Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-12-17

John M. Heilberger, Sheboygan.
when struck by an automobile He was
riding a bicycle when the fatal acct
dent happened.
w. A. Duffy, for fou ryears county
agent of Barron county, has accepted
the position of county agent of Rusk
county. Mr.. Duffy takes up his duties
in that county, with headquarters at
Ladysmith, on IAN. 1, 1895.
James McQuinn, employed at work
man in the timber regions of Sawyer
county east of brentwood, was struck
by a falling tree Saturday and suf-
fered fatal injuries. Efforts to locate
relatives have proved unsuccessful.
Three men, driving a mud-spattered
car, held up Arthur Rosenberg, in
charge of the Standard Oil Co. gaso-
line filing station, one block west of
the state capitol, Madison, Sunday at
2:30 p. M, and at the point of gun
took $3.50, the entire contents of the
stations safe While two of the rob-
bers stood watch on opposite ends OF
the station, the third man forced Mr..
Rosenberg to open the safe.
Jos. Cowling, 70, of Oshkosh, is dead
from injuries suffered when kicked in
| the face by priZe-winning horse at
| the International Livestock EXPOSE
| ton at the closing hour of the show
Saturday night. Cowling died in hos
pital from a fracture of the skull. The
| horse, White Oak, which had just TAX
en- fourth prize in the horse show, be-
came frightened at the throngs Of peo-
pie which pressed around to inspect
! it after the prize had been awarded
and kicked Cowling.
More than $4,000 loss was caused
| by fire which destroyed three stores,
3-family fiat, and telephone ex-
change, and caused the death of one
person by fright at Cumberland. All
of the occupants of the buildings es-
capped unframed, but the excitement
was too much for Mrs. Geo. Gareth
| so, who died while being carried from
one of the burning buildings. Mrs
Gareth dropped dead when the flames
endangered bakery operated by her
The fire is supposed to have started
from the heating plant in the main
| building. The loss is covered by in
surance.
Last Thursday morning Edwin Man
| ley, 16 year old son of Mr.. and Mrs
John Manley, Sheboygan, received in
| iuries near Kohler that resulted in
his death before he could receive med
| ical aid. The unfortunate young man
was in company with George jung and
| Arthur Fistler enroute home from
Sheboygan Falls. Jung was driving
and as they approached KOhler, in
some way he lost control of the car
and it ran off the pavement, struck a
| tree and turned over. Manley was
crushed to death under the car. The
other occupants escaped uninjured
| The coroner, sheriff and deputies
made an investigation together with
six men comprising coroner's jury
and the two men uninjured were ar
rested and placed in jail.
Saturday afternoon as Oscar Jacob
son, Viroqua, was rounding a turn
wheel broke on his car and he rolled
into the ditch. The car was badly dam
aged but fortunately Oscar was not
| injured. Sunday evening at the same
point, Merle Pierce's Ford sedan
turned over. The car was quite badly
wrecked about the top. Henry Holt OF
Westby and two ladies, the other oc-
cupants Of the car, escaped without
injury, but Mr.. Pierce was not so for
| tunate He was thrown through the
windshield and one of his cheeks al
most cut off, 1t required AZ stitches
to close the wound On Saturday ev-
ening Steve and John Denning side
swiped Albert Larsons car just in
front of This Stevens place on the
| Norris hill. Mr. Larson's car was dam
aged on the left side but did not turn
over and the occupants were unin-
jured The Denning car turned over
and was quite badly wrecked. Mrs.
Denning suffered a fractured wrist.