Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-09-26
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

Fond du Lac police grilled joan
May, 80, until he confessed to the rob-
berry of a Standard Oil filing station.
May is an ex-conyict.
Edward Blau, 49, Oshkosh, was sent
to Waukesha Industrial School upon
complaint of his father The boy was
convicted of petty robberies
Geo. Smith, CO. and Arthur Moran
%, both of Cottage Grove, were SEN
fenced to serve prison terms for the
theft of wool from James L. Davidson,
farmer
The infant son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Ru-
per, Beaver, Marinette county, was
fatally scalded when he fell into 2
pail of hot water on the floor.
IA young foxes were shipped We'd
nesday by the Wausau Silver Black
Fox ranch to the Sheboygan Fur Co.
The price paid was 1000. All the
animals are pedigreed stock, a ming
ling of strains that won three out OF
four championships at the national
fox show.
Peter Treiwelier jr., Stevens Point,
was severely injured when he fell 20
feet from a house upon which he was
working. He pitched to the ground
when a ladder broke. Recovery is eX-
pected.
Parents of Eta Carlson, 81, who fell
from an amusement ride at the Super
Tor fair, have started action for $4,000
against the association. The girl fell
from a wooden horse, striking her
head on the platform and breaking her
neck.
So Madison and Dane county men
are named in warrants charging aban-
donment of their wives and families.
More than so of the number reside in
Madison. Included is Fred Shain, a
former patrolman, discharged for
drunkenness. $
John JanOwski, proprietor of a soft
drink parlor at Menasha, is in a seri-
Gus condition at a local hospital as
result Of a drink of acid poured into
his mouth by two unknown men as he
slept His condition is considered
critical.
Six duck hunters of Fond du Lac
who got hunting fever and ushered in
the season ahead of time, were arrest
ed by conservation wardens. Limit
bags are placed on shooting along the
Fox river valley.
Charged with the possession and
sale of moonshine, Chas. Bush, Lyons,
suburb Of BaraboO, was sentenced 10
serve six months in jail by County
Judge J. Fl. Hill.
A fall of 60 feet failed to seriously
hurt Norbert Pilon, %, Two Rivers,
employed on new construction work
at Manitowoc PilOn was working on
the top Of a tower and slipped from
the scaffold. His fall was broken by
braces on the tower.
To-,
Neenah hunters, were shot in the face
by stray bullets from some other hunt
er's gun while hunting on Poygan
marsh, near the city. Neither man was
badly hurt. So far this year there
have been more hunters than ducks
and shooting is poor.
f. II. Wollenberger, 49, cashier Of
the Greenwood State bank was found
dead in his home Monday with part of
his head blown away with a shotgun
Indications were that he died by his
own hand Bank examiners, working
or the books, have found no discrep-
ancies to date Wollenberger left a
wife and daughter. He was 40 years
old
The large peat marsh on the prop
erty of Frank Binder, five miles east
of Baraboo, is again in flames The
marsh has been smouldering for
the past several weeks and when fam
ned by stiff breeze, the embers break
out in flames, causing no little damage
to farm crops in the vicinity of the
marsh. All efforts up to last mid
week to subdue the blaze were futile.
Two Kenosh& residents have been
fieeced out of almost $4,000 in a deal
to purchase California grapes. A
salesman who said he represented the
Consolidated California Grape Co. OF
Chicago, approached James Gentle
and Joseph ReneEli and closed a deal
by which Gentle paid $500 for
shipment of grapes. while ReneIli
bought $4,000 worth The. grapes.
never arrived
\ bullet in heart caused the death OF
Edward S. Armstrong, st. Cloud,
Mimi, salesman, whose body was
found in cellarway of an abandoned
farm near Stevens Point. Dr. Bunting,
state pathologist, performed the au-
topsy. He found the bullet hadSentcr-
ed the left side of the body, passed.
through the lungs and had penetrated
the heart, 1t had been fred at close
range. GC z.@. -
To- Dung to comprehend the plight
of his 3-year-old brother, LOrin Luciuc
after seeing his twin, Llye, fall from
dock into lake st. CroiX at Scion
Springs. Douglas county, Friday,
walked to the home Of his father
Postmaster Nicholas Luciuc, an hour
later and informed him that Lorin had
fallen in. The body was recovered a
few minutes later Efforts to revive
him failed
Four small children, ranging in age
from five to nine years, were almost
instantly killed near Milwaukee on
Thursday night when the automobile
in which they were riding was struck
by Northwestern road train. The
dead are Julia Sanders, 8; Florian
Sanders, 6; George Sanders, s.: and
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