Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-04-05
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Important EUents
of Week From Z ri
State Area.

The infant child of Mr.. and Mrs. H.
Trip Of Park Falls wGs asphyxiated
by gas from a three burner oil stove.
The mother was at a neighbours ut
the time the accident took place.
Two older children were given med
ical aid and saved.
The state fisheries has planted 500
cans of white fish and lake trout fry
in Lake Michigan, near ShebOygan.
Railroad Jack" the we'll known
character, has pledged $500 to vari-
Gus civic and charitable organiza-
tions Of Madison. He will lecture to
pay off the debt
Ben H. Hedlund Rockford, ILL.,,
trapper, fell on the ice of Pickerel
creek, near Rhinelander, and broke
his neck, dying instantly. The body
was sent to Rockford
Flora DeMars, %, Rhinelander was
held Wednesday after she had plead
ed guilty for forging a $500 check.
The young woman will be given a
chance to make restitution.
Federal officers seized nine gallons
Of moonshine in a car occupied by
Frank Gross and George Klein of Sun
Prairie. The men were starting out
to peddle the stuff. They were held
and the car seized.
Ben Cleary, IL, Kenosha, was bit
by pet dog that ran wild. The child
was attempting to calm the dog when
bitten. The head Of the dog was sent
to Madison for analysis and the boy
is under care pending report
Newton Taylor, Y, retired farmer,
attempted suicide by drowning at
Tonncui1la WI &c found fiyp
feet of water by passersby who heard
his cries. Taylor worried over a fl
nancial deal. He will recover.
AkseI Taranger and Carl Hoff,
students in the college of engineering
at the University, having completed
four-year courses, will work their
way home to Christiana, next month.
Wisconsin ranks second in live
stOk among all the states and twelfth
in all farm values.
The Beloit police seek Nick Mover
ona, q, a Greek, as the result of the
shooting Wednesday night of John
Slack, 45, at Beloit restaurant. Nov
erOna fired a revolver at the floor and
the bullet glanced off and struck
Slack in the back. He did not know
he had been hit until NOverOna had
lSII Tic pIdCS. I1C 10 poIl dly ecu II O1Al
the hips down.
A gang of thieves who have been
raiding parish houses in the state, is
beHeved TO have entered the resi-
dences of FIR. Alois Bastian and FIR.
NJ. H. Clifford, Oshkosh priests, on
Thursday morning. They took $50
cash and a watch, chain and cross
emblem, valued at $3.50, at FIR. Bas-
tians. At FIR. Cliffords the thieves
took a $50 gold watch and chain
owned by FIR. n H. Gross, assistant
priest.
Racine county has lost more than
$4,000 because a herd of 165 Holstein
cattle on the county asylum farm
showed positive signs of tuberculosis
following tests. The state usually
pays one-third the value of the cattle
condemned but this rule will not hold
in the case of Racine county, which
must stand all it's loss. The disease
was manifested a couple of weeks ago
with the slaughtering of a COW. The
tests showed only six of 165 head to
be free of tuberculosis, by having a
negative reaction to test. The others
reacted positively.
Some unknown person threw a
black powder bomb into the midst Of
an audience of 500 at the Union
Congregational church. Green Bay.
The people had gathered to hear an
address by VIM. E. (Pussyfoot) John
son, on THE New India" F. G.. Walk
er, an usher, ran down the aisle and
seized the bomb just as it went off.
The bomb sizzled, burning Walkers
arm, but there was no explosion. The
crowd was in a panic during the cpl
sode. The bomb proved to be small
tin can filled with black powder OBJ
viously meant to scare more than to
hurt
John w. Hummer, Robbinsdale,
Mimi, has established that Orion s.
Wonder, once owned by Riley Mar
tiny, Baraboo, Wis, is a pedigrecd
hog. So says jury which awarded
him $4,350, the difference in the sum
he paid for the hog and for which he
sold it to the Baraboo man. The
man who must pay the difference IS
E. J. Wilson, Minneapolis, who, after
Hummer bought the hog, told him
the animal wasn't "panning out ac-
cording to expectations. He sug-
gested that Hummer sell the hog.
Hummer sold it to Martiny for $1,65Q
Martiny later sold it for $4,000. Be
cause Hummer had acted on Wilson'S
advice the jury held that Wilson
should stand the loss.
Miss Annie Prendergast, an aged
spinster of Racine, recently received
a beQuest of $1,000 for care she had
given dogs. Miss Prendergast, for a
number of years, was a maid in the
home of Fred Klein, wealthy Racine
man. Klein died leaving the maid
the interest upon $4,000 He also set
$1,000 aside for Miss Prendergast to
be given her in case she cared for two
pet dogs until their death. One of
the dogs died shortly after Klein's
death, five years ago. The other dog
died Monday of last week and Tues
day the aged woman received $1,000.
A letter from Banff, Canada, was
the cause of an attempted suicide on
the part Of Mabel Gabrieau, Merrill
girl, who recently moved to this
state from Canada. The girl had
been corresponding with young
man in Canada. After receipt of the
last letter the girl declared she had
lost faith in humanity. She procur-
cd poison in drug store and drank
. crantitv hut will recover