Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-08-22
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the federal farm loan system.
Amos Huff, La Crosse, aged 10, met
death by drowning while swimming
in the main channel of the river near
the city.
The case Of the state VS. John Bro
gan was dropped at Rice Lake for
lack of evidence. Brogan was charged
by the state fire marshall with setting
fire to his own farm house.
Bert Knight, Fond du Lac farmer,
was attacked by a swarm of bees and
badly stung Soon after he found
nausea stealing over him and fell un-
conscious. A doctor was called to
revive him.
Margaret Ann, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs Edwin Pick of West Bend, died
Sunday evening of burns received
the same afternoon. The child was
playing with matches and her cloth
ing ignited.
Clifford Birdsall, So, Algoma, was
instantly killed at WatertoWn when
a coupe he was driving was struck
by an interurban car. He was alone
and did not see the trolley car. The
man was carried Is feet and picked
up dead.
ANU CIV D. NJ ilIlJ ~, OiNSoC 1SoANNAAS
of Madison, remembers when the city
had 5000 population. He saw the first
university buildings erected and re-
members the old wooden capitol. Now
Madison has the finest state capitol IN
the country and a population OF
10000.
A large barn on the d. H. Parks
farm in the town of Plover, near Ste
Vens Point, was burned to the ground
due to spontaneous combustion in hay.
80 tons of hay, 1000 bushels of oats,
20 bushels Of rye, 80 chickens and
other articles were destroyed, the
total loss being $4,000.
A prominent Fond du Lac restau-
rant owner is accused of illegal liq
uOr traffic as the result of a story told
the circuit court by Walter Harmer,
II, who pleaded guilty to larceny OF
S35 The boy said he had never done
wrong until he became addicted to the
use of moOnshine sold him by the res
taurant man The dealer will De
prosecuted.
William Pratt, Oregon Wis, plead
ed guilty at Madison to a charge of
possessing liquor after a supply he
had received by express from New
York was confiscated. Pratt told the
court he had ordered a supply from
New York and that the first container
was empty he then ordered sec
ond supply and was taking it home
under his arm when nabbed.
Miss Lucille Wolfe, Madison, mo-
diste, shot and killed herself while
riding in the rear seat of a car driven
by Geo Shipley. Miss Wolfe was Of
fered ride home by Shipley and ac-
cepted He heard shot and found
her crumpled up in the back seat with
a bullet hole in one temple Shipley
was not blamed. 1t is believed the
shooting was the impulse of a mo-
ment
While attorneys were filing her suit
for divorce against Leo Barrett in
circuit court, Mrs. Frances Barrett
Madison, was arraigned before Judge
Ole A. Stolen in superior court
charged, together with William Steele
with a statutory offense. The two
were arrested by police Wednesday
morning and pleaded not guilty in
court. Bail bonds for each were set
at $500 pending a preliminary hear
ing.
Motoring was a hot proposition
Wednesday in Lincoln county when
William Romon, cattle buyer, travel
ed on the county trunk line to Do2r-
ing In fact it became so intensely
not that Romon looked back to see II
the highway was afire behind him. He
found that a kerosene tank on the
back of his motor car was ablaze.
Stopping his car, he blocked the road
for some time, as tourists feared to
pass him lest gasoline tank on The
car might explode.
Tom Towner, rs, Who passed the
last 40 years of his life in swamp
west of Wyocena, died Saturday. The
aged man lived the life of a hermit
in the big swamp, moving deeper and
deeper into its depths as farmers
came closer to his shack. He made
a living trapping muskrats and catch
ing CLAIMS and a part of his diet was
muskrat meat and clans The abode
was the crudest kind of a shack with
out a stove or any other kind of civ
iliZed appliance How the old man
survived the winters will always be
mystery.
VIM. Cloak is held in jail at Chip
pewa Falls in connection with the
robbery of the state bank at Gilman
early Tuesday. Cloak was arrested at
Ruby, ten miles east of Gilman, and
locked UP pending an investigation.
Yeggmen blew the safe at the bank,
uaing high-powered explosives. They
made their escape in car with
$4,000 in currency and $1,100 in
bonds The noise awakened villagers
and an alarm was sent out All wires
into the little burg had been cut and
it was necessary to drive seven miles
to broadcast the news.
VIM. Mccain, the Couderay farmer
held for the killing of Frank Allen, a
neighboring farmer, had his hearing
last Monday and was held withou:
bail for trial. Mrs. c. Smith, the mar
ried woman with whom Mccain is in
fatuated, is the principal witness
against him. She said he bothered
her with his attentions previous to
the shooting but had been given no
encouragement. Mccain talked in
rambling manner and said he had
shot Allen as the result of brooding
over a dream in connection with Mrs.
Smith. He then broke down and shed