Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-12-17
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Holstein cattle totaling 1,340 head,
valued at $58,829, were sold through |
Barron county sale agents and breed !
ers' associations. Shipments have been |
made east to Massachusetts, south to !
Louisiana and New Mexico and west |
to Idaho and Washington.
Mrs. Ruth Reick, town of Langwood, |
was sentenced Monday to four years |
in the state prison at Waupun follow
ing conviction at Neillsville of hav-
ing killed Maynard Harlow, IA, who
was gathering nuts on her farm last
October The woman declared the gun
was accidentally discharged in her
scuffle with the boy whom she tried
to drive off her place.
Prentiss Maxson, "a, son of E. H.
Maxson, Amigo Buick agent, was
killed Saturday morning. He was driv-
ing Fordson tractor with full crawl
er attachment, under its own power,
upon a truck which was to deliver his
tractor into the country to custom
er. AS the tractor crawled upon the
skids, the skids slipped away from
the truck turning the tractor complete
ly over and pinning young Maxson
beneath it. He died almost instantly.
! The Washburn city council has set
tax rate, of per cent for 1925. This
rate, believed to be the highest in the
state, is made necessary by the large
| city debt. A fight was precipitated in
a special meeting of the council after
majority had passed a 10 per cent
rate at previous meeting. Mayor
Paul Ungrodt threatened to veto the
measure and the per cent rate was
set as compromise. The city of Wash
burn, hard hit by the postwar slump
at the BarkSdale Du Pont factory and
the subsequent closing of its two
banks, was on the verge of bankrupt
cy when Ungradt, the hoy mayor of
| Washburn," was elected. Turning his
own salary back into the treasury and
| instituting a program of economy, he
helped the city to weather its f1nan-
cial difficulties but the community is
| faced by a huge bonded Indebtedness
| incurred during the days of it's pros
perity.
! Hazel Bennett of Beloit was SEN
fenced to three months in the state
asylum for the insane at Mendoza by
Judge John Clark. She was arrested
| Oct. oath, charged with burglary from
| the Y. w. G. A. rooms. After being re-
! leased on q $3.50 bond, she fled to Chi
cago. Later, when brought back, she
was bound over for trial and released
on $4,000 bond. After physicians had
| testified as to her mental condition,
she was sent to the state hospital.
| Few men in GAINESVILLE annually
earn as much money as is represented
| i'll the gold salvageG from the sweep
! ingS off the floor of the Parker Pen
/ Co. and the clothing of the workers,
each year. It was learned from Geo. S.
! Parker, president of the company, that
every precaution to save every par
ticle of gold is taken in the plant
with the consequent result that a
saving of around 500 a week is eff
fected. The dust is gathered up and
washed and the tiny particles of gold
gathered up. The clothing of work
men who in their day labors handle
| the precious metal in making pens
and pen points, is washed for gold.
A months supply of gold for the
company is valued at $4,000, said
| Parker
Six armed and unmasked bandits eff
fected the first bank robbery in the
history of Milwaukee when they en-
tered the Northwestern National bank
a few minutes after the doors opened,
held off employees and customers for
25 minutes, and escaped with $4,000
in cash and 1884, 200 in negotiable Sc
curities A seventh man at the wheel
of large touring car drove the band
south toward Chicago. The bandits,
well dressed and exciting no suspi-
ton because of their leisure manner,
entered the bank at $50, drew re-
volvers anud ordered four employees
and three customers into small back
room. Henry A. Digman, cashier, was
knocked unconscious with the butt end
of a revolver when he disobeyed the
command of the robbers to cover his
eyes. Three of the men then rushed be-
hind the cages adm gathered up all the
money in sight Evidently not salts
| fled with the amount taken, they at
tempted to force Digman to open a
strong box containing $25,000 When
| Digman explained that the combina-
| ton of the box was known only to the
president of the bank he was threat
ened with DEATH but released after
several futile attempts to manipulate
the dial. None of the employees was
given an opportunity to press the
burglar alarm connected with police
headquarters.
Effie Radel, 26, is under arrest at
Baraboo. charged with first degree
murder, following the report of the
coroner's jury at Spring Green Mon
day, at the inquest over the death of
the woman's new born child on Fri
day. According to evidence presented
at the inquest, this child was the third
born to the girl, and the other two
also died shortly after birth. 1t was
assumed by the coroner's jury that
they met their death in the same
fashion as did the third. The report
of Coroner F. E. Tryon stated that
the child met its death by strangula-
ton and exposure, at the hands of
Effie Radel." Testimony of the nurse,
Mrs. Anna Hood, that she had discov-
cred the girl with her hands on the
baby's throat few hours after it was
born, was presented at the inquest
Mrs. Hood then took the child to her
own home, where it died that after
noon. Marks on the infants throat
were shown as evidence The girls |
home is in Richland Center, and she
went to Spring Green and attempted |
to be admitted to a hospital there. No /
one would admit her, and she obtained |
rooms at restaurant, it was testi-
fed. The child was born Friday mron- |
ing. Saturday night Miss Radel tried |
to leave Spring Green, got up, and |
walked three miles out into the coun
try. A deputy sheriff was sent after
her and brought her back. Questioned /
by the coroner concerning the fact |
that she had preDared no clothes for |