Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-02-20
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items Of Current
Interest By Mail
and i telegraph.


bonni over for trial in circuit court
Monday for trial on a charge OF man
slaughter in connection with the de-
,nise Of Margaret Ohrm. The girl at
the time Of her death made state
10ent accusing Gregg Of having per
formed an operation. Physicians teS-
tilted that at the time Of making the
statement the girls mind was clear
and that she had been informed sac
was dying. One OF the physicians
testified positively that the girl
death could only have been due to an
Illegal operation.
M. K. Lesniewski, formerly assist
ant cashier of the Farmers Exchange
Bank Of Thorp, Wis, who is accused
Of embezZiement was held for trial
IN the Clark county district court
Wednesday under bonds of $4,000.
Judge Sch0engarth reduced the bond
for $4,000 with assent Of District At
torney Devos LesnieWski has been
in iail since his arrest in Fort Wayne,
Ind Ian. II. The estimated embeZ-
element was $13,5C0, of which $500
bad been returned. Shortages were
checked back as far as 1921.
G. Fl. Hanson, formerly James
vile printer, now working at his
trade in the Twin Cities, was attract
ed bv a picture of a beautiful young
actress in a stage production OF up
She Goes" in that city and found
ihat she was his own daughter, by
wife whom he had divorced 20 years
ago. He effected a reconciliation,
and was happy to find his long lost
daughter, who had always been made
TO believe that her stepfather was her
zeal iather.-EXchange
The $4,000 bond furnished by Mrs
G.armelia Olivia, Italian grocer, Mad
ison, was declared forfeited in U. ..
district court when Anthony MaZZaro,
FER business partner, failed to appear
for trial. MaZ2ara was found guilty
Of a violation Of the prohibition act
and sentenced 10 six months IN the
Milwaukee house of correction. lie
disappeared after federal Judge LuSe
had issued a stay CT execution to per
nit him to attend to business mat
iCrs.
Hubert Born, II, WatertoWn, was
instantly killed in a coasting accident
Tuesday when a toboggan on which
he and two other boys were riding
crashed into a bob sled at the foot Of
a Hill. A Younger brother was SO
badly hurt that he died soon after
and a third Lad was seriously injured.
The dead boys were sons OF Mrs. Jo-
sephine Borne, a widow. There are
tive other small children in the fam
lily.
Herman hide, former head of the
Wisconsin State Grange in an aG-
dress at Neenah made a plea for
reduction i'll farm mortgages from
& percent TO 5 and 4 percent. The
average farmer has nothing now to
offer his sons to remain on the farm.
Br. hide said When conditions
change and the farmer is once more
assured of living wage, general
prosperity viii increase.
WAcn Henry wilkins and Arthur
Schaff, Map.e Grove, arrived at Cam
elon TO attend basket ball game
they put their horse in what they as
sumed was ~ II Bartlett's barn
The boys made a mistake and put
the horse in a chicken house. After
the game they found the animal had
fallen through the floor into a vege-
table room beneath. 1t was unin-
iured.
Criminal warrants were served at
Fond du Lac for the arrest of Alex
Axotis, %, and Mrs. Nettie Washburn.
-. following the signing Of an affida-
WI by Florence Persick, p, Berlin,
u which the girl charged that AXoti6
would have been the father of her
child had she not been given prep
aration purchased by him and admin
istercd to her by Mrs. Washburn.
Jos Bluecher AZ, brakeman on the
Green Bay-Manitowoc run of the
Northwestern, was instantly killed at
Fancy Greek when he tried to board
The train after signalling to go ahead
Be fell between the coaches and was
ground to pieces. Train officials did
not miss the dead brakeman until the
next stop, ROsemere, was reached.
A snow plow crew went back and
picked UP the body.
While scraping snow off the ice at
RAirrOr lake, near Waupaca, team
belonging TO Oscar Larson, broke
through the ice where the water was
16 feet deep. The horses remained
In the water more than half an hour
before they could be safely removed.
The team is one that has taken first
prize many times at county fairs.
madison police are hunting a NOR
on degenerate who has attacked girls
aud women on the east side of the
city on three occasions recently. The
last report was where the degenerate
attempted an attack on two out-of-
town women who had reached the city
on an early train and were on their
way 70 the home of a friend.
One hundred thousand German
marks with every ticket is the unique
souvenir Manager Gilbert Define is
Offering patrons of juneau motion
picture theatre. The pre-war value
Of these notes was $23,S20. Today
they are not worth the paper they are
printed on.
Superior's safe burglars hoisted a
500-pound safe through a shattered
window of the North Western ticket
office and made a getaway with box
and contents of $3.50 The theft had
the same details as similar robbery