Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-01-30

succeeding DeT late HuSUdAu.
The Jefferson county board by a
unanimous vote, killed the dance nail
measure. An adjourned session was
held to consider the measure.
Tomah has voted $4,000 bonds to
dig q new well and erect a second
standpipe for its city water works
system. The system will be extended
| to parts of the city not now supplied
| with water
Jacob Junghem, 3S, Sharon, wac
fatally hurt when he fell from bob
sled and struck his head on a mai!
or some other sharp object in tn.
road A coroner's jury pronounced
the death accidental.
Joe Gassell, 60, well-to-do retired
saloonkeeper of Hurley, was found
| frozen to death in his bachelors
quarters late Tuesday. 1t is believed
he was taken sick and froze to death
when the fire in his stove went out.
| After a trial lasting four days, &
| Jury sitting on the case of C. A. Coon
ey, former Three Lakes bank presl-
dent, dent, charged with the embez-
Element and misuse of funds, returned
verdict of not guilty at Rhinelander
John Meeker, Ku K1ux organizer,
was ordered out of Superior by the
chief of police and mayor of the city.
Meeker went into the iron country to
! organize Ashland, Superior, Hurley,
| IronWood and other Wisconsin and
Michigan localities.
/ Marathon county board in special
| session voted to retain the services OF
| Miss Vangel Russell as county nome
demonstration agent A fight had
been made to dispense with Miss
RusseMs services. She was endorsed
| by the woman's clubs of the county.
Workmen alarmed by the long alb
sence of Valentine Handler, Appleton,
Fireman for a paper mill at Combined
Locks, found the body in a coal
chute Handler attempted to loosen
a jam of coal and was swept down the
chute and sucocated. He left wife
and three children.
While returning from a cemetery at
Trade River, after burying his father,
| Clarence Johnson, riding in an auto
with other members of the family, was
| instantly killed while rounding a
curve. The car turned over, crush
ing him. The other two occupants
escaped.
| Charles F. Werth, 500 line shop
foreman, was sentenced to serve one
year in Jail by Judge Park, Stevens
| Point, for killing Gaylord McNish, in
an auto accident last May. The SEN
tence was later suspended on payment
of court costs and settlement of
$500 on the widow, Mrs. McNish.
Adolph Guinness, 27, shell-shocked
and wounded veteran Of the World
war, was arrested in Madison on a
bigamy charge. He is wanted in Chi
cago. Guinness is a son of Carl Gun
ness of Edgerton, and has a wife and
| two children, from whom he has been
estranged for two years, living at
Edgerton.
Carl Hermann, employed in the
Sheboygan Fruit Box Co., was fatal
ly burned when he fell into vat OF
boiling water, and the entire lower
part of his body was immersed and
literally cooked before he could get
out The vat was used as a soaking
pit for logs prior to their being cut
into veneer.
While her four children looked on
helpless to prevent the tragedy, Mrs.
James Eytlocil, wife of a Mansion
farmer, poured gasoline over her
clothing and set herself on fire, caus-
ing burns that resulted in her death
! Neighbors, summoned by the child
rem, found the woman a living torch
! She was taken to a hospital where
she passed away.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. c. Letson, Sparta
residents, left on a trip around the
| world last week. From New York
city they will visit Cuba and Panama
! thence the western coast, thence to
Hawaii, China, India, through the
Suez Canal to Egypt, the Holy Land
| Greece and Rome and then nothern
| Europe, expecting to be on their trip
until the middle of May.
F.! A mouse almost caused the des
! truction of the Tomahawk postoffice
and Masonic temple building. George
Theiler passed the postofice, saw a
| desk on fire and notified the fire de-
partment in time to prevent a serious
fire The desk was entirely burned
and the adjacent floor charred. A
box of matches was kept in the desk
and it is believed a mouse set the
matches Off
A telephone call sent by his en-
| ployer saved the life Of Roman
Mayek, chauffer for J. l.. Jensen,
| Stevens Point. Young Mayek went to
private garage to change a truck
| tire and was overcome by carbon
monoxide fumes from the engine. AS
he failed to appear his employer
phoned Mrs. Jensen. She discovered
the young man unconscious on the
| floor A few minutes delay and he
would have persisted.
His hands and feet frost bitten in
the sub-zero weather, shaken by pain
and fear for his wife whom he had
left stranded in a car, Elmer Roes
wald, Milwaukee, staggered to the
door of the Reinhold Possely farm,
IL miles east of Fond du Lac on high
way %, early Friday and asked that
aid be sent his wife. Posseley drove
in a bObsleigh three-quarters of
mile to a stalled car, where Mrs.
Roeswald was huddled under two
robes in the back seat, suffering from
exposure.
Charged with embeZzling $3.50
from the bank of which he was form
erly assistant cashier, Michael e. Les
niewski, %, is on his way back to
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