Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-08-27

Miss Mabel Gustafson, Hudson, ap-
pointed justice of the peace by Mayor
George H Tappins, is the first woman
in ST. Croix county to hold a judicial
position.
Emil Severude, Dallas, Barron coun-
ty, lies in a critical condition in a
hospital at Chetek as the result of an
auto smash. He was injured when his
car tipped over in ditch. His skull
was fractured and his shoulder brok-
en-.
Michael Neuman, rs, for many years
a janitor at the Stevens Point public
schools, committed suicide by drown
ing himself in the mill race of the
Wisconsin river at that city. Ill health
is believed to have caused him to end
his life.
A quick jump from his bicycle saw
ed George Gallagher, Is, Manitowoc,
from probably being killed by an au-
tomobile driven by Andrew OAK, Rock
we'll He leaped from the bicycle as
the car hit it at a corner and threw it
several feet.
Someone, evidently woman, en-
tered the Shoresman store in Wash
burn Tuesday and stole 120 pairs of
silk stockings. Nothing else was
touched Entry was gained through a
rear window from which the burg
lar cut a small piece of glass.
Mrs. George Freeman was severely
injured at her home on farm near
Sparta when her hair was caught in
a line shaft of power plant in the
barn, completely scalping her. She
was rushed to the Sparta hospital,
where a skin grating operation was
performed.
John Farlow Wilson, of Evanston,
ILL.,, 10, died at the Hartford General
hospital Monday from septicemia,
which resulted from an infected mo-
squito bite. The boy had been spend
ing the month with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. John Wilson, at Pike lake
near Hartford.
The 4-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Jack Coopman, Oconto, lost the sight
of his right eye in a peculiar manner.
He was playing with boy companions
when one of them picked up stray
coil of a wire spring and whirled it
around. One of the ends struck the
Coopman boy in the eye, rupturing the
eyeball
Edward Lankey, Racine, was given
a 20-day sentence, on charge of driv-
ing while intoxicated Monday and
then the alternative of paying an $500
fine or spending six months more in
Jail for manufacturing liquor. Police
said they found several bottles OF
moonshine in Lankeys auto when he
was arrested and the next morning,
when they visited his home, uncovered
a still, 200 gallons of mash and large
supply of empty bottles and bogus
whisky labels.
A Jail delivery plot, evidently car
ried out with outside help, eliminated
early Wednesday in the escape OF
four prisoners awaiting trial at the
Calument county Jail at Chiffon. The
escape was discovered as Mrs. Chas.
Groeschel, wife of the sheriff, was
preparing breakfast for the men. The
quartet had used a saw to cut away
the bars of the cell, and all escaped
through an opening 8 by II inches,
lowering themselves to the ground by
means of four bed sheets which had
been tied together.
Had he been struck an inch lower
by the glass of the windshield through
which he was hurled when the car in
which he was riding shot into the
ditch and against a tree, Giles Velte,
16, Eau Claire, would have been killed,
according to physicians. AS it was,
the glass tore the scalp from the fore
head to the back of his head and laid
it against his neck. Twenty-Five stitch
es were necessary to replace it. 9th
erwise he was uninjured. His mother,
who is society editor of The Eau
Claire Leader, also was thrown
through the windshield. She was cut
about the face and, it is feared, suf-
fered internal injuries.