Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-08-27
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

A new concrete dam will be Dullt
at Sparta by the Northern States POW
er Co. The company will also rebuild
the dam at Amigo.
Mrs. Victoria DrefcZinski, "A, was
severely injured when she was struck
by an automobile driven by Frank
Piekarski, as she was returning from
church.
August Klever, 81, Amigo, was cut
in two longitudinally when he trlpped
over a timber and fell on a circular
saw while he was working with
portable sawmill crew cutting ties.
Lloyd La Comb, PeshtigO, was SER
iously injured when one OF MS COM
panions threw a rusty fish spear and
the weapon struck the calf OF his leg
one of the tines penetrating through
the leg.
Mike Puskarich, %, it at ST. Mary's
hospital in Green Bay suffering from
injuries received when he struck
match too near the gasoline tank OF
his automobile. He is burned about
the face and hands.
Mrs Mary Anderson, Il, Eau clare,
was instantly killed Thursday when
she was run down by an automobile
while waiting for a street car. Arlle
Smith, driver of the automobile, is IN
Jail pending an inquest.
A long string of store and school
house robberies, extending over the
last six months, which have been bat-
fling Marshfield police, was cleared up
Thursday in the arrest of gang OF
boy thieves, none older than IL.
Lieut.. Ralph A. Oftsie of the United
States navy, native of Eau Claire,
will pilot a navy seaplane in the in
ternational races for the Jacques
Schneider cup at Baltimore Oct. "a
and %.
BURGLARS who opened both the front
and rear doors with keys, robbed the
post office at Whitehall Thursday
morning. Less than $100 worth of
stamps was taken from desk. No
money was left in the building.
Burglars who broke into the bicycle
shop and hardware store of George
Maine, Stevens Point, made away with
$50 in nickels and dimes and various
articles valued at nearly 500. Attic
les of only the best quality were TAX
en-, the burglars carefully selecting
their loot.
Tony Maxim, Kenosha, came home
Sunday and found his wife in the
arms of a boarder. He said nothing
but went down to the basement OF his
home and hanged himself. The
boarder heard a noise in the base
ment, went down and saved the hus-
bands life.
Mrs. c. r. Rich, Tomah, who was
arrested on a charge of resisting pro-
hibition officers accompanying the
sheriff in a raid has been released
from the county Jail at Sparta upon
furnishing $500 bail. 1t is alleged that
the woman Withstood the officers for
half an hour.
William Goodenough, IS, La Crosse,
was probably fatally injured and the
automobile he was learning to drive
was wrecked, when the machine stall
ed with him on a Burlington road eros
sing and was struck by passenger
train. GOodenough suffered internal
injuries, physicians reported.
Smothering his flaming clothing
with wearing apparel, Mary Kempen,
IL of Catawba, is believed by doctors
to have saved the life of her brother,
Joseph, 8, after a kerosene can eXplod-
ed in the boys hands. The child was
taken to an Ashland hospital where
skin grating operation was perform
ed.
George Luther, Spring Green, was
arrested Wednesday for the third time
within a year, charged with having il
licit liquor in his possession. Last
week Z. f. Smith and Y. r. Schaefer
surprised a group of merrymakers IN
the rear Of Luther's soft drink parlor
and came out with jus of sunshine"
in exchange for warrant on Luther.
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Carnival shows narrowly missed death
at Juneau during an early morning
storm. They were sleeping in a tent
and left their hunks to seek shelter
from wind and rain in the base ball
grandstand nearby, and had barely got
out when a giant oak fell on the tent,
flattening it. Their death would have
been certain had the storm caught
them in their sleep.
dense fog Thursday evening took
toll of two lives at Superior when
Arthur H. Kimpell, 35 Dugutt, and
his son, Arthur Jr.. 8. were instantly
killed il a head-on collision between
the automobile driven by Kimpell and
a Superior street car. Mrs. Kimpell
and her 12-year-old brother, visitors
from Fargo, n. D., are in a hospital
severely injured. The Kimpell infant,
aged nine months, was unhurt.
Quick work on the part of John
Szymanski, Ashland, probably saved
the life of his fellow worker, Joe XII
cinsli, 81, when a door weight fell on
Kucinskis head at a North Western
ore dock. Kucinsk stopped to pull up
the door of one of the ore pockets. AS
he pulled the 90-pound weight at
tached to the door came loose and
dropped, knocking him unconscious.
Szymanski caught him as he started
to fall into the rushing mass of ore.
Pinned beneath their overturned au-
tomobile, which skidded on loose grav-
ell at the side of highway 10, south of
Poynette, Miss Anna Burthe, a nurse,
was instantly killed, and Miss Audrey
Hansen was seriously injured. The
accident occurred when Miss Hansen,
who was driving, turned out to pass
another car, while the two were driv-
ing to Madison after Miss Hansen had
held whispered conference with Rus
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