Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-06-11
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

Beaver Dam is planning to build a
$4,000 sewage disposal plant
Herman Derleth, Madison, paid a
fine of $3.50 for violation Of the state
dry law. Raiders found 20 bottles OF
home brew in Derleth's establishment.
Henry Mcmillan of Crandon, was
shot and killed on the streets there
by his half-brother, Arthur Mcmillan.
Both are Kentuckians. The murder
was cold blooded. Arthur MsMillan is
under arrest.
Lawrence Linauer, 8, ManitowoC,
may lose an eye as the result of Il
prank played on him by an older boy.
Lindauer was grabbed from behind
and held while a fr9cracke' was eX-
ploded in his face. The wounds are
serious.
Fire of unknown origin swept Criv-
itz Thursday afternoon destroying ~
stores with a loss of 100000. A stiff
wind spread the blaze and kept it out
of control. Fire departments came
from adjoining towns to aid in fight
ing the flames.
Hayes Bros, GAINESVILLE contractors,
were the successful bidders on the
$4,000 paving job to go in at Edger-
ton this summer. The work will con-
sist of 5000 yards of paving, $500
! feet of curb and gutter and $500
yards of excavation.
Brooklyn doctors are puzzled by
the case of Arthur Peterson who has
suffered from shock for two weeks.
Peterson was working in a field when
a neighbor set off charge of dyna-
mite. He collapsed and has been in
a critical condition since.
Mrs. Henry Holzwardt, Sheboygan,
set fire to her home while burning
boards over an oil lamp to make char
coal She left the boards burning and
went about other duties. When she
came back the floor was on fire. The
building was partially destroyed.
A tragic death and a strange coin
cidence occurred at Neillsville when
Mrs. Carl Dodte died while the body
of her husband was being lowered in
to the grave at his funeral services.
At first it was thought she had tainted
but a physician who was present pro-
nounced her dead.
August Acker of Sheboygan, SEN
fenced to serve year for the death
of Friedrich Littmann, April 6, has
taken an appeal to the state supreme
court Acker admits the death but al
1eges no negligence on his part. An
automobile driven by Acker struck
Littmann, causing his death.
Augustus Behling and Carl Slatke
were instantly killed and Robt eau
chardt fatally hurt Saturday when
high tension power wire snapped and
fell against a dead" wire the men
were working on at Milwaukee. Men
who rescued Cauchardt were burned
when they pulled him away from the
wire.
A. R. Hirst, state highway engineer,
sprung a couple of surprises last
week First he he resigned his post,
being succeeded by J. T. Donaghey,
state maintenance engineer. A day or
so later he announced his candidacy
for governor, opposing Gov. Blaine
whose criticism of the highway office
brought about Mr.. Hurst's resignation.
While August Lyon, COloma farmer,
was repairing a broken down truck at
the roadside, Sheriff Harry Nehls hap
pened along and arrested him. The
truck was found to contain a large
quantity of mOOnShine. Three par
rels of mash were found in shack
on Lyons place and the still was To-
Gated three miles away, hidden IN
straw stack.
Albert AulI, Ii, vi d11SCf1AAC, AAA''
was trapped as he looted a mail box
of a dummy letter which he supposed
contained $4,000 in Liberty bonds. Ault
had written a Monroe, Wis, bank de-
handing the bonds and signing the
name of his employer, Orah Kiester.
The bank suspected plot and notl-
fed Kiester. A posse of farmers lay
in wait for Ault He is also charged
with the burglary of $1,000 from the
Kiester home on May 8.
The new weight basis for licensing
autos is not going to produce the
money it was planned it should. The
average for the first 388,000 autos
registered was but 81 a car. The 25
per cent reduction on cars over four
wears of age has materially reduced
the sum. and the licenses after June
30th. will be subject to % per cent
discount, and after August 3rd, 81
per cent discount. Thus licenses for
the last half of the year will not pro-
duce the money produced under the
old law.
A four foot specimen of the species
of snake known as blue racer, was
killed by William Babcock, farmer
boy, between Reedsburg and Mansion
The boy was blowing when he dis
covered the reptile, which put up quite
a fight before it was finally dispatch
ed. A characteristic of this particular
kind of snake is said to be its habit
of following persons who have disturb
ed it. Another is its ability to get ov-
er the ground at a remarkable rate
of speed. This is the second one TO be
killed in the immediate vicinity these
two being the first to be seen in many
years.
James Howard, so, Superior, lies in
a hospital with bullet wound in his
chest inflicted by his wife. At the re-
quest of Howard police are not hold
ing his wife. Howard went away on
a fishing trip Sunday a week ago and
returned late at night. He retired by
the side Of his wife and awoke to find
the bullet in his body. Mrs. Howard,
a woman of highly nervous tempera- |
ment, says she dreamed bears were
attacking her. In a nightmare she |
seized a revolver from beneath her
buehapd'a inflow and fred II at what |