Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-10-10
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

Hugo A. Cordt, salesman, is in jail
at Appleton, facing a possible charge
of bigamy that developed following his
arrest for failing to support his wife
and family in Chicago. He was ar
rested at his home where he was Nv
ing with a former Milwaukee woman
whom he married a year ago without
first divorcing his Chicago wife. Wife
No. 2 was ignorant of her husband S
Chicago family until his arrest. Corfu
admitted to police that he has TWO
families. He said he sent money to
his wife and four children in Chicago
until a few months ago.
Oliver Jones, held with his brother
Anvil, told Fond du Lac police that
Detective Jacobs, special agent Tor
the 500 line, killed himself in reVol-
yer duel Tuesday. Jones declares that
Jacobs came over the side OF a trelgn[
car, in which he and mis- brother were
hiding, with revolver drawn and began
firing at once. He says Jacobs bullet
struck him on the jaw. Police point
out that the wound in Jones head was
made by bullet fired from below him,
not above, and scout the Jones story
Alexander Hill, %, was killed We'd
nesday afternoon at Grafton when a
gravel truck he was driving tipped
over in ditch and fell upon him as
he attempted to pass another truck.
Hog cholera, curse of the swine in
dustry, has again established hold
in Rock county. 1t was discovered on
the farm of W. G. Quada, in La Prairie
township, by Dr.. J. T. Purcell OF the
state department of agriculture. Mr..
Quada has lost 20 head. vaccination
is being used to check the disease.
President Eaton of Beloit College
has announced that five of six stu
dents suspended last June in 'cOnnec-
ton with vandalism in the school
chapel, will be reinstated. John Con-
nor, Beloit, Scott Cutter, OswegO, ILL.,,
Harold Hilton, Beloit, and Donald
Burchard, Willmette, are the students
who will return. Edwin Heckler,
WiIlmette, probably will return at the
start of the next quarter.
Jack LittleJOhn, 20, and Juan Con
zaIes, 10, negroes, are under arrest at
KenOsha. The two are members or
carnival troupe, stranded in the lake
side city. After being hired to wash
a sedan owned by Thomas Bemis, the
men fled away to Illinois. They were
captured and the car returned to Mr..
Bemis.
Two 9-year-old school boys suffered
serious injuries at Chippewa Falls
when rifle cartridge which thew
were hamemring on a rock in the
school yard, exploded. A piece OF
metal imbedded itself in Lawrence
Horns eyeball, while Earl Hedrington
lost the end of his little finger. Both
boys were taken to a hospital.
Peter Cardinal, AZ, was pinned under
a truck in which he was hauling pigs
to market near Irvine, and met death.
The body was found by boy an hour
later. Cardinal had turned out to pass
another car and his machine went on.
With customary 5tony-hearted conduct
the other car sped on without stop
ping.
The John Harrington family, town
of Seymour, near Eau Claire, are
among the heirs to the $250,0O0 estate
left by the late Mrs. James K. Morris,
a wealthy widow who lived in south
ern Wisconsin. Each member of the
lamily is left a bequest of $4,000 and
$4,000 in jewelry is divided among
them
Herbert Gehrke and Max Jagoden-
sky, driving an automobile past farm
near st. NaZianz, were struck by 10
pound fragment of rock which had
been blasted 200 feet away. The rock
pierced the top of the auto, struck MIR.
Gehrke, fracturing his right arm, and
bruising the other mans leg.
A partridge flying from hunters,
took refuge in st. Joseph's church, at
Oconto, while the congregation was
at prayer. There was whirr of
wings and a brown-feathered visitor
joined the congregation.
William Balloon, Oshkosh, pleaded
guilty to having shot 20 mudhens, sew
eral IN excess of the bag limit, on Sep
TENDER 16, and paid fine of SIS and
costs with the alternative of spending
60 days in Jail.
The Madison city council has voted
to buy the B. ]. Stevens property at
cost of $35 ,000 same to be devoted to
athletic purposes. The field is one
block square near the heart of the
city
Edward Yakel, Is, Surfing, died in a
hospital from lockjaw which devel-
oped from an accidental gunshot
wound. His leg was so shattered that
.amputation was necessary.
Three automobiles and "a storage
garage were totally destroyed by fire
at Appleton Wednesday. Two firemen
were injured. The loss was $4,000,
10000 feeder lambs were brought in
from Montana last week and distrib-
uted among various Evansville farm
ers for fattening,
Edward Lust, Gillette, while hunt
ing. slipped from a stump and the ia
discharged his gun. The charge shat
tered his hip.