Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-23

he was driving on his farm at Blue
mounds, when it turned turtle after
striking stump.
Mrs Erick Johnson, wife of far
mer living near GAINESVILLE, has flock
of White Leghorns which, since jan
uary, brought in $685. a month with
feed bill averaging $3.50.
25 boys, ranging in age from TO
Is years, have been rounded up by the
Fond du Lac police for a series OF
petty robberies. Bicycles, candy, fish
ing tackle, etc., are among the artlc-
les taken.
While using kerosene in lighting
fire in her kitchen stove, Mrs. Eva
Babler Buehler, residing west OF Mon
ticello, was so badly burned in the
resulting explosion that her life is
despaired of.
John Tesche jr., son of a Sheboygan
doctor, pleaded guilty to reckless
driving and paid a fine. The machine
Tesche was driving missed bridge
and ran into the river at Franklin.
The lives of three girls and two other
young men were endangered.
Michael K1eist, 81, game warden of
Fond du Lac, was instantly killed
when his automobile skidded into a
shallow gravel pit and turned over.
The body was found pinned beneath
the car by William Kleinke. Kleist
suffered a broken neck and broken
back.
Samuel Katz, 60, was killed at New
Glarus when he slipped on the run
ming board and fell while trying to
reach the drivers seat and set the
brakes on a car. Katz and and
companion were opening a gate on the
Katz farm, when the truck began to
move down an incline.
John Everson, Eau Claire, a truck
driver, was arrested and held at EY-
ansville for crowding a team and
wagon to the ditch at a narrow turn
and causing injury to Harry Olson,
20, farmer Olson is in hospital
Everson did not stop until detained
| by Byrl Williams, farmer.
John Mikulich, SO, Mellen farmer,
knocked his wife to the floor and fired
two shots into her body. Hhe then
went to the basement and shot him
self in the heart, dying instantly The
| shooting took place in the presence of
their seven children. Neighbors say
the couple quarreled constantly be-
cause another man was too attentive
to the wife.
Clyde Russell, 8, son of w. G. Rus
sell, rural mail carrier out of Crivitz,
was drowned Thursday afternoon
while swimming. The boy sank in the
presence of his father and two broth
ers who were swimming with him.
He never came up. The Russell boy
is the fourth victim at that point in
! the river near Crivitz.
A 13-year-old daughter of Thomas
| Bowdin, Evansville farmer, was found
dead hanging with hay rope around
| her neck in her fathers barn. The
discovery was made by her brother
who had been sent to look for the
child. She had been in the habit OF
playing in the barn and using the
rope as a swing. 1t is thought she
accidentally entangled.
Edward Bailey, Is, Klondike, Mari
nette county, is at the point of death
in a hospital. He had just unhitched
horse at the cheese factory, when
the animal ran away, dragging him
about 100 feet. A thill struck the boy
and pierced his body. Edwards father
died four years ago, his brother, Emil,
had a leg amputated due to an acct
dent and a sister is sick in bed.
Several broken ribs and other SER
! ious bruises were suffered by Walter
Phipps, town of Mitchell farmer, near
| Sheboygan, when his leg caught in
the pulley of a gasoline engine while
| he was attemp ing to adjust the ma
chine He saved himself from death
by hanging onto post near the ma
! chine. When the belt was thrown OFF
the pulley and he was in no further
danger, he lost consciousness.
William Smith, %, negro held in the
Madison Jail for an alleged shooting
of H. L. Stimson, also colored, and
the holding up of Mabel Davenport
and her escort, Elliot Oscar, on a
| lonely road near Madison, attempted
to hang himself with blankets. He
was cut down by the jailer. Stimson,
the man Smith shot, is improved in
health. He went to the rescue when
he heard the girl cry out, so he
claims.
Following the death of COW owned
| by William Dahle, Washburn county
farmer, an examination of the animals
stomach disclosed that she had an os-
trich's appetite. The cow had swal-
lowed some large nails, piece of fence
wire, some coins and other hardware.
julia II, daughter of Frank Elem
ing, Shullsburg farmer, got in front of
the moving machine while her father
was cutting hay. The child's heel was
severed before Fleming could stop
the team.