Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-07-20

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After killing his brother and chas
ing the latter's wife around the house,
firing two shots at her which missed,
Henry Morrone, 81, sat quietly on the
porch and waited for the Kenosha po
lice
Ferdinand Cockleman, Mishicott, re-
ceived injuries from which he died
later in a Delavan hospitl when he
was thrown from the top of load of
hay underneath the wagon. The
was AZ and unmarried.
John Hall, 20, an acrobat, was ia
tally hurt at La Crosse when his body
crashed into a fence as he was climb
ing to an airplane from a racing auto
mobile. Hall climbed several steps
on the ladder hanging from the under
carriage of the plane before he fell to
the ground, dying soon afterward.
Award of $4,000 for loss of both
legs under a Milwaukee road car at
GAINESVILLE, year ago, was made to
Clarence Mckinley of GAINESVILLE by a
jury at Granite Falls, Mimi. mckinley
sued for $4,000, the case being taken
out of the state despite an injunction
granted by Judge Grimm, Rock county
circuit court.
The story of a girl who admitted
abandoning her 3-months-old baby in
the wash room Of a northwestern
passenger coach led to the arrest of
Frank Koszpisseaucz of Pulaski, on
statutory charge. The girl said she
was afraid to face her parents with the
babe and therefore abandoned it en-
route to Green Bay.
The little son of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed.
Johnson, Maiden Rock farmers, was
shooting fire crackers near a gasoline
eau. Fluid on the ground soon
caught fire and the can exploded,
tearing off both arms and part of the
boys head He died instantly. The
mother, who had been i'll, died from
the shock of the accident.
Sheriff G. H. Buell., Undersheriff
A. E. Mitchell and five deputies early
Sunday captured the largest moon
shine still ever found in Green county.
John Ammon and Jake Babberger are
in Jail at Monroe. The big still and a
smaller one were found in an old rock
house in a secluded valley between
Monticello and New Glarus.
Osha probate court was arrested and
arraigned in Racine municipal court
before Judge Burgess charged with
having passed to the left of street
car with his automobile. He told the
court that such a practice was COM
mon in Kenosha and is considered no
! Offense. SimOns was found guilty but
sentence was suspended.
Carl Carlson, Edgerton farmer,
went to his hogpen and found 81 out
of 27 of his stock of hogs, weighing
around $50 pounds each, lying dead
A veterinary pronounced the deaths
due to poisoning. Upon investiga-
ton it was found that some one had
Inadvertently emptied part of a key
of paris green,-which had been
standing in the tool house,-into the
slop barrel
A movement has been started among
number of Matt Lynaugh's friends
to reimburse the former Madison pat
rOlman for expenses he underwent in
defending himself for the Staying of
Carl JandOrf university student
1t is said that Lynaugh mortgaged his
| home for $4,000 to pay the attorney
who defended him. Lynaugh's friends
contend that he was found not guilty
and that therefore the city should re-
imburse him for the expense of the
trial
Judge N. t. SIauson, Evansville,
hooked a big pickerel on a new line at
Gibbs Lake but lost it after a hard
fight. A few days later he again
hooked a big fish and after a long
] hnt h1.nJ1 CrIf AiaI1 Il ialN
weighed 81a pounds. After he got it
secure Mr.. SlGuson was much sur
prised to find the line that he lost the
previous Tuesday, hanging from the
pickerePs mouth. He had captured
and landed the fish that got away from
him a few days before
Henry w. Lewis, superintendent of
| the Racine county insane asylum, was
before the asylum trustees and the
state board of control, on charge of
having kicked and beaten one Casper
Isollhauser, patient. Lewis declared
that he did not know whether the
charges were true because at the time
OF the alleged assault he was excited
and feared for his own life. Eight
men employed by the Racine Rubber
Co. testified that they saw Lewis kick
the insane man in the head while he
was being held on the sidewalk by
attendants. A decision will be an
nOunced later.
With her claim of $4,000 to stock
in the First National Bank at Madi-
son, recognized and a settlement
reached, Mrs. Anna G. Heritage Full
Ter, formerly of Edgerton, has gone
to Battle Creek, Mich, to make her
home. By the agreement reached
with Mrs. JesSica Fuller, and Mrs
Louis M. Hobbins, daughter-in-law
and granddaughter, respectively, of
Morris e. Fuller, aged Nebraska
rancher and retired capitalist, who
married the Edgerton woman a few
years before his death, Mrs. Fuller
left them $500 in full settlement of
their claim against the estate of the
aged husband.
That a substitution was made in the
driver of an automobile that ran over