Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-11-28
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items Of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

Rev. I. F. Spangenberg of Oglesby,
H., has accepted the pastorate OF
Plymouth Congregational church OF
Dodgeville, and will assume his new
duties Dec. l.
While eating pork chop Sunday
night at the home Of his brother-in-
law, Frank Gallista, 48, of 479 Ameri-
can avenue, Milwaukee, choked on
bone that became lodged in his throat
and died before medical aid arrived
Police and county officers are
searching for the driver Of an auto
who fled after striking Albert ZWicky
17-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
A. Zwicky Fond du Lac, as he alight-
ed from a street car. He was seri-
ously hurt.
Bagging three bears with three
shots and a large buck with fourth
all in the matter of few minutes, is
the record of Frank Alderman, pro-
claimed the champion bear hunter or
Price county. The bears were killed
as they emerged from a cave.
Declaring state and federal prohi
bition agents refused to aid in pre-
pairing a case against Theodore Van
Bree Racine, whose saloon they
raided Dist. Atty. It. M. Beck moved
for dismissal of the charge against
Van Bree in circuit court, and Judge
e. B. Belden complied
The jury in Oconto circuit court
found Martin Luther Beaulieu, aged
farmer, accused CT Staying William
Arbin, not guilty after about seven
hours deliberatiCu Saturday Beau
lieu, who is SO, was on trial for the
shooting of Arbin, former neighbor,
on April 2. He pleaded self-defense.
A case unique in the mdical profess
sion, was presented at MayVille, Wis,
when a baby daughter was born to
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Arndt, which had
no eyeballs, the eye sockets being
blank. The baby lived only few
days. Physicians state that only one
similar case is listed in medical an
nails.
Just after Harry Sorenson, Birch
wood, had gone duck hunting on
Birch lake, a large eagle swooped
down and attacked his decOys. The
eagle started to fly away with one de-
coy but Mr. SorensOn, who did wish
to lose any of his property shot it.
The eagle measured feet from tip
to tip.
Herman Brickner, Plymouth, Wis,
may die as the result of an automo-
bile accident late Sunday afternoon
on highway %, near that city. His
sedan ran off the road and crashed
into a telephone post, breaking the
post off and wrecking the car. He
was taken to the Plymouth hospital
with a probable skull fracture.
Bill Cross rapids, four miles north
of Merrill, is being harnessed. The
power site is owned by the Wisconsin
Valley Electric Co, and will develop
about 5000 horsepower. The new
dam will be of concrete construction
Generators will be linked with che
dams already developed on the upper
Wisconsin river and will relieve the
company's dam at Merrill of it's ex-
cess load.
AS a result of the refusal of the
Rock county board to allow a claim
for damages in a highway accident,
Catherine Dodge Martin, of James
Vile, filed suit against Rock county
in the circuit court here for $4,000
personal injury damages. Two other
claims were filed against the county
and will end in court should the
plaintiff in the present case collect
damages. Miss Martin suffered a
broken nose and other injuries when
an auto in which she was riding
crashed into a culvert ditch. 1t is al
legged that the culvert was not pro-
tected by the county highway depart
ment and that no signals or barriers
were left to warn the driver.