Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-04-04
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

A bad wreck on the Portage-Madi-
son branch of the Milwaukee road
last Monday resulted in the death OF
Engineer Arthur Rolleton and his
fireman, Edward Daily. The wreck
was due to the engine plunging
through a burning bridge. The en-
gineer and fireman saw the burning
bridge at the same time. Rolleton
knew that he would risk the life of his
passengers by jamming the brake
suddenly and chose to stop gradual
ly. He paid with his life for his lack
of selfshness as the engine crashed
through the burning structure. The
baggage car crumpled by the impact
and went over the engine thirty feet.
The front end of the smoker was de-
rallied, but it and the regular coach
remained upright. The passengers
were shaken up, but not injured. Jul
Illus Holstein and John Peterson, bag
gageman and express agent, were
seriously hurt. The body of the fire
man was crushed between the engine
and tender. An acetylene torch was
used for hours to release it. Role
ton, the engineer, was taken out badly
scalded and with both arms and both
legs broken. He died in hospital.
DR., Harper, state health officer, told
the assembly of a family consisting OF
a father and mother and seven young
children living in a one-rOom barn
with a horse, two COWS, calf, 10
chickens and three geese. DR.. Harper
appeared in the interest of a bill pro-
hibiting the use for living purposes OF
unsafe or unsanitary buildings. Agree
ing that such conditions are improper
for raising a healthy normal family
no remedy is provided for relieving
the poverty that brings such living
about. Even a barn is better than the
open air in winter.
Green county people are talking of
an unusual and successful effort to
save a life during the recent snow tie
up in the county. Miss Appalona
Zweifel, New Glarus, teaching school
at Monticello, was taken ill with APP
pendicitis No trains were running.
A trains was made up of snow pillow,
two engines and a baggage car and
the girl rushed to a Freeport hospital
where she was successfully operated
on.
Walter Gerecke, Lake Mills business
man, was fine 5000 and costs and SEN
fenced to serve eight months in Jail
by Judge Ray Stevens at Madison.
Gerecke was convicted of violation of
the state prohibition act after he took
a change of venue from Judge Grimm
at GAINESVILLE. This represents his
18th conviction.
Mrs. Jeanne Todd, Oshkosh, has
filed counter charges against di-
yOrce suit started by her husband,
Rev Edwin Todd, rector of Trinity
Episcopal church. Mrs. Todd says her
husband is unreasOnably jealous,
boasts of his popularity with other
women and is fond of drink.
While the family of Frank Thomas
ser, Milwaukee, was praying in a room
adjoining that in which the dead body
of an infant daughter repOsed, candles
on the bier set fire to the casket. The
fathers discovery of the blaze saved
the body from cremation.
Twin calves, male and female, were
born on the farm Of A. l.. Spranger,
Racine farmer Ii the calves live they
will be placed on exhibit at the coun-
ty fair at Burlington next fall.
The Farmers & Merchants bank at
BarabOo has attached a poison gas
bomb to the bank vault to operate
when the combination is burned
through or broken.
Madison authorities have declared
war on the hot dog" or open air
lun ch stands in the capital city.