Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-05-17
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

William LalIy, Green Bay brake
man, as tatauy injured at New Lon
don where he fell from an engine and
was dragged.
NJ. b. Ruegger, a Freeport business
man, visiting at the Chas. Bora;i
home for two weeks, returned south
Saturday Mrs. Ruegger remained
tor a more extended visit.
Dragged more than 60 feet by a
motor truck, Jennie Diamanti, g.
year-0Id daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Michael Diamenti Of Kenosha, was
mortauy hurt Harold HarbrOugh,
q, driver Of the truck, was held.
Norton Wells, Orfordville higa
school team ball pitcher, collided
with a base runner IN the 8th inning
OF close game and suffered frac-
tured jaw He was knocked uncon-
sciOus but recovered and finished the
game, making another hit
Harry Shannon, 81, La Crosse, is
in a hospital with a bullet in his
cheek, inflicted by a third person
after firing a shot at his wife and
missing her. She had started di-
vorc4 proceedings and refused to
see him. He entered ner room in Il
hotel and the shooting followed
quarrel
After struggling for an hour TO
subdue powerful team frightened
by passing automobile, Ed. Zimmev-
man, Boyd, was hurled from the seat
OF his milk cart and killed. His skull
was fractured and he was terribly
mangled. Zimmerman was As and up
to his marriage a year ago had been
a Woodsman.
Edward Darwin, Chippewa Falls
farmer, sued Ernest Heidke for $10v,
stating Heidke had wantOnly shot a
collie dog trained to handle cattle
Darwin said the dog was more val
liable to MIN than any man he could
hire. Heidke said he thought the dog
was tramp was a worthless tramp
and that he shot intending to frighteu
it. Darwin was awarded $50.
The timely return home of George
Merry, Fond du Lac, saved his mother
Mrs. Jennie Merry, Is, from death by
asDhyNiatiOn. The aged woman was
OVERCOME by breating fumes escaping
from q coal range. When the son re-
turned he found that his usual noon
day meal was not ready and upon in
Vestlgating found his mother sitting
in a chair next TO a window which
was not open.
Wisconsin railroads have been as
sessed $34S,7 600 in 1922. Last year
tho valuation was $345.559 600 The
Northwestern road pays the greatest
taX-On valuation OF 1922, 000, 000
The Milwaukee road pays on 5000
600 The 500 line pays on $53,000000
and other companies upon smaller
and varying amounts. Railroad con
ditiOns have improved considerably
in the past year.
The right OF prohibition officers to
search without warrants soft drink
pdI,ogs licensed to sell non-intOxi-
cents. was upheld by the Wisconsin
Supreme court when it sustained
provision of the Soyerson law under
which the saloon OF H. SLIDER OF
Milwaukee was entered. Justice
Owen wrote the opinion, which was
concurred in by the court without
dissent The decision has bearing
upon a number Of cases now in pro
cess of law.
Willetta Higgins II, of the state
school for the blind at JanesviIIe,
was filmed by representatives Of five
motion picture concerns that deal III
news pictures This was the first
time she has been in the movies
since her remarkable powers Of
hearing with her fingers and seeing
through her sense OF smell has been
discovered 1t is estimated that 49,
100000 people will see the James
Vile girl in the motion pictures in
the next few weeks
The Rev. S. Patterson Todd, Mil
waUkee. tod the senate judiciary
committee at Washington which il
considering the Myers resolution pro
viding q probe CT the movie industry,
that conspiracy exists among mo-
ton picture theatre owners to de-
feat the federal law prohibiting the
trans ortatt0n OF prize fight films
and the Wisconsin Sunday closing
law. Todd said: The motion picture
houses Of Wisconsin can elect or de-
feat any candidate for office tney
choose"
Harvey Van Matre, Racine barber,
was arrested for operating his shop
on Sunday Harvey was willing to
settle and appeared in court. Along
came friend wife who was beIligerent.
Mrs. Van Matre dared the court to
sentence Harvey, declaring that she
would close every theatre closed on
Sunday The court agreed that the
theatres were equally liable with the
BARRIERS for running on Sunday but
inflicted the fine of 81 with choice
of ten days in Jail Harvey paid and
Mrs Harvey said she would see that
all Racine became familiar with the
statutes
William Butler, Milwaukee, was ar
rested at Madison on a charge of
passing checks without having funds
to cover his liberal ideas Butler
hired a taxi driver at Milwaukee and
offered the man S51 to drive him to
Madison. The ride was rapid and tho
chauffeur arrested at WATERFOWL for
speeding, promised to settle on his
way back Butler went to a hotel
and paid the chauffeur with a $50
check. Then he paid an advance on
his room with another check The
checks looked suspicious and Captain
Harry Davenport was called. Butler
was recognized as the man who sue
ceeded in passing a number Of bad
checks in Madison a few weeks pre-
xv;o,7S He bpn0mp drunk between the