Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-11-29
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

Charles r. Schultz, As, proprietor OF
a Juneau bakery, turned over on a
road near Oak Grove and was killed.
Companions were injured.
Chicago police are looking for Carl
Wooley, GAINESVILLE, charged with
having kidnapped his 5-year-old daugh-
ter from the custody Of his divorced
WIFE
A new motor car, valued at 5000,
was stolen from the show rooms OF
the Klinger Mayer garage at Water
town No clues were left.
Atty. Gen. Morgan and his assist
ants, r. NJ. Hoyt and John F. Baker,
plan to re-engage in the practice OF
law after jan LIST. Morgan and Hoyt
go to Milwaukee. Baker remains IN
Madison.
Judge Haase, Marinette, fined w. T..
COmstock, Oconto, $14.70 over long
distance phone. COmstock pleaded
guilty over the wire to speeding $50
and COSTS" said Haase. A check
came by mail.
Helen Cross, 16, Kenosha high
school girl, sent note to her teach
ers saying she would not attend
school any longer because she was
married to Donald Reeves The girls
mother was present at the ceremony
and did not object.
j. Faulkner, Rice Lake, out shoot
ing deer, shot at large buck, Dut
missed. He was amazed to see dark
animal roll down hillside some dis
lance further on. Investigation dis
closed the animal to be large black
fox. The hide is valuable.
Mexican cattle buyers are in Rock
county selecting a carload OF Hol-
stems to ship to Mexico City and dis
tribute among the leading dairy farms
of that section. MeXicans dealers
have bought thousands of Wisconsin
cattle, shipping them to Mexico.
Paul Smith, Barron, was held at
Prentice after authorities found him
in company with a girl, IA, who halls
from North Dakota. The girl says she
left home Oct % and met Smith, who
offered to pay her way back to North
Dakota Action against the man is
pending.
The 9-year-old son of Peter Dahl,
farmer living near Sparta, picked up
a shotgun his father had left standing
in a shed, pulled the trigger and in
stantly killed his 13-year-old sister.
The full charge entered the girls
neck. The boy did not know the gun
was loaded.
300 pupils of the Rice Lake high
school have just been questioned as to
what occupation they desire to follow
81 per cent wanted to teach, but only
IL OF the boys chose teaching. IA per
cent want to do office work Only
per cent wanted to farm. One boy de-
sires to become chimney sweep.
Wausau residents watched federal
and state officers Friday destroy SO
stills and pour several hundred gal
Ions Of moonshine into the sewers.
Judge A. H. Reid ordered the destruc-
ton of the stills and liquor following
disposal of an accumulation of liquor
cases.
Ten-year-old Glen Robertson is
seeking a gem expert to appraise for
him the value of pearl of seven
grains weight which he extracted
from clam on which he stubbed his
toe while playing along the slough
on Isle LaPlume, opposite La Crosse.
A value of $500 has been tentatively
placed upon it.
Shortly after Mr.. and Mrs. John
Hopkins, Eau Claire, had boarded the
train at Chetek for Eau Claire, fire
was discovered in their cottage. Mr..
and Mrs. Hopkins had closed their
cottage during the forenoon, prepare
tory for the winter. Before the fire
department could arrive the flames
were beyond control.
The Jefferson county board of sup
ervisors carried over to the January
term a claim for $4,000, being alleged
detective services engaged by District
Atty Ray Twining, in running down
bootleggers Several of the members
express themselves openly as being
opposed to the employment of detec-
tives to clean up the countys wet
spots.
A group of barns with horses, cat
tie and swine and farm implements
on the John Schaefer farm near Ros-
endale were destroyed by fire of I'M
known origin which caused an esti-
mated loss of $4,000. The blaze was
discovered by a young couple motor
ing home from dance. Fond du Lac
firemen responded but were unable to
save the stock or buildings.
Mrs. Frank Schneider, Chiffon, died
Wednesday under circumstances indi-
eating arsenic poisoning. The day of
her death Mrs. Schneider ate a candy
Jar that reached the house through
the mail She was the mother of eight
children, the last child being but five
days old. A letter is said to have ac-
companied the bar of candy. The case
will be thoroughly investigated.
Bloodhounds will probably be used
to trail men who exploded a charge
of dynamite in a drainage ditch be-
tween farms of Peter Michelor
and Theo Barbian, near Appleton. A
large hole was dug by the blast and
a portion of the fence wrecked. Mi
cheler and Barbian have been in liti-
CATION over the ditch for more than
two years. Neither man is benefited
by the explosion.
A hot water heater attached to kit
chen stove in the home of John Muir
ply, Lake Geneva, blew up with great
force due to an accumulation of lime.
The stove doors were blown into an
adjoining room and the tea kettle to
the ceiling Mr.. Murphy was sitting in
a chair beside the fire. The legs of
his chair were blown off and Murphy
wounded in the arm by flying iron.