Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-11-15
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

Oh Jugs SuSdSCO AZ IAAO AANA'
lasted three nights.
Albert Schrader, ex-convict, is held
at Fond du Lac on a charge OF at
tempted criminal assault upon Mrs.
Dora Bandsman, town of Wausau. He
will be examined by alienists.
Peter Thompson, Sheboygan, a con-
tractor, wac killed by a cavern OF
earth in a basement he was excayat-
ing at Kchler for the foundations Tor
a new building. He leaves widow
and several children.
Angered because of the attempts of
her parents to persuade her TO return
home to Oshkosh, Miss Jennie Ellison,
16, attempted suicide by the poison
route at Rhinelander. She was taken
home and will recover.
A barn on the l.. F. Olson farm one
mile north of Woodford, was de-
stroyed by lightning. Four COWS were
killed by the same bolt and a large
quantity of hay and grain, together
with a small touring car were total
loss.
A strange corpulence on the body
of Tony Travesty, Kenosha, caused a
police officer to pull the man off from
a bicycle. Tony had copper tank
under his clothes and inside the tank
was a gallon of liquor. He pleaded
guilty and paid a fine.
Hibbard Shepreaux, 81, Woodsman
for the John Week Lumber Co., was
killed at Stevens Point when car he
was driving overturned on a concrete
road, breaking his neck. A compan-
ion escaped with a cut on his head. A
bottle of moonshine was found in the
car.
Mrs Olga Steinert, Milwaukee, was
arrested when police found gallon
Of moonshine in market basket she
was carrying. A search Of her home
located a 15-gallon still, 300 gallons
of mash and five gallons of moon
shine. The woman has three children
two girls, 8 and 10, and boy, Z.
The buildings and land used by the
H. w. Gossard Corset Co. at James
willie, were given to the firm by The
commercial club Of the city, pursuant
to an agreement made in 1916, that
when 100000 in wages had been paid
on. by the company they would &C
uuire a clear title to the property.
Guy Darling, Fond du Lac grocer,
placed a paper sack containing $25 in
change on the running board of his
car and then forgot about it. When
he arrived at his destination the sack
was empty. Darling retraced his
route and found three men picking up
coins from the roadway. He was able
to recover only $1.14.
AS the polls opened Tuesday, Ralph
E. Smith, Merrill, Independent candi-
date for the state senate in the 25th
district, offered 81 1000 reward to Dr.
Joseph Barber, republican candidate,
if his statements regarding Barber
could be proven false. If proven cor
rect Barber was asked to give $1,000
to the federated charities of Wausau.
Joseph Bairl, so, Auburndale, while
driving a car over a wet road near
MOsinee, attempted to pass another
car going in the same direction. At
ter honking several times and gettinr
no recognition he tried to drive aroond
the other car and skidded into the
ditch The car turned over tWl1e anu
pinned him beneath. He died on the
way to a hospital.
Love for his country that led Matt
Trask, Be.oit, to fight through the
Civil war in the Union army prJmp-
ted him in his will to direct that a
United States flag be engraved upon
his tombstone. Trask died last week
at 81 He directed that the work be
done by Frank Luchsinger, Monroe.
Mr. Trask wore a somDrero and long
gray hair that hung to his shoulders.
AS a boy he heard the lincoln Doug
las debate at Freeport.
The firing of a shotgun by a nervous
citizen frustrated an effort at Shoe
ton to trap bandits who were raiding
the state bank in the village. The
robbers stole an acetylene torch from
a machine shop and used it to burn
off the lock and hinges on the valut
door. One of the hinges and the lock
had been removed when the shot was
fired No attempt was made to pur-
sue the robbers although $50 men had
gathered. When the gun went off the
men thought the robbers were shoot
ing up the town and fled to cover.
A practical joke came near being
the cause of serious accident at
Peshtigo. While a touring car be-
longing to a Grover farmer was park
ed in the city, someone took paper
sign depicting a negro waiter and put
it in the back seat, tucking the robe
neatly about it. The owner of the car
did not discover his passenger until
we'll on his way and in trying to ascer-
tain the identity of the occupant of the
back seat, ran into culvert, damag-
ing the machine but escaping injury
himself. 1t is said he took a few
rounds out of the machine and then
returned to the city to look for the
practical jokers.
Seized by two men and held captive
in an automobile until after midnight
in a strip of woods several miles north
of Fond du Lac, Bernice Hinmar, II,
arrived at her home Wednesday morn
ing, exhausted and with her clothing
torn from her. She fell in faint as
she reached the door AMI it was nearly
an hour before she could tell a coher-
emit story. The girl said .hat two men
in q car stopped her block from her
home at 8 p. M, and that one seized
and held her, and tied her with ropes
as the car sped into the country. Both
men criminally assaulted her and left
her alone in the woods. The men are
described as being middle aged. The
notice are searching for them.