Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-11-07
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

The nlgn point III Uu6 ClICulC Coul ="
trial at Alma, Wis, of George b. Or
lady, former vice president OF the
Mondovi State Bank, charged with the
INSTRUMENTATION of more than $4,000
of the banks funds in an inside rob-
berry," came Tuesday afternoon When
Alfred Myhre one of the two Still
water, Mimi, convicts whose confess
sion. with that of Charles Bladd, led
to the charges against Orlady, took
the stand and implicated Orlady IN
the theft. He was called by the state
after a number of minor witnesses had
testified. The court room was packed
when the convict was brought in.
Emil Hirsch, SevastapOl, Wis, will
be examined as to his sanity pending
his trial on charge OF KIDNAPPING .
year-old Mabel Kropp, Oneida, Wis.
Conflicting testimony of the girls
mother at the hearing complicated the
case. She had made the complaint
that the girl had been kidnapped and at
the hearing stated she did not object
to her daughter accompanying Hirsch,
providing he would send her W week
as wages. An examination Of the girl
indicated she had not been harmed.
A suit for $4,000 damages for the
death of her husband, Prof. AXel e.
Berggren, formerly of the University
Of Wisconsin, was filed against Frank
Hoover, Middleton road innkeeper, by
Mrs. Berggren in the circuit court at
Madison Tuesday. Prof. Berggren
was killed in August, 1922, on the
Middleton road, when a car driven by
Hoover crashed into it while the pro-
lessor was attempting to turn off the
main highway.
Florian Lasecki, 81, brought TO
Stevens Point from East Chicago by
Portage county officials on Saturday,
is being held in the county jail with
out bail, charged with the murder OF
Edward j. Armstrong, st. Cloud,
Mimi. salesman, following arralgn-
ment Monday at Stevens Point. Arm
strong's body was found in the cellar
of an abandoned farm house near
Stevens Point Sept. 15
Robert A. Newman, an American eX-
service man, who was kidnapped on
April "a, by Juan GahndO, bandit
leader, in Mexico, was released last
Tuesday, according to official informa-
ton received at Mexico City. Mr..
Newman is now on his way to Duran
20 City, Mexico, with w. G. Bishop, a
resident of that town. The released
man is a brother of August Newman,
superintendent of schools at Barron,
Wis.
Funeral services for Mrs. Peter b.
Johnson, who was killed instantly
when she sustained fractured skull
in an auto accident Saturday morning
near Evansville, were conducted by
Rev. M. H. Hegge Tuesday afternoon
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Rutland, and at two o'clock at the
First Lutheran church in Stoughtcn.
She was IS years of age, and is sur
vived by her husband and II children.
Patrolman Arthur Keels good wife
and three small children overbalanced
the officers indiscretions when the
police board of Monroe, Wis, came to
consider his suspension by Chief Nor
val for misconduct. He was reinstat-
ed with the understanding that the
chief could dismiss him on the Slight
est evidence of misconduct in the flu
ture. He was accused of being intox-
icated on duty
For the first time in the history oil
Wisconsin the state is discovering the
extent Of trapping operations within
its borders The last legislature en-
dCISu It law DIT III6 last S6SSIOu JlldI =
required metal tag to be purchased
from the state conservation depart
ment to be attached to each trap. The
state has now sent out 100000 tags
and $4,000 more have been ordered.
Two University of Minnesota CO.
eds caught riding the blinds" at La
Crosse, Wis, while on, their way home
from the Observation-Disclosures foot
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class they told friends at the univer-
sity, because the police chief was sym
pathetic when they told him 1--WE
haven't time to stay in JAIL because
of classes.
Victor H. Arnold was sentenced to
five year term in the federal peni-
Tertiary at Fort Leavenworth and pay
$1,000 fine, when Judge c. z. Luse
denied motion for a new trial He
took his sentence calmly, and immedi-
ately at the recess of the court lit
cigaret. Judge Luse refused a stay in
execution of the sentence.
Agnes Copiskey, Is, of Baileys Har-
Dor, near Sturgeon Bay is in a Stur-
geon Bay hospital suffering from a
wound in the breast from a revolver
shot The girl was accidentally shot
by her brother who was playing with
the gun. She is expected to recover.
Five thousand dollars is asked by
Mrs, Cora Wadey, wife of Dr. B. j.
Wadey. Belleville, in a heart balm
suit, filed in circuit court at Madison,
Monday, against Miss Matte Wilson,
Belleville, whom she charges with the
alienation of her husbands affections.
The farm home of Frank Denamur,
near Harrison, Wis, was destroyed by
fire Sunday. The family went for an
afternoon outing and on their return
found fire in the partition back of the
heating stove. Belongings from the
first floor were saved.
The Jackson county home for the
poor was destroyed by fire late We'd
nesday, at Black River Falls, causing
loss of $4,000. All inmates escaped
unframed and the contents of the