Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-11-21
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

Federal officers swoOped down upon
three thirst parlors" in Sheboygan
Falls and arrested Conrad Mohr, pro-
prietor of the City Hotel; Fred ScneI-
fell proprietor of the Franklin House,
and Albert Altmeyer, proprietor OF the
Falls Inn, on the charge Of having IN
toxicating liquor in their possession
On Friday they were taken before d
Justice and placed under S5OO pail
each. The officers also raided seVeral
residences, capturing stills and wet
evidence.
Dynamite caps and matches are
dangerous things to play Wltn' rs
Casper Arnold Meyer, IL, son OF MRS:
Fred Rufenacht, Monroe, has tound
out. He is thankful that he did not
have his left hand completely blown
off when he held a match to a cap ne
had discovered in a gravel pit. Al
first the match had no effect on the
cap. so he poked it in further-there
was a blast and a cry of pain. Two
finger tips were nearly burned Off and
several small holes were blown in his
hand.
The body of Vernon LaPage, VINO
with two others was drowned while
hunting ducks on Spooner lake sun
day of last week, was buried IN the
Spooner cemetery with military non
ors last Friday. The body was held
in the hope that his younger brother
might be found and services for the
two held together. The Veterans OF
Foreign Wars took charge at the
grave. LaPage is survived by young
wife, his parents, sister and brother.
Two blows toward permanently
closing South GAINESVILLE resorts were
delivered by Judge Geo. Grimm IN the
Rock county circuit court. The court
granted an injunction temporarily
closing the South GAINESVILLE hotel,
owned by Francis P. Croak, and de-
MED a demurrer of the owners OF the
building known as the South James
Vile Sanatorium to set aside the IN
junction under which the place was
recently closed.
Four high school students OF Eau
Claire had a remarkable escape from
death Friday afternoon when their au-
tomobile coupe broke through a rail-
ing on the Eddy street bridge anu
landed right side up on the Omaha
railroad tracks 80 feet below. The
marty was returning home from the
football game between Eau Claire and
Chippewa Falls high schools. None
were seriously hurt.
Perry Rifeman, cashier of the
Farmers Security Bank of Wilton,
Monroe county, pleaded guilty to a
charge of embezzlement before Judge
Richards in county court and was
sentenced to four years in the state
n
on information by state bank eXaml-
ners. He was charge with emDezzHng
$1,000, but has returned about S6,OOO.
A cook stove was wrecked ana Cne
interior Of the kitchen was sllghtly
damaged by the explosion OF dynamite
caps which had been placed IN Inc
wood used for fuel at the Ed kuSe
home at Manit0woc, Thursday. How
the caps got into the wood could not
be explained Mrs. Kuse received
minor bruises when piece OF flying
metal struck her arm.
Darwin Holtz, 20, Rio Greek, WIS.,
was instantly killed at a Green Bay
and Western railroad crossing three
miles west of Algoma, Wis, at $3.50 a.
m. Monday. He was driving a heavy
truck employed in highway construc-
ton. and it is thought that has view
was INSTRUCTED by the side curtain.
His head was crushed and hand am
putated.
More girls are to be arrested before
the vice probe instituted last week by
Mrs. Pearl Phillips, assistant county
probation officer, for Dane county, is
ended. that official said Four girls
are now in jail at Madison waiting d
hearing, and three men have been Ill
court for alleged statutory ofenses.
Two Of the men are taXlcab drivers
Charles F. Werner of Sheboygan,
former alderman and former sexton
of the Lutheran cemetery, was acqult-
ted of a charge of eXtOrtion in Fond
du Lac county circuit court at Fond
du Lac, Nov. z. The charge was that
Werner had forced Herman Stelter,
aged retired farmer of Sheboygan, 10
pay him $500 under threats.
About II o'clock Tuesday night OF
last week, fire of unknown origin
broke out in the barn on the Jesse
Hintze farm near Random Lake, She
boygan county, and caused loss es-
timated at about $4,000. All livestock
and other personal property were de-
stroyed, except the contents OF the
residence.
Fred H. Wells, Monroe, bowling
alley proprietor, was peppered with
shot while hunting with party oil
Monroe men in a woods between Mon
roe and Brodhead recently. John Gil
Ium. thinking no one was near shot
into a clump of bushes behind which
Wells was concealed.
VIM. Conway, LaPrairie farmer
Rock county, who was killed in al
auto-train crash near GAINESVILLE, Sept
s, left an estate of $4,000 according
to the estimate made in the petition
for administration filed in the Roci
county court by his son, j. A. Conway
Stepping into the path of an auto
mobile on the main street at Brod
head. Mrs. Charles E. Whitehead, 90
was almost instantly killed Monda!
afternoon. A young grandson WHIT
was with her saw the car and avoided
being struck.
Farmers of Barron county received
o. loads n