Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-12-06
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.


and paid fines totaling $1,000.
Frank Manders, a roofer, fell "a
feet from the roof of the La Crosse
hospital and escaped with few small
bruises. Frank landed in heap of
rubbish s
Paine" olson, 81 La Crosse, was
fined 5000 and costs for driving car
that struck and injured Miss kather-
inc Mickshl. Olson wrecked the car
after hitting the girl.
Harold Lahdfear and Will Huebner,
Amberg hunters, shot and killed a
black bear which tipped the beam at
432 pounds. The bear had hibernated
for the winter in Marinette county.
Lorraine Frederickson, years, was
instantly killed at Nekoosa when she
was shot accidentally by her brother,
Albert, 10, who was playing with a
shotgun in the absence of his parents.
Vandals broke into the house on the
James Kerwin farm west of Berlin,
tearing up the floors and smashing
the windows. The owner, who lives
in town, did not know that his place
had been vandalized until recently.
Karl J. Berndts, Merrill, Lincoln
county, has brought suit for $4,000
against the county, alleging personal
injury. Berndt claims that his auto
mobile collided with a three-wheel
tractor left standing in the road by
workers.
Elmer Schmidt, ticket agent for the
Northwestern road at Appleton, was
held up at the point of a gun by a
masked visitor who tapped the till for
$500 Schmidt says the stranger put
gun in his face and forced him to
open the safe.
The Chippewa Falls sugar refining
company has closed a successful seas
on with a pack of 100000 pounds of
sugar. More than $4,000 was paid to
the farmers for beets, $4,000 to en-
ployes and the railroads got $4,000
for hauling beets in.
While riding into Madison Tuesday
night the engine on the automobile OF
Emil Borchers and Henry Hinderlind-
err, Darwin, blew up at Windsor, burn
ing the two men The explosion set
the whole machine on fire and it was
reduced to wreckage.
The vestry of the Episcopal church
at Stevens Point, has barred the use
of the guild hall to dances as the re-
suit of disorderly conduct on the part
of those attending the dance parties.
The vestry found that dances at the
hall could not be controlled.
Leland Felsch and Henry w. Olson,
young farmers of near WOnewoc, have
been arrested on the charge that they
spent their nights running around the
country specializing in harness and
poultry but taking other stuff if it lay
handy Bail was set at $4,000.
An hour after he had carefully fed
his herd of cattle, John Spensrud, so,
Evansville, was found dead in shed
on his farm. He he'd hung himself by
jumping from timber with rope
tied to his neck He had been in poor
health since August when he broke
several ribs in an accident.
The Bankers Trout & Game Co. of
Edgewater, has a 136-acre tract on
Lake Chetek, conducting a brook
trout, squad and mallard duck pre-
serve. A pine island of 28 &C. es in the
lake belongs to the company. The
fish are propagated in a basin fed by a
spring and the water comes from the
ground at A degrees temperature the
year around.
Leonard Coenen, De Pere, being
tried for running into Mrs. John En-
gels, also of Depere, offered his auto
and all of his personal property to
the husband of the dead woman. Mr..
Coenen ran into Mrs. Engels while
she was waiting for a street car. The
Jury found that a cloud of dust OBJ
scured the drivers vision, causing
the accident
Arthur Buske, 20, and Claude May
10. residing near jefferson, were held
hoe ri Ma
filing of charges involving a girl OF
II. The girl made a complaint on
Nov. II. that on the evening of Easter
Sunday last, she was attacked by the
two young men. The complaint was
not made until her parents became
aware that she was to become a
mother soon. Bail was fixed at 81 900.
With his arm caught under a one
ton lid to a purifier tank Nose DISC
tell, Berlin, Wis. stood helpless for
80 minutes while his men endeavored
to release him. The men were raising
the lid to clean the tank when the
tackle broke Both bones of the arm
were broken and splintered, the mus
cIes crushed and the nerves torn.
Physicians believe the member can
be saved.
The body of Edward Bum, Wausau
farmer boy who disappeared Nov. IA,
was found Sunday near the farm of
August Ferge, with whom he had re-
sided since his removal from an or
phan's home in Sparta. The body had
been blown to fragments with picric
acid, which police believe, was pur-
chased by the boy, who had been des-
pondent 1t was at first believed he
had been killed by bear, as his dog
had returned from the woods severely
wounded.
Anna LEM, Chiffon young woman,
confessed Wednesday to sending pois-
oned candy which caused the death of
Mrs. Frank Schneider, mother of s
children, the Youngest five days old.
The girl said she had intended the
candy for Mrs Henry Schneider, sis
ter-in-law Of the dead woman, alleging
that Mrs. Henry Schneider had spread
story about Frank Schneider and
Miss LEM attending a dance together.
She bought rat poison and put part of
tho noison into chocolate bar, mall
ing it to the Schneider home,