Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-04-30

room hotel valued at $250,000.
Six inches of snow fell in northern
Wisconsin counties the first OF last
week.
Burglars making raids on four frat
houses at Madison, secured caSn anu
| iewelry valued at $1,000.
A carload of Is heifers and "a COWS
valued at $4,000, was shipped from
Watertown to Mexico last week
Rt. Rev. Jos. Murphy, recently con-
| secrated bishop of British Honduras,
spoke to the student body at Camplon
college on Wednesday, April 3.
A fire starting from an unknown
cause destroyed the residence OF Leo
nard Sitzler, located three miles from
Whitewater, with loss OF S5,OOO.
Vera Praeme of Horizon threw
CUP of kerosene on blaze to hasteh
. furnace fire and was thrown TO the
floor by the following explosion. one
suffered deep burns about the race
and arms.
An airpIane owned by Scott Lake cf
Vironua struck q tree and fell Pliot
culver and Ralph Broadhead, passen-
ger. escaped serious INJURY. Inc He'-
! chine was badly damaged.
Gerald Franklin, 10, Sturgeon BAY
foil from a. wharf while fishing tues
dav and drowned. The body was re-
covered IS minutes later by coast
guard crew. Efforts at resusclIatie'i h
Through an error the dance hali
ordinance for Rock county CANNOT NC
enforced this summer. Inc counIS
hoard voted on number OF allle Iiu
nents but failed to vote on the oiul-
nance itself. esioo. of
Chas. A. Mattice, humane oHlcel "
Sank county, was gwen re"@ao "
s5 900 offered for the capture U olle
Frank Phillips, wanted at MetfAt lo1
burglary. Phillips had been colVlcseu
but escaped. ,,,.o,. of
Henry Kleinschm1dt, treasuL4I ~
the town of Scott, pleaded senty o.
Merrill to charge Oh haNiIs -
IontIv changed figures on the race ol
49, 49, roll He was held under heavy
bonds for trial II
Wallace Bass, mail carrier on r. I:
n No out of Reedsburg received
an Easter gift of eggs from nearIy
ovarv patron on his route. HIS totdI
nnnber of eggs at the end OF the
route was 20 dozen.
RIaze Castonia, 20, Oconto county
farmer was killed at his home near
Tana bv the premature explosion OF
hIast Of dynamite in a stump. lie
Vac fonud nv his wife with part OF MS
head blown away.
Mrs. John Dormady, an aged woman
of Ashland. fell from a sec0nd-SLory
window and was killed. She mao peeh
in fine habit of sitting in the WlnaoW
waiting for q son to come nome. II Is
thought she lost her balance.
The State industrial COMMISSION hdS
ruled that employees are entltled "
choose their physician when hfJuIeu y,
T1ha rule is that the employer small
maintain q panel of physicians anu
the enapIoye may choose on from TIE
Miss Jennie Stark of Sheboygan, H.
was struck by one street car anu
hurled into the path Of another. she
diod later in a hospital. Mot0rineh
blamed snow on the front glass OF tie
car AS a. cause of their not seeing Iiie
young woman ,.. VIZ
Thoryald Thompson and Archie w.
Cameron. both of Chippewa Fails, re-
ceiyed a year each in state prison Iol
tha theft of 1000 pounds OF sugar
from the Chippewa Falls Bottlins
works THOMPSON implicated Gam
eron when arrested.
Mrs BERTHA Sulzer, Marathon, mas
lhaau1 action in circuit court fof Iiie
snn Of $4,000 against John Belgrahl'
. Mosjnee saloonkeeper. Mrs. SuIzeL
alleges that Belgram sold her husodhu
lIinuor that caused her death III tile
Mosinee village jail
TohD Mullen. one of the Oldest men
in Wisconsin, died at the nome OIL lllo
son Michael, at Greenbush, Shepoy-
aau county. Mr.. Mullen was not Q"ACe
| 106 wears old. He was natlEe VI
ireland but had lived IN ShepoJ setl
county most of his life. A son anu st
grandson survive. -. Gov
/ n. Winecke, Stevens POINT Tar
mer. nearly lost his life as the result sun
nf absent mindedness Whle .e&ploolns
stuuns. Winecke placed IouF SCloh0
of dynamite in the stump ana nlolllon IL
tarily forgetting, climbed on top "
thn stunan. He was terribly. dlsngQF-
od d in the following explosion. He
TIlas blown thirty feet but regameo
'.,o,io,,snpss and summoned help.
collision between two autonlo-
IT,, roar VI Atkinson resulted IN
damage To three other cars driven up
later
nroTa stalled in the road. A man
who had driven up to help was Fun
Into by another car coming along "a "A
fifth. car in an effort to pass cle
stalled cars, crashed into the oltch'
While driving car from CheteK 10
Chinpewa Falls the automohlle OIL
/ HUGH Dalton Of Chetek caught nre'
Dalton ran the car into snoWnank
and the machine tipped over Catching
Herman Baker, a passenger, beneath
it Dalton and Jack Solberg lifted
the car from Baker and took him to
a hospital. He escaped with broken
shoulder but might have been burned
to death.
Easter joy was supplanted by sor-
row in the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Rob
ert Merkley, near Fond du Lac, when
within twelve hours two of their
children, Dorothy Lorraine, 4, and
EBernice Virginia, 2, were taken by
death after q short illness with an
Intestinal infection. A third child,
Robert Earl, is critically i'll with