Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-10-26

rested Wnen OfnCerS 1OQ0Q a Z0-SdlIOu
still in his farmhouse.
About 100000 automobile licenses
issued to date sets a new state record
This is $4,000 more than last year.
The diphtheria situation in and near
Stevens Point has subsidized and fewer
than a dozen homes are under quar-
antine.
john and Edward Quagon, Indian
boys were taken into custody at
Brentwood, charged with the burglary
Of several railroad stations. The loot
in each case was small.
The Surfing garage, owned by Frank
Massard was destroyed by fire, due
to the explosion CT vulcanizer Mas
sard was using at the time. The loss
was $4,000.
A fire i'll the Irvine plant at the
Waupun prison caused a loss Of $751;
! 000 The blaze was due to bales Of
sisal sagging and breaking electric
cables. The conduct of the prisoners
during the fire was excellent.
Elmer Simstad, Superior, charged
with burglary, pleaded that he was
drunk and didn't know what he was
| doing when he broke into a store and
fell asleep behind the counter. A jury
found him not guilty of burglary.
| Accounts Of blaakmail caused Har-
old Sommers, IA, Watertown high
! school boy to try eXtorting $1,000 OF
| L. Winkler, hotel man. SOmmers was
easily captured. He said he had
| heard a great deal of blackmail plots
and thought he would try hand.
! When his automobile collided with
( a telephone pole, Archie Leeman, Fond
! du Lac, bit his tongue so severely that
four stitches were taken to close the
wound. The car Jared better than it's
driver, escaping with a bent radiator.
| While operating a corn shredder on
the farm of John Slapak, near High
| land, George Lemke, young farmer
living south of Muscoda, had the
/ fingers on the right hand mangled so
badly in the knives, that it was neces-
sary to amputate his hand.
! Clifford Evans and Hillary Sauve,
two Of the three prisoners who made
sensational escape from the Mar
inette prison Oct. 2, were arrested as
! they hid in a barn near Peshtigo. The
men planned to SO to MGTinette under
cover of darkness and secure cloth
! ing for a long journey.
into a coma a nhour after he had
soaked" in a tub of hot water. He
was taken to a hospital where day
later he came TO his senses. Three
doctors called in consultation, said
they believed his nervous system was
affected by the hot water.
Alfred Hertzfeld, "a, Arcadia, met
death when the car in which he was
,,. l,
turned while the party was returning
from Winona. The driver attempted
to adjust the lights while the car was
running and the machine plunged
down an embankment. Hertzfeld's
neck was broken.
A train at Elkhart Lake crashed
into a herd of Sc purebred Holstein
cattle owned by Spindler Bros, killing
"a. The loss is estimated at $8,500.
Some unknown party opened a pas
ture gate, allowing the cattle to
stray out on the tracks. The train
was delayed an hour while the sham
bles was being cleared.
Edward Wink Superior, hurled
through the windshield when E. n.
Running ran his auto into telephone
pole, refused medical aid until he was
artery in his neck was severed. Dr..
c. NJ Giesen picked Wink up and
carried him into another doctors Of
flee where he was strapped down
while his neck was bandaged.
L. W. Reed. Eau Claire, lost several
teeth. had his jaw broken and his
mouth cut so severely that several
stitches had to be taken as the result
of a collision between his car and a
wire let down at a rail crossing by
bridge workers. Reed had crossed
the track and was going up grade
when the wire smashed his wind
shield and ripped off the top of his
car.
Charged with having tormented
and maltreated her 6-year-old daugh
ter, Mrs. Anna Vetrock Racine, was
arraigned in municipal court. Pro-
baton officers found the child con-
fined in a basement with no other
apparel than giugham apron, and
bearing evidence of very abusive
treatment Neighbors said the child
had been locked up and mistreated
since she was two years old.
Mike Port Grafton, was strangled
to death when his coat collar caught
IN the Shatt or inc steering Wneel De-
meath the truck be was working on.
Port had stopped the truck in front of
his home and crawled under the We
hicle to locate the cause of an annoy
ing knock The motor was left run
ming When her husband failed to
come to dinner. Mrs. Port went out
to call him. She found the lifeless
body beneath the truck.
Dangerously i'll with a strange mall
ady. purpuria, of which science
knows little and {. cure is seldom eff
footed, Mrs VIM. Hopkins, Stevens
Point is under the care Of specialists.
The case is the first of its kind in that
section. The disease appears with in
ternal hemorrhages which leave black
and blue spots all over the body. In
some cases the patient has severe
nose bleeding. Mrs Hopkins nose
has bled for ten days. Despite blood
transmission her condition is growing
worse.
Judge j. M. Becker, Monroe, lost
his suit for salary during the time he
was suspended from office during the
war, in a decision by the state SUI
preme court. The tribunal decided