Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-09-28
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items Of Current Inter-
est by Telegraph
and Mail.
Mis- Ruth Burchard. a Fort Atkin-

robert olson, Herman MeSSmer ana
Frank Richardson, charged with hav-
ing looted the summer home of w. T.
Hanford of Chicago, at Eagle Lake,
were sentenced at Racine to three
years in prison.
Frank Tratnik, Sheyboygan, was in
stantly killed when he fell from
stairway of the home of Mrs Frances
Bregar, where he was visiting. Trait
mix fell Is feet to the ground. His
neck was broken.
A surprise party by state prohibition
officers in Portage county, Melted three
arrests. Mrs. John Bukoski pleaded
guilty to unlawfully secreting and de-
strOying liquor on her premises. She
was held for trial.
A gang Of automobile thieves has
hit Superior and Duluth Six cars
have been missing more than week.
Recently the Superior chief of police
boosted that he had had only one car
stolen in the city so far this year. His
remark was an invitation to car rob-
bers
1t cost John Weinman of Neenah
$1398 to hit his neighbor, Charles
Martin over the head with a shovel as
a climax OF a neighborhood quarrel
over a line fence between the proper
ties of the two men. Martin had the
other arrested when Weinmann got
TOO brisk.
Thomas Sheldrick, 80, giving his
home as Marinette, was arrested in a
Madison hotel as a drug addict Thurs
day and sent to Mendoza hospital for
treatment. Sheldrick was taken when
it was found that he had entered the
hotel without registering and had es-
tablished himself in room.
During heavy storm and cyclone
at Portage a large De Haviland pas
senger airplane was wrecked while
moOred in a field near the city The
plane, owned by Ernest Zastrow, was
a total loss. The storm uprooted big
tress and tore roofs from several
buildings. No one was injured.
Racine cOunty's famous spite fence,
built by Lena Roosevelt, on the Mil
waukee road, four miles north of Ra-
cine, because the Milwaukee Electric
Railway and Light Co. won court
fight against her, is again being put
up and the woman faces charges of
contempt of court, as she has been
permanently enjOined from re-ereCt-
ing the fence.
Peter San Fillepe, 15-year-old son
of Samuel Filleppe, Waukesha fruit
dealer, was killed by the discharge of
q revolver. Peter Pellagrine, Is, a
companion, was the only eye witness.
According to the coroner, the boys
were trying out the pistol when a shot
was heard and the Filleppe boy fell
with bullet wound over his left eye.
The other boy is held pending an in
westigation.
John Maloney, IS, Milwaukee road
engineer on the run between Milwau-
kee and Portage, was instantly killed
when he touched an electric switch
in his home at Portage during a storm.
1t is believed the wires were crossed
as several others in the vicinity re-
ceiVed slight shocks. Maloney acted
as pallbearer at the funeral of a
neighbor the morning of the day he
met his death.
Charles Tracy, brakeman, Green
Bay, was killed and J. T. Reddy, Ocon-
TO-. slightly injured at Oconto Falls,
when q coal car ran off the North
western bridge Tracy jumped when
he noticed the car leaving the bridge,
and was buried underneath the coal
Reddy was thrown clear of the wreck
"A clamshell outfit worked two hours
10 recover the body of Tracy A
broken flange caused the car to leave
the track at the curve and plunge into
the river
After passersby. attracted by the
7screaIns of Mrs. Anna Nelson, saved
her from an attack by her escort, one
George Klein, who had dragged her
into a lumber yard, the man was ar
rested and fined the maximum amount
of 500 and costs by Judge Burgess at
Racine. Mrs. Nelson, a young woman,
declared she had attended a theater
with Klein and was walking home
with him when he seized her by the
throat and dragged her into a lumber
ward. She screamed and persons ran
to her assistance. Klein fled but was
later arrested at his home.
Robert Miller, fugitive from JUS
tice from Charles City, Iowa, was
picked up and returned to finish his
sentence. Miller was sentenced in
Charles City in 1916 to five years in
the Iowa penitentiary for participa-
ting in a robbery. He escaped from
the sheriff as he was about to begin
his time An Iowa man at the Wal
worth county fair at Elkhorn saw a
familiar face behind hot dog" stand.
He called the county sheriff to ques-
ton the man. Miller admitted his
guilt but said he had gone straight"
ever since his escape. He professed a
Willingness to return to the old home
state and "serye it out" The Iowa
man who established Miller's identity
was a witness of the Charles City rob-
berry.
A man who drinks moonshine in
Wisconsin and is caught in the act,
may be prosecuted on two counts, the.
attorney general told Otto Glen, dis
arict attorney OF Clintonville in an
opinion rendered last week. Charges
may be preferred against the victim
on the ground of possession and of
manufacturer, Morgan says. The
question arose with arrest of a man
while drinking from bottle of moon
shine at the Waupaca county fair. He
had just put the bottle to his lips when
taken by the sheriff. ut will be ne
cessary for the violator to show that
he did not manufacture the liquor,
with the burden of proof resting on
himself, as we'll az to prove he did not
have possession, to clear himself" the
letter says.