Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-02-08

Fire Saturday destroyed the VI. j.
Power egg store at Madison with g
loss of $4,000 Insurance covered all
loss.
Harry Hossschulz, Milwaukee. was
electrocuted while working on q pole
in So. Milwaukee The man was bad
jly burned and fell from the pole to
his death. He was married.
John Keneske, Fond du Lac pipe
filter in a tannery, was killed when
the end of his jacket dropped over a
shafting. He was wEirled around the
shaft five times before the power was
shut eff.
/ Because she was gone two hours
for oysters to make him a stew with,
John B. Smith, La Crosse. struck one
Dolly Quinn, in the eye upon her re-
turn Smith was given thirty days in
all by Judge Brindley.
/ The explosion of d gas main at
! Fond du Lac, tore up the streets for
400 feet and caused damage to adj
jacent houses of $4,000 Several pc
Idestrians were knocked off their
! feet by the blast but escaped injury.
/ Fred O. Roberts, Pine Grove, won
one dollar and q verdict in his suit at
! Portage for $4,000 from Albert w.
J Marley, banker, for alienation of his
wifes love. The jury was out eight
hours and four women held for YER
dict for the plaintiff.
Miss Jessie Woelfing, Green county
teacher. slipped on the icy bank OF
Jordan creek, fell into the water, flu
tilely struggled for quarter of mile
in the current and drowned. Search
ers found the body frozen in mud be-
meath bridge.
/ Joseph Meyers, former sheriff of
Kenosha county, was found guilty on
four counts of bribery by a jury last
Thursday. Meyers conviction fol-
lowed that of Dist Atty. Fisher and
both offenses involved violation oil
| the state liquor laws.
Judge BelGen, Racine, will hear
/ this week disbalment proceedings
brought against Harry Sheets, Will
liam Burke and Charles Lapley, at
torncys charged with misconduct.
Miss Harriet Grimm, principal of
the Darlington schools, hes opened a
night school, two sessions a week, for
foreigners in the community.
The attorney general has ruled
that persons who voluntarily COM
NIT themselves to the Mendoza psy-
chiatric institute, may be discharged
without the two years parole fixed by
law for patients from a mental dis
ease institution. The ruling was
made to take care Of shell shock
cases, etc.
Marjorie Elizabeth Bergemann, a
I15-year-old bride three years ago, de-
veloped the habit of leaving the
baby with neighbors, so her husband,
John, %, complains in his suit for di
vorce in the Dane county courts.
Bergemann charges that his wife
called him names and associated with
a Greek against his wishes.
Wisconsin leads the nation in the
nation in the number of silos on its
farms. There were S2,034 in the state
in 1921. The number grew from
64O0S in 1918. New York is second
to Wisconsin with 1000 silos and
Michigan third with $4,000. The milk
industry in this state is responsible
for the large number of silos.
Judge Ray Stevens, Dane county
circuit court, has held the 1871 law
requiring undertakers to be licensed
embalmers, to be invalid. The ruling
said: the legislature has the un
doubted power to exercise control
over the burial of tie dead so far as.
such control is necessary to protect
the public health and promote safety,
and in this connection may require Ii
censes. from both enbalmers and un-
dertakers, but cannot go beyond
reasonable limit"