Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-08-08

LEO Seldel, %, MarshfieId farmer.
died Saturday of injuries received
whsn he fell from the roof of silo.
A wife and five children survive.
James Oliver Curwood, author Of
outdoor novels, is in the Land O. the
Lakes country west Of Green Bay get
ting material for a Wisconsin novel
with a woodland setting
Fire, supposedly started by children,
Quilted the Pattison Bros barn at
Mondovi Wednesday. The children,
playing in the barn, were rescued by
David Sem, a neighbOr.
Augustus Nell, Neosha, is at the
point Of death following an attack
with knife by Henry Brill, fisher
man. There were no eye witnesses
to the encounter. Brill is held in jail
at Juneau pending a report as to his
victims condition.
The old chapel at Lawrence is be-
ing dismantled and made over into
class rooms The addition of new
rooms will relieve present conges-
ton. Old grads regret to see the old
chapel go, as it was the scene OF
many activities during their college
days.
Fourteen head of purebred cattle,
barn filled with hay and grain, a
silo and shed on the farm Of Walter
Rowley, Racine farmer, burned to the
ground with a loss of $4,000 Thurs
day. The fire was caused by green
hay Martin Terpster emplOye, risked
his life to save four heifers.
Drinking among students at the
university of Wisconsin led the dean
of the men, S. H. Goodnight, to issue
a letter to the various fraternities.
The dean set forth that in case a
scandaIous drinking affair takes
place. on the premises the organiza-
ton will be held responsible and the
house closed.
A can of wood alcohol Mrs. Theo-
dOre Danlicker of Evansville was US
ing to generate gasoline stove with
exploded, setting fire to the woman's
clothes She was badly burned about
the arms and legs. Her father saved
Mrs. DanIicker's life by wrapping her
in a rug. How the explosion occurred
is mystery as wood alcohol is not
considered an explosive and the gaso-
line in the stove did not ignite.
Tobacco growers have found that in
certain cases where they thought
plant blight had struck their fields,
killing plants in an area 30 to so feet
wide, the destruction was caused by
a bolt of lightning. The heavy charge
of electricity seems to spread through
the moist ground with disastrous eff
feet to growing plants. Similar loss
has been noted in fields of growing
potatoes, cotton, sugar beets, cucum-
berS, etc. In the area struck the
plants wilt and die.
Tracked a number of miles north by
a deputy sheriff Fred Kress and Jacob
Turbin, men who broke their way ilto
a garage at Gleason last Monday night
are lodged in the Lincoln county jail
at Merrill Kress was wounded twice
in the thigh by Deputy Sheriff Me
Donald. Kress and Turbin pried open
the front door Of the Gleason garage
and took a number of castings, parts
and all the cash they could find. They
mOtored north. Their actions in park
ing their car at a distance when they
bought supplies aroused suspicion
and officers were soon on the trail.
Turbin was surprised and arrested
without trouble Kress, armed with
a German duLOudIIC anu d AZ plSIO4,
gave fight When hit by Mcdonald he
surrendered. The men, both young,
are slated for the pen
Howard Goree, Is, Pella, Wis, was
instantly killed by the discharge of
shotgun. The gun trigger caught on
the bar of a gate through which GOree
was climbing while on hunting trip.
Two bandits who attempted to rob
the safe in the Bodden lumber office
at Horizon Wednesday, We. frustrat-
ed by Peg Voss, night Waterman for
the Milwaukee road. The men fed IN
an auto at the approach of VOss who
found the safe open. A charge of ex-
plosive in the safe door had not been
set off. The safe contained $500 cash.
Felix Drollinger, Chicago, drowned
Tuesday in the lower Dells of the
Wisconsin near Kilbourn. Drollinger
went down in ten feet of water near
the spot where Mr.. and Mrs. Larson,
Kenosha couple, drowned two weeks
previous.