Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-07-26
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

BeIoit friends Of Rev G. Cowles
Smith. pastor CT tne English Lutheran
church Of the Atonement, will fight
his removal by the synod.
The Sturgeon Bay cherry crop Will
total 1000 carloads, 1000 to be ship
ped and similar amount canned at
the big plants along the bay.
Potatoes measuring a foot in cir
cumference were dug up on the farm
Of Wilcox & Luras near Eau Claire,
breaking the record in the northwest.
Fred Bauch, %, employed in the
Samson plant at GAINESVILLE, was IN
stantly killed when a fly wheel and
shaft on a Baton coming press fell on
him.
VIM. Ellickson, Northwestern hotel
proprietor, Madison, was fined $3.50
and costs for selling liquor. He took
the county jail, claiming he was UNI
able to pay his fine.
Earl Keesling, Madison youth, has
been arrested for careless driving in
connection with the death Of Glenn
Wiesse, a child, who was struck by
Keesling's auto and killed.
Mrs. A. Haffoy, As, Madison woman,
attempted to commit suicide while de-
spondent by drinking potassium per-
namgamate. She was taken to hos
pital and her stomach pumped out.
The state board Of health will SEND
inspectors to all summer resorts III
the state to determine sanitary and
safety conditions. The same rule will
apply to county fairs, opening IN
August.
Federal officials seized 40 quarter
pound containers Of chloroform snip
ped from New York to st. Marys nos
pital Superior, claiming the ship
ment to be a violation Of national FOOD
and drug laws.
Elmer Eiegel, II, Milwaukee, visit
ing at FIT Atkinson, drowned When ne
Jumped from a diving board into a
deep hole in the Rock river. The BODY
was found with the mouth and nos
trils filled with mud
Twenty-eight out Of sixty COWS on
the three farms of Nels Moe, Slough
ton. were found to be infected with
bovine tuberculosis. Moe had paid
up to 1925 for some of the animals.
They will be skipped to Chicago and
killed.
Gov. Blaine has authorized the con-
struction of $1,350,000 Wisconsin Gen
eral hospital. About half of this sum
needed in construction will be drawn
from the soldier recognition FUND
which will total over $1,0C0,000 at the
end Of the fiscal year.
Frank Lange, sent to Waupun from
Kenosha two years ago for the muir
der of Charles PaCcini, theatre owner,
will be set free The Supreme court,
in reviewing the case, ruled out OF the
evidence a confession obtained from
Lance by third degree methods. With
out this confession the states case
falls down.
While attempting to save the life OF
Shirley Richards, 14-year-old boy
scout. Rev. Sherwin, Presbyterian
minister at Laoni, lost his lie. The
boy was taken with cramps while
swimming in Birch lake. The min
lister went to his rescue but became
exhausted ana sank. Both bodies
were recovered.
John Mueller, II, SheOoygan, was
drowned while swimming with eight
other boys in the Sheboygan river
Mueller was in the water alone when
he cried out, * can't go any more,
and sank. John Hartman, IL, at
tempted to rescue Mueller and was
dragged down but finally escaped The
body was recovered.
New whiskey blanks to be issued to
Wisconsin doctors will be water
marked to prevent counterfeiting. The
cid blanks We're cheaply printed and
could be easily duplicated, The new
blanks will be printed on special blue
paper with mark Of intricate mot
tied design. The word prohibition
will also appear as a water mark.
Leslie Schultz and Eslie Schroeder
engaged Madison couple, were killed
in a motor smashup near Verona
when a Hudson car they were driving
in with Walter Hanks and Claudlce
De Kaiser struck a Ford driven by
Ole Lee, Mcfarland. The big car
turned turtle several times. The dead
couple were badly mangled. The
other two were badly hurt but will
recover
MONDOVI, Wis.-Fire of unknown
origin, but supposedly caused by spon-
taneous combustion Of hay which was
put in the barn while it was wet, de-
stroyed the new barn and silo on the
farm owned and run by Frank Brobst
& Sons, near here The barn and silo
were built in 1920 at cost Of $4,000.
The stock was saved, but the $4,000
worth of up-to-date equipment, in
Guiding electric lights, milking ma
chine, feed and litter carriers, and
new stanchions, was damaged beyond
repair Mr. Brobst carried $4,000 in
surance on the silo and barn.