Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-10-01

struck by passenger train.
Ralph Jones, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
! A. E. Jones of Nashville, broke his
arm in five places when the horse he
was riding threw him to the ground.
| $50 Indians, attending the National
! Dairy Show at Milwaukee, went to the
College of Agriculture at Madison and
| took points on first-claaS farming me-
| thods
| Frank Hildebrandt, As, secretary of
! the Madison carpenters union,T was
drowned in Lake Wingra while on a
! fishing expedition. His boat over
! turned.
/ Louis Ahrens ST., Sheboygan shoe
merchant, took his own life by drink
| ing carbolic acid The body was dis
covered in the woods near his home.
Mr.. Ahrens had been a sufferer with
asthma for years.
/ In the fire that destroyed the barn
of Joseph Stoskus, Rhinelander far
mer, an unidentified man was burned
| to DEATH Is tons of hay in the barn
were burned The body of the man
was unrecognizable.
| By working crews day and night,
the 500 line has completed construc-
| ton of a new bridge over the Black
river at Withee. The old bridge, a
steel span, was destroyed in the cy-
clone of Sunday a week ago.
Christ. Blank, IS, Sheboygan, awoke
just in time early Friday to get out OF
his home before the last exit was
closed by flames at Johnsonville, a
suburb. He was alone. Firemen kept
the blaze from spreading to adjacent
buildings.
John P. Kunz, Milwaukee, sold the
| family clothes wringer to buy moon
shine with, his wife, Emma told Judge
Gregory last week. Kunz pleaded
with tears in his eyes for another
chance and the court allowed it over
his wife's protest.
Miss Elizabeth Mabie, 16, Edgerton
high school girl, suffered fractured
skull in an auto accident Sunday. She
was riding with Harriet Lund, Laurln
Munson and Chester Gregory when
the smashup occurred. The others
were not hurt.
Four colored persons were drowned
at Milwaukee when an auto in which
they were riding plunged into an open
draw of the Chestnut street bridge.
The dead are: Mr.. and Mrs. Cash
Robinson, Racine; Elmer Grove and
an unidentified man.
A shipload of pulp was locked at
Milwaukee last week, coming direct
from Sweden through the ST. Law
renee river and the Great Lakes
Several other shipments are expected
soon The pulp was loaded in SWe-
den and transferred in small boats at
Montreal.
Wisconsin residents of Norwegian
ancestry are contributing to monu-
ment to be unveiled at Madison next
July 4. The stone is in memory OF
Col. Hans G. Heg, commander OF the
18th Wisconsin Regiment, who was
killed in battle at Chicamauga, June
20, 1868.
Willard Kruger, 10, Hudson farmer
boy, who confessed to numbering MS
father, was pronounced insane by
Jury at Hudson. The boy killed his
father with a piece of iron pipe on
July II, and buried the body IN
hogpen. An examination showed he
is insane.
Albert Hottenstine, 49, deserter
from the army, told Chief OF Police
George Prim, Appleton, that he would
rather "do" four years in Green Bay
reformatory than be taken back to Fl
Sheridan. Hottenstine was arrested
for stealing an automobile and his de-
sertion came to light.
VIM. Luebow, Sheboygan, convicted
of hold-up and robbery OF saloon
last December, was given 10 years at
hard labor in Waupun. Otto Prefer,
saloon man, was shot in the stomach
and $500 taken from his place, but IL
was months before any arrest was
made. Luebow was located in Seattle
last May.
A 4O-foot silo which had been part
ly filled with corn not properly cured,
exploded on the farm of Clyde NC
Combs. near Eau Claire. Ensilage
and huge pieces of concrete were
scattered in every direction. A cow
was injured and had to be shot The
silo was a total loss.
Thomas Anderson, IS, Talbot far
mer, barely escaped with his life when
thrown on a gasoline engine he was
running He was trying to move the
engine with a pry when the pry gave
away and he was thrown on the en-
CINE in such a manner that he was
pounded by the piston rod, each blow
striking his left side and causing in
Martin Olson, Waupaca, and John
w. Aerzepeters, Green Bay, patients
in the state central hospital for the
criminal insane at Waupun, escaped
after they had been set to work to re-
pair a boiler Neither has criminal
record, having been sent to the insti-
tuition to receive treatment for mild
mental disorders. A search is being
made for the two men.
A. c. McHenry, for six years mayor
of Oshkosh and once candidate for
the u. S. senate, was arrested and
thrown in Jail Friday night on a
charge of operating motor car while
drunk. McHenry's machine collided
with another car. No one was hurt
but the machines were badly dam
aged. McHenry began to fight when
taken to jail, according to officials.
He pleads not guilty.
Edward Newman, 81, Kenosha, &C
cused of being accessory to second de-
gree murder in connection with the
automobile tragedy that caused the
death of Coroner Truman G. Parker