Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-08-10
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items Of Current Inter
est by Telegraph
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his home and was drowned.
John and Felix Suttrick, brothers
of Elgin, H., were given three years
each in prison for the theft of an auto
at Green Bay.
Boys with matches set fire to a
straw stack on the farm of Fred Hell
den near Ft. Atkinson. They were
severely lectured.
Patrick Sweeney, native of Ire
land, dropped dead at Madison while
preparing for church. He was 72 and
the father of ten children.
Mildred Holford and Milton Blair,
clippers from Clinton Jet, were arrest
ed at Rockford and held for the COM
ing of the Wisconsin authorities.
John Sebastian, man without legs.
cached Chippewa Falls on his way to
New York from San Francisco. He
rides a specially made motor cycle.
Eight offices in the Bank Of Wiscon-
sin building at Madison were looted
by burglars who found less than 500
in cash and stamps and missed $4,000
in securities.
Ira Granger, Clintonville, escaped
death when lightning hit the barn he
was milking a cow in. The COW he
was UnllhluS anu IWO OIlCI WCl z
stantlv killed.
All pOstOffice records and undelIver-
ed mail in the store of John Kennedy,
Byron, were destroyed when the place
burned with loss of $4,000 to Ken
nedy's stock of goods.
The village of Kohler has enlarged
it's corporate confines from 760 acres
TO 1000 acres, making it but slightly
I1o1r in +hon ifc Iarpn
neighbor, ShebOygan, with 2,99S acres.
Expert rihemen posted in the state
capitol building have been shooting
pigeons by the hundreds. The state
was put to a heavy expense to keep
the birds and it was finally decided to
shoot them.
A high-powered Stutz passing cars
near Jefferson ran full tilt into Ford
driven by Fred Schumacher. Schu
macher was hurt in the legs and his
wife cut on both arms. The Ford ran
into fence and was smashed.
Edward Potter, 3 years, Oconto,
died from fright when he fell into
pool of water three feet deep. He
screamed and his mother pulled him
out at once, finding the child dead. A
doctor examined the lungs finding no
water.
The farm Of Fred Middlestaed, three
mile from Eau Claire, was damaged
by fire Six buildings and 60 tons OF
hay burned. Neighbors tore down
building to save the house. Mrs. Mid
dlestaedt saved four horses by leading
them from the burning barn.
Because the authorities found 20
gallon still in the bowels of the 5000
ton freighter, La Sale, locked at Su-
perior. permission was asked to con-
tiscate the vessel. 1t had been idle for
a long time and the Duluth owners
knew nothing of the latest use of the
boat
Madison has a committee to invest
-igate the extreme cost of milk, ice
cream in sodas, sundaes and cones,
and soft drinks, etc, in view of the
drop in the cost of milk and materials
used in making drinks. Milk sold at
wholesale for &c a quart is retailed at
10c. Ice cream cones and pop are 10c
in the capital city.
Mrs. Christ Daljes, Chicago, was
tried at Merrill for transporting liquor
from the windy city to the Lincoln
county town, and fined 5000. The
moon was found under pile of pQta-
toes in the woman's cellar at Merrill.
Mrs. Daljes said she kept the booze to
rub her lame back with but the court
refused to be buffaloed.
The crop and all the buildings on the
farm of Ray Gle, near Sharon, were
totally destroyed by fire. The blaze
was due to spontaneous combustion
in a barn Gle was at a ball game
when the fire broke out and came
home too late to summon aid. Thresh-
ing had just been completed and the
stored grain was a total loss.
The U. S. department of agricult-
ure has copied 200 pages from the
diary of the late Jacob Baumgartner
of Fennimore, on file in the state his
torical society at Madison. Mr..
Baumgartner kept an accurate record
of income and expenditures for sixty
years and this data viii be of great use
in statistical work on costs and in
come over long period.
District Attorney label of Milwau-
kee refuses to make canvas of the
city saloons to see if the new state
law requiring the removal of bars
where near-beer is Sold has been
complied with label is making a
strong effort to curb the moonshine
evil and says that much energy is
going to waste on locating beer sales
that might be profitably employed i'll
tracking poison makers and sellers.
He holds the SeverSon act, recently
passed, as invalid and unconstitutional
Fond du Lac authorities are making
a vice cleanup as the result of dis
closures affecting girls of Is and 16
years. Occurrences of a vicious nat
ure in dance halls where young men
and married men gathered in wild
revels with girls of tender years
caused the officers to take stern steps.
Spooning on dark country roads in
motor cars has also come under the
ban and citizens demand an Is year
limit on the curfew law. One high
school girl saved young man from a
heavy prison sentence by absolving
him from all blame when he was ac-
cused of enticing her to Chicago.
Another man was given a year in the
Green Bay reformatory for enticing
girl away from home. A Greek who
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