Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-03-12

leased on parole from the reformatory
at Green Bay, where he had been for
a year and four days. He was serving
five year term for manSlaughter.
Maxon is the son of a prominent and
wealthy Milwaukee family.
Charles G.. Pallotta, As, a chirOprac-
tor, was sentenced to one year in the
House of Correction in district court
at Princeton, Wis, on the charge OF
selling medicine to patients He was
also arrested at Fond du Lac on the
same charge, which case is now pend
ing in superior court.
Harry Logan, a war veteran bank
cashier of South Milwaukee, walked
1 300 miles from Canada home to COM
plete his tuberculosis treatment be-
gun in a sanitorium, and continued on
a Canadian farm where he gradually
picked up strength enough to do the
work of hardy farm laborer.
A period of petty thefts that has ex-
tended over several months has ended,
according to the police of Fond du Lac
when they arrested Edward Snyder,
q, and Norman Seibel, %. The Off
GERS are looking for third youth al
legged to have taken partin the thefts.
A large quantity of the loot taken by
the young men was recovered.
VIM. Clancy, so, member of the
WalWorth county board, highway COM
mission, and of the East Troy town
board. was found dead Friday at his
home at East Troy with his throat cut
and knife by his side. Mystery sur
rounds the reason for his act He
visited various merchants in East.
Troy Tuesday and settled up his bills.
Columbia and Sank counties have
placed an order for a steel ferry boat
to be used in crossing the Wisconsin
river at Merrimac. The ferry will cost
$40 900 and will be operated jointly by
the two counties and be free to travel.
A strong demand was made for a
bridge at this point, but it is thought
the ferry will care for the traffic at
smaller cost.
Using wooden keys which he had
evidently fashioned in his cell, Joseph
Wagner escaped from the city jail at
Oconomowoc Thursday afternoon and
is being sought by the sheriff and
police He was sentenced to six years
at Waupun Thursday morning when
he pleaded guilty to burglarizing the
F. J. Mann residence in the town OF
Merton When the sheriff went to
Wagner's cell he found five wooden
keys on the floor, and the prisoner
gone.
An attempt has been made to organ
ize the Ku K1ux Khan in Sparta. The
Sparta Herald says to the Khan, Stay
Away" in these no uncertain words:
There is no room for the Khan in
Sparta Though the Khan has the gall
to call itself 100 percent American
there's nothing American about it's
creed. No good can come out of an or
ganization which seeks to spread
hatred and distrust and to array one
part of our citizenship against another
because of race or religion"
A civic cleanup campaign in which
women crusaders have been enlisted
in a demand for law enforcement is
attracting unusual interest at Black
River Falls, as the municipal election
approaches. The women appeared at
a recent meeting Of the city council
and requested that the marshal, who
has been in office IL years, resign. A
proposed hearing in his case was
prostponed due to Illness of the mar
shall. Lax Of enforcement OF the pro-
hibition laws is charged by the
women.
Milwaukee road employees expert
enced the thrills of an East India lion
hunt at Portage recently. The train
was taking three young lions from the
west to the municipal ZOO at st. Louis.
When the train stopped at Portage
commotion in the car in which the
lions were Gagged led trainmen to in
vestigate. They found that the lions
had broken out Of their cage and were
roaming around the express car. At
tempts to put the animals back into
the cage proved fruitless. The crew
rushed from the car and locked the
doors No express was unloaded until
the train reached Milwaukee and the
animals were forced back into their
cage.
While doing electrical wiring on the
old John Tullar farm, west of Evans
VILE, which was purchased some time
ago by Clarence Croft, and who is now
moving onto it. Leighton Carson on
Wednesday sustained a fall, the effects
of which may prove serious. Work
ing without helper. and with no one
ON the place. Carson was at the top OF
a 40-fcot ladder, wiring of barn,
when the ladder broke, precipitating
him to the ground rendering him I'M
conscious. When he became conscious
he found that he could not use his
body from the waist down. He man
aged to drag himself to his car. and by
using his hands on the foot pedals,
succeeded in getting home. Outside of
this partial paralysis he was not hurt.
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