Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-11-23
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items Of Current Inter-
est by Telegraph
and Mail.


shotgun he was playing with was
accidentally discharged.
The body of an unidentified man.
aged about so, was found hanging in q
lumber shed at Bruce. watch and
80 were found i'll his cloting Nearby
was a suitcase containing a suit of
new clothes
A dredging crew at work near Or
egon uncovered the skull Of mastO-
don, a monster existing on earth in
prehistoric times. The specimen will
be presented to the Stoughton high
school
Frank Jeneshikih wealthy farmer
of Palmyra, near WATERFOWL, fell into
the net of Dis. Atty. r. c. Twining
when he was arrested for selling
liquor. A still found in operation in
his place was confiscated. The farmer
was held for trial
John Pfeiffer, Co. Whitewater, was
fatally injured while crossing street
when hit by an auto driven by George
Rosenthal night watch. Mr. Pfeiffer
was thrown down and dragged for
several feet. His skull was fractured
and he suffered internal injuries
Jack Scheidere OF Milwaukee was
the first resident OF the United States
to purchase medicinal beer under the
internal revenue ruling of month
ago. The case cost 1928 There were
many disappointed prescription hold
ers when the supply ran out.
Fred Ohm of Herman near ShebOy-
gan, was fatally hurt while driving
alone at night when his Chevrolet car
went into a ditch near the city He
was found unconscious by passersby
and taken to q hospital where he died.
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wife and three children.
Joseph A. Pliska, son of Mathew
PHska, Stevens Point, was accident
ally and fatally shot early this month
at his gold claim near ManigOtagon,
Manitoba, Canada. He had been gold
prospecting i'll Canada for eight years
and was 81 years old. The body was
shipped home for burial
Alexander Kiraly, Stanley harness
maker, was fined S224.75 for bootleg
ging. Alex denied being q bootlegger
but couldn't avoid the fact that he had
gallon of hootch i'll his possession.
The officers said the man had been
doing nice hootch business in his
shop when they interrupted.
John WrobOwsky, II, Amigo, died
after amputation of a leg, necessita
ted by a gunShOt wound received on
a hunting Trip. AS d DOy III Tie party
took a loaded gun from another it
was discharged, the shot penetrating
WroboWsky's hip. While one boy
summoned a doctor, another carried
Wrobowsky home.
La Verne Dean, Is, was fatally shot
near Big Bend when a gun carried by
Supt 7. F. Schroeder of the Norris
Farm Home for Boys, was accident
ally discharged. Supt. Schroeder had
taken a group of boys on hunting
trip for the afternoon. The shot en-
tered the Dean boys right chest and
he died before he could be taken to a
hospital.
ALBERT Weselch, while assisting on
corn shredder on the farm Of VIM.
Moose, near Lime Ridge, caught his
left arm in the clutch pulley, break
ing it above and below the elbow and
mangling the flesh. He was thrown
around the pulley, and four OF his
ribs were broken, two close to the
spine. The man is in serious con-
dition.
Wisconsin Rapids authorities are in
vestigating an alleged attempt to blow
UP the home of Mrs. Mary Strict.
Mrs. Strict was attracted to the front
porch OF her home early in the morn
ing by noises and found two pounds
of dynamite, with a Is inch fuse and
cap attached planted on the porch.
Mrs. Strieff came there from Omaha
with her husband and recently he sued
for divorce Mrs. StrieH brought
counter suit
Married So years and still living in
a log house which they built 40 years
ago on the outskirts of Abrams, near
Green Bay, Mr.. and Mrs. James Bell
are believed to be the Oldest married
couple in Wisconsin, if not in the
United State The husband is lO4 and
his wife 1922 They have ten children,
one living with them, Mrs. M. A.
Schultz, 76 They were both born III
Great Britain and emigrated to Can
ada when children. Bell is a woods
man of the old school.
According to old sportsmen, the
deer of northern Wisconsin have de-
creased so rapidly in the last several
years that this deer season. which
opened Sunday, will see the last of
the deer herds. Very few deer have
been seen in the forests in that Vi
entity during the last year, and sports
men predict that this years hunting
season will wipe out all the deer. A
closed season for five years would be
the means of saving the deer from
complete extinction, they say. Thous-
ands of hunters will hunt deer this
season.
With several hundred cases and
damage suits involving more than
100000 the November term OF the
Rock county circuit court opened be-
fore Judge George Grimm, Nov. IL
Ninety-eight cases are on the calen-
dar. The first woman jurors IN ROCK
county's history will be Mrs. Anna 5.
Black, Beloit; Mrs. Clara Cleophas,
Beloit, and Mrs Mabel Sheldon,
GAINESVILLE One important case is that
Of A. H. Russ, 20, GAINESVILLE, against
the Wisconsin American Rochdale
Co., and L. T. Helvey. their agent to
recover $500, his life savings, which
he invested in profit sharing deben-
lures in the organization. The case
will determine if stockholders dissat-
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