Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-08-17
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current Inter
est by Telegraph
and Mail.

to Sheriff NienoW of Lincoln county
Monday. He is being held in jail at
Merrill with his stepsOn, Paul Poepke.
Pierce Ryan who was struck with the
axe, was recovering Monday. Pierce
Ryan is said to have struck HObel
when the latter entered a fight going
on between Jack Ryan and Paul Peep
ke HobeI then got an axe, it is al
legged, and struck Jack Ryan who died
shortly afterWard. Hobel then ran
to Pierce Ryan who was trying to get
away but was caught in barbwire
fence, and struck him with the axe, it
is charged The fight is said to have
started over the horsepower of an ail-
tomobile which was standing nearby.
The men had been drinking.
Mrs. Max SchIosser, wife of a young
farmer of Pennington, near Water
town, was attacked by three unknown
men last Tuesday night. Mrs. Schlos-
ser stepped to the back porch after her
husband had retired and the men
seized her, she claims. They threaten
ed to shoot her if she screamed and
while two held her the other tried to
cut off her hair When she struggled
the men struck and kicked her. Mrs.
SchlOsser finally broke away and stag
gered to the house. Her husband was
UP by that time and he seized a gun
and shot several times into the dark
ness. The men escaped but the au
thorities with bloodhounds are search
ing for them. After the incident the
Schlossers found the front of the house
saturated with gasoline Unsupplied
with a motive the story is wildly i'm
probable.
Infantile paralysis is said by the
state board of health to have appeared
in Wisconsin during the past month.
Request has been made to doctors to
make a report to Madison at once
whenever a case is discovered. The
disease is communicable and prevent
able, the board states, advising doc
tors to observe every precaution in
dealing with it. Prompt notification
and quarantine are compulsory. There
is an appearance Of child paralysis
at this time each year, the state board
says
Burglars held high carnival at Man
itoWoc on Sunday when they entered
three business houses within radius
of four blocks, broke open three safes
and escaped with about $500, incluG~
ing a 10000 mark bond of Berlin
taken from the Kadow meat market
where the thieves also took $50 and
a gold watch. Nearly very place en-
tered was ransacked by the visitors.
The police have no clue.
The state industrial commission
notes further rise in unemployment
during the past thirty days. The total
number of employees in factories and
mines has fallen off SO per cent in
the past year meaning that 100000
men are out of work in the state I'M
less they have moved away or found
other occupations. Many industries are
on short time and the payroll de-
creases are notable.
Nearly two-thirds of the farms of
the state are encountered with debt,
according to Elmer S. Hall, secretary
of state, who recently received a re
port from the United States census
bureau. Mr.. Hall has statistics which
show there are 57,773 farms in the
state that are free from debt. 94,258
farms have mortgage of some kind
upon them. No reports were receiv-
ed from 1879 farms.
Louis Massey, alias Archie Farnum,
jailed at La Crosse for theft, has the
unfortunate habit of talking to him
self In one Of his audible moods he
revealed to the sheriff that he had es-
capped from the hospital for the Grim
inal insane at Butlerville, Ind. Fin
ishing a sentence of 10 days for steal
ing three pairs of socks, Farnum is
now on his way back to Butlerville.
A loss of $4,000 resulted from a
fire which destroyed large barn, ma
chine sheds, hundred tons OF hay and
other articles on the farm of William
Cohen, two miles east of Grimms ia
Manitowoc county. Horses and so
head of cattle were rescued. The
blaze was discovered by neighbo"s
while the Cohen family were eating
supper but the origin is a mystery.
Clarence Mack, Ettrick farmer, was
fatally injured when he jumped from
the running board of an automobile
in an effort to recover his cap which
had been blown off, He lost his bali
ance and struck his head on the paved
road a brain conclusion resulting He
died on the way to the hospital Mack
was on his way to a ball game when
the accident happened.
Forging the name OF MS army "Dud-
die" on five checks amounting to $50,
Bert Sickles. %, Sturgeon Bay, is held
for forgery at Manitowoc. Sickles
pleaded guilty but sentence was sus-
pended pending investigation of his
record, He used the name of Willever.
his roommate, with whom he fought
in France.
Boris Schuster, II years, Stoughton,
saved the life of a three year old boy
at Lake Kegonsa. The youngster fell
from a pier a short distance from the
Schuster cottage. He called for help
and Boris jumped in the water with
his clothes on, and dragged the boy to
safety.
A bald head cost the life of Captain
T. Sutherland, Green Bay bridge ten
der. While repairing some machinery