Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-06-06
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
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and Telegraph.


Four Beloit college students, in
Guiding two leading athletes, were
suspended Tuesday by administra-
tive committee following confess
sions that they had participated in re-
cent acts of vandalism in which coli
lege property was destroyed. john
Red Connell, captain-elect OF the
basket ball squad, and a track and
football star, was permanently sus-
pended. His home is in Beloit. Others
suspended were Orion Motter, Mil
waukee; Donald Burckard, Will
mette, Ill, and Scott Guitar, Oswego,
Ill. Cutter, freshman, was suspended
for one year. The others, sophomores,
were suspended permanently.
Married twice but the last time for
good was the experience of Annie r.
Langdon, 10, and Amos Dobias, 20,
both of Merrill April 26, 1922, their
first marriage was performed, the
groom stating he was a widoWer.
Following the ceremony it was dis
covered that Dobias' first wife was
dying in a hospital. The wife died a
few days after the marriage. Dobias
was sentenced to year in Green Bay
for false representation. Good con-
duct effected his release recently. He
at once began preparations for re-
marriage with Miss Langdon.
Ten young witnesses were exam
in an inquest at GAINESVILLE Tuesday IN
connection with the death OF Oscar r..
Wixom, who died May from unde-
termined causes. His body was foun !
on the lawn of his home and the story
is that he was carried home after a
drinking bout and left in drunken
stupor The fate of the two young
men who were with Wixom on the
night preceding his death depends
upon the report of experts as to the
probable cause of the demise. These
men are Irving Hanson, Milwaukee,
and Richard Maahs, GAINESVILLE.
John Geishert, Madison, is held for
trial on a charge Of selling moon
shine to IS pupils of the East Side
high school One of the boys con-
fessed to Judge A. C. Hoppman say
ing that Geishert supplied him with
moonshine which he in turn supplied
to party of youngsters. AS a re-
suit Ia boys and four girls landed in
court. The students have been order
ed to a local clinic for medical exam
ination pending further disposition of
their cases.
After the trial of four court actions
which have cost Vernon county $1,000.
the mystery surrounding the theft OF
the key to the Stoddard jail and the
release of several prisoners on the
night of June 1892, when a riot was
staged in the village, remains I'M
solved. VIM. Herschuber was the last
man tried on riot charge and jury
composed of ten women and two men
found him not guilty.
A habeas corpus proceeding was
resorted to by A. H. McComb, Green
Bay lawyer, to release Chas. Horner,
Pembine farmer, held for resistance
to an officer There was no one TO
care for the % head of stock and do
the necessary work on the farm of
McComb where HCrner was tenant.
Upon being released Horner pleaded
guilty to using abusive language and
paid SIS and costs.
Marie Morris, 16, No. Fond du Lac,
lost two toes on her right foot as the
result of an accidental discharge OF
shotgun She was looking for some
books and in her search picked up her
fathers shotgun which was standing
near a bookcase. The barrel was
pointing downward when by accident
she pressed the trigger. The gun
was discharged, the shot taking effect
in her right foot.
| Fearing that the man would take his
own life, authorities at Juneau took
Thomas Dwyer, 62, into custody at
Beaver Dam, and physicians appointed
by the county court to examine him.
pronounced him insane. Dwyer was
committed to the Northern Insane
hospital. He recently inherited $3.50
from a brother and is said to have
been drinking heavily.
The Price bill granting home rule to
Wisconsin counties was signed by
Gov Blaine Tuesday. Except where
| limited by constitution and where jul
dicial affairs are involved counties
hereafter have complete jurisdiction
over their affairs. Gov. Blaine ex-
pressed regret that exceptions were
made from complete grant of home
rule in all county affairs.
A freak of nature appeared at the
Harvey Bell farm near Fall River,
when two chicks were Matched from
one egg. The tip of a wing of each
chick was grown to the other chick
Mr.. Bell separated the chickens and
both are thriving.
Edgar Browning, sophomore in the
Oconto Falls high school, was killed
| when a gas drum exploded in a pop
factory. Pieces of the drum hit the
youth in the head. He did not regain
consciousness.