Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-11-22
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and 7 Telegraph.

A black fox, worth $4,000, escaping
from the pen of Pease Williams, Bruce
farmer, was shot by hunter who
failed to recognize the animal.
August Noyitski, Pound, suffered
the loss of his right index finger while
holding a chicken for his wife, who
meant to chop the head off OF the bird.
VIM Thompson, q, Westboro, was
mistaken for deer by hunters and
killed. The accident occurred in the
woods half a mile from Thompson's
home.
The Lincoln county board took
recess of a week and went deer hunt
ing. After the hunt is over the board
will have a big deer supper and then
proceed to business.
Edgar Nelson Gunn Wausau man
who went hunting, is missing. HIS
dog returned late at night badly cut
and scratched, indicating a fight with
a bear. posse is searching for the
missing youth.
Thomas Jefferson, 16, Wisconsin
Rapids, was killed Sunday when his
playmate, Lester Ballet, accidental
Iy shot him with a .22-caliber rifle.
The boys had been playing with the
gun and thought it was unloaded.
Borden Olson, escaped from the
Dunn county Jail at Menominee, was
captured at the home Of Motto Dean,
near Sand Creek Olson had return
to call on an old sweetheart. He was
detained by Dean until the officers
could arrive Olson was under arrest
r+at11tOrJr when he G.
capped.
Max Stassel, 16, Sheldon, was in
stantly killed while hunting when
gun he was carrying discharged. The
hammer of the gun struck on some
obstruction causing it to go Off. The
charge penetrated the boys abdomen.
Madison police in a raid on Little
Italy" coniscated $50 gallons of wine.
Deer hunters in Douglas county,
return with tales of rowing packs OF
wolves. The Minnesota forest fires
have driven great packs OF wolves
over the Wisconsin border.
Geo Chervenka, 10, Newburn Ridge
near La Fargo, is in a hospital with
a charge of shot in his lower jaw and
face His parents had just returned
home with a load of apples, which the
boy was loading into baskets. He ac-
cidentally struck the hammer of a
loaded gun that lay in the bottom of
the buggy, causing it to discharge. He
may die
A horse with four rubber bands
tightly fastened to it's tongue, causing
the organ to swell and decay and MAX
ing it impossible for the animal to eat
or drink, has been discovered at Will
ton by A. e. Frederick, state humane
officers. The horse was found in a
pasture. DR.. Frederick has offered a
reward of $25 for information that
will lead to the conviction of the per-
petratOr
IF that is going 10 keep up | am
going to cut my throat said Anton
Wotjasewicz Racine, indicating his
throat by brushing his hand across his
neck The next moment he sank to
the floor dead. The man had been
brought to the county Jail by deputies
charged with having attempted to kill
his wife At the time of his death he
was relating his domestic troubles to
the officers.
A duck killed on Dixon lake in W
las county with an alum mum band on
it's leg stamped geological survey
IOlOOC. - pun LII SSJl SciJ1Oll ny WI
servation warden Weaver it was
learned that the bird was ringnecked
duck, banded a Belle Island, La, Feb.
II, 1922. BY means of these number
ed aluminium bands an investigation
relative to the migration and habits
of native birds is carried on.
George Bunce. Rice Lake farmer,
was shot at night while he lay in wait
at his barn for a stranger who had
penned an anonymous note to him
threatening his life. During the past
few months Bunce has received a
number of letters ordering him to
move out or be burned out" The
stranger carried a dazzling light
which blinded Bunce and prevented
him from distinguishing the mans
appearance. Bunce challenged him
and the stranger fired and ran toward
an awaiting automobile and escaped
Bunce in turn fired several shots,
none taking effect Bunce was hurt
but not seriously so. The shooting is
the climax of a series of mysterious
fires in the vicinns.
After having first denied having
still in his home, Francis Tisserand,
Belleville. pleaded guilty to Judge Geo.
Grim at Monroe, and was fined 500
and costs. Carl Vogt, on the same day,
pleaded guilty to the charge of pos
sessing liquor and was fined 500 and
costs. John Wachendorf, charged with
failure to provide for wife and six
children, was given six months at hard
labor. He is divorced, his former
wife now residing at Brodhead.
Julius H. Barnes, head of the cham
bers of commerce, assures Superior
authorities that movement of coal to
the northwest has reached a point
whereby a famine has been averted.
Domestic users can get coal although
individual preference as to kind and
quality may not always be met.