Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-08-29
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

fell from a bridge into the Wisconsin
river while fishing and was drowned
last week. The body was recovered
40 minutes later, but efforts at resuS-
citation failed.
"A modern stage coach robbery was
enacted on a heavily Travelled highway
near Madison last Wednesday, and a
few hours later another band tried to
stick up four passengers of a touring
car within several miles of the scene
ST the western type hold-up.
Frightened by forecasts of an i'll
ness that would befall her husband,
Mrs. Joha Carlo, Racine, was de-
frauded OF $3.50, by gypsy fortune tel
ierS
The Stoeber Maternity hospital
equipment, Madison, was purchased
for $2,500 by Mrs. Nellie Pierce and
her daughter Lucille at a chattel
mortgage sale. The new owners Will
operate the hospital under the name
Of the Pierce Maternity hospital
An attempt to have the marriage Of
Edward Surandunk and Alma Racine
Surandunk annullCd resulted in the
pair being held on a charge OF adui-
terry They were married in Wauke-
gan II months after the woman had
been divorced.
Edward Peterson, Park Falls, Wis,
shot and killed big wolf in the yard
of his home The animal was one OF
q pack that had made several attacks
ON Petersons chickens. He collected
$40 bounty on it.
The Department Of Markets, Madi-
son, reports that more than 1000 ship
pers OF eggs have been visited in the
last few weeks and only 10 have been
found who We're not caldling their
eggs and using Gambling certificates.
Thousand Of blaCkbirds, a species
of small crow, have become such a
nuisance in Racine that the police and
fire department have been called OH
to tight them. They strip the yegata-
BILE gardens and fruit trees.
Martin Lund, chairman of the town
of Garfield, Jackson county, had a
narrow escape when his car plunged
over siX-foot embankment four
miles west Of Humbird, Wis, pinnln6
him under tie overturned car. His
shouts for help was heard by nearby
farmers, who released him.
Seven men, one Of them an alder
man, were arrested at La Crosse by
federal prohibition enforcement oper-
ativcs working out of Milwaukee. Two
of the men were fined 5000 each. The
other cases were continued.
Nineteen arrest under the federal
prohibition act were made last week
at Rhinelander and vicinity by Deputy
u. s. Marshall VIII Touton. All were
taken before United States Commits
sioner Smith at Rhinelander who
placed each under $1,000 bond.
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landale Wis, lost two valuable cows.
Cause Of death, it is claimed, resulted
from the COWS eating grass which had
been sprinkled by a chemical sprink-
Ter used by the Illinois Central along
the line to kill the grass.
Ed j Beirne whose farm is two
miles west Of Oakfeld, near Fond du
Lac, is in St. Agnes hospital with the
lower vertebrate of his spine fractured
il two places, several cuts across his
abdomen and a broken little finger OIL
his right hand, as the result OF being
tossed by an angry bull through six
hollow steel bars Of the bull pen on
ms farm.
It cost Il Chicago men $500 to sing
''Phree O'clock in the Morning" at
THAT hour in EIkborn Monday night o!
last week The double seXtette got
The double cross when Sheriff WyIIe
locked them up on a disOrderly charge
after they hit all the discords in the
chl0mhatic scale.
Firemen were called out a few miles
northeast Of Sara bon, where a marsh
blaze threatened fields Of ripe grain.
Peat beds had been smouldering for
some months and famed by a high
wind burst into flames. Firemen Sot
control Of the flames and thousands Of
dollars worth Of wheat was saved.
DR. Harry Schultz, Chicago, who
figured in a serious automobile acct
dent ON the Pra. du Sac hill, six miles
from Barab10 has left the hospital at
Sank City for his home. The horn
was kept blowing by pressure of !
part Of the wreckage, and passing mo-
florists heard it and came to the rescue
in time to save the doctors life.
Maryln Jean Anderson Chippewa
Falls, Wis, y months old, fell from
a railroad bridge at Chippewa Falls,
to the river 80 feet below. She kept
herself atioat by employing bath tub
kicking tactics, and gurgled with dc
light when finally she was rescued UNI
injured
i}aniel c. Kinrade. a native of the
Use OF Man, dleQ at BelOlt aIVer WoFh-
ing 81 years for the p B. Yates Ma
chine Co He moved to Berlin Wis,
in 1856 and started working for the
Berlin Machine Co. in 1869. When
the plant moved to Beloit he went
with it, The plant changed its name
during the war.
William Gross, 33, Tipler, Wis, was
instantly killed when a bullet from a
revolver entered his right eye His
wife said he committed suicide, al
though marks of violence indicate he
may have been the victim Of foul play.
His wife refuses to talk until the in.
quest. An investigation is under way
by Florence county officials.
John Omitak, 80, Kenosha. tried to
be too literal about winning a girls
heart. He waved razor in the air
at the Pirosch family table and threat
ened to cut the heart out of Stephana
Pjrosch. Il, who had rebuffed his at
aentions. The girls father subdued
Omitak, but not until he had suffered
several deep gashes. He was held on
$4,000 bail charged with assault with
s4oD+ tn dO great bodily harm