Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-12-19
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

Racine, on the soft drink parlOr OF
William Greco Tuesday night brought
sorth five gallons of red wine, two
quarts of creme de menthe, three gal
Ions of moonshine, two quarts OF al
!. eohol, and two quarts of gin. Greco
was arraigned for selling intoXica ing
liquors and operating without IL
<eense.
The failure Of $50 automobile driV-
ers to observe the arterial signs re-
suited in warrants being issued for
their arrests at Racine Tuesday at-
ternoon. Half the number appeared
10 municipal court and paid 1884
each. The others appeared next day
Thieves entered the International
Bank at Cambridge some time Mod
day night or early Tuesday morning,
but as far as bank authorities were
able to tell after a hurried eXamina-
tton, the loot amounted to no more
than $500 or $500 which was left Out
side the vault. The robbery was not
discovered until employees reported
for duty. The yeggs gained entrance
10 the bank through the front door,
the lock OF which was picked. Once
inside they jimmied the heavy fire
proof door to the safety deposit vault
and opened all of the boxes No at
tempt was made to blow the main
vault. All telephone wires leading III
10 the town were cut and the town
was cut off from the outside world
until repairs could be made.
Adolph Nickel, operator of soft
drink establishment at 81 S. River
street, GAINESVILLE, was arrested last
wreck on another liquor possession
charge He was already out on $500
bail for two previous liquor cases that
have not been disposed of SO new bail
was required. His hearing on Case
No 3 is set for Monday. Nickels ar
rest followed raid made by officers
Handy, Ward and OLeary on his cs
establishment at a. m. Thanksgiving
ttay when a glass of alleged liquor
was found.
Hjalmer Orbeck of Fulton, drew a
sentence of so days fiat, 800 and costs
or six months additional when his
wife informed the court that her has
band had been drunk since the mar
Iied him, and that he was not fit 90
live with She claimed that at least
so bootleggers were operating in Full
ton. Orbeck claimed he bought mis-
"Eootch" from two Madison men VINO
sold it from a car down town.
An excellent pipe organ has been
installed at the World Theater at
Mineral Point, Mrs. Siebert, wife of
the manager, is an artist at manipu-
lating the instrument
Miss Laura Robbins, 16-year-oid
daughter of l.. e. Robbins, farmer, iiv
Gag near Delavan, will probably lose
her left leg as the result of an eXpio-
sion which occurred when she poured
kerosene into laundry stove in her
tCom at Walworth last week. A piece
as iron went through her leg just be-
low the knee The bone was badly
srushed and her right leg was severe
tF burned.
Frozen loans" were the cause for
elesing two banks in Washburn, Wis,
the Northern County State Bank and
the Bayfield, County Bank, officials of
he state banking department deelar-
I'd. State officials are temporarily in
charge of the two banks. The Bay
aeld County Banks condition on Nov.
:. 7 was: Capital $4,000, surplus Of $5.
The condition of the Northern State
Sank on the same date was: $4,000
capital, surplus of $4,000, and total
footings of $228,772.99.
1t has developed that Mrs. Baker
who lives on a farm outside of Elk
horn, and who recently announced
the receipt of q letter from a long-lost
relatives, beQueathing her $4,000, is
Insane, and last week was committed
TO the county asylum. The hoax was
uncovered by Editor Eames of the
AlkhOrn Independent, who refused to
lake the letter seriously.
The Kissel Kar plant was threaten
cd by fire at Hartford, Wis, when an
auto back fired, setting fire to gaso-
tine on the floor of the repair shop.
More than a score of cars were dam
aged. The repair department was
wiped out. Heroic work by the Hart
ford firement kept the blaze from the
gain plant. Nick Schmitzler, an en-
ploye, was badly burned fighting the
fire.
AS Frank Douse and, Otto Lehner
farmers, Evansville, Tuesday were
drawing shock corn on the farm Of
VIM. Lopp, six miles east of Evans
vile, they discovered a buck deer
quietly feeding in corn field The
deer was tame, and is believed to have
escaped from some zoo.
Ernest Haynes. Oregon, had the
misfortune to lose nine head of cattle
last Friday and Saturday. They had
broken into the tobacco shed and eat
EN- the green tobacco. Five of the cat
tie died within an hour after eating
the tobacco, the other four dying
later.