Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-09-24
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
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and Telegraph.

been asked to WaLcn IOr EQlLH USELESS,
17-year-oId Ashland girl, who disap-
peared last Tuesday. 1t is believed
by the police that the girl ran away
with Joe Lockashur, machinist, who
has also disappeared
DR.. and Mrs. George Thorngate have
departed from Exeland on the first
lap of their journey to Shanghai,
China, where they will make their
home. Dr. Thorngate has been sent to
China as a medical missionary and
will have charge of a hospital.
With both eyes closed, hair singed,
face and neck badly burned, and hun
dreds of cuts over his body from fly
ing glass, Carl Swanson, Eau Claire
photographer, is in a hospital as the
result of an explosion of bottle OF
f1ashlight powder. Specialists expect
to save his eyesight. Swanson was
taking a picture.
Miss Matena Tollefson, So, for sc
years a teacher in the schools at Man
itowoc, suffered a stroke of heart dis
ease and died, while engaged in house
hold duties. Miss Tollefson was one OF
the most widely known instructors in
that vicinity. She was formerly pres1-
dent of the Co. Teachers Association
and at one time was principal of the
Madison school,
Della Wilkinson, 10, of Beloit, is in
the Emergency hospital in that city
with a broken foot, having been run
down Saturday by an auto driven by
w. S. Rundell, assistant district at
torney of Rock county, as she was
alighting from a street car. Rundell,
police reported, failed to stop his car
when the street car stopped to allow
the girl to alight, and his car knock
ed her down as she got off.
John Curtiss ST., of Waldo, who
served drinks in the soft drink parlor
of George Gardner Dynamite Bill in
that village, was arrested last week
by Sheriff George Goodell, in connec-
ton with an accident which caused
the death of Herbert Schulz, when the
auto which he was driving crashed
into a telephone pole on the Lower
Falls road The complaint charges
Curtiss with unlawfully selling intox-
icating liquor He was bound over to
the circuit court.
Robert Smith, who resides near
Franklin, lost two large barns, ma
chine shed, two silos and contents by
fire which started from an engine
when threshing was being done on
the farm. The loss is estimated at
$4,000 one third of which is covered
by insurance. The separator, belong
ing to Henry Dickman of Howards
Grove, was destroyed. No livestock
was burned. The loss sustained by Mr.
Smith besides the buildings, included
1850 bushels of grain, about 100 tons
~ 60 no
spreader, corn cultivator and other
machinery
A nationwide search was started
last week for Ferdinand Markgraft
cashier of the Columbia State Bank
of Lodi. who disappeared mysteriously
Saturday after a check up of his ac-
counts by examiners Friday. The man
actions while the examination of his
accounts was being made, aroused
suspicion of Deputy Carl Herr1ed
Nothing was said, however, and an
nouncement that he failed to appear
for work Saturday was withheld I'M
tile the first of the week when the
president of the bank revealed the
story to the district attorney No IT.
regularities were found in his ac-
counts, according to the president OF
the bank.
Gasoline sold for nothing a gallon
in Footville on Saturday, when two
rival oil pump operators, merchants OF
the village, waged a price-cutt1ng
battle. Scores of persons replenished
their gas tanks while the prices were
down. with the one Selling" for moth
ing. having most of the business. The
fun started in the morning Saturday
when E. A. Silverthorn hung up a
sign, Gas down one cent" and was
selling it for 13c Then his competitor,
H. A. Swanson, across the street, went
him one better, Underselling him by
one cent Then the low market price
see-sawed from one side of the street
to the other, the margin each time
being one cent. Gasoline one cent
then greeted the patrons of Mr.. Sill
verthorn and with this staring him in
the fact, Mr. Swanson's station went
the rest of the way and put the price
down to nothing Sunday, quiet reign
ed, with the price signs once more an
nouncing the regular price at both
filling stations.
After looking for the last time upon
the body of his wife, the mother of
eight children, as it was lowered in
to the grave at Oshkosh Sunday af-
ternoon, and with the words OF the
minister ringing in his ears, Harry
Weigelt, in his cell Sunday night con-
fessed to Chief of Police A. H, Cab
bert that he killed her after a quar-
rel Mrs Weigelt was found hanging
in a shed at the rear of the home last
Thursday morning, and the husband
taken into custody a few hours later,
professed innocence. He was taken to
the funeral by Chief Gabbert and
maintained his reserve until he was
again placed alone in his cell. He
said that during quarrel he hit his
wife on the head with the heel of a
shoe, telling her. He then dragged her
to the shed where he placed the moose
about her head. After putting the rope
in place. while holding his wife on a
box. Weigelt said he kicked the sup