Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-01-02

killed at Man1tOWOc sunday Wnen Nc
was struck by North Western train
after he had been thrown on the
tracks on his motorcycle. His head
was severed from his body.
Officials are checking up the records
of two men who said they lived in Be
lott and who registered at the hotel
at Pra du Sac Sunday night, in CON
nection with the $4,000 robbery at
Pra du Sac early Monday OF last
week.
Employment of rs persons and an
output Of 1000 pairs of shoes day
is anticipated within a years by Off
GERS of the Monroe Shoe Fitting Co.,
Monroes latest new industry which
will begin operation as $4,000 con-
Germ Jan. /.
Oscar Osterberg, 81, whose home is
at Stoughton, and who has been
guard in the Waupun penitenitary,
was last Tuesday committed to the
Northern Hospital for the Insane. He
fought the officers all the way to the
asylum, believing he was Christ.
Jacob Oilinger, Calamus farmer,
asked Judge C. M. Dawson for re-
spite over the Christmas holidays be-
fore beginning a 30-day Jail sentence.
1DlDOS6u alter d S0COuu COnNICIlO1 Oh
moonshine charge, but the court re-
fused the request adding a 5000 fine.
AdoIph Eckman, Darien, Wis, farm
err, was sentenced to life imprison-
ment Wednesday at Delavan for the
murder of Carl Fritz, another Darien
farmer, whom Ec1man shot at mis-
door last July when Fritz called, de-
handing a gun he had left at the
house.
+. G. Millette, st. Paul cafe owner,
was sentenced to year and half in
the House of Correction under the
new federal motor theft act, by Judge
Luse in federal court at Madison re-
Gently. Millette announced he would
appeal to the circuit court of appeals
in Chicago and was released on bond.
Albert Steinberg, Juneau county
farmer, supposed to be of limited
means, bought a new sedan. His dis
play of sudden wealth proved his I'M
doing. Sheriff Ben LANCE raided the
| Steinberg premises and found three
50-gallon stills. Steinberg is under
$1,000 bonds to face trial in circuit
| court.
Hattie Dutz, Is, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Chas., Dutz, who live on farm
| five miles west of Scion Springs,
Douglas county, died Monday morning
as the result of burns received Sun.
| day evening when kerosene, poured
in the kitchen stove to hasten pre-
| paration of supper, exploded, envelop-
ing her in flames.
Charles Sutherland, so, a bachelor
known as "Claypipe WIFI, was burned
to death in his shack mile from
Pembine, Marinette county, Saturday
The body was found lying across the
bed, and 32-caliber revolver with
two sheels exploded close by. 1t IS
| believed he set fire to the shack,
where he lived alone, and then shot
| himself
| Despondent over Ill health, Howard
Elkin, about so years old, Beloit, a
| Spanish-American war veteran, COM
mitted suicide recently in the rear of
| his home at Beloit His body was
| found in the woodshed in the rear of
his home on Locust street, sitting on
the floor, with a 25-caIibre automatic
| pictol at his side.
! Dropping of nine of the forty coun
! ty assessors of incomes, entailing a
complete revision of the assessors
districts throughout the state, has
| been decided upon by the tax COM
mission. The change was made Jan.
! l. Lack of sufficient funds is said to-
be the principal cause for this action.
| The body of Emma Coe, 38, wife of
| August Coe, farmer residing south
| of Racine, was found floating in the
| lake Christmas morning. The woman
| left her home last Saturday night and
was supposed to have gone to neigh
| boris house. When she failed to re-
turn search was made but no trace
was found. She leaves husband and
four small children.
Grover c. Crenshaw, Mexico City, is
getting a two5carload shipment of
dairy cattle ready for the markets in
Mexica City. Two carloads were
shipped from Marshfield by him last
June He reports that practically all
of the cows in the first shipment are
taking to their new homes in Mexico
in good style, some producing as high
as so pounds of milk a day. The av-
erage prices paid are from $50 to $3.50.
Hurrying to complete his work so
he could reach his home in Menomi-
nee, Wis, for Christmas, Joseph
Ducharme, So, fell from the top of
| load of logs at the Won Platten Lum-
| Der Co. camp, Pentoga, Mich, AID
| was crushed to death as the logs roll
ed over his body. He was soldier in
France and also served in the regular
army on the Mexican border for Is
years. The body arrived home on
Christmas morning for interment in
| 'Menominee.
Four men were taken in a raid on
the house of Matt Burns Thursday
night at Fond du Lac and are held I'M
der suspicion of being the robbers
who looted the postoffice at Camp
bellsport The men are also thought
to be implicated in the robbery at
the Badger Garden and other local
jobs, and postofFice robberies at May
vile, Theresa, Clintonville, Ia, and
Belvidere, Illinois. The men gave
their names as Frank Ward, Thos.
Murray and James White.
An early morning walk followed by
day spent Kidding in cemetery by
Mrs Frank Pelot, Port Edwards, Wis,
resulted in a search for her by hum
dreds of persons, the use of blood
hounds and the dragging of the Wis
~ oxI