Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-11-28
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest BY Mail
and Telegraph.

Has a chapter Of the Ku Klux Khan
been organized in Baraboo? is the
question on the lips of everyone in
the city A large flaming cross was
observed Tuesday night OF last week
just west Of the city, ablaze on the
highest elevation Of the Charles Geiss-
Ter farm. North Western section men
We're called to subdue the blaze as it
appeared to be one of the telephone
poles on the right-of-Way. They dis
covered it was TWO pieces Of lumber
Wired together in the shape Of cross.
The band of postoffice yeggmen
which struck two weeks ago at Darien
and Clinton, in Walworth and Rock
counties, obtaining more than $1,000
in currency and postage stamps came
out from hiding Nov. 20 and raid the
postoffices of Theresa and Mayville,
in Dodge county, obtaining more than
$4,000, mostly in currency. In both
robberies the yeggmen stole an auto
mobile to make their escape. In the
car stolen Tuesday, Nov. 20, which
was found deserted in Elkhorn next
day, near the county jail, the search
ers found hacks'aW, bent chisal,
three ST. revenue stamps, 5 postage
sc stamps At Mayville it is reported
they got stamps and cash to The
amount Of ST., 400. The loot at Theresa
was about $500.
The British women who did a mara
th0n wheeling their babies last sum-
mer have nothing on Mrs. Edith
Lightner, a former Fox Lake girl, and
her sister-in-laW, Mrs. A. w. Lewis
of Randolph who liked down to Fox
Lake, wheeling Red" Lightner Jr.,
all the way to make a social call upon
his maternal grandmother The trip
of 612 miles was made in two hours.
Two men we're buried alive in
sewer trench cave-in at Fond du Lac
Wednesday, One man was buried un-
der several tons of earth and another,
a man who had risked his life in an
attempt to save his employer, was
trapped in the cave-in. Both lost
their lives. The dead are Anton Chris
Hanson, So, and G. l.. Percy, As, both
OF Fond du Lac.
III. G. VanWagenen, Monroe county,
had a narrow escape from more serl-
GUS injury from an attack by an in
furiated COW that attacked him while
he and his son, John, were removing
her new born calf from the pasture TO
the barn. The calf had been loaded
into the truck and Mr.. Van Wagenen
was driving the COWS and horses to-
ward the barnyard when the cow
rushed and knocked him down and
stumbling fell across his leg. His
Collie dog came to the rescue and
drove the COW away.
~ H. rl,, =,
muFely, powdered 5000 noses, and re-
fused to become young Carrie Ma
tiOns at Madison recently Almost
unanimously, women students at the
University Of Wisconsin rejected q
resolution offered by the dean of
women and other officials which
would have made each girl a sleuth,
pledged to report each man she dis
covered with the fumes of alcohol on
his breath
a special session Of circuit court
with Judge f. w Crosby officiating,
closed Monday night at Baraboo when
a jury which had been out for II hours
brought in the verdict of guilty in the
case Of Chester Pease, evangelist
who was been in the county Jail there
since early September. Pease was
found guilty Of being an accessory to
stealing an automobile belonging to
Henry Schultz Of Reedsburg He will
be sentenced later.
Dispute over who was directly re-
sponsible for the capture of Alvin
Jensen and Jack Galloway, murderers
OF Robt. Yaeger, aged recluse of Black
Hawk, on the night Of August 2, was
carried before the Sank county board
at Baraboo The reward offered by
Dist Atty. Hy Bohn for detection of
the car used by the murderers is
claimed by VIM. Flaherty, Madison.
rent-a-car agency owner, and VIM
Dawson, Madison newspaper reporter
Ffaherty testified that he checked up
his records and notified an officer OF
the Madison police department of his
suspicious thinking that as an au-
thoriZed law enforcer this man would
follow up the tip" The board has
not decided the case.
What may develop into a wholesale
scandal involving boys and girls Of
high school age was tapped at Monroe
when Carl Stephens and William
Hartwig, both under is, were arrest
ed and charged with breaking into the
home Of Il. G. Hurlbut during the
night with the intention of taking
grape juice" kept there.
The fourth hunting fatality since
the deer season opened Tuesday oc-
Cured near Goodrich, Taylor county,
Thursday when William Striebe, rs,
was hot and instantly killed while
hunting ~ the town Corning, Lincoln
county. Striebe was on a deer run
way with several friends and to get
a better view started to climb tree.
When eight feet up he was shot
through the head by William Esch-
vein, a farmer, who mistook him for
a bear. Eschwein was about % rods
away when he fired.
George Van Antwerp, II, Rock
county farmer, and his team of horses
were killed, his wagon demolish ed.
and telephone communications were
cut off as result of a grade crossing
accident three miles west of Milton
FUNSTON Thursday. Van Antwerp's
team was struck by fast passenger
train on the Milwaukee road enroute
10 Madison. The horses were hurled