Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-09-26


lied in Seattle, Wash, in 1915. Woods,
or Harry R. Roshon, of Warren, Ohio,
which is his proper name, has mar
ried seven women in various parts of
the country
Reinhold Quallmann, %, farmer re-
siding near Mayville, was killed Mon
lay by a passenger train. The young
man drove a team loaded with corn
stalks across the track from a private
road. The wagon was struck and the
driver killed instantly. The horses
escaped. Quallmann left a wife and
four children.
Otto Andoots, Green Bay, was bur-
led alive in a sewer trench in which
he was laying pipe, but was rescued
in time and is none the worse for the
experience. Otto had just stopped to
ly a piece of pipe when the clay sides
Of the ditch caved in, completely COW
ering. Otto kept his face to the end
of the pipe and secured enough air
to keep him alive until the diggers
got to him.
A single strand Of steel wire saved
the life Of Frank Betchkal, Berlin,
Wis, theatre owner, when high
powered car he was driving crashed
through a bridge near the city. A
telephone cable wire held the car
from dropping into Fox river. Mr.
Betchkal climbed out of window
and slid down the side of the car into
ten feet of water below He then
swan to shore. The car was dropped
into the water and pulled out.
Morris Thompson, Kenosha, serv-
a Jail sentence for driving car while
drunk, awoke at night to find the
fingers of Roy Warburton, his cell
mate, around his throat. Thompson
yelled and other prisoners summoned
the sheriff Later in the night War
burton attempted suicide by means of
lighting his bed ticking. Water was
thrown on the blaze by other prison.
ers. 1t was zone exciting night"
Warburton will be examined for in
sanity.
Big Boy, an Airedale puppy owned
by H. j. Brooks of Indianapolis, Was
operated on at a Park Falls hospital
for a dislocated spine The dog was
injured some time ago by an auto
mobile. X-Ray photographs showed
dislocations of the spine and the doc
tors consented to operate to save the
dogs life. All the usual precautions,
including rubber gloves, sterilized in
struments and masks were used, and
the dislocated vertebra were reunited
by silver wires. The dog will recover.
t. G. Graham, one of Rusk county's
prominent farmers, has refused an
offer of $4,000 for his 1928 potato
crop. He raises only certified pota-
toes and estimates the yield this sea-
son will reach 5000 bushels. He eX-
poets to receive at least 81 a bushel
for his stock as seed. Mr. Graham is
engaged in diversified farming, and
in addition to potatoes raises corn,
small grains and hay, and owns herd
of dairy COWS.
Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Perkins, Madison,
riding in motorcycle and side car
near Arena, skidded into a fence
when forced to the side of the road
by the sudden turn of motor car.
Mrs Perkins, riding in the side car,
was cut about the head and badly
bruised due to being thrown against
a telephone pole. Perkins was cut
and shaken up. Both will recover.
The badly decomposeG body of Ed
ward Armstrong, ST. Cloud, Mimi,
was found in the cellar of deserted
farmhouse near Stevens Point by
authorities. An autopsy was per-
formed but doctors were unable to
determine whether or not Armstrong
died of a fractured skull or gunshot
wounds. Armstrong travelled for a
St. Cloud manufacturing firm and
was known to carry large sums of
money. 1t. is assumed that he was
lured to the farmhouse and robbed
and slain. r Jlf.r-r{
Undaunted by death threat receiv-
ed in the mails, Dist Atty Frank
Symmonds, Kenosha, declared there
would be no cessation in his war on
soft drink parlors found violating the
prohibition laws. The threat read:
you will die within two weeks from
today if you do not let Kenosha soft
drink parlors alone" 1t was written
in red ink on yellow paper and signed
mo. W."
White gold has been discovered in
Wisconsin, Adams county is a second
Klondike. Huge deposits of some of
the best mari in the state have been
unearthed there Mari has come to- be
commonly known as white .gold.@ 1t
tests as high as 96.5 per cent in lime
carbonate and shows traces Of potash
and phosphoric acid. 1t is used in
soil reclamation. #GHt Ha4H-
Police and the sheriff's offices in
Racine, were appealed to by Mr. and
Mrs. Jerome McMullen, 10 prevent
eviction, from their home, which they.
sold to a Polish couple recently Nc
Mullen who is 50, claims. he sold the
home with the understanding that he
was ia remain in if until the home for
the aged was opened. q
Another big gravel pit will be open
ed up in Rock county immediately, it
developed last Wednesday, when an
-nouncement was made of the sale of
305 acres of farm land in the town of
Rock by j.. E.. Kennedy of .JanesYiIle,
to the Howard Material Co., of Chica-
go, and Richmond, Va. The. price paid
was $1,000, or 1913 per acre.
A 100000 theatre building being