Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-05-03

The Wausau Daily Tribune, estab-
lished in 1921, has been discontinued.
The paper was a political organ and
hackers failed to keep their pledges.
Henry Ludwig and son, Stetson-
Vile, driving a team over railroad
crossing, were struck by a train.
The wagon was thrown clear of the
track and neither man badly hurt.
Both horses were killed.
Mrs. G. F. Post, Baraboo, has sued
DR.. F. E. Wood, Spring Green dentist,
for $4,000, alleging malpractice. Dr..
Wood had previously sued Mr.. Post
and received judgment for $44 for
work done on Mrs. Post The case
now goes to circuit court.
Brooding over divorce proceedings
brought by his wife, Frank Barden,
Al, member of the fire and police
commission at Beloit, shot and fatal
ly wounded his wife, Laura, and
then blew out his brains. The wife,
dangerously hurt, was taken to hos
| pital.
Seven summer homes at Sunset
Point, north Of La Crosse, owned by
rich residents of the city, were bur
|
| iod by men who used power launches
to get to the houses and raid them OF
| articles valued at several hundred
dollars.
A few hours after preaching stir
ring sermon to his congregation at
| st. Johns Lutheran church the Rev.
Harry Mueller, Baraboo, died at his
| home from heart disease He and his
congregation had observed his 10Th
| anniversary as pastor of the church
Saturday.
Fred Frisbee, Alfred Bedessman
and Chas. Mcdonald, La Crosse, were
thrown into the icy waters of the
Mississippi when they attempted to
| change places in a canoe. Clinging
to the overturned craft for Is minutes
they were nearly exhausted when res
cued by two other boys in a skiff.
Mrs. Maude Hatch, Tomah, has sued
| for the recovery of $4,000 which she
asserts her husband lost in gambling
games with Andrew Jones and An
drew Cary. Mrs. Hatch asserts that
Hatch lost the money between Octo-
Der and March playing faro bank and
draw poker with the two merry An
| dreWS.
| lie UdI vi IuE OIU OlINcl OOllCll SoI~
Don at Madison has been changed to a
pulpit or altar and religious services
will be begun about June LIST. |. S.
| Caldwell, missionary in Africa for
! six years, has bought the building and
will use it for interdenominational
revival services, with the Bible as the
only authority All races and colors
will be welcome at this mission.
he
| Robt. j. Johonnot, Beaver Dam, and
/ Doris Moses, Delavan, pupils at the
state university, announced the fact
to their parents and friends at the
University of Wisconsin Tuesday.
Both are q. A few days ago Johon-
not was severely gassed by an UNI
| lighted stove burner. 1t was his near
death that revealed the romance.
They will continue at the university.
| A female silver fox broke out from
a fox farm at Pulaski, and seven days
| later the manager, John Mecikalski,
received a letter from VIM. Mammals,
| Odanah, Wis, relating that the fox he
sold the Pulaski farm seven months
before had returned to his home,
distance of more than 200 miles. The
distance was covered by the fox in
| five days. Upon her arrival she gave
birth to four puppies. Mecikalski de-
| cided to leave the fox and her pups
with the former owner for a while.
Woo Ong, Superior laundryman,
was sentenced to IS months in FIT.
Leavenworth with recommendation
that at the expiration of the sentence
he be deported to China. Ong had
been operating an opium den in the
rear of his innocent-looking laundry
establishment. The testimony of a
white woman, VERNE Carroll, brought
| about the Chinaman's conviction. She
| said she had bought mud as the ad-
diets know opium, upon numerous
occasions. The woman, named Vern-
| lie Carroll, is now an inmate of Wau-
! pun.
Moonshine raids have become so
| common as to be no longer news, in
fact if the officers made a raid and
didn't find a still-that would be
news At La Crosse, last week, the
! officers raided a shack on the shore
| of Bnak slough, near the city, and
| found a complete brewery. 200-gal-
! lon tanks, cooling cellar and other
devices comprised the equipment. 800
quarts of very fair beer were cOnfiS-
| Gated. Paul Zschocle and Henry w.
Herschroeder pleaded guilty to own
ing the plant and paid fines of $500
and costs.
| Joseph MitZ, Sheboygan, found
| guilty of taking indecent liberties
with two small girls, was given two
years at Waupun. Joseph Kristzun-
as, the same city, found guilty of en-
bezzling funds of the American Elk
| press Co., was given one year. The
man. aged "a, said he had spent the
money, $500, on liquor, which, he
told the court, could be bought at any
saloon in Sheboygan. He was mar
ried last November. Csc to soc shot
seemed to be the prevailing price of
"a shot in the arm" at the Sheboy-
/ gan booze emporiums.
Ten Wisconsin doctors were called
! into the office of the federal prohibit
| ton inspector at Milwaukee and
questioned about the use they were
making of whiskey permits. It was
charged that prescriptions were sold
without proper caution, that the same
man was able to buy too frequently
and that men WHO did not exist at all
were sold prescriptions. The infer
ence was that the doctors were selling