Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-04-18

one of I'VE persons to go on trial al
Madison this month for boOtlegglng.
Martin Wagenpach, Barron young
man, fell 80 feet from the top OF
silo when a scaffold gave away. Both
Of the young mans arms were broken
IN the fall.
Albert Poppy, Pine Grove saloon
keeper, was arrested by prohibition
agents He pleaded guilty, was given
a day to arrange his affairs and began
serving a four months sentence for
violating the liquor laws.
The body Of Henry Haas, 45, was
found in a. hotel room at Juneau
where Haas boarded. Haas stood on
chair, fastened a cord to the beam,
adjusted it to his neck and then
kicked the cair out from under him.
John Newman, SO, Elkhorn farmer,
was instantly killed when he fell from
a hayloft in his barn and broke his
neck on the concrete floor "a feet be-
low. Newman, who was i'll at the time
was trying to throw down hay when
the accident happened.
The Durand Light and Power Co. is
making plans to raise its dam at Eau
Gale on the Eau Gale river, six feet
above its present height during the
coming summer to obtain more power.
FloWage rights are being obtained
and work on the new dam will start at
an early date. The company supplies
power to Durand, Arkansaw and Eau
Gale, as we'll as to a large farming
community.
Edward Wolf, Is, Rockville, is in
a hospital with possibly fatal burns
suffered when the Wolf home was
partially destroyed by fire as the re-
suit of pouring gasoline on live Goals
in the kitchen stove. The boy, eldest
of seven children, started the fire. He
mistook gasoline for kerosene. Two
brothers smothered the flames on his
clothing with rug. His body was
terribly burned.
Mrs. Ernestine Erbstoeszer, ma
tive of Germany, died at the home Oh
daughter in Sheboygan on April 10, at
the advanced age of SO years. The
old lady made it her boast that in all
her life she had never drank water in
pure form. She drank beer, coffee,
tea, chocolate or milk but never took
water unadulterated. Contrary to the
view of some authorities coffee did
not seem harmful to her. She drank
it thrice daily all of her long life.
Olaf Hagen, farmer living near
Iron River, was arrested and is being
held for observation. One night re-
Gently men operating lumber mill
were aroused from their slumbers by
the crying of children. They found
Hagen and his three children, scant-
lily clad, outside the camp door. They
we're taken into the camp and 1T was
discovered that Hagen was suffering
from a mental arrangement He said
his wife had left him and the children
and it is thought that worry over this
caused a mental breakdown.
M. l.. BeauIleau, II, Oconto, is on
trial charged with the murder of his
son-in-law, w. M. Serbin, 46. 1t is
claimed that the aged man shot Ser
bin as the latter attempted to force
his way into the Beaulleau home. Mr..
and Mrs. Serbin were estranged fol-
lowing alleged i'll treatment of the
wife and after going to her fathers
house she gave birth to child. 1t is
said that Serbin carried gun when
he attempted to force entrance into
the BeauIleau home and that the
aged father-in-law shot in self de-
tense.
top Of a steo~ embankment to avoid a
freight train, Charles Munntner, II,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Muntner,
Menasha, fell toward the track, under
the wheels and suffered the loss of
his left leg below the knee. Muntner
and Gerhart Eisch, companion, were
hiking along the right-of-way at
point where the tracks cut through a
oil
The bows scrambled toward the top of
the embankment and Muntner fell,
his left foot going between the
wheels of one car. Eisch let himself
down the cut and saved his compan-
ions life by pulling his body away
from the train.
Emil Neuenfeldt, former 500 line
brakeman, has an income OF between
$4,000 and $4,000 year made en-
tirely from the sale of frogs legs.
Wherever the demand for delicacies
exists, Neuenefeldt ships his frogs
egs. His name is known from coast
to coast. He ships the legs of over two
million frogs year and does the big
gest business of the kind in the coun-
try. Neuenefeldt leaves the manage
ment of the farm to his son and puts
in his time in his Chicago office.
The frog farm is in the back yard of
his home A high board fence inclos-
ing a lot 70x100 feet houses the in
dustry. Fourteen concrete fences,
30 feet long and six feet wide, fitted
with running water and refrigerating
pipes are in the enclosure. A small
frame shanty, two stories high, is
used for slaughtering and dressing.
Between 500 and 600 dozens of pairs
of frog legs are shipped from this
plant to Chicago every day in the
year. Neuenfeldt has overcome the
problem of noise that would be OBJ
jected to by neighbors. Frogs placed
in the bitches soon feel the cold of
the refrigeration pipes and thinking
that winter has come, hibernate. AS
the frogs are needed they are dipped
from the trenches and placed in an
electrocution tank. Current passing
through the water not only kills the
frogs but extends the legs uniformly
making amputation simple. During
the frog harvest season as many as
so men are employed. Low fences
are built along the marsh stretches
and at the end of these are pitfalls.
Frogs run along the fence attempting
to get around it and fall into the
hole 1t then is an easy matter to dip