Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-03-07
HERE AND THERE

fish shortage is reported along
the Atlantic coast because so many
sea-faring men have gone to rum
running,
Mrs. John HILL Portland, Me,
stopped breathing for 80 minutes ana
was brought to life after two and one
half hours work by doctors.
The National Bureau of Economic
Research. New York, announces that
the population of continental United
States totals $110, 100, 000-a gain OF
$500 900 since the last census.
Marty Maher, Omaha liquor bandit
was killed in a battle between car
thieves and raih DAD detectives at
omaha. 40 shots were fired. The
bandits were discovered robbing a car
! Of liquor.
! The shortage Of coal in lower Cana
da has made the Canadians think fav-
orablv of the ST. Lawrence deep
waterway plan as a means Of develop
inc millions of new wasted electrical
! horsepower.
Harry X. Thaw, imprisoned in a
! PENNSYLVANIA asylum for the past M
teen wears. was in New York the other
1
Of being a nervous wreck looked Wig
orous and carried his 81 years well.
old Trinity church, beautiful edl-
fee in Montreal, Can, was destroyed
by fire Wednesday. Fourteen church
es have burned in Canada in the past
year. Since the fire guards have been
! stationed at Catholic churches in
large eastern cities.
Ont of 10000 cases commenced by
| federal prosecutors during 1922, 81
141. or over half, were for violation
of the national liquor law The de-
partment of justice has asked for adj
ditional funds and an increase IN
courts to clear the cases up.
A Clarksburg, West Va, grand jury
has returned an indictment against
! Morgan James, farmer, charging that
| James sold Will Marks, another
farmer, a horse Of known vicious ten
denotes. The horse kicked and killed
! Marks soon after the purchase.
The worlds record for milk ana
butterfat production in all classes IN
the Jersey breed has been broken by
Darlinga Jolly Lassie, junior 4
year-old owned by Pickard Bros,
! Marion, Ore, with a production OF
l1125 pounds of butter in one year.
! CITY. Utah, were placed under arrest
| last week for violation of the cigaret
/ law relating to smoking in public
4 places. Opponents of the law have
/ banded to fight it and are sternly OPP
D0sed by those in favor of nO-tObaccO
/ legislation.
Eugene Merkle, Philadelphia SEX
ton, dug his own grave and attempted
suicide by hanging but the rope broke
and he dropped into the grave, break
ing both hips Merkle says he was
respondent because his wife had left
him. A reconciliation is under way.
The flicker of an eyelash detected
| by an undertaken as he closed the
coffin lid on Henry Hiser at Mobiles
Vile, Ind, called off the funeral.
Hiser was victim Of paralysis and
supposedly dead. He is recovering
"a pidly.
Thomas A Edison has offered aid
TO Dr. Geo. de Bothezat, Dayton, Ohio,
inventor of the helicopter as ma
chine that rose vertically in the air
and remained stationary at a height
Of Is feet for 2 minutes and As sec
onds. Edison claims that the helicop-
| ter will revolutionize flying.
A dogs bark saved the life of Ar
!
Wednesday morning. Preston, a sub
jects of fits, fell in the snow and
would have persisted had not a collie,
dog aroused John Cameron, superin-
tendent of cemetery. Cameron car
ried Preston to his home and admin
| istered restoratives.
VIM. Flaherty, %, in Hammond,
/ Ind, hospital, proposed to his nurse
and was rejected. He then took
! grain of strychnine. Questioned at
ter being pumped out, Flaherty said
| he taken fifty grains of strychnine,
one for each girl he had proposed to
and been rejected by. He has bad
! case of poisoning.
The average family paid 1 per cent
! less for it's food in January than in
| December, the department of laobr
announced Monday, adding that the
increase from Jan. 49, 1922, to the
same date last month was per cent
Forty-seven cities reported decline
in the average family expenditure for
food seven experienced increases and
one showed no change.
Clarence Leroy Mckinney, Will
mington, O., reached home Friday
free man having served five months OF
! a life sentence for the murder of a
! policeman, Emery McCreight. Louis
| Vandercroft, jamestown, O., confessed
| to the crime and Mckinney was freed
Mckinney received the apologies Of
Judge Clevenger who sentenced him.
He said he bore no i'll feelings but
was glad to get his freedom back.
John P. Wolfe 81, Richland county,
| So. Dakota, farmer was found fatally
! frozen 200 yards from his home fol-
| lowing the severe blizzard of two
| weeks ago. He fingered several days
and died His wife underwent ampu
tation of both hands and a foot but
will recover. Their two children, a
boy, Z, and girl, 2, were unframed.
The family had been visiting relatives
and were almost home when the
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