Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-11-05
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

Toseph's hospital in MarShheId, VIC
fins of as many accidents that &C.
Cured there since Friday. Charles
T,avnig Pittsville, lost the sight OF
his Left eve and his right eye is IN a
serious condition as the result OF d
dynamite blast that occurred at MS
farm while clearing land Friday Lay
MIC believed the fuse had gone OUT
and went up to investigate the chaFge'
The explosion occurred just as ne
reached the stump, striking him tull
IN thn face. The second accident oc-
curred when A. r. Varney, a local
carnenter. fell from a 2O-foot scar
fold to the concrete floor in the base
mont Of the new Presbyterian church,
now under construction. The mead OF
nail he was pulling broke loose,
throwing him off the scatfold. HIS
right leg is broken in three places.
T6e third of the three accidents oc-
Cured Sunday morning, when a car
driven at high speed by three local
high school youths, crashed into an
other car on Central-aV' Wrechlhs
hith Mrs. Leonard Fischer, who was
in the second car with her huSpallu'
suffered a broken right leg.
Otto Taubert proprietor of soft
drink parlor in Racine, was arra1gned
before Court Commissioner Guy Ben
son Monday charged with man
slaughter in the first degree. the
preliminary examination was contn-
ned for week and bond fixed at
81 600. which Taubert was unable to
give and he was remanded to the
county iail. Friends of Taubert, who is
suDpOsed to have made fortune IN
the saloon and restaurant business,
were appealed to to give bond, but all
refused because of the frequent times
Taubert has been arrested for serious
offense. He has served terms in the
Milwaukee house of correction and
county Jail and has paid fines of sew
eral hundred dollars in both the cir
cult and municipal courts of the coun-
tv, Taubert's arrest followed the
death of Lawrence Herland, who was
killed early Sunday when the car
Taubert was driving struck con
crete wall of culvert on the Kill
bourn road and was wrecked. Tau-
bert and two other men in the car
were injured but not seriously.
After a three-day battle which
drew volunteers from the entire coun-
ty. forest fires in the western half OF
Forest county were reported prac-
tically under control Monday noon.
There was still one serious fire burn
ing near Woodwin, but it was expected
that the force of more than 500 fight
ers would be abel to control this stub
born blaze before nightfaI in spite
of a brisk west wind. Lumber cOmpan-
les at Laona estimate that more than
$4,000 acres have been burned over
since the fires first broke out early
last week Most of this, they say, was
cutover land, but during Sunday and
early Monday the flames were sweep
ing through some of the most yalu-
able timber land in this region.
AS he bent over his ironing ma
chine in the front part of his laun-
dry. Wong TAX Go, Chinese, who
came to Milwaukee from Chicago a
month ago, was shot and instantly
killed by an unidentified assassin who
entered the front door, fired two
shots, and then made his escape
through the alley in the rear. There
were no witnesses to the shooting; no
evidence to indicate the identity of
the killer. But police are confident he
is a Chinese, and that the shooting
marks the beginning of the Chinese
tong war in Milwaukee, which has
been anticipated for more than a
week following receipt of threatening
letters by celestials in that city.
Narrowly escaping with their lives
when they leaped from their hand
aH
motor speeder, coming from the OPP
posite direction two Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul railroad employees
were seriously injured at Stoughton.
Both cars were on the same track.
The injured men are William Went
ley, so. and Christian Christianson, 4S,
both of Stoughton Wentley suffered
five broken ribs and internal injuries
and Christensen left leg and right
shoulder we're broken. A curve hid
the approaching motor speeder from
view. The driver of the motor speed
er had a miraculous escape from in
jury.
Edward Molitor. former agent at
Stevens Point for the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Co of New York, and
now a resident of Milwaukee, pleaded
guilty in circuit court to having en-
bezzled $262.31 of company funds.
Molitor received a sentence of four
years in the reformatory, but is to be
paroled on condition that he pay back
the money.
Glenn Wingad, &c, of Eleva, died
at hospital in Eau Claire last week
as a result of fractured skull sus-
tanned in a head-on collision. Andrew
Tweet. driver of one of the cars, sus-
tanned a broken leg and other injuries.
Kenneth Jones. driver of the other
car. and Lloyd Perry, riding with Win
CAD, were unhurt.
Senator Timothy Burke. Green Bay,
urges the factories to blow their
whistles internationally during the
day, Nov 4th, to get out all voters.
This would remind the stay-at-homes
that they had a duty to perform, and
would relieve them of the excuse that
they had forgotten, he says.
Two TT. Atkinson men arrested
Sunday morning at Cedar Lake by
Deputy Game Warden Robert Gray of
Milton, for shooting ducks in open
water, were fined $50 and costs each
by Justice Chas. Williams at Palmyra.
The men are VIM. Barlknecht and
Fred Mehltretter.
The little daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Razakowski Hayward. was
killed when struck on the head by a
pitchfork The child slid from a hay
stack, loosening the fork, which fell.