Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-09-21

ana was III nut Two days.
Joseph Bartela, 10, Green Bay, died
of blood poisoning in a hospital from
injuries received three weeks before
when he jumped from wagon and
| hurt his Leg. Infection set in.
4 pearl found in the Wisconsin
river was bought by Frank Bracket
of Stevens Point for SIS. Bracket sold
the pearl for $500. The next man sold
the precious globUle fer $1,700.
Howard Martin, 81, Portage, died in
a hospital in spite of the injection of
$4,000 units of anti-tetanus serum. He
was victim of lockjaw for weeks and
| for a time it was thought the treat
ment would be successful.
| Harvey Decker, university student,
was accidentally killed at Chiffon by
| being thrown from the running board
of the car he was riding on. A heavy
truck is said to have hit him causing
internal injuries that resulted in his
i death.
David Murray, 40, night engineer at
GAINESVILLE ice cream plant, was
knocked deaf and dumb by lightning
which struck a telephone pole in the
rear of the Shurtleff plant. He was
unable to speak or Lear for several
| days.
| Fire believed to have been smolder-
ing in the hay for several days, was
! the cause of the barn of James H.
| Beirne, near Oakfield, burning. 250
tons Of hay and two calves were de-
stroyed. The barn was hit by light
ming a few days before the fire.
Mrs. Nels Nelson of Hancock hooked
a 20-pound pickerel in Hancock lake,
said to be the largest fish ever caught
in those waters. The fish was At
inches in length and its back teeth
were nearly an inch long. Mr. Mel
son, who is blind, assisted his wife in
pulling the fish into the boat.
Mary H. Orchard, Madison nurse, in
| the employ Of the late Gorge Raymer,
editor and publisher of the Madison
| Democrat, for II years, is given $10,-
000 according to the will of the for
mer Madisonian admitted to probate
in the Dane county court last week.
! Raymer left an estate of 100000.
In tie face Of an alarming increase
in diphtheria, with 365 deaths in 1920,
averaging one per day, the state board
of health is notifying all physicians
and health officers in the state to COM
ply strictly with the rules for it's pre-
vention and control The increase is
attributed to neglect of precautions
prescribed for this disease.
Mrs. Mabel Madsen, mother of Rus
sell Madsen, Is, has brought suit for
$4,000 against Joseph Graham, farmer,
alleging that Graham shot the Madsen
youth with a shotgun giving him per-
manent injuries The Madsen boy and
other lads of his age were stealing
melons on the Graham farm when
the alleged shooting took place.
Caught in a silo feed cutter on
her fathers farm, Caroline, daughter
of August Arnold, Sheboygan farmer,
was killed. The silo was being filled
with the gasoline engine going. The
child climbed up the feed chain in
stead of the ladder, thus starting the
machinery. The knives caught her
feet and cut her almost to pieces.
Mildred Hemb, pretty Sheboygan
girl told the police that her step
father had chained her to the wall in
the attic of their home for four days
and five nights. Hemb is under ar
rest on statutory charges and the ar
rest OF a second man is expected
Mildred, Is, was kidnapped from the
Home of the Friendless last week by
the second man, she claims, and after
being driven about the city until early
morning was delivered to her step-fa-
ther who chained her and threatened
to kill her if she made an cutlery.
ReformatOry terms were imposed
by Judge B. B. Park on six Stevens
Point youths, for breaking into 500
line cars. William Reading was SEN
fenced to serve two and one-half years
, ! in Il
brother, said to have been the ring
leader in the series of escapades, was
given three years; Lowell Bidwell, a
year and half; Walter Bruce, two
and one-half years; Cecil Card, two
and one-half years, and Merle Ellis
worth, who confessed being implica-
ted in all the robberies committed by
the gang, was given four years.
As per cent of tie state prison in
mates at Waupun are repeated Of
tenders who have not been deferred
from frequent criminal acts by pre-
viOus correctional and penal treat
ment, the Wisconsin mental deficitn-
cy survey points out. This fact is
said to be a challenge to society
methods of preventing crime. The
report of the survey declares that sit
is coming to be realized that few fac
tors play so important a part in crime
as the mental condition of the offend
err, and that prevention of future Grim
inal conduct must be based on actual
knowledge of the criminal himself"
II per cent of the states criminals are
feeble-minded and more than so per
cent have abnormal personalities
While the William Kennedy family
was attending the funeral of Pvt Jas.
Mcguire, whose body was brought
from France, their farm home near
Halder, 20 miles north of Marshfield,
was destroyed by fire of unknown or
igin $500 in the house was burned
Bears are not only becoming more
numerous but have acquired bold and
daring ways, according to residents of
Ashland returning from camps in the
woods. Shortage Of food has driven
the bears from the protected woodland
Unto the open and farmers in the out
lying sections have reported great
damage to crops. 1t has been a COM
mon occurrence for bears to invade
not only the gardens but even the
homes in search Of food. Recently on
the upper peninsula, IL bears were
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