Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-04-13

Nadine Heiden, Z, Fond du Lac. is
in a hospital as the result of burns
received when her clothing caught
fire from bonfire. She will recov-
er.
Samuel Wyss, %. Marinette farm
Ell, was instantly killed when he
q gasoline engine. His skull was
fractured.
John McCaffrey, IA, Superior rail
reader, locked himself in a hotel
room and died of dropsy. Employees
forced the door hours after he re-
fused medical aid.
Henry Franklin, university fresh
man, pleaded guilty to charge of
forgery Franklin signed the name
OF F. H. Man to a number of checks
and passed them on business men.
The Ebert Gilbert family at Elk
horn fed from their home when they
discovered the building on fire. The
new house and contents were des-
troyed. Mrs. Gilbert carried the chill
dren out through the flame and smoke,
Mrs. Fred McWrightman and three
sons of Rhinelander, was given the
choice of Jail sentence or leaving
the country The family was caught
making moonshine. They chose Can
ada.
Peter Kohl, taken from Milwaukee
to Jefferson to finish sentence in
terrupted when he broke Jail % years
ago, pleaded guilty before Judge
Grimm and was given 20 days in jail
to fulfill his sentence
e. W. Servotte. Green Bay carpen-
ter, fell head first from the roof of
house he was repairing, and sustain
ed injuries that caused his death
later. Ten ribs were broken and his
legs and shoulders fractured.
William Anderson, 81, Stevens
Point youth who burglarized the
store of Nancy & Soule, Almond, was
given three years in Green Bay. The
youth told the authorities he had been
a Wanderer since he was IA years.
James Bounds, alias Jimmie Fays,
Minneapolis, escaped from the custO
while he was being taken from the
court house to the county jail. He
was recaptured day later as he was
boarding a freight train.
Bandits at Mondovi dug their way
through two feet of brick into the
vault of the First National Bank and
carried off contents of forty deposit
boxes. The yeggs were miles away
when the theft was discovered at s
the next morning. ST. Paul talent is
suspected.
Frank Miller, 81, Oshkosh, was
killed when an automobile driven by
Leo Scheissel, Oshkosh, plunged
down steep embankment and turned
over Scheissel mistoOk rail eros
sing for a turn in the road. Three
men in the car were slightly injured.
Miller's skull was crushed.
Miss Belle Kamrud, employed in a
Monroe hotel, threw wet sheet over
clothes line and sustained a severe
electric shock. The line was crossed"
with an electric wire. The girls
screams brought her sister to the res
cue but the latter tainted. Finally
man with a meat cleaver cut the
wire and Miss Kamrud was freed
The malpractice suit of Miss En-
MA Taylor, Darien, against DR.. John
F. Rood, is on at GAINESVILLE. The
woman asks $4,000 as damages On
October "a, 1918, she fell and broke
her right arm. She alleges that DR..
Rood set the break improperly and
as a result she is crippled for life.
The defense holds that previous to
the accident named Miss Taylor had
suffered a broken wrist.
Residents of the BURBERRY district
IL Jackson, Monroe and Juneau
counties are asking the legislature for
protection for the crop against mo-
florists who swarm in from all points
during the early season and use rakes
to gather fruit. AS a result the
bushes are destroyed and green and
immature berries are harvested. Last
year $4,000 crates of berries worth
100000 were shipped out of these
counties.