Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-10-24
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

Louis A. Noel, Green Bay, pleaded
guilty to five specific burglaries com
mitted at ST NazianZ in one night, and
was awarded six years in Waupun
The total sum to be spent by stu
dents at the state university, Madison,
this school year, is estimated to be ap-
proximately $4,426.639. The amount
is based upon 1921 per person.
John Benzow, Sturgeon Bay, driving
over a bridge in heavy fog, went IN
to an open draw and into water below.
He was rescued by the crew of stone
carrier. The car was taken out later
While playing in the yard of his
home with hammer, Herbert Curvao
4-year-old Chetek boy, struck piece
Of gravel and punctured one of his
eyeballs. The eye was removed by a
surgeon later.
Playing with matches nearly cost
the life Of Grace Plantico, 4, Mantle
woo. The little girl, her clothing in
flames, was saved from death by a
neighbor who smothered the blaze
with his coat.
When Henry Wirbecks, Sheboygdn,
was hailed before Justice Trester on
whom he had lived for rs years it was
found that the woman was legally the
wife of another man.
Frank Reidinger, As, hunting near
Durand, had one arm shot off above
the elbow Reidinger and his brother,
Joe, were crawling through a fence
when a shotgun carried by Joe dis
charged and tore Franks arm off.
William Tertin, Monroe, aged 20,
was wounded in the shoulder when
shotgun broke at the breech as the
young man crawled through fence
and exploded Muscles and nerves
were badly torn. Tertin will recover.
Descending into a well too soon af-
ter a dynamite charge had been eX-
ploded, Peter Kron, co. and Joseph
Razutek, IA, died of poisonous fumes
at Rib Lake. The charge had been
exploded to blast out rock at the
bottom of the well on Krons farm.
William Gross, 33, sawyer at Ticler,
was beaten and killed. His wife, Flor
ence, % is held under $4,000 bonds.
The killing occurred after a dance III
the little lumber town. 1t is said that
Gross was intensely jealous of his
pretty, young wife and resented al
legged intentions paid her by other men
of the village. The affair has created
a scandal in the village.
r. w. Coleman, farmer living near
Vesper, had narrow escape from
death when attacked by an enraged
bull. The animal had been uneasy
all day on account of the noise made
while filling silo Finally the. bull
broke loose. Coleman tried to get It
back in the barn and was attacked
Mrs. Coleman seized a pitchfOrk and
drove the animal off. 1t was neces-
sary to shoot it.
Ernest H. Kufahl, alleged star"
boarder in the home of Mrs. Myrtle
Schaude of Elkhorn, came voluntarily
from his home in Minnesota when the
woman was arraigned for the poison
ing Of her husband after she had con
fessed to an attempted poisoning OF
her four children. Both Kufahl ana
the woman admit they intended to get
married next spring. Kufahl left the
city shortly after the death of the hus-
band a year ago. He is held as ma
terial witness.
Two hundred alleged khan members
met in the Turner hall at Monroe one
night recently An unnamed man pur-
porting to be the exalted cyclOps ot
Illinois, tracel the history of the khan
and told of its aims The Rev. j. 7.
Agema, u. b. minister. opened the
meeting with prayer and closed witt
benediction. No khan regalia was
displayed. Cards were passed at the
close of the meeting. bearing place
fer membership if the bearer wished
to ioin the order
Herman Freitag, Henry Voss and
Reuben Strop, held since 1921 on a
charge of attacking Mrs. Max Scloes-
ser. cutting off her hair with a knife
and burning the Schlosser home on
the night of Aug. 8, 1921, were re-
leased from custody at Jefferson last
week. Judge George Grimm deemed
the evidence insufficient to warrant
holding the men further. They were
out on bonds for over three years.
When Roger Ryan. sheriff of Wash
burn county, called upon resident OF
the county who was believed to have
been making moonshine which had
been classified by customers as "goo1
stuff" the officer found upon empty
ing the mash that many dead t1ias,
dead hornets and a we'll soaked mouse
helped to produce the liquor. Ryan
believes that the consumption of Illicit
liquor would be greatly diminished il
the customers who crave the fire
water could see the contents the mash
barrels.
Three masked men held up Joseph
BURY, salesman for a st. Paul drug
company, on S. T. L. II, between Mad
ison and Baraboo, early Monday night
of last week BURY dropped roll Of
bills from his pocket to the seat, as
Stunning the strangers were ordinary
hold-ups. The highwaymen forced
BURY to get out of the car and then
mounted and drove away. BURY was
picked up and taken to Madison where
he related his story to the police. A
short time later Baraboo police ar
rested three strangers but two of the
men got away while going to Jail. TIE
third, giving the name of Mark Burke
was held. An abandoned coupe was
found at the roadside near whara Rur