Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-04-23

Mrs. Eta Crosse of Jefferson, aged
| 49, died of heart disease on train
while enroute to Milwaukee to visit.
t Chas. Nolan, Waupun 'sIifer," was
/ denied a pardon by Gov Blaine. No
| Ian was convicted of the murder OF
Thos. Good, Madison hunchback, in
E1899,
I Mrs. Alice Rich of GAINESVILLE was
fined $500 and costs for having liquor
| in her home Officers raided her house
and found several gallons of moon
| shine.
! Arthur Ohm, 45. Watertown farm
I err, was found dead with a bullet
Through his head. Ohm's wife had left
Ehin and he grieved so over her de-
parture that he took his life.
/ Disagreements of jury resulted IN
1.-THE Beloit trials of alleged liquor sell
| lers where stomach pump evidence
/ was introduced. Dry agents used the
Epurnp to obtain evidence.
I The Madison association of COM
Emerce has sent out warning against
flake peddIers of shrubbery, etc. The
principal objection to the peddlers is
| that they do not remain to give ser
vice.
William Charles, Evergreen, Wis,
Twas sentenced to 10 years in the
state prison after pleading guilty to
| a serious accusation made by his l6-
year-old daughter. He has nine chill
dren,
Vera Swartz, 6, Monroe, fell from
| a school yard teeter and broke
small bone completely off her right
elbow. A doctor showed the bone in
| to place and bound the arm up. Vera
was at school next day.
Mrs. Fannie Sheffield was elected
clerk of the town of WestbOro, Mrs.
{ MAY Pitzke. constable of the town OF
Deer Creek and Mrs. Mary Newman
constable of the village of Gilman,
all in Taylor county
When John Wagner, d rOomer at
the Berger residence i'll Portage, at
tempted to commit suicide, the sheflII
and undersheriff, Harry .Nehls and H.
L. Alderman, were sent, for. He was
taken into custody and sent by Judge
A. F. Kellogg to the hospital Tor the
insane at Mendoza.
+ Trainmen on the 500 line limited
running from Duluth to Chicago, FIJI
day night. reported that two large
gbucks, fighting on the tracks north
of Eadysmith, were, killed when the
train, travelling at high speed, came
around a. sharp curve and crushed
them before they had d chance TO
separate.
~ cattle and six horses were burn
ed to- death in q fire: at Kenosha that
destroyed Il large stock Darn on the
farm of Sam Lawson. Every effOft
bwas made to save the per1shing stock
hit A wall of fame kept reScuers
- uuIf
themselves loose from their STAN
chions and plunged through fire to
safety. The loss was, estimated at
$23,000.
Gum or candy vending machines
(which give "trade checks" or other
kuremium to the person whose nickel
happens to strike. a lucky number"
are Illegal, Attorney General Herman
IT, Extern ruled III an opinion given at
request. of the state dairy and food
EIZerm ruled the own
ers of the machines were liable to
prosecution under state lottery and
gambling statutes.
/ Although Samuel Greenlaw of Fond
du Lac was found in possession of a
complete still, 150 gallons Of mash,
90 gallons of moonshine and a guilty
conscience, he was. released from GUS
toby when Ills case; came up i'll NUM-
ciDal court. Judge H Ne FelienZ acted
ON a ruling of the state Supreme
court to the effect that search ana
seizure is invalid unless a prellmln-
harry examination to- support the lssu-
anee of a search warrant is issued
by a magistrate.
| Miss. Harriet Wheeler, 66, well
known Wisconsin novelist and short
story writer is dead at Belolt Oh
pneumonia. "Curb's Career" 1.-The
Woman in Stone" and "a Knight OF
the Wilderness the latter dealing
with lincoln and the BlackhaWk war,
were the chief books, from her pen.
FSxnerfences as the daughter OF mis-
si0nary among northern Wisconsin
Indians furnished material for most
of Miss Wheeler's. stories dealing
with Indian life and tradition.
Apparently dead after $4,000 volts
of electricity had passed through his
body, Alfred Zanto, IS, Markesan,
Wisconsin Utilities Co. lineman, who
twas working out of Madison, was re-
Evived by Ned Vance, q fellow work
man, using artificial respiration at
/ Monroe Tuesday He WAS given
chance for recovery at the local nos
pftaR, despite severe burns. Zanto was
i'm the act. of hauling down ground
chain frc M the Galena high line, sup
plying current to Monroe, when, in
some. understandable way, the chain
caught the current. which had just
been turned on after being stopped
for the day to permit construction
work.
When the United States supreme
court ruled last week that states
have no right to, order interstate
railroads to- construct union depots
i'm cities La Crosse lost an eight year
fight before the railroad commission
and state courts to obtain union
station. The battle started in 1916
after the Milwaukee road depot there
was burned The railroad commission
EnrGnraG II Union station erected there