Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-09

quest will be held.
! Myron Foster, 6S, Jefferson, died
| Sunday while playing baseball. The
violent exercise proved too much for
the old gentleman's heart.
James Dillon, prominent farmer and
superintendent of the swine depart
ment at the state fair, died Wednes-
| day at his home near MondOVl.
! A giant shot requiring ten thousand
pounds of dynamite, was successfully
fired at the hard rock quarry OF the
| HARRISON Walker Refining Co. at No.
Freedom, Saturday.
! JOS Bikowski ST., Oconto, reported
to the police the loss of $285 IN cash
last Easter. Asked why he had waited
| so long, Mr.. Bikowski admitted that
| he played private detective without
success.
Bert WEIGH of Delaven is held in
the county Jail at Elkhorn on charge
of assault against his father. The
old man was knocked unconscious
and lies in a precarious state with a
blood clot on his brain.
Austrian families, brought in from
other parts of the country, are har-
vesting the sugar beet crop in the vi
cinity of Neenah Heretofore the
work has been done by Mexicans. The
IAustrians do much better work
Otto TOpei, Pensaukee fisherman,
will probably ban smoking among his
employees in the future. One of his
men dropped a lighted cigaret in a
f1shnet and $4,000 fire resulted. He
! had $1,000 insurance on his boats and
buildings.
Leona Steinmetz, II, was fatally
injured and died in a few minutes
and her brother Albert, %, was SER
iously injured at Chippewa Falls when
the auto in which they were driving
was struck by a 500 train at rail
crossing.
Everett Long of LaValle is in jail
at Baraboo on a charge of transport
ing illicit liquor. His Offense came to
light when five young men of La
Vale were arrested for being drunk.
The sale of the liquor was traced to
Long, officers state.
William Pecan, IS, OcontO, was
fined $3.50 and costs and given four
months in jail when he pleaded guilty
to selling liquor. Pocan's stuff was
sold to neighbOrs and one man be-
came seriously i'll after drinking the
stuff. The boy took the jail sentence
in preference to the fine.
State dry agents launched an Of
fensive at Racine Wednesday and
eight saloons were raided The lar
gest home brew plant ever unearthed
since prohibition was found in the
saloon of Robt. CHASER. The beer was
of fine, clear color and contained
over 4 percent of alcohol. Liquor in
large quantities was found all over
the city.
Anna Kimmel, 8, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Herman Kimmell of Fond du
Lac died after being shot through the
stomach at her home. The child
found 80 revolver under a mattress
and loaded it. While playing with the
pistol it exploded. Her older sister
heard the shot and rushed in to find
little Anna dying.
Clarence Boyce, who died at Elk
horn few days ago, was great
lover of dogs. When his will was
filed there was bequest of $4,000 for
the care of his dog, Spot. The dog
was the constant companion of Boyce,
a widower, who left no known rela-
tives. Boyce also made handsome be-
quests to the Baptist and Methodist
churches of his city.
Kenneth Nulin of Richland Center
was perhaps fatally hurt as the result
Of an auto accident near SeXtOnville
early Wednesday morning. Young
Nulin with two companions, Bernard
Fruit and Bernard Cunningham, was
returning to Richland Center at 4 a.
m. Their car veered from the road
when an effort was made to pass an
other machine, and turned over. Nu-
lin suffered two broken ribs and
punctured lung. The other two men
were unhurt.
band of fortune telling gypsies
visited Cashton recently and one wo-
man, pretending she wanted honey,
went to Andrew Bakken's apiary and
offered to tell his fortune for honey.
She was ordered off the premises but
refused to leave. Enraged, Mr.. Bak-
ken turned loose a swarm of bees on
his unwelcome guest. The gypsy
queen let out warwhOop and ran
down the road swinging her red
shawl like a Spanish bullfighter. Mr.
Bakken hopes she will pass the word.
Misses Dorothy Parker and Ruth
Olds, Neenah girls, aged 10 and 81,
respectively, are dead as the result of
an auto accident Wednesday a week
ago. The young women were riding
in a car with Mike Nustos of Apple
ton. His machine turned over twice
and landed in a ditch. Miss Parker
was instantly killed. Miss Olds made
a valiant fight for life and underwent
blood TRANSMISSION operation, a pint
of blood being given by brother-in-
law. She died later in an Appleton
hospital. Nustos was hurt but will
recover.
Mrs. Julia Newcomer of Chicago
was drowned in the Fox river when a
car in which she was riding west of
Kenosha, overturned in the water af-
ter plunging off a bridge The bodies
of Miss Mae Doody and R. H. Bell of
Chicago, with whom she was riding,
were recovered. After a long and
unsuccessful search it was decided to
get John Jeremy, the Saltwater,
Mimi, Indian, whose success in To-
eating drowned bodies has been phe-
nomenal. Two years ago Jeremy To-
Gated a body in the Fox river in an
hour after searching parties had
looked in vain for a week.