Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-11-14
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Fire late on Saturday damaged the
Presbyterian church and contents at
Marshheld, causing loss estimated at
100000 The edifice will be rebuilt
While working on the road near
Wildermuth Corners, in Juneau cOun-
ty, Geo. Mayhem claims to have seen
seven full grown wolves cross the
road and disappear in the heavy tim
Der nearby.
Five thousand dollars for injuries
received Aug. 81, 1921, when she was
run down on county trunk highway H,
in Wood county, were granted Mrs.
Halsten G. Halsten, of Black Earth,
by the Wood county court.
Police of Manitowoc are trying to
learn the identity Of the bicycle rider
who ran down little John Vandegrift,
seriously injuring the boy. The &C
cident was due to the rider failing to
stop at the arterial highway crossing.
jerks Trunkhill, SO, town Of
GAINESVILLE farmer, died at st. Mary's
hospital, GAINESVILLE, as a result of a
fall suffered a week ago. He was on
a ladder about IL feet from the ground
when it suddenly gave way, fracturing
his skull
Vim. Conway, La Prairie farmer
who was killed in an auto-train crash
near GAINESVILLE, Sept. 8, left an estate
of $4,000, according to the estimate
made in the petition for administra-
tiOn field in the Rock county court by
his son, Jas. A. Conway.
Mike FlOrek was found guilty Of
murder in the second degree by jury
in circuit court at Ladysmith, We'd
nesday night Florek, who lives near
Hawkins, shot and killed his neigh
Dor, Ignatz SomeZak, Sept. 10, during
a quarrel Florek pleaded self de-
Tense
The youngest couple on the records
of Dane county courts were granted a
divorce at Madison recently. On the
grounds of cruelty and neglect, Mar
garet e. Kingston, aged II, was grant
ed an absolute decree of divorce from
Stanley L. Kingston, 19. She is to re-
ceive $4,000 alimony.
The farm home of Max Wrensch,
know as Schlueters' Springs farm,
about three miles northwest of john
son Creek, Jefferson county, was de-
stroyed by fire last Wednesday, and
the two children, boy of and girl
of 2, were burned to death. The faith
er nearly lost his life trying to save
ten children.
The loss of a wart on the end of his
nose is all the injuries II. l.. Halsted
of BaraboO has to report on his return
after having his car wrecked on a trip
10 Chicago. The BarabOO man had in
tended having the Wart removed while
in Chicago, but the accident accom-
plshed it for him at considerable
more expense.
The body of Mrs. Guy De Long, who
was shot to death in Rochester, Nina,
Monday night by Andrew Walko Il
Crazed employe of the cafeteria the
woman managed was buried at Chip
pewa Falls, her former home, last
THU sday. Walko ran from the cafe
terra and shot himself through the
heart dying instantly.
William T. Sherman, Chicago al
legged head of whisky ring which OPP
Grated a year ago IL Madison, James
vile. Beloit and other cities, was fined
$500 and costs in the United States
district court Tuesday. He was un-
able to pay his fine and was placed Ill
Jail at Madison. The fine was paid
late Tuesday night.
Caught in natures murky snare,
Artuu. Schnoor, 26, of Twin Lakes,
trapper, was held fast in swamp
near Chetek, Barron county, until he
succumbed to exhaustion and expos
IRE. A searching party, which set out
when he failed to return from his visit
TO his traps, found his dead body,
PROSTATE in the mud and freezing
water, mired to the hips.
All records for payment of heavy
fines in Rock county courts are belleY-
ed to have been broken last Saturday
when Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Schallitz,
~perating the brick hotel in South
:. 1esville, a notorious resort for sew
10 years, paid fines of $1,000 each
eI@, Meas of guilty to bootlegging.
.pon ; inclusion Of the case Schallitz
=. IA NJ =, : to the clerks desk and
po en- +o o of $2,029.70.
' po, . ,or.' u 1ber, IA, died at his home
!, 't t'9d lAio 'onday after being ac-
~ orTeIID" s5ot "a lille hunting Sunday
aFternoon The YOU ngster with two
cousins, were huntinh in the country
near Reedsburg. Raym. no leaned ms
gun against a tree and # II all over ais-
charging, the entire load enl> eiIns INC
boys hip. Death was due to iooo -
bioed. He is survived by his PAW n'''
Two brothers and two sisters.
Dependency over i'll health Is be-
lieved to have been the cause of the
act of Robert Brockmiller, 90 father
of eight small children, when he hang
ed himself from a rafter in barn on
his farm near De Forest, Dane county,
Tuesday. Broclmiller had arisen as
usual and started on the work around
me farm. In a short time he was
missed and his wife went to the barn
where she saw his body dangling at
the end of a rope in the hay NOW.
Mrs. Pauline Tarkowsh, "a, known
as polish Pauline of the Palm Beacn
of the down and out" faced a charge
of murder following her confession to
the GAINESVILLE police of the brutal
hatchet murder of Mrs. Theophilla
BOinskf, 81, a bed-ridden cripple. The
body of Mrs Boinski, literally hacked
10 pieces, was found in the old shack
the two called home, Saturday of last
week. after Mrs. Tarkowski had rush
cd to the street and called in pass
prbv. telling him of the terrible crime.