Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-03-12
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
telegraph.

900 in cash passed through the TAX
collectors window About percent OF
the total levy remains uncollected.
Monroe is experiencing its most
serious scarlet fever epidemic in %
years, according to DR.. G. A. Seller,
city health physician. Ten homes are
under quarantine, and fourteen cases
are on record, all children.
The raise which the city council
of Beaver Dam voted the mayor and
other city officials at the first meeting
in February is not legal, it has been
found, and the public servants will
have to work in 1924 for the same old
compensation.
Frank Schneider was found guilty by
a jury late Tuesday at Madison OF OBJ
tanning 81 900 under false pretenses
from Mrs. Bertha Adams, Madison
woman, and sentenced to serve two
years at the state reformatory at
Green Bay by Judge Hoppman.
Claiming that her soldier husband
treated her cruelty and inhumanely,
and that he told her to leave the house
during the course of family tilt, Mrs.
Margaret Mason, 81, filed suit in Su-
perior court for divorce from Sergeant
Herman Mason, of the u. w. military
department.
Angelina Handy, 10, was sentenced
to Is days in jail at Oshkosh because
she forged" a note permitting Dor
othy Wenslaff, 16, her chum, to attend
a public dance with her. Minors I'M
der 10 are not permitted to attend a
public dance without consent of a par
ent or guardian.
Fire broke out in the basement of
Sell Bros Hardware Co., Wausau, late
Tuesday and Quilted the building,
burning the entire stock of hardware
valued at $4,000 and also destroying
the property Of tenants on the second
floor The total loss is nearly $780,
900. A defective heating system was
blamed.
Two children were burned to death,
the mother so seriously burned that
her life hangs in the balance and the
fathers face and one hand burned
when a gasoline can exploded at the
John Gnadt home at ST. NaZianz on
Friday Leona, aged 5, and Frances,
d, lived only short time after the
accident.
Mrs. Leo Nix, SO, Brodhead, died
Monday night within half hour after
she suffered an injury when the head
of her bed broke down. She complain
ed of intense pain to her husband
shortly after the accident. Before a
physician could be called she died.
Doctors believe ruptured blood YES
sci was the cause of death.
The $4,000 damage suit brougt by
Lester Swenson, %, Deerfeld, against
the Modern Woodman lodge at Sum-
ner for injuries suffered Oct. IA, 1922,
when he was thrown out Of the Wood
man dance hall, was filed in circuit
court at Jefferson Swenson suffered
a broken neck and slight fracture of
the skull as result of the fracas.
H. w. Flunker and a companion,
while walking through the woods
about IA miles north Of Ladysmith dis
covered the warm carcass of deer
that the wolves had just killed and
partly devoured Returning to the
place later with traps, they captured
a 75-pound timber wolf. On the fol-
lowing night they caught two bobcats
at the same spot.
William Heidel, IS, of Brandon, lost
both arms when his clothing caught In
a pulley in a factory in which he was
working at Fond du Lac. The youth
had been temporarily employed. and
was adjusting belt on moving pull
ley when his clothing caught in the
machinery One arm was torn from
its socket and the other crushed SO
that amputation was necessary.
VIM. Pratt of Oregon, pleaded guilty
to a charge of larceny of a large
amount of flour from afreight car in
the Northwestern yards in that vii
Iage, and was sentenced late Wednes-
day to serve two years in the state
prison at Waupun by Judge Stolen
upon recommendation of Asst. Atty.
Sanborn Pratt was arrested and taken
to Madison by Undersheriff w. M. Cor
mick.
Buried underneath falling stone
wall, William Kurtz, so, Cedarburg,
was killed almost instantly Tuesday
morning and his son, Henry, barely
escaped a similar fate. KurtZ, who
lives in Cedarburg, went to his sons
farm two miles south of the village to
help in razing an old wall. Both were
covered by an avalanche of rocks
which became dislocated unexpected
ly. He is survived by his wife and five
children.
Evidence of the horrible physical
suffering endured by the unfortunate
lIOuuSA I1SGlldu, IL III gainesville, uuI-
ing his confinement in the state
asylum at Mendoza, were revealed at
GAINESVILLE Thursday when the body of
the youth arrived in GAINESVILLE from
Madison A deep wound, nearly five
inches long and two inches wide, is
seen on the left side of his face, ex-
tending from the cheek bone to point
below the lower jaw. In the center of
the forehead is sharp circular wound
about a half inch in diameter and a
quarter of an inch deep. The hands
and wrists were swathed in bandages
Heenan's story, as told to his brothers,
both of GAINESVILLE, before his death,
was that he was thrown into dark
room and lay helpless there with his
head against the coils of a steaming
radiator and was painfully burned.
DR. F. /. Drake, superintendent of
the Mendoza state asylum at Madison
denied that Heenan had been brutality
treated by attendants, when informed
of the report from GAINESVILLE. DR..
Drake stated the cause OF death was
exhaustion of acute mania.