Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-10-04
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

c. L. Stoney, town of Bradford,
Rock county, has brought action
against his tenant, L. B. Buell., alleg-
ing embezzlement Of farm products
to the amount of $1,000.
Authorities at the state school for
the deaf at Delavan are conducting a
search for Clayton Reach, 10, deaf
and dumb pupil, who has been miss
ing since Saturday afternoon.
Howard, 16 months old son of H. j..
Linstad, Walsh, Marinette county,
checked to death while playing. The
child was eating a raw rutabaga and
while running in the yard stumbled
and fell. A piece Of the vegetable
lodged in his throat.
Stepping from his fathers auto di-
rectly in the path Of an oncoming car
the 4-year-oId son of DR.. G. R. Duer,
was instantly killed at Stoughton
Wednesday. DR.. Duer's car was
parked in front of his office and the
child had been left alone in the ma
chine.
Valentine Faber, Oshkosh, his wife
and two daughters, narrowly escaped
from serious injury shortly after noon
Wednesday when their new automo-
bile was struck by a switch engine on
the Milwaukee railroad and dragged
70 feet. The car remained upright
however. Faber said he did not see
the fiagman at the corner.
Oil can explosions claimed their
tenth victim of the year at BelOit on
Tuesday when Theodore Calkin5, H.
died from terrible burns suffered
when a gasoline can with which he
was filing a blOwtorch Sunday eX-
ploded. A wife, a 3-year-old son, par
ents in Tomah, Wis, and five brothers
and three sisters survive him.
Catherine Burries, Madison, and
Amelia Wegmiller, RidgeWay, are
held in connection with the finding OF
the body of an infant child at Monroe.
The girls were identified by the land
lady where they stopped at Monroe
and it is said that bed clothing from
the woman's house was found under
the bridge with the dead body OF the
infant.
Paul Schultz, 81, son Of the Rev. c.
p. Schultz, ShebOygan, and senior
medical student at the University OF
Wisconsin, was found dead Tuesday
on the bathroom floor of a rOOmlng
house in Madison. After a pOstmor-
tenn examination, a corOner's jury re
turned a verdict that the death was
due to asphyziatiOn. Schultz was IN
poor health.
Edward Wells, Monroe, candidate at
the September primaries for the Re-
publican nomination for sheriff OF
Green county, was fined $107 for driv-
ing an automobile while intoxicated
in GAINESVILLE Wells failed to follow
the turn in a local street while drlv-
ing. AS a result his auto went up
over the curb, knocked down small
tree, and ran into a house.
The value of property held by Will
liam, Julius and Mary Balzer, who
were killed on their farm near Cas-
sell Prairie August s, is approximate
" S65 900, it was learned in Madison
Wednesday, Most of their holdings
were in the form of mortgages and
notes kept in a safety deposit vault
of a Sank City bank. The estate will
be settled within short time, officials
say
Miss Sue Norman, health nurse for
Chippewa Falls, is suing the city for
$1,000, due, she claims, for breach of
contract The city hired Mrs. May
Dunno after the board of education
had retained Miss Norman. Miss
Norman incurred enmity when she
went over the authority of F. T. Nc
Hugh, city health officer, in having
cultures made of the school children's
threats at a cost of 5000. More than
500 petitioned to have Miss Norman
reinstated after the city commission
employed Mrs. Dunno.
Hartwell Farwell, the Dane county
farmer and church leader who is
serving a seven year sentence for
killing his sisters sweetheart, Phil
Hosten, will carry his case to the SUI
preme court in hopes of gaining free
dom. The general opinion of people
who were familiar with the case of
his shooting in an unprovoked man
ner the man who came to see his sis
ter and then hid his body for three
days, finally trying to dispose of it in
haystack fire, is that he got off ex-
ceedingly easy when he was convicted
of only second degree manslaughter.