Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-10-31

L. A Kravick, Cambridge druggist,
was freed of a charge of selling alco-
hol without prescription by jury
at Madison last week.
Andrew Nicholson, Marinette paper
mill worker, was badly burned while
cleaning out combustion chamber.
He poured water on hot ashes, form
ing steam.
Harold Proper, a north woods hunt
/ err, hunting with DR.. Fred WEIGH OF
| GAINESVILLE, killed bobcat on the John
Davis farm near Harhaw. The cat
was four feet long and Proper is hav-
! ing it mounted.
Yeggs blew the safe at the M. E.
Brandt store at Mercer and escaped
with $500 and firearms. They stole
crowbars at a nearby section house TO
pry open inner compartments of the
| safe after blowing it open.
| Cornelius Kohl, 15, fell from the
NOV of his fathers barn and was
seriously hurt The boy had fork
in his hand when he slipped. The
/ fork fell first and the tines penetrated
his side infiicting wounds seven inches
deep.
John Popp, II, Shawano farmer S
son, was fatally wounded while hunt
| ing. He crawled through barb wire
fence, drawing his gun after him. The
weapon discharged and the boy was
shot in the hip. He died in a Green
Bay hospital.
Three children in the Louis Pelkey
home near Shiocton were rescued
with difficulty when the structure was
burned to the ground Monday night.
The children were asleep and the
house was filled with smoke, making
rescue hazardous. The loss was about
$4,000
Hunters on Lake Koshkonong near
GAINESVILLE claim that the prevalence of
carp has destroyed the value of the
lake as duck hunting ground. The
carp are being seined out and seven
contractors are at work. The James
Vile Izaak Walton league has the
matter in hand.
Mrs. w. Benin, 81, Athens, was badly
hurt when run down by 500 line
train while hauling milk. Her horse
saw the train coming and leaped for
/ ward to safety The rig was hit and
wrecked Mrs. Benin has several lit
| tie children It is charged that the
engineer gave no warning signal.
Rumors that he had been arrested
by federal agents who are alleged 10
have found IL gallons of moonshine
in his automobile, led Detective Dan
Torrisi of the Beloit police force to
post reward of $1,000 to any one
who would be able to prove that he
had at any time violated the prohibi-
ton law
Stamps totaling $3.50 were stolen
from the postoffice at Stanley Monday
by yeggs who wrecked the safe. Cash
and the more valuable stamps in
steel chest were untouched. The
Stanley postoffice was tapped in 1910
and 1920, sums of $500 and $1,000 be-
ing taken then. The last raid dam
aged the interior of the office.
A verdict of guilty of murder in the
first degree was returned by jury at
Elkhorn in the case against Adolphus
Eckman, Sharon farmer. Eckman
shot and killed Carl Fritz, a neighbor,
on July Is during a quarrel involving
gun and pair of rubber boots. The
defense contended that Eckman tried
to brighten Fritz and the gun went Off
by accident. Eckman will appeal.
Elmer Sorenson, II, Eureka, was
accidentally shot in the head while
hunting blackbirds and died four
hours later. The boys had shot some
birds and roasting them when the Sor
enson boy saw another flock. AS he
reached for the gun it discharged and
the bullet entered the base of his
brain. The boys father was killed il
hunting accident year ago. The
mother is Frustrated.
In an effort to jump from a moving
automobile to train in motion, Rob
ert Harlow, Northwestern brakeman,
lost one leg at Elroy. Harlow leaped
from the auto but lost his footing and
slid so that one leg lay on the track.
Mrs. John Krools, So, Bellevue, near
Green Bay, suffered eight fractured
ribs when trampled on by COW in a
field near her home. Mrs KroOls was
m, inu n HcI6 mi, Is