Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-08-13
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

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was taken to hospital.
VIM. HITLER, proprietor of Hitzler,s
dance hall at Cleveland, caught 30
Id. muskellonge while fishing in Long
Lake last Thursday evening. The hSh
was about four feet long.
Three hogs were burned to death
and 40 tons of hay destroyed by ire
resulting from a lightning bolt on the
Arthur Gruetzon farm, near Cottage
Grove, Sunday night week ago.
Amid an electric storm which did a
lot of damage at Edgerton a mule
used to haul a milk wagon at the
Schieselbein & Somerfeldt plant step
ped on a charged wire and was cleo
trocuted.
Loretta Hidde, II, Sheboygan girl,
suffered a broken right leg, federated
forehead and body bruises when
struck by a truck driven by John
Hieronymus Hieronymus was attempt
ing to drive his truck into garage
when the girl ran in front of the ma
chine.
Herbert Huegel, 6-year-old son of
DR.. r. w. Huegel, prominent Madl-
son physician, died of injuries received
when he was struck Tuesday by an
auto, said to have been driven by Miss
Esther Ziegler, 20 years old, of Du-
buque, a summer school student at
the U. of W.
AS Mrs. NJ S. Fournier was return
ing to her cottage on Franklin lake,
near Three Lakes, the headlights OF
automobile blinded a deer, which had
stepped out into the road, and the
car collided with the animal. The i'm
pact put out the lights, but Mrs. Four
nier avoided a wreck. The deer took
to the woods.
Anton Nytes, SO, Sheboygan, was
fatally injured when he was struck by
an auto Sunday night while visiting
his son, August Nytes, in the town OF
Buchanan near Appleton. Nytes died
two hours after the accident. He was
attempting to cross road when he
was struck. The car kept on going.
The body was taken to Sheboygan for
burial.
The fatalities reported over the
state from the big storm of Monday of
last week were: Oscar Olsen, 3D.,
drowned at Fond du Lac; George Ber-
enz, 48, killed by lightning near Mary
town: Lorraine West, 6, fell into pond
near her home at Ripon; John Skora,
30. electrocuted at Milwaukee; and
Harold Frank, IA, of st. John, drown
ed in creek.
Engineer Robt Towsley of the Mil
Waukee- Manitowoc run, stopped MS
train less than 20 feet from yawn-
ing chasm. Rains had worn the en-
bankment away for $50 feet to
depth of IS feet allowing the steel
tracks to stand suspended Had lows
lev run on he would have hurled
train load of vacation bound people
to their deaths.
Work on the pavement construction
of Highway IL south of Sheboygan is
progressing at the rate of 700 feet OF
concrete a day, according to County
Highway Commissioner George ubbe
lohde. About half of the work is COM
pleted and the entire paving of the
strip which cost 100000 will be fin
ished early in the fall at the present
rate of progress.
Harry Dorst, a 25 year old farmer
who resides five miles west of Plym-
outh, was fined $50 and costs and SEN
fenced to ninety days in the county
workhouse, in Justice Harry VOTERS
court on Monday morning, when he
pleaded guilty to the charge of driv-
ing an auto while intoxicated. HIS
companion, Max Oehmke, was fined
S25 and costs for resisting an OFFICER.
The offense was committed Saturday
night
Reports from over the state are that
the rain storm of Monday OF last
week was the most severe in years at
many points. The Milwaukee river
valley was flooded and dams endan-
gered. Madison had 3.04 inches of wa
ter, La Crosse 3.24 inches, Sheboygan
4.76 inches and at Williams Bay, near
Delavan, all rainfall records were
broken. Considerable damage was done
in Crawford county. The storm caus-
ed much damage to standing crops,
particularly small grain.
A freight train on the Milwaukee
road due at Delayan at p. M, was
wrecked one mile west of that city
Sunday evening. Spreading rails are
blamed for the accident. Eight tank
cars jumped the track and tore up
more than 200 feet of the right of way.
Wrecking crews from Milwaukee and
Beloit were clearing away the wreck
age Monday but it may be several
DAYS before trains can be run through.
Meanwhile passengers will have to
walk from one train to the other at
this place.
Mr. and Mrs. J. X. Jenson, former
Stoughton people touring Glacier Ma
tional Park, had the thrilling expert
ence of being lost in the park and
without food for two days. With a
party of others Jenson and wife set
out to do the park with guide, for
saking the regular trails. The coun-
try became wilder and wilder and
night fell with the party marooned on
a huge cliff. They could hear water
trucking over rocks hundreds of feet
below but were afraid to make The
descent in the darkness and remain
ed without water all night The text
day after much wandering the party
struck a camp. They found they were
80 miles from their destination The
guide who had worked like a trojan
clearing path for the party, then
admitted that he was lost He was
later discharged by the government.
The party after more traversing
found their way to a railroad and