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

hurled the brick walls Of the building
thirty feet.
Matthew cambridge. q prominent
citizen OF Blanchardville, is dead at
the age of IS years. Mr.. cambridge
was born in Durham, England, but
had resided in Blanchardville for 90
years.
D. T. McOwen, proprietor of the
Kenosha hotel, was fined $4,000 and
sentenced to so days in the Milwaukee
house of correction after he had made
pleas of guilty TO nine counts of sell
ling liquor.
Louis Zimmerman, %, Delafeld,
whose body was recovered from the
mill pond at Delafield. came to his
death by accident, according to 4
verdict of a coroner's jury at Wan
kesha, Tuesday.
John Kopis, sawyer at the Kinsel
Lumber CO. plant near Merrill died
in a hospital from skull fracture
received when a tree which he was
cutting, fell on his head Kopis was
80 years old and married.
A Beaver Dam man claims to have
found a new use for moonshine.
He left bottle around the house and
relative, thinking it was linament,
rubbed the fluid on his eczema. The
trelative says he is cured.
When John Thorsness failed to re-
turn to his farm house at Cumber
land after he had gone to feed his
stock, the family investigated. The
man was found dead on the hay, hay
ing succumbed to heart disease.
State ice dealers report that ice
will be of much better quality the
coming summer than last and at a
considerably lower price. Last year
ice brought one cent pound in many
cities and some places even more.
A. H. Baker, 500 line conductor, had
both feet severely frozen at Lady
smith when the temperature dropped
to 40 below zero. He was helping to
"thaw" out the locomotive at the
time. Doctors hope to save the toes.
All the thrills Of a Kentucky noun
tain distillery raid were waiting for
Sheriff Rauen and his posse when
they invaded the farm of Mike Lab
anowski, north of KenOsha, and found
two shacks in the woods, where two
stills were hidden.
Alois Scherhaufen, 62, ShebOygan,
was found frozen to death in his hum
BILE habitation in that city. The body
lay six days before being discovered.
The indications were that the old
man had succumbed to heart trouble
while preparing a meal
A woman, believed to be Miss
Mary Thomas of Rogers, Ill, COM
mitted suicide by taking poison in
a Kenosha hotel She had previously
been refused carbolic acid by drug
clerk but found some other means of
obtaining a dangerous drug.
Charley On, Chinese laundryman OF
Madison, was arrested when bottle
of whiskey was found hidden behind
a clothes basket in his place. On
pleaded not guilty, asking for a jury
trial. He claimed he had the liquor
for personal use and not for sale.
A total Of 10 people are employed
in the. broom-handle factory of the
Northern Woods Products Coat Gid
den About $4,000 broom handles.
one carloads produced every "A
hours by the factory. So a day is the
wage of the factory unskilled labor
Charles and J. W. Hammond, La
Crosse grocery men, were arrested on
a charge Of combining the sale of
moonshine with the innocuOus Occu-
patton Of dispensing sugar, crackers,
etc Five stills and a truck load Of
product in various stages was confis-
Gated in a shack owned by the men.
They pleaded not guilty.
Fred and Frank Sutherland two
drug addicts who begged a doctor for
morphine were directed to q drug
store When they got there detec-
tive was awaiting them. The boys
were sent to the house Of correction
for 80 days in the hope of curing
them. The boys live in Milwaukee.
Seven new cases of scarlet fever
and two of smallpox aroused the au
thorities at Waukesha to action.
Three deaths had previously occurred
from scarlet fever, two among high
school pupils The health board or
dered the burning OF library books
in homes where illness was prevalent.
Physicians will report all suspicious
cases.
Failing in his attempt to escape
from the Walworth county jail after
/ he had locked fhe turnkey in cell
and lost a fight with the sheriff and
a trusty, Floyd Congdon pleaded
guilty iii county court to tie theft o.
j car DIT East Troy. sentence was u6-
ferred pending an investigation into
COngdOn's record. He was arrested
in Milwaukee where he attempted to
sell the car.
Chief Justice Taft announced Mon
day that the Supreme court would
grant the request of Minnesota and
Wisconsin for a final decree in their
boundary dispute, adopting the line
surveyed and marked by a commits
sion appointed under an opinion of
the court handed down in March, 1920.
The boundary in dispute was from
lower ST. Louis bay and st. Louis
river, to the falls" in that river
The two states approved the line as
located by the commission.
Fire starting from spontaneous
combustion in a pile of coal destroyed
the $4,000 new high school building
in the village of Sussex, ten miles
north of WaukeshG. The residents
of the village were aroused at 5 a
m by the report of fire and lacking
fire facilities, formed bucket bri-
gade. In the meantime fire depart
ments from other towns came. See
ing the building was doomed the fire