Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-08-30
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

Joe WautaGic, farmer living near
Glen Flora, was paralyzed by bolt of
lightning while blowing during light
shower. The horses were killed
Joseph Bohman, 43, Marinette,
killed himself with a rifle Sunday.
His widowed mother found the body
upon her return from an auto ride.
Florence Prayer, 10, Beloit, was run
over by a public utilities truck and
fatally hurt. Examination disclosed
that her pelvis was broken in both
front and back.
Mr. and Mrs. James Bell of Abrams,
recently celebrated their 89th wedding
day. Mr.. Bell is 108 and his wife 106.
Mrs. Bell milks seven COWS day and
looks after the house work. MI. Bell
still yields mean plOw
Herman Sanders, As, farmer living
near Glenwood City, was killed when
he tried to beat a 500 train to eros
sing with his team of horses. He and
the team were badly mangled. A wild
ow and several sons survive.
The Misses FentCn, Maple Grove,
escaped serious injury when their au-
tomobile turned over as they turned
out of the road to pass team of
scious, but quickly revived.
Peter Heintz, retired farmer of Fond
du Lac was within one point of taking
the lead in a game of euchre,, but
death called his hand and he lost.
After dealing himself a good hand Mr..
Heintz suddenly gasped and fell back
in his chair, dead
Roscoe Waldorf working on the
far moi j. @. Wertz, Canton, was
leading a bull to pasture when the
animal attacked kim The farm dog,
following Waldorf, attacked the bull
driving it away, and as a result Wal
dorf escaped with minor injuries.
AS David Rowe, Canton farmer, was
hauling his binder into the barn with
a tractor, the tractor backfired, set
ting fire to the hay in the barn. The
flames spread so quickly that ell eff
forts to save the barn and contents
failed. Some insurance was carried.
Speeding by a west-bound street
car at BelOit James Cavanaugh, 27,
took a headlong dive to the pavement
when the front wheel of his motor
cycle struck the rear step Of the street
car. Cavanaugh died an hour later.
Two companions in the side car es-
capped injury.
Traffic across the Chippewa river
at Chippewa Falls bridge was halted
temporarily while John McCord, an
itinerant sand sculptor, nodded a life
size figure Of a woman with a babe in
her arms The materials were sand,
salt and water Hundreds Of passers-
by marveled at the work.
Max Schief2uer, guard in the Mill
IL ,.JrN q
beaten by two men while he was ac-
companying strikebreaker to his
home Tuesday night. Schiefauer and
his man were approached by large
crowd and the companion fled. Schie-
fauer was badly beaten.
An Eau Claire young man paid So
for hugging his sweetheart in the
moonlight Two men who saw the
embrace, flashed star and forced
him to hand over his small change.
The young man became suspicious
and soing to the police station, found
that the police were fakes.
II. T. MOIstad, Withee, and Miss
Magga Schneider, Thorpe, were seri-
ously injured on highway GA, twelve
miles west Of Medford, when their
automobile turned over, after striking
a small stone in the road. Miss
SchnCider's neck was broken. Mr..
Molstad suffered a fractured skull
Skin grated from the legs Of eight
Beloit college men is expected to re-
store use of the right arm of Mrs lone
Truosdell, badly injured in an auto
mobile smash near Delayan two weeks
ago. Mrs .TruesdCll for many years
has been matron of the Phi Kappa Psi
e. a, IN1,f Of n
youths are members OF the fraternity.
When doctors gave up hope OF say
ing the life of John Odds, 81, Mayer
Packing Co. employee at Madison, ten
fellow workmen offered their blood.
Olds was badly poisoned from COM
plication Of infections and a supply
OF new blood was the only hope Of
saving his life The transfusions
were made and Odds chances for re-
covery are greatly increased.
While John Underhill and sons OF
Browntown were at the Monroe fair
their farmhouse burned to the ground.
l.. Goodman, a neighbor, discovered
the fire and forced his way into the
house, reScuing Mrs. NJ. LieberS, the
housekeeper. and the 4-months-old
daughter Of Underhill, asleep inside.
1t is believed the fire started from q
kitchen stove Underhilrs wife died
four months ago. When reached at
the fair grounds and told that his
house had burned, he rushed for his
automobile and discovered that his
pocket had been picked, containing
his money and key to the car.
A wooden beam was all that saved
the body of Chas. Brouillaire, 20, from
being consumed in the furnace of the
Kimberly Clark paper mill at Niagara.
The body was found draped around
the beam by Edward Richard making
an inspection. A car Of shavings had
been unloaded on the grounds and the
victim was shoveling the load down a
chute leading to the surface when the
accident occurred. 1t is supposed
that the shavings became clogged and
in trying to push them down with his
foot, Brouillaire lost his balance and
fell in. He dropped sixty feet before
he struck the conveyor and the impact
was sufficient to break his back and
both legs. The body was then carried
200 feet and caught against an Il. /"
beam which stood against the con-
yevors. Had it not been for the beam
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