would not
be cared for at the home under an
agreement they signed upon entering
to have stipulated that the aged per-
sons would be cared fer the remain
der of their lives upon payment of
$500 but that they would not be af-
forded capitalization, nor cared for