Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-09-03
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

from the home of John Robe. Inc
bows used raid to enter the seeonu
story of the building.
When the automobile driven by Har-
nv Solomon. Menasha, caught nre OH
route Is he stopped the motor jump,
Cd ont ran to town and sumnoheu
tho cifv fire department Although ne
covered the distance to town IN ndl
% minutes and the fremen mace d,
record run, the auto burned 10 as'es.
Eire which destroyed the barn OH
Tho. w P. Welsh farm near SuperloI'
claimed the life of Virgil Wepper, T.
con of Rem Weber, farm manager.
The child. with his brother, Lloyd
. was in the building when the nIe
started Neighbors found Lloyo ouI-
side and when asked the Whereaoo ~,
of Virgil. he pointed to the barn. me
bnat was too intense to allow an dI-
tempt at rescue.
peonIe from outside of Wisconsin
will nav $4,000 for the fish they take
ont of wisconsin waters this year,
according to an estimate by Matt rat
tnrcon secretary of the state conser-
walton commission. Patterson estlmat-
cd a total of $4,000 NONRESIDENT nsn
inc licenses had been taken out, ana
said that only a small part OF the
o11t-of-state visitors were interested
in fishing. Fishing licenses carry Zee
of So.
Mrs. Cora Joseph of Chicago was
drowned at Fontana, Wis, about 4:5o
n N Monday when she attempted 10
change seats in a roWboat Win an el-
derly woman with whom she was nsh-
ing. The accident occurred near the
end of Ayers pier, on Geneva lake.
Mrs Joseph came to Fontana ABOUT
a week ago to visit friends. Inc
drowning was witnessed by Mrs Ed
ward S. Ayers, who called assistance.
The woman was dead when ner Dofy
was taken from rhe water, which was
about eight feet deep at the pier me
body was sent to Chicago TUESDAY.
Mrs. Joseph was about So.
A broken neck, and not drowning,
caused the death of George Siebold,
Mishicot, who lost his life during the
rain storm Thursday, when attempting
to open the dam to protect the village
from the flood waters. This was re-
vealed when his body was found and
his lungs examined. There was but
little water in them. Siebold and his
brother, Paul, conducted the grist
mill at Mishicot Shortly after mid
night Thursday the two went to the
dam to loosen boards in the slu1ce-
way A timber on which George was
standing broke and he fell into the
raging torrent.
While playing on the edge of grain
elevator at Pardeeville, Eddie Smith.
IA, fell and was smothered to death
by an avalanche of rye Monday night.
The boy was son of John Smith,
section foreman for the Milwaukee
railroad at that place. The Smith boy
and four brothers were playing on the
edge of the grain bin while the rye
was being loaded into cars. The Smith
boy was hanging from the edge OF
the bin by his finger tips to "show
off" before his companions when he
lost his hold. The other three boys
called men who were working at the
elevator and the police. Twenty min
utes later the lad was uncovered tut
a physician pronounced him dead.
A pair of tiny feet sticking out of a
rain Darrell at the rear of her home
caused Mrs. Wilfred Cornell of Chip
pewa Falls to rush to rescue of her
son, Robert, 8, and pull him from the
water a moment before life was eX-
tinct. The youngster had been playing
near the rain Darrell and toppled in.
When Deputy Sheriff Thomas w.
Brandish of Chippewa Falls attempted
to arrest Miss Lozetta Warner, pa
rolled insane patient, the woman put
one hand in a pocket and threw a
handful of red pepper into Brandish's
face. With his eyes smarting the Of
ficer placed the woman in car and
took her to Jail. She will be returned
to Mendoza. Miss Warner had been
employed as housekeeper at Cornell
following her release from the asylum.
Violent actions on her part caused a
demand for confinement.
In suicide pact at Ripon, Herman
Witt, AZ. and Rhoda Gemeinhardt, IL,
Milwaukee, died on a lonely road near
Ripon last Thursday. A note was dis
covered in the mans pockets which
read as follows: 1--WE have fulfilled
a promise and now let us rest forever.
God is with u.s. Witt, an ex-convict,
left a divorced wife and four children.
He was sent to Waupun few years
ago for a trifling offense and while
there his wife divorced him. Coming
out he went to work and being first
class auto mechanic, made money. He
met the Slrl year OF SO ago anu
gained great Influence over her.
The girls parents protested against
her relation with Witt without avail.
On the day of the shooting Witt and
the girl entered into pact to die to-
gether They went to Ripon where
Wits wife and four children reside.
Witt shot the girl first. He then went
to his wife's house and was repulsed
hU hnr Aftnr loauino hic watch with
a daughter as a keepsake, Witt went
to barber shop and got shaved. He
then returned to to the spot where he
had left the girl and sat by her body
all night. At dawn he sent shot into
his brain. The bodies were found by
a road patrolmen an hour later. The
body of the man was still warm. The
girl had been dead SO hours, physic-
lanS say The narantS of the girl re