Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-10-08


charge of selling soft drinks without
city license.
The Beloit Country Club house was
destroyed by fire Saturday night a
week ago. All golf paraphernal!a'
including toys, was destroyed. Inc
club has 800 members.
A well dressed stranger victlmlzed
number of Baraboo firms with worth
less checks last week, disappearing
for parts unknown. Officers are
securing the state for him.
| Robert L. Fischer, former Plymouth
druggist, was arrested in Milwaukee
/ on a charge of having mislabled color-
ed moonshine and counterfeltlng rev
enue stamps. He faces long term III
Fl. Leavenworth.
| VIM Cashier was arrested at
Milton. by Game Warden r. Gray LOT
running game fish from Illinois INTO
wisconsin and selling them at Belolt'
Castner was fined $3.50 by Justice
| of the Peace Hal Burdick, of Milton
function. Castner had catfish.
Miss Lillian Schefe of Reedspurg
suffered a broken collar Done anu
Miss Lillian Schelenberger broken
leg when a machine in when tney
were riding collided with an auCo
driven by one Reinhold Behncke. Inc
girls were taken to hospital.
T. H. ("Pat'') Madden, for many
wears trainmaster on the Lacrosse
divisionof the Milwaukee road, died
suddenly Monday of last week on
Train No. ~, leaving Portage for
Chicago at $50. Madden was selzeo
with a heart attack. He leave lam
lily.
The body of Albert sGehrt, missing
Merrill man, was found in thlcket
near his home Wednesday. Boys hunt
ing rabbits made the gruesome dis
covery. Gehrt had hung himself WIN
wire moose but the body was on the
ground when found.
Fire destroyed the Geo. Macarthur
& Son linen mill at Chenille, near
Baraboo, early Friday. The loss was
$4,000. The Macarthur firm is an
old one. One section was devoted to
to making rugs while another farther
up the stream makes towels.
While hunting near Catawba, Ben
Bushman was shot in the side when
his gun accidently discharged. To
check the flow of blood, Bushman
stuffed moss into the wound bound it
with strips torn from his clothing and
then walked for more than mile to
CataWba.
Within half an hour after he had
arrived at Manson lake, near Rhine
lander, Charles Rittis, rs, Elgin, Ill,
was found dead in rowboat out on
the lake. It is believed death was due
to a heart attack. Rittis was accom-
paanied to the lake from Elgin by
Edward Liesberg his companion on a
vacation trip.
Lester Schneider, Middleton farmer
aged %, was instantly killed in a
runaway accident Thursday morning
while driving down a hill toward
Middleton. His horses ran away and
Schneider was thrown from the wag-
on, his head striking plank His
Skull was crushed. Schneider leaves
bride of three months.
While attempting to board a fast
train on the Northwestern road near
Dane hill, late Wednesday, Edward
Hawkins, escaped patient at Mendoza,
was instantly killed. Hawkins had
been allowed considerable freedom
and wandered away, unobserved.
There were no marks on his body ex-
cept for a deep cut in his head.
Arthur Kernwein, Beloit was IA
tally hurt at Crystal Lake, ILL.,, due to
falling into the hopper of huge con-
crete mixer used on road work Two
heavy loads of sand were thrown in
the hopper after Kernwein fell in,
crushing him. The mans presence
was missed and workmen dug him
out of the machine. He died three
hours later.
Jack Wright, serving 10 months for
larency, and Geo. Kolstad and Charles
Fiske, under indictment for clothing
thefts, cut a hole through a tin roof
in the Ashland Jail and used six
blankets tied togather for rope to
reach the ground and freedom Tues
day night. The men made their way
to the painless woods and have not
been found.
James Barker of Crandon, was SEN
fenced to three months in Waupun for
driving a car while intoxicated. Bar
ker was arrested after he had struck
down the little son of Guy Jacks and
failed to stop. Frank Schmidt, charg-
ed with arson, was sentenced to one
year. For violating the prohibition
laws, Luigi Parise was sentenced to
so days in Jail.
Herman E. Inbush, wealthy Milwau-
kee manufacturer was killed and two
men companions badly hurt when the
Inbush sedan went into ditch south
of Milwaukee last Monday night Eye
witnesses said the wheels locked
while the machine was going IS miles
an hour. It turned over and burst in
to flames. Inbush was rescued before
his clothing ignited but he had been
crushed by the steering wheel and died
soon after
William Burmeister, Reedsburg far
mer, played it lucky when an auto he
was driving was struck by a fast
train. The machine was whirled COM
pletely around and left standing al
most intact. Burmeister was unhurt
Robt. Taylor, So, Rockton, Ill. suf-
fered fractured skull when he fell
head foremost from the top of silo
he was helping to fill on the George
Moody farm near Beloit. Death was
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