Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-01-09
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

john l.. PuTV6S, 90, was hl140u ~
stantly at his home at Wyocena, WIS,
Thursday night by the accidental dis
charge of the shotgun he was clean
ing. The charge took off the top OF
his head.
Mrs. Frank Smith, aged so, James
Vile, living in fiat at 100 n. Nam
street, was overcome by gas Satur-
do afternoon She was found lying
unconscious on a cot in the room, by
a neighbOr. She is expected to recoV-
err.
Florence Fehrer, %, U. OF W. COED,
was found unconscious in a gas-fllled
bath room in her home at Milwaukee
on the night of Dec. 81, and was car
ried TO safety by firemen who entered
through a window. Hospital attend
andts say she will recover.
Word was received in Madison Dec.
81 of the death of Prof. Moses ;.
Slaughter, head of the Classical De-
partment of Wisconsin University, III
Rome on a years leave OF absence.
He died at midnight on Dec. 29, a
cable received by Prof. G. Shower
man, acting head Of the department,
on Dec. 81 announced.
Charles Shlers, 8, son of Harry j.
Ehlers, GAINESVILLE, was run down
while playing on n Franklin street,
by Miss Lulu E. Griswold, Wednesday,
sustaining a fractured skull and other
injuries He was taken to Mercy hos
pital, where his condition is said to
be critical.
Married women have been barred
as teachers in the public schools OF
Wisconsin Rapids by a recent action
Of Tho hn0 ri
has instructed it's committee to hire
only females who are unmarried.
The new ruling will not affect widows
who are self supporting.
Prohibition Commissioner Schatjen
was notified recently that prohibition
agents in Langlade county had taken
$1,000 gallons Of liquor mash, $50 gal
Ions Of the finished product and three
huge stills The stills were OF 900,
500 and 700 gallon capacity and were
operated by Kentuckians who moved
to Langlade county recently.
Ten families are homeless and IA
firms were unable. to open their
doors Jan 2, as the result Of fire
which swept eight business houses
and six other buildings causing dam
age OF over 100000 at New London.
flEGHIGu lOAAS5llt lIlG 4JIClLC LOA &c u ~
hours lin zero weather and finally
succeeded in checking the flames.
Tyler Compeau was only slightly
injured when his automobile was
struck BY passenger train at the
Main street crossing at Webster, Wis.
A string Of box cars INSTRUCTED his
view and Compeau did not see the
train. A rod projecting from the
,f 1rsp oh tho
and carried it 200 feet. Compeau
chung to the steering wheel. He re-
ceived .everal cuts and bruises about
the head and face.
Believed to be at the point of death
due to a blow on the head and ex-
| posture to sub-zero weather, Harold
Revoir, II, Chippewa Falls, Friday
night was unconscious at his home in
that city, six hours after he was found
head foremost in a snow bank into
which he had plunged while skiing.
When he failed to return at noon,
sister began a search for him ana
found him helpless and unconscious
in the snow bank where he had lain
more than an hour.
George Dunn, Chippewa Falls sa
loonkeeper, faces a charge Of man
>
turned by a coroner's jury, sitting in
the deaths of Charles Layinge and
Arthur Danielson. They were killed
in an auto accident near Eagle Point
on Dec. 16 The jury brought YER
diets that the death resulted from
reckless driving on the part of Dunn,
while in an intoxicated condition.
Albert Neis, manager of the Sha-
doWs theatre and also an emplove at
the Nestle's Food company, Lodi, was
severely scalded Thursday afternoon
when one of the watts of milk, which
he was tending, boiled over The
milk had reached a temperature Of
210 degrees when the accident oc-
Cured Mr. Neis was wearing rub
Der boots and the milk completely
filled the left one. He was alone at
the time and was unable to get the
boot off 1t will month or more be-
fore ne will be able to be about.
A man. classed by the police as
a human derelict, who gave his name
as Earl Payn. %, and said he came
from Friendship, Wis, was picked up
at Wisconsin Rapids. When arrested
the man was wearing an old horse
blanket for a coat a pair of dilapidat-
ed overalls around which gunny
sacks were wound and pieces of bur
lap in which hay had been stuffed for
shoes Citizens of Wisconsin Rapids,
upon hearing his story, bought him a
complete outfit of working clothes.
He was advised to find work and to
report back to the station each night
for lodging.
Jens Nelson, living about six miles
northwest of Rice Lake has on his
place we'll, that is a most unusual
phenomenon in many ways. At GER
tain times preceding weather changes
the water boils up in the we'll with a
gurgling noise evidently caused by air
pressure. This actually indicates
storm about to come from the north
west At other times when there is a
suction in the we'll with air being
drawn downward, it indicates a
storm coming from the southeast. The
we'll is located on a ridge and is 212
feet deep. For distance of 140 feet
there is a curbing of five inch outer
pipe. and it is in this that the suction