Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-11-19
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Richard Christensen, z, Chippewa
Falls, found a cartridge that fitted a
gun he was playing with an shot and
killed his sister. Barbara, 8.
Recovering consciousness after he
had been attacked by bull in his
barn, Andrew Eaton, ColfaX farmer,
| found the building in flames and mar
dowly escaped death by burning. The
animal, in his attack, knocked Ian
tern out of Eaton's hand, causing the
| fire.
Tony Zarembla, 10, died in hospi-
tai at Rhinelander from bullet wounds
inflicted by the accidental discharge
of his rifle. Zaremba was at target
practice in field near his home at
Starks, when he stumbled and fell ov-
er the gun, discharging it. The bullet
entered his abdomen and came out
through his back.
Gasoline fumes ignited from light
ed lantern caused an explosion which
burned an oil house at Clyman juno
ton and came near taking the life Of
George Simmons, an employe of the
North Western road. Simmons, was
drenched with blazing oil and when
help reached him was badly burned
He is at the Beaver Dam hospital and
will recover, reports say.
Twenty-four Russian families from
Lincoln, Nebr., who have been at
Whitewater as sugar beet workers
during the summer, returned Wednes-
day to their homes, part of the num-
Der going by train and part of them
in their own autos. These people
came from the border province in
Russia and speak German, although
the most of them speak some English
and are citizens of the United States.
Nearly every family owns a home.
They expect to return to Whitewater
next year.
Louis Fl. Dohrmann, A. owner of q
grocery store in Madison, was found
dead in a back room of his store. Gas
was coming out of jet lighting. The
body was discovered when customers
of the store waiting for attention went
into the back room to see if they
could arouse the proprietor. They saw
Dohrmann's body lying on the floor
and summoned police who in turn
called the coroner who after an in
vestigation, declared it was a case of
suicide. He searched the store for a
ling the reason for Dohrmann's act
but found nothing.
Mrs. Mary Garvey, g. Appleton,
died from fright the cOroners jury de-
cided Tuesday at the inquest into the
death of the woman, who was found
dead in her home Sunday night 1t
was first believed she had been muir
dured because of mark on her nose
viz A 1NI1H cirais1
said that the blow was not hard
enough to have caused death. Mrs.
Garvey had lived alone in her home
for many years. The theory is that
an assailant entered her home seek
ing her mythical hoard OF gold and
had hit the woman on the nose when
she discovered him. The blow appar-
emily felled her and the fright caused
her death.
A piece of flesh as large as mans
hand was torn from Otto Leuti's left
limb by a hog at $50 o'clock Friday
evening on the Vance farm, located
four miles east of Monroe. Mr.. Leuti,
aged 20, is an employe on the farm
AS he opened the gate of the hog pen,
an angered hog rushed up to him, in
f1icting the wound. Mr.. Fluckiger was
nearby and assisted the man to the
farm house, where first aid was adj
ministered until the arrival of physf-
clan. The wound bled profusely and
the greatest danger to the man is the
loss of blood. Leuti is confined to bed,
and although recovery is expected, 1t
will require a long time for the
wound to heal. Hog bites are not US
ually regarded as poisonous, it was
said.
Miss Violet Lorraine Meyer, eldest
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Meyer
of Dane, met instant death Saturday
night shortly before midnight in an
automobile crash on the Madison-Mid-
dleton highway. Edward ]. Corcoran,
Waunakee, driver of the car, died later
that night at a Madison hospital of
I internal injuries Miss Helen Esser,
Dane, and " G. O'Malley, Waunakee
the other occupants of the car, were
uniniured The accident occurred at
a dangerous curve in the road where
their car locked left front wheels
with a car owned by F. E. Morey of
the Island Wooden mill at Baraboo
Miss Meyer, who was seated in the
back seat behind the driver, and Cor
coran were both thrown through the
windshield. She received skull frac-
ture which caused her immediate
death.
John A. Grab, Manawa, a sophomore
at the university, and Miss Evelyn
Hope, Hope, Wis, narrowly escaped
death when the John NJ. Hiney plane.
driven by Grab, crashed to the ground
near Mcfarland. Neither Grab nor his
passenger received injuries other than
slight bruises and scratches, but the
machine was Damaged to an extent of
at least $500. Grab, a former army
flyer, was using the Robert Eighmy
! farm as landing field while engaged
in passenger flying near Mcfarland
and after starting up with the girl
found the field too short The plane
rose. then crashed to the ground,
breaking both wings, the propeller
and damaging the front John M. Hi
ney, Madison, owner of the machine.
is now dismantling it preparatory to
rebuilding the plane during the win
ter. He plans to purchase a new air
plane in the spring.