Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-06-15
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
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The Rev. I. G. Gruenwald, 48, pastor
Of ST. Boniface church, AniWa, died in
o hospital at Amigo as the result of
injuries received when his automobile
stopped on a railway crossing at
Whitcomb and was hit by train.
Six members of the Becker family
at Fond du Lac were injured, three of
them seriously, when an auto in which
they were riding was hurled into a
ditch on the Oshkosh road after it had
been side-swiped by a speeding car
which failed to stop.
lightning bolt which killed YER
ner Koskinen, 26, mile south of the
village of Maple near Superior, failed
to touch John Repisto, 5, or the horse
attached to the wagon in which Kos
kinen and the Repisto lad were rid
ing. Neither was the wagon damaged.
When John Carroll, &c, GAINESVILLE,
pleaded guilty at EdgertOn to intox-
ication Justice d. w. Worth SEN
fenced him to 20 days in Jail. Car
rol will be tried at the next term of
circuit court on charges growing out
of an automobile accident in which
J. J. Butler was killed.
Rev. Frank Coolbaugh, veteran rec
for of the Church of the Redeemer at
Superior, was stricken in the pulpit
while giving o sermon on disarmament
when I go, l want to go quickly"
he told the Venerable VIM f. Hood
of st. Adams church few days be-
fore his death. DR.. Coolbaugh's en-
thusiasm on the subject of disarm-
ament is believed to have caused the
blood clot on his brain which caused
his death.
After sending letter demanding
$21 900 of Elmer Johnston, vice pres
ident of the First National bank at
Baraboo, a man named Daniel Rivers
was captured by detectives after he
had been Swallowed at the place where
the money was supposed to have been
deposited in the woods near Devils
lake. Rivers is in Jail where the po-
lice are looking up his record with
officials at La Crosse where he spent
the winter. Police say he has long
police record.
Following the testimony of a IT.
year-old girl, whom he is said to have
attacked, Emil Hill, &c. was bound
over to circuit for trial at Hurley. 1t
is said that Hill grabbed the girl on
a lonely road while she was enroute
TO work and dragged her to the brush
nearby, sitting her cries with a
handkerchief. While Hill has made a
complete denial, the girl is positive in
her identification. A witness is said
to have seen Hill just before he at
tackled the girl.
Four FIT. Atkinson business men en-
route home from a weekend party ON
Lake Koshkonong, were nearly killed
ho1 hn n nj in
was crowded into a culvert wall due
to the culvert being too narrow to
permit two cars to pass A Jefferson
garage car caused the Fort car to
strike the culvert wall The men were
thrown out and all hurt more or less.
One was unconscious for time. The
car was wrecked and the state engin-
eer responsible for narrow culverts
nearly had another tragedy upon his
soul.
Louis Becker, "a. employed by the
Madison Gas & Electric Co., was cleo
trocuted while working on the top of
a pole making repairs. He died with
in half hour after he had come into
contact with the charged wire. Work
men heard him groan and saw him
hanging by his life belt at the top of
the pole. He was lowered to the
ground and the fire department lung
motor called. Men worked over him
snore than twenty minutes but failed
to revive him. The body was taken
to Manchester. Iowa, for burial. Mr..
Becker was to have been married to
Miss Hulda Soehlein, Madison, in
September.
.PTotestations of affections do not |
prove that a man is trustworthy, Miss |
Della Nelson, employed in hotel at
Appleton has learned. w. r. Balm, a
chiropractor, also has learned that it
NAV be safe to trifle with a girls af-
1fections, but it is dangerous to fool
with her purse. Balm, who had been
calling on Miss Nelson frequently of
late, stopped at her home for a chat.
1t is alleged thatshe found her purse |
containing 500, on a table, and that it
soon found its way to his pocket. He
left the house, saying he was going
for a package of cigarets, but never
returned. Police arrested him few
hours later as he stepped from train
at Oshkosh, and recovered the money.
so they state. Balm is in the county
Jail at Appleton unable to furnish the
required bond of $4,000.
Elmer Mowdy, who served i'll France
on four battlefronts and was wounded
in the leg by shrapnel, was arraigned
in municipal court at Kenosha for
stealing milk from the front porches.
Mowdy said he was guilty but that he
took the milk to keep from starving
TO death. I'm a former service man,
wounded, who served on four battle
fronts in France" he said 81 don't
receive government aid. I'm guilty of
taking the milk If they want to send
me to Jail. we'll and good. I'll be fed
there" Municipal Judge Tully re-
leased Mowdy, Saying: II want to
thank you for the government of the
United States for the service that you
gave. 1t may be that governments
are forgetful, but this court will not
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