Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-10-01
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WISCONSIN
Items of Current
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broken right arms within two days,
while cranking the same automobile.
Four masked men held up the night
clerk at the Pembine hotel, Friday,
escaping with the contents of the
cash register and three slot machines.
The loot was estimated at $500. The
quartet fed in high-power car.
Arthur Hoehn, night clerk in a drug
store at Rhinelander, was help up by
a masked man, forced to open a safe
and locked in closet all night. The
robber obtained 5000 from the safe but
overlooked an envelope containing
$50.
Ashland juries consistently refuse
to fasten the title of bootlegger on
Mrs Lauara Collins, pretty young ma
iron of the city. Her second trial re-
suited in an acquittal. Dist. Atty
Merrill urged the jury not to be in
fluenced by the "best looking witness"
ever seen in the court.
Reginald H. Forth, II, of Superior,
was one of the first hunting victims of
the season. Forth was killed when
his gun exploded directly in his face
as he attempted to draw it from a
boat, muzzle foremost. Death was in
Simultaneous, his companions, Gustave
Syring, Ben Oesterich and Carl John
son, state.
Henry Foulker, As, Browntown man,
suffered a broken collar bone, frac-
tured shoulder blade and possible in
ternal injuries when a car he was
driving tipped over in the sand on S.
T. L. 20, near his home. Loose sand
was blamed for the accident. Other
persons in the machine were but
slightly hurt.
Magnets failed to remove a particle
of steel from the eyeball of Mardell
Pfund, 9, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Louis Pfund of Monroe. Although she
always carry the foreign substance it
is believed her sight will be saved.
The steel splinter flew ten feet away
from hammer that Mardells young
sister was striking on an anvil in the
farm workshop of their father.
Hog cholera, the most feared of all
swine diseases, is reported on several
farms in the Evansville section, re-
sulting in prompt quarantine by DR..
J. T. Purcell, Madison. On being
called by the farmers, DR.. Purcell at
once reported and posted several of
the farms. The diseased herds and
others on the farms adjoining were
vaccinated. There has been little hog
cholera in the southern Wisconsin
the past summer and this is the first
outbreak in Rock county in months.
Elmer Christopherson, "a, and an
unidentified man, were drowned early
Tuesday when their car plunged into
a branch of the Yahara river near
Madison. An empty half-pint bottle
was found in the pocket of the I'M
identified man and a bottle partially
pocket of Christopherson. The belief
filed with whiskey was found in the
is that Christopherson, driving, be-
came confused and ran his car into
the stream thinking it was the road.
The car, a coupe, lay partially out of
the water and the dead men were
piled inside.
John S. Brainerd jr., Chicago, will
receive $229,121, left in trust for him
at La Crosse by E. R. Barron, mer-
chant. After Mr. Barron died Is
years ago, six relatives received the
income from the estate. Five have
died and Mr.. Brainerd is the sole heir.
Gugo Walter, Kenosha farmer, ar
rested when a still was found on his
place, told the court he did not think
it was unlawful to make moonshine
because he could go into any saloon
and get it. AS he was unable to pay
fine of $500, Walter went to pail for
four months.
Steve Richter, Dancy, Wis, STUN
bled from the federal court room at
Superior and fell dead on the side
walk Richter had sat through the
trial of other cases and awaited his
own in a highly nervous state. When
court closed without his case having
been reached, Richter arose and went
out. Passersby saw him reach the
steps and fall headlong to the side
walk A true bill had been returned
against the man at Madison in De-
cember, 1928, charging him with oper-
ating dance hall without paying the
government tax. He pleaded not
guilty when arraigned.
Tony Giovingo, gunman and boot
logger, who fled while Chief of the
Evansville police Gilman was fighting
with Emil KunZ, has been arrested at
Rockford. Giovingo must answer the
charges of transporting and possess
sing liquor, stealing car and carry
ing concealed weapons. KunZ is held
under $4,000 to answer the same
charges. Chief Gilman approached the
two men while their car was standing
at the curb. When he attempted to
examine luggage in the rear of the
machine, Kunz is alleged to have told
his companion to "step on her." at the
same time striking the chief who was
standing on the running board.
Mrs. Florence Ennis, Milwaukee
florist, has begun damage suit with
the Ringing Bros and Barnum and
Bailey circus as defendant, specific
ally, Charles, John and Richard Ring
ling Mrs. Ennis charges that she at
tended the circus on July %, 1923, at
Milwaukee. That she was assigned to
a seat on a plank. That when other
persons sitting on the same plank
rose to leave the circus, she was
thrown to the ground, her spine being
injured in the fall Since then, she
claims, she has walked with crutch
The Ringlings have filed answer to the
suit, asking to have it dismissed on
the grounds that it was served on the
wrong persons. The headquarters of
the cirucs is in Chicago.