Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-30


BAY. The season lasts 25 days.
Andrew Biufat, Mt. Horeb farmer,
died instantly when he fell from a
load of hay and struck his head on a
wagon tongue. He leaves widow and
three sons.
A checkup by GAINESVILLE police
shows that 80 cars have been stolen
in that city since Jan. /. Only ten OF
the number have been recovered. The
thefts continue as a Ford sedan was
stolen at Beloit Thursday night.
Peshtigo posses are searching the
swamps near that city for the person,
dead or alive, of Mrs. Albert Baumann,
a mother OF eight days, who wandered
away while worrying over approach
Ing insanity Mrs Baumann left a note
for her husband saying: 81 am sorry
to cause this grief to come to you. |
shall never return. Please do not look
for me-"
The body of Steve Hordath, propri-
etOr of a Lakeside hotel near Racine,
was found on lonely farm by woman
picking berries. Coroner Kisow said
the man had been dead three weeks as
the body was badly decomposed He
his pockets were papers showing that
he had been cited to appear in court
in divorce proceedings.
Misses Dayma Lange of Spokane,
Wash, and Martha Sayer of Pendle-
ton, Ore, visited at Neillsville last
week on their way across the CONT
nent Both are college girls and are
on their way to New York to enter
Pratt Institute. The girls left Spo-
kane on June II. They carry tent,
blankets and cooking outfit. The en-
tire trip will be made on foot.
Elmer Lyndon, West Bend negro,
commonly called SNOWFALL" was
shot and killed by Patrolman Henry
Lemke. Lydon was drunk and when
told to go home, attacked Lemke with
a pair of pliers, inficting a cut over
the copper's eye. AS Lyndon tried to
get away the officer called for rein
forcements. Lyndon was shot as he
fed. "SnoWball'' made his home at
West Bend for more than ten years.
He was employed as a farm hand.
VIM. Smith, Madison colored man,
has been held under $4,000 bail in
connection with an alleged holding of
Elliott M. Oscar and Miss Mabel
Davenport on lonely road near Mad
ison. The negro held the couple for
nearly two hours when Henry L.
Simpson, also colored came along in
his car. Miss Davenport called to
Simpson for aid and the latter was
shot as he came up. There are GER
tain mysterious elements in the case
that have not as yet been cleared up.
Horace Wilbur, formerly of Luding-
ton, near Eau Claire, escaped from
an asylum in Iowa and found his way
back to his fathers farm. He went
into his fathers house and smashed
all the windows, furniture and wood
work, and then invaded the home of
j. c. Smith, nearby, and ordered Mrs
Smith to cook him a meal or have her
head cut off with an ak he was car
rying. Wilbur then cont nued on a
rampage, terrorizing the entire set
Element in Thompson valley. A posse
took the obstreperous Horace in tow.
TANNED with people on July to
witness the Wild West roundup at
Portage when $4,000 people assembled
there, one section Of the grandstand
collapsed and pitched the occupants
to the ground beneath. Several were
badly bruised, though no serious in
juries resulted. The accident was
caused when drunken man removed
some cleats holding the seats which
supported the frame work. 1t is said
that the man wanted to see the fun
that woull result when the people
piled up.-Reedsburg Times.
Recently Miss Ethel Hollinshead of
New Lisbon received a box of family
relics from the executors of the es-
tate of the late Herman Briggs, Della
van, whose father-in-law was VIM
Hollinshead sr. Among the heirlooms
are Quaker bonnet, a gray silk
shawl and several caps, which women
wore indoors a hundred years ago.
There are two dresses of the style Of
1900, a pair of white slippers of the
vintage of 1892, a baby's cap and
dress 100 years old, an ivory fan and
some old daguerrOtypes of a later
date
Enforcement men raided three farms
IN Iowa county on the night of July
"a, contiscating considerable quanti-
ties OF contraband liquor. The An
thony Semrad farm yielded four Is
gallon barrels of moonshine, one 10
gallon and one tive-gallon barrel and
eral gallons of moonshine were found
hidden in the basement of the Chas
Lamke home. At the farm of William
FELTON, the state men found several
containers filled with moonshine whis-
key and alcohol. The three men will
be arraigned at Dodgeville to answer
charges of violating the state dry law
Miss Louise Miller, 10, pretty school
teacher of Wausau. was drowned in
Rib river one mile above the city last
Saturday night. In company with
two other girls and Elmer Teschow,
she was pushing boat across the
stream. AS the boat went out toward
the center of the river Miss Miller
attempted to pull it back She stepped
into a hole in the river bed about 20
feet deep. The young man grasped
her hand but was unable to keep his
grip and Miss Miller went down The
body was recovered an hour later.
The girl was graduated from Mara
thon county normal last December.
She leaves a widowed mother, one sis
ter and four brothers.