Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-01-18
NEWS FROM ALL
AROUND WISCONSIN

Frank Bailey, eX-serVice man and
escaped inmate from the Mendoza hos
pital, was taken from a train at Bar !
aboo by local officers.
Richard Schott, proprietor of a
hotel at Okauchee Lake, was acquit- |
ted by a jury of gambling charges
brought by the Milwaukee federated
church women
Dale Martin, Viola youth, was shot
in the hip by his brother, Paul, while
the boys were skating. Paul shot at
1T mark with a revolver and hit his
brother, Dale, in the hap
e. H. Ryan, forger. was sentenced
at Fond du Lac, to a year at Green
Bay refOrmatory. Ryan, whose plea
for a parole was denied, passed a
number of worthless checks i'll the
city.
Returns to the state conservation
show that 1905 bucks were slaugh-
tered in the recent deer season.
There were 10000 licenses issued
and Bayfield, county was the best
hunting ground
Thomas and Fred Williams Com
merciaI fishermen Of Brownsville,
near La Crosse, made a record haul
Wednesday when they caught $4,000
pounds Of carp and buffalo. AT pre-
vailing market prices, the haul Will
net the brothers around $1,000.
Harley Bayer, infant son of MIR. and
Mrs Clifford Bayer BaraboO, died on
Sunday Of last week from burns re-
celVed when he fell into a pan OF
boiling water. The childs back and
head were severely scalded and his
sight destroyed,
Fourteen deputies swooped down on
home in one Of Green Bays respec-
table residence districts at midnight
Thursday and arrested twenty in
mates and Mrs. Frank Biebel on a
charge of keeping a disordcrly house.
Quantities Of liquor were seized III the
raid.
Henry JOHN, ex-service man who
had been overseas on the firing lines,
shot himself in the head with a re-
yolver at his home in Sheboygan Falls
Friday week ago. JOHN, who hal
been working as a gardener, left no
reason for his rash act. A wife sur
wives
Peter Walters, %, Amigo, was SEN
fenced to three years in Green Bay
reformalory after confessing the
theft OF a horse valued at 5000 from
the Yawkey-Bissell Co Walters at
first said he had bought the horse,
but his conflicting stories aroused
suspicion.
-Four types of electric furnaces
capable OF heats up 10 5000 degrees
Fahrenheit. have been constructed
bv students in the chemical engin-
eering department of the state uni
versity They will be used for the
special heating and smelling of re
fractory metals
Miss Mollie Larson, stenOgrapher
in a North Fond du Lac railroad Of
flee, may not recover from the effects
Of drinking poison she mistoOk for
medicine The girl was found I'M
conscious after she had drank four
ounces OF the poison. Her parents
live at Stevens Point
The cleanup Of KenOsha county was
halted Friday morning when Joseph
Meyer, former sheriff, and Alex Rit-
ter, former underShGrif, could not pc
found when summoned for trial on
the charge of accepting liquor bribes.
II looks as though the former officials
had skipped" i'm which case their
bonds will be forfeited.
Three federal prohibition officers.
Nicholas Amen, William Loos and
John Door voluntarily submitted 70
arrest at Amigo Friday on warrants
charging them with manslaughter in
connection with the death of Julius
Wurzer, alleged Elton mOOnshiner,
last month The preliminary hearing
will bn held in February,
Striking a barbed-wire fence while
coasting, Mabel Ripple, 6, Fond du
Lac. was severely injured The wire
lacerated the little girls face and
head One eye was torn and will
probably have to be removed. It is
also feared that the Child's skull is
fractured but after several hours OF
mconsciousness she will recover.
The body Of an unidentified man,
about 80 years old, who is believed to
have been murdered Thursday night,
was taken from a burning haystack
ON deserted marsh three miles out
Of Portage. early Friday. A bullet
wound over the right eye pointed to
the belief that he had been killed ana
the body placed in the haystack
which was then set on fire.
Mrs. Amanda Goerke Stevens PIT,
who committed suicide on New Years
day by turning on the gas jets in the
kitchen range in her home, left gift
Of $4,000 as the establishment Of q
trust fund for the Stevens Point nor
nal school The interest on the fund
will be loaned without interest to the
needy aud worthy stduents OF the
school
After racing passenger train at
speed of fifty miles an hour the
auto of Fred Hansen, %, and Clara
Streubel, 20, both Brodhead, turned
over into ditch and the passengers
were pinned beneath the machine.
The train crew had been watching
the car and the engineer stopped
the train when he saw the automo-
bile skid toward the ditch and turn
over twice The young people were
taken to a Monroe hospital
BeIiot police early Friday arrested
James Danks Charles Singer and
Mike Jarvis, all of Beloit, and re-