Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-05-09

4LdS Emmett Mills, 0SCdp0u lIOn JO-
let prison, on farm near Madison
Saturday Pruett escaped March ~,
after overpowering guard. He
made his way in convict uniform TO
Chicago, but was able to deceive po-
iceman into thinking he was West
arn Union messenger because he wore
the cap of the guard he overpowered
Pruett made his way to Madison,
where he obtained employment with
farmer. Later he began pilferlng
| from dairy cars and this led to his de-
| lection.
The assembly Wednesday reversed
| it's action Of last week by which it
| angrossed the Grimstad bill seeking
| to prevent the use of automobiles for
| immoral purposes, and after brief
! reconsideration voted to postpone
the bill indefinitely Sc to %. The bill
would have empowered the courts to
| revoke the license of any man found
guilty of using his automobile for an
IMMORAL purpose, and the second COR
| viction for such an Offense would have
made his car liable to cOnfiscation by
| the state.
| VIM. Jeffrey, II, Green Bay, was
drowned Tuesday when he fell from
/ railroad bridge into the Fox river.
| After his son, William Croft, had
pleaded guilty to malicious destruc-
| ton of property, James Croft, 81, was
arrested at Madison on charge OF
being one of a party of men who
| broke into a summer cottage near the
capital city, in April. In the party
was Fred Shain, former policeman,
who was fined $500 and costs.
Albert Amundsen, Maiden Rock,
scratched a finger on a mail box. In
lection set in and he died two weeks
! later DR.. H. P. Conway, Amundsen's
physician, scratched one finger while
dressing Amundsen's injury. He, too,
is near death from blood poisoning.
GAINESVILLE has 1879 population,
gain of 1886 since 1920. Beloit,
sister city, has 23,5O3 population.
Jos. Meyers, Green Bay, asked a
friend, Frank Maussupist, to go out
car riding with him. Meyers car
went dead and he asked his friend to
crank it. The friend did so, breaking
one arm. Maussupist sued Meyers
and was awarded $1,000 by jury.
Dr. West of Whitewater, Wis, who
recently made a trip to California,
tells his neighbors of picture he will
not soon forget. 1t was the stunt OF
al dNldIIOu dCG w III 1llOu1CCd l1ACO Liz
air until he was almost invisible and
| then wrote in the air with smoke from
the exhaust of his engine the words,
Lucky Strike" To see these letters
forming in the sky without visible or
! igin was a remarkable sight, attract
ing the attention Of thousands.
| Ten thousand lambs have been
shipped into Evansville from the
Montana ranges and parcelled among
| the farmers for fattening. The lambs
will be brought to so pounds weight
and then marketed as higher weight
| causes a drop in price. The sheep are
bought at 10c pound and the farm
ers pay 81 a head as first payment and
the balance when marketed.
Adam Boyer, %, Eastern Wiscon-
sin Electric Co. lineman, was saved at
| Sheboygan from electrOcution. Boyer
while 40 feet in the air, came in con-
tact with charged wire. Two fingers
were burned off and he hung uncon-
scious on the pole. Firemen used an
extension ladder to take the man
down
Because he took a dare and tried to
do a human fly" stunt, Silas Owens,
%. Ripon college student, is in a hos
pital with a broken leg and severe
| body bruises. Owens eSSayed TO scale
the wall Of the RipOn municipal au-
ditorium and fell 20 feet from a Win
dow ledge.
Sventy head of Guernsey cattle
were sold Wednesday at MarshfielG
for an average price of $177 each. The
top price bid for a bull was $430. Tie
top price for COW was 1870. Buyers
attended the sale from Maryland,
Pennsylvania, Nebraska and MinnesO-
ia.
Chris Crimson, Milwaukee, has be-
gun suit against the l. G. road asking
$4,000 for damages received when
truck he was driving was struck by a
train at Madison last January. The
-ruck was wholly demolished and Mr..
Crimson badly hurt.
Hurrying to her work Wednesday
morning, Mrs. Berenice Budnik, Ken
osha, stepped in the path Of a North
western passenger train at street
crossing. She was widow and is
survived by child, aged g.
Jud w. Knight, Portage electrician
has obtained a patent on device 10
prevent overcharging Of storage bat
teries in automobiles. The invention
also maintains the voltage in batter
! les.