Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-11-05

state pen1tent1ary. letter received
from a woman at Benton Harbor,
Mich, from Congdon, gave return
address on State street. The letter
was mailed from Stoughton. The wom-
an, Mrs Eisenhart, Immediately in
formed authorities of the message.
Detectives who were sent to the State
street address were unable to find
that a man answering Congdon's de-
scription was staying there. The es-
capped man is described as weighing
$50 pounds, measuring 5 feet, inches,
and having a noticeable scar be-
tween two fingers on his right hand.
Forest fires that have been raging
for 48 hours are devastating large
areas of slashing and cutover timber
in Forest county. More than 200 men
are engaged in a fight to check the
spread of the blaze The greatest dam
age has been done along the Peshti-
go river on the holdings of the Elan
ner Lumber Co., Blackwell. The 200
men on the fire lines were recruited
from the company's lumber camps.
! The fire in this area is eating its way
through a large section of country
that is mostly unpopulated and none
of the smaller towns of Forest coun-
ty are in it's path at present. So far
as could be learned no isolated homes
| have been destroyed nor have there
been any casualties.
A lonely burial attended by a few
Indian trappers, Royal Northwest
mounted police and Hudson Bay fur
traders, marked the last rites in the
wilds of northern Canada of Robert
Porter, who was accidentally drowned
in the Black Canyon. Mr.. and Mrs.
Porter, Florence, grandparents of the
youth, learned from their son and
the boys father, Herbert Porter. The
young man, home from college on a
vacation, had gone with a friend on
a prospecting journey in search of
gold and platinum While coming
down the waters of the Black Canyon
their canoe was overturned. Young
Porters pal made shore by clinging
to a blanket The accident occurred
May A. AS soon as word of the acct
dent reached the boys father six days
later, a search was started for the
body. Two attempts failed. At third
attempt, an inspector of Indian agen-
cies, a company of Canadian police
and a crew of a Hudson Bay boat
on a group of Indians who had found
the body two days before.
Violet Yale, Is, missed the last in
/ terurban car from Beloit to her home
in Rockton early Sunday morning.
An hour later she was a broken thing,
dead at the Emergency hospital in
Beloit. Violet, one of II children OF
Jos. Yale, milkman of RocktOn, had
gone to the Moose dance, had re-
manned too late to ride home in a
car, and started to walk down the ce
ment highway. Two miles out, the
light from car behind her warned
that she should get out of the way
This is what she did, according to
the statement of four young men in
| the machine: Went to the left side of
the road as the driver attempted to
turn to the left. Violet was in the
middle of the highway when first
seen. Then the driver turned to the
right to avoid her, and she lodged
back in the light. The car struck and
threw her to the pavement. Uncon-
scious she was picked up and carried
| in the machine to the hospital where
she arrived at 1905 and died at 1:50
Sunday morning.
| CIamping on his emergency brake
when attempting to pass a car, and
seeing ahead of him suddenly 4 deep
depression in the grassy side of the
road, H. A Harris, 27, Beloit, was
shot through the top of his JeWett
roadster landed 20 feet away, and re-
ceived wounds from which he died
| two hours later at Mercy hospital.
| The car, held by the brakes, tore the
grass loose from the hard earth for
| 25 feet, hit the middle of the road on
the turn, and turned a complete SOM
ersault in the middle of the highway,
smashing it into mere semblance of
junk pile.
NJ H. Sprague and Selmer Haugen,
president and cashier of the North
western State bank at Washburn,
were given a preliminary hearing in
connection with the insolvency of the
bank last December. Both were bound
over for trial and released on $1,000
bail each Sprague had had one trial
already but the jury disagreed. Re-
Gently Haugen was arrested on the
charge of accepting depositor's mon
ey with the knowledge that the bank
was insolvent. Sprague is held on
charges of misrepresentation and with
holding information from bank exam
liners.
| L. E. Newell of Waterloo, Ia, died,
and Louis Weekly, of the same city,
narrowly escaped a similar fate at
Milwaukee when water they had
placed on the gas stove boiled over
and extinguished the flame, allowing
the escaping gas to fill the room while
they slept Other roomers broke in
to the room just in time to save Week
| ly, but Newell could not be revived.
| Mrs. Anthony La Bonnie, 81, died
at her home in Prairie du Chen after
living in the same house for rs years.
Ninety-six descendants survive her,
all of whom, with the exception of
five, live within a few blocks of the
old home where they were all born in
the house built by her father in 1916.
Mrs. La Bonnie was married when she
was IA, and was the mother of Is
children.
| R. B. Woodward, Ashland, former
banker and real estate man, recently
found guilty of the larceny of a $4,000
mortgage, was sentenced to two years
in Waupun Friday afternoon by Judge
Gregory, Milwaukee. Woodwards at
| torneys obtained stay of execution
pending appeal to the state supreme
court.
Miss Hilda Martin and Harry Hites-
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