Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-08-16
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

Using a 2-pound carp as bait jacob
Taxacher, Monroe, landed 3o-pound
catfish in the Pecatonica river. IL
was AZ inches long and II inches
across the head.
Fred Lyons, Madison business man,
said Miss Christine Christensen had
bit him when he tried to twist her
arm. Lyons was found guilty OF as
sault and battery upon the girl who
worked for him
Unable to effect reconciliation
with his wife who had applied for dl-
vOrce. John Stasczak 30, Milwaukee
brakeman, shot the woman, killing
her. He then turned the gun on him.
self with fatal effect.
Mons Ness, Primrose, near Mt
Horeb, sharpening posts with a cir
cular saw, was hurt when slab flew
and hit him in the face. Ness was
found unconscious in a pool OF blood.
His Jaw was broken and face badly
gashed.
Governor Blaine cancelled all OF
his speaking engagements and hur-
ried home to Madison Wednesday
when he learned the seriousness OF
Wisconsins coal situation. Forty cars
consigned to Milwaukee were diverted
to points outside the state.
A lone bandit wearing brown SILK
shirt and driving a speed roadster
broke into the Northwestern depot at
Lake Geneva while the agent was at
dinner and escaped with $3.50. A
woman sitting on the porch OF her
home near the depot saw the robbery
and reported it to the police
The explosion OF tank car OF tar
seriously burned Olaf Olafson, Madl-
son fireman Olafson fired the boiler
that kept the tank hot. 1t is supposed
that lie went to the top OF the tank 20
get the temperature and that gases
from the tank ignited from lantern
or cigaret.
MRS. Blanche Walker. 45, James
Vile. was killed when an automobile
she was riding in was struck by a
Northwestern passenger tram at
Evansville f. A. Hoffman and wife,
owners Of the car and Mrs. Walker,
EMPLOYERS, were slightly injured.
Hoffman was driving slowly but fall
ed to see the warning signal
The CITY OF Madison is making pre-
variations to entertain then thousand
people on the accession Of Wisconsin,
welcome to the Thirty-Second DlVl-
sion. better know as the Red Arrow
Division. The big doing will be held
at Camp Randall, the date being TuesI
day, Aug. 10Th, and everybody in the
state is invited to lend their presence
to the welcome.
Three children and man who at
tempted a rescue were drowned at
X. P. picnic at Racine when scoW
containing IA people capsized. The
dead are: Jeannette Rogers, 10,
Jeanette Nelson, II, Celeneze Roc
que, 16, and William Fall, AZ. Fall
made a brave effort to rescue the girls
but was dragged down by them. Coast
guards rescued others on the scOw.
Because Jessie Francis, 10, Ne
koosa, took a swim in the Wisconsin
river near her home Mrs. Bertha
Schroeder, 80, attacked the girl with
a horsewhip and threatened her with
a revolver Mrs Schroeder was ar
rested. The Schroeder family main
tains that the river shore is private
property. Others in the vicinity say
the river is a public highway. The
case will be settled in court.
Two barns on the farm of John
Schneck, Oconto Falls, were burned
by incendiaries who went to the
place in the evening while Schneck
and wife were absent. A son coming
home about 1920 found one barn
ablaze but when he rushed to seek
help was forced back by stranger,
fully armed. Soon after another barn
was ablaze. Schneck lost valuable
buildings, stock, gain and machinery