Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-06-08


irving Longmore, IA, and Floyd
Carlson, 10, were drowned in the
hnuck gravel pit near Union Grove,
on Sunday Of last week. Arthur Jen-
sen, II, summoned help and the bodies
were recovered.
! Two men armed with club broke
into the home of Leo Kluck near Ellis
and forcer Kluck to turn over $100 in
| cash, pair of pants and revolver.
/ The visitors left the trousers hanging
en- wire fence near the house.
| A. 0. Head, Sheboygan Falls far
mer, lost 2-year-old registered Hol-
stein heifer valued at $500. She left
a bull calf a week old. Farmers in
| the neighborhod have been losing a
number of pure bred animals from un-
explainable causes.
! Suit to recover a still confiscated
from his farm has been started by
CHARLES Wheaton, farmer living in
| Happ Hollow" near GAINESVILLE He
is to be tried soon for violation of the
prohibition act. He charges that his
| arrest and seizure of the still were
unlawful.
| Miss Anna Bannak and her sister,
Miss Agnes Bannak, arrived in Plain
| held Sunday after hiking the distance
from Long Beach, Calf. The girls
left Wisconsin two years ago, going
to Montana, one being employed as a
school teacher and the other as a
printer. They left Long Beach to re-
turn to Wisconsin, April 9th.
| On permission granted by Warden
Towne of the Waupun state prison,
Grace Lusk, former Waukesha school
teacher, serving a nineteen-year sem
tence for the Staying of the wife of
DR.. David Roberts in 1917, attended
the funeral of her father, Dr. Albert
2. Lusk at Wausau, Monday of last
week, and accompanied the body to
! Stoughton where burial took place.
Mr.. and Mrs. David McLain, prom
lnent old settlers of Menominee were
found dead in their bed. An open gas
| jet indicated the cause of the tragedy
Mr.. McLain, "a, served four years in
Co c., 8th Wis. Inf, known as the
Eagle company because it had charge
OF "Old Abe" the famous war eagle.
During his service Mr.. McLain was
one of the eagle bearers.
| Irish residents of Racine were riled
on Decoration day by the display of a
| flag on an English home in the city.
The flag was torn down twice during
the day. 1t was at the home of V.
Lee Awkward, prominent resident, who
was away from home. During his alb
I sence a servant decided he would dec
crate the home. Being an Englishman
he brought out the Union jack with
the Stars and Stripes.
| The Commercial dock, Ashland, gave
away during Memorial day exercises
and several hundred persons narrow
ly escaped death. Amid great excite
ment city fremen searched the ruins
for possible dead. Sailors jumped in
! to the water and assisted in saving
many children. Commander c. L.
! Judd, "a, and Jack Hill, custodian of
"Old Abe Wisconsin's war eagle,
were among those rescued.
! Brooding and jealous over his un-
requited love for Emma Kunkel a
Neillsville girl, Edward Zeretske, a
| foreman of the Krause Milling Co., of
Milwaukee, could not stand the rail
lery of August Adamann, a fellow
| lodger, and shot him dead. Adamann
cut Zeretske out of date with the
girl and then ''joshed" the other.
Zeretske pulled gun and shot. He
confessed.
With both shoulder blades broken
and his spine fractured, Isaac Collins,
| So farmer living near Mishicott, is in
hospital fighting for his life as re-
suit of an accident that occurred while
he was breaking a colt to buggy.
Collins had hitched the horse and was
seated in the rig about to drive out
of the yard, when the animal became
/ frightened and dashed down the road.
Collins was thrown from the seat and
| landed on a stone pile. He has a
wife and six children.
One of the most unusual and brutal
criminal assaults in the history OF
Sheboygan county took place last
week when Jerry Metscher, fireman at
the central station, Sheboygan, and an
amateur boxer, assaulted his wife with
hammer-shaped club in an alley near
their home infiicting deep gashes in
the woman's skull and numerous other
wounds. Mrs. Metscher fell to the
ground unconscious but recovered and
made her way to her parents home.
Metscher was locked up to await
trial.
"A prowler seeking to force entry
into the home of L. c. Mohr ded when
he was shot by Norman Mohr OF Green
Bay Young Mohr went to a side
window to pull down a shade and no
ticed the figure on the outside. Mohr
ordered the prowler to halt. Instead
the pepper took to his heels and Mohr
fired. The cries of the wounded man
awakened the neighborhood, but he
Jumped into a car and escaped. For
homes and a number of Green Bay
had frightened the occupants of many
homes and a number 70 Green Bay
residents had obtained permits to
carry guns.
For reasons unknown to relatives,
Henry Wise, 43, president of the State
Bank of Fall Greek, committed suicide
by shooting himself through the face
with a shotgun in the basement OF the
bank. The body was discovered by
Carl Voechting, cashier after he had
found a pile of papers on the pres
ident's desk with not which read.
Carl deliver to my wife right away.
Henry" The affairs of the bank are
in perfect order Mr.. Wise is sur
yived by his widow and a son in his
first year in the university of Wiscon-
sin