Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-10-10

under the Wn0olS OF a passing TRAM
while trying to board it at Rice Lake
and lost his right foot.
Emery A. Odell, editor of the Mon
roe Times and postmaster at Monroe
since 1910, has resigned to take eff
feet Dec 1. Odell, republican, gave
such good service that President Will
son retained him in office.
John Grohowski, Milwaukee farmer,
was knocked unconscious by a ham
mer in the hands of Stanley Coszkow-
ski, a neighbor, and then attacked by
vicious dog. Grohowski is in a hos
pital and the neighbor is in jail
Deaf and unable to hear the ap-
proach of train, Munroe Phelps, 70,
Sharon, was fatally injured when
struck by a switch engine. He was
picked suffering with crushed ribs
and a punctured lung and died in the
hospital.
A steamboat propeller brought the
body of Ernst Oblach to the surface OF
the Sheboygan harbor. Oblach, 30,
Jumped in the harbor while intoxiCa-
ted He left $3.50 in one bank and
5000 in another, showing no financial
motive for suicide.
Paul Ingebritson, Edgerton, is out
on bonds awaiting developments in
the illness of Charles Lund, six, nit
by truck driven by Ingebritson The
latter admitted he had been drinking
moonshine. The child suffered frac-
tured skull.
j. A. Strimple, GAINESVILLE filing sta
ton man, sold gasoline at 1c for low
Co fn,. h irrl1 faS RI Low
were enraged but Strimple declared
that the low price was his own bust
ness, to be met by other dealers as
they saw fit
All hope was abandoned at Milwau-
! kee for the return of the Forelle, fruit
vessel lost in a storm. Bits of wreck
age and empty fruit baskets were dis
covered in the lake near KenOsha and
lake mariners believe the vessel went
down with tn crew.
Watertown dance halls will be
closed, their owners declare, if the
they are forced to pay licenses on
copyrighted music played in their
places The American Society OF
Composers, Authors and publishers is
pressing the case.
The cupola on the Jefferson school
at GAINESVILLE was struck by lightning
and set afire. George Barrett, janitor,
heard the bolt strike and after seeing
that the children were on their way
out, ran to the garnet and extinguished
the flames before the fire department
| arrived.
Elkhorns incipient gas boom eX-
ploded when geological experts from
Madison pronounced a "gusher" on
the VIM Umnuhs farm to be only a
small pocket in a peat bog. The flow
continued with pressure of II to 30
pounds to the inch for day or two
and then subsidized.
$4,000 damages was awarded by a
jury at Eau Claire to Rose Wills, IS,
plaintiff in a 100000 damage suit
against the Wisconsin-M Minnesota Light
and Power Co. She was struck in the
nose by a batted ball during a bail
game at electric park year ago. She
claimed permanent Disagreement.
j. J. Ward, Oshkosh, for many years
has picked heavy clusters of deep
purple grapes from his vine. When
he went to pick them this year ne
found instead of a standard blue or
purple grape, pure white variety.
Ward doe not know whether to blame
it on the war, prohibition or the last
legislature.
When the suburban home of Charles
Beverly, Madison, burned to the foun
dation, neighbors gathered Saturday
and arranged for a "bee" the next
day. All through the Sabbath they
worked, and when night came a new
home was erected and the Beverlys
moved in. About 20 men erected q
one-story house in less than nine
hours.
Mrs. John Mazzaro and daughter,
Angela, 10, of Madison, were made
extremely i'll by eating poisonous
mushroom purchased from a local
store. Other members of the family
were stricken but responded to treat
ment very quickly. The husband and
two older children did not eat any of
the mushrooms and remained we'll to
care for the sick ones
Running on all tours through under
brush, Adolph CHASED, Juneau moon
sinner, was captured by posse of
farmers and sent to the asylum. The
man is the victim of over-indulgence
in the product of his still and imagi1es
he is jack-rabbit. He insists that his
body is covered with blood from num-
erous wounds inflicted by hunters who
took shots at him.
Pupils of the sixth grade, Randall
school, Madison, were given an inter
esting display of lightning when a
bolt entered an open window, striking
a steel pen point from which it shot
upward, circled the ceiling and then
attempted to leave through a closed
window. No further damage was
done, though the session was badly
disrupted The pen was not in the
hands of child at the time.
Dorothy Smet, 3, Fond du Lac, was
fatally injured when run over by car
driven by DR.. w. ]. Butler The right
front wheel passed over the child's
chest. She was taken to a hospital in
dying condition. DR.. Butler started
to take the little girl to the hospital,
but his car was wrecked while turning
corner and she was transferred to