Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-04-18
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

was burned 10 u6dtu Wl6u d lam Va
kerosene in the Great Northern round
house exploded, drenching his body
Adam Emerich, 80, and Martha w
Striebinger, %, were instantly killed
at a Northwestern road crossing near
Marshfeld. The engine Of Emerich's
auto died as he was crossing the
tracks. A special freight train
hurled the car and its occupants ~
feet.
Harvey Soeteebeer, Bayfield, farmer,
crossing the ice of Chequamegon bay
lost a valuable team of horses when
the team struck soft spot in the ice
and went through. The hole in the ice
was too small for the sleigh to go
through, which saved the family from
drowning.
Three large buildings on the farm
of Senator La Toilette, near Madison,
burned to the ground Sunday of last
week. The loss included a prize Hol-
stein bull. Several valuable horses
including a Kentucky thoroughbred,
were rescued. The blaze started in a
meat smoking shed.
Albert ]. Miller, GAINESVILLE express
driver. seriously wounded his wife and
shot and killed himself following a
quarrel over attentions Miller alleged
his wife was receiving from other
men. Mrs. Miller denied the charges.
A son, Clifford, Z, was absent when
the shooting occurred.
John Weber, IA, Menasha, was per-
haps fatally shot by his twin brother
George, the bullet coming from rifle
the boys mother had forbidden them
to carry. The shooting took place on
the shore of a lake near the city. The
wounded boy absOlyed his brother,
saying the shooting was accidental.
The Wisconsin assembly killed the
Hanson anti-card and dance bill that
would have prohibited dancing, play
ing cards and smoking in public
schools outside Of Incorporated cities
and villages. A present law prohibits
such pastimes upon petition OF spec
flied number of residents in the dis
trict.
Norman ]. Dunlap, Pepin banker
and business man, wanted on charges
of forgery, has been arrested at Ur-
bana, ILL.,, after a four year hunt. The
village of Pepin and the First Nation
al bank of Durand were the heaviest
losers by Dunlap's transactions. His
property in Pepin was seized and sold
to satisfy judgments.
Packet service on the upper Mis-
sissippi river, abandoned for three
years, will be revived this year by
the Mississippi and Ohio Steamship
Co. Of St Louis, which will operate
passenger boats through from New
Orleans to ST. Paul beginning June l..
Two barge freight lines also will be
established on the upper river this
year by other companies.
A story has been going the rounds
of the capitol building. that certain
assenlbyman and a woman companion
were found in a locked committee
room by a night Waterman going the
rounds Various stories OF high life
among the legislators has so enraged
the more staid members that their de-
mands for an investigation have been
allayed with difficulty.
Blood poisoning, which developed
from a slight injury by darning
needle, caused the death Of Lonia
Rebensdorf, aged 10, daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles RebendOrf Of Mer-
Ger. The child was embracing he
little sister when she was pricked in
the chest by the needle, which she
had stuck in her dress after darning.
Later she contracted blood poison and
pneumonia SET ILL., CduS4llS liSI OC<lLAAs
May Cooper,3, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. f. Ray Cooper, Madison, played
with matches while her mother was
briefly absent from home at the house
of a neighbor. The parent returned to
find the child on the floor among the
charred remnants of her clothing. The
father. a Milwaukee road engineer, re
turned at night to find his child at
the point of death. The little one died
in a hospital.
The dbody of Gus Peterson, Bennett
farmer, was found hanging in a barn
on his fathers farm by his cousin
Mabel Peterson The girl disappeared
after finding thes body but returned
home after a night of wandering in
the country during an attack OF hys-
terra. Late Saturday night, the father
of the dead man, who was Ill st
Paul hospital in a serious condition a.
the time of the suicide, died
A bill now we'll on its way through
the Wisconsin legislature will make
it a misdemeanor for any person tt
pluck, destroy, sell or buy any lotus
plant growing on public property OF
in any water of the state. The bill
was introduced by the request of the
Friends of Our Native Landscape, who
informed the committee that thou
sands of lotus plants are destroyed OF
carried away every year by persons
from other states.
Black River Fails residents We're
startled Monday when, with deaf
ening crash, the 100-foot water tower
collapsed from the weight of abcut
40 tons of ice that had formed on the
top of the open tank. The wooden
tank on the top of the brick tower had
no top and ice forming across the
opening crashed into the tank when il
was dislodged by partial melting. AS
the tank provided water pressure in
the city it will be rebuilt at once.
Dr. A. M. Foster, prominent Racine
physician, sentenced to serve foul
years in Waupun and to have his IL
cense revoked, was granted a 30-day
stay of execution while he appeals to
TO the Supreme court. He was con-
victed of having performed an illegal
operation. F. L. Fancher and W. G.
Wheeler, doctors found guilty of per-
forming illegal operations have had
their licenses revoked. Sentences OF
of four years each for Fancher and
Wheeler were committed to parole