Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-10-25
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.


has invoked a grand jury to investi-
gate crime conditions in Milwaukee
county.
GAINESVILLE potatoes dropped from
75c a bushel to 45c bushel with few
takers The potato growing industry
is completely demOralized.
Mrs. Botolf Thompson, Stoughton,
died Monday at the age of SO years.
She was q native of Norway and mar
ried twice. Her second husband and
three children survive.
With a bullet wound in his left
shoulder, Claude B's-ne, Monroe
young man, drove three miles to a
hos pital for treatment. He was hand
ling a revolver when it discharged.
Joseph Colak, Sun Prairie farm
hand committed suicide in the kit
chen of the home of John Showers,
shooting himself in the head with
revolver. Colak was unmarried and
in good health.
Hubert Pool, 40, Plymouth, is para
iyzed as the result of a strange ac-
cident. Pool was riding in truck
with another man, when he lost his
balance, falling to the lCad. He is un-
able to speak or move.
Stanley MroZ, 81, was held at Neills-
Vile by Sheriff Kutchera on charge
of murder Of Carl Bialkoski, also re-
siding near Stanley. In an alteration
Bialkoski was beaten and kicked. He
remained in a dazed condition until he
died. It is alleged that Mroz used a
pair of steel knuckles in the fight
After searching woods and lonely
spots for II days Waukesha hunters
found the body of Burton c. Ingersoll,
65, a few hundred yards from his
home The mans throat was cut and
a razor was still grasped in his hand.
A small boy found the body beside a
fence. Ingersoll recently suffered a
nervous breakdown.
Emil L. Alderman, farmer of The
town of Howard, near Chippewa Fails,
is on trial to answer charges brought
Ey Mrs. Zena Gravit, wife of his hired
man. The woman claims that Acker-
sund assaulted her and exhibits cuts
on her face and neck to prove the vio-
ience Of his attack Ackerlund denies
in toto, charging a frame-up.
Becoming suddenly insane while
shopping in store at La Crosse, Frej
Stelpfiug, Houston, Mimi, farmer.
attacked his wife, kicking and beating
her until she fell unconscious. At a
hospital physicians found that she hal
broken jaw and severe cuts on the
head. Stelp1ug is in Jail in a daz"d
condition TnCy have eight CHI 'dren.
An organized band of fire bugs has
been terrorizing Rice Lake farmers.
A short time ago the barn of Peter
Drew was destroyed by fire with ap-
parent incendiary origin. During the
past week the barns of Andrew Mel
son and H. G. Bjoin have been burned.
Bjoin lost all his barn equipment and
so tons of hay and Nelson lost three
horses and seven cows. Farmers are
now organized into a vigilance COM
mttee.
A 7-passenger Marion Handley car
owned by Madison salesman, burned
near Monticello on the detour off high
way AZ. The owner had just had %
gallons of gas put in his car at Belle
Vile Noticing smoke coming up be-
meath the foot pedals, the driver got
out and lifted the hood Flames burst
out and consumed the car almost be-
fore the salesman could get his bag
gage out.
Three huge steam boiler stills with
a combined capacity of 500 gallons of
were seized by state prohibition men
near Crandon, Forest county. The
distri It IS known as Little Kentucky"
because of the large settlements of
Kentuckians there. Seven armed
men working at the still were arrest
ed and lodged in jail at Crandon. The
plant is said to be the largest cap
tured in the history of Wisconsin pro-
hibition enforcement.
Mrs Ben Sherman, Sharon, is in an
Elkhorn hospital with injuries to her
spine, ar her husband was seriously
injured when a train hit their horse
drawn vehicle at crossing between
Eikhorn and Darien. The Shermans
were returning home from Delavan.
and were overtaken at the crossing by
a Milwaukee road milk train. One of
the horses was killed and the buggy
smashed to kidding wood. The pas
sengers of the rig were thrown sew
eral feet Mrs. Sherman may have
suffered internal injuries.
Sunset Farm of 200 acres in Oneida
county will harvest close to $4,000
bushels of certified potatoes OF the
Cobbler and Triumph varieties. This
is one of the largest certified potato
tracts in the world and FOR many years
at state and other potato shows prod
ucts OF the farm have won first prize.
Harvesting Of the annual crop of GER
titled potatoes on the Radcliffe farm
a. Eagle River, has been completed.
From the so acres there was a yield
of 1890 bushels OF certified Rural
New Workers. A few years ago this
farm was a hardwood forest.
Three bank bandits early Thursday
cut all telephone and telegraph wires
leading into the village of Oak Center
and robbed the local bank of $1,000 in
cash and valuable papers. Escape
was made in two motor cars. Five
charges of dynamite were used to
blow the vault. Scores of paper bills
with burnt edges were scattered over
the floor Only $1,000 in cash was in
the bank. The robbery occurred at
two a. M, and George Tourtellotte,
living over the bank, heard the ex-
pIosion of the safe and went to inves-
tigate. He was met by a salvo of
shots and ordered back to bed. Mrs.
Tourtellotte pleaded with her husband
not to go down again and he did not
notify the bank officials utnfl o'clock