Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-05-21
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

fisherman, made the grewsOme dis
covery.
Damage of $4,000 was done when
five summer cottages burned at Della
van Lake April a. The blaze started
from burning leaves in the annual
spring cleanup.
Earl Carlson, young farmer of
Rhinelander, was blown to pieces by
a premature explosion while blasting
stumps His head, both arms and one
leg were blown off.
Juneau and Monroe counties are to
have an area test for bovine tuber-
culosis this month. Such test means
great forward step for the better
ment of the dairy industry.
Walter Knuth, 8, fell from dock
at Green Bay while playing, and was
drowned The swift current in the
river carried him to midstream. The
body was found four hours later.
The constitutional amendment to
increase legislators salaries from $3.50
to $3.50 per annum carried in Ash
land, Douglas, Eau Claire and NAL
Waukee counties and lost in all the
others.
The attorney general has ruled that
person selling seeds without the
ldDGl IGQuI Wy law 10 IOI eIO0OAfSN
from penalty even though the seeds
may be returned and the money re-
funded
Kilbourn has had a series of boy
robberies and two boys are being held
in the Columbia county Jail at Port
age for breaking into a hardware store
there and taking merchandise to a
value of about $40.
Mrs. H. L. Churchill, So of Madi-
son, was found dead in her home as
the result Of asphyxiation from a
water heater. A son, Harold, II, may
die. The two were found unconscious
by e. S. Dunkle, rOomer.
Afflicted with a fatal lingering ill
ness, Mrs j. Thomas, 72, Madison
shot and killed himself at his home
He was one of eight children and the
last of the Thomas family. He left 9
note saying he was tired of life.
w. H Mcconnell, 73, a native son
of Lafayette county, died at his home
in Darlington Wednesday morning
The Monday preceding Mr.. McCon-
nell had taken a 75-mile trip on IN
surance business. He was taken s1cE
Tuesday and died the following day
$4,000 has been invested by Robt
Dahle of Madison and Ralph Runge
of Baraboo in rabbit ranch neal
Madison. The men plan to raise the
animals for fur and meat and to mar
ket 5000 rabbits a year. A 10-acre
tract provides a home for the ami
mails.
James S. Fifeld SO, GAINESVILLE lum'
herman and head of the local cham
Der Of commerce, died while taking
an auto ride with his wife Sunday q
III. TTiHn1H had hnAn i'll blIt
feeling better, asked for a ride. Mrs
Fifield was driving when her hus-
band suddenly expired.
The defunct Madison Bond Co. has
paid further dividend of five pei
cent to it's creditors. A refund OF
S41,070.21 has been received from the
government for over paid income
taxes, This too will be divided among
the creditors, of whom there are many
in Grant county.
Frank Drummer, ManitOwOc farmer
confessed to authorities that he lgnlt-
ed the fire that destroyed his barn
on the night of March /. Drummer
conscience bothered him until he told
his wife. She urged him to confess
Drummer had $1,329 insurance coming
but the money was tied up by court
action
Orrin Pixley, Reedsburg farmland
who held up and robbed the North
Freedom bank of 1000 a week age
was given Is years in Waupun by
Judge Ray Stevens at Madison. Pix
lev was captured an hour after the
holdup by a posse of citizens who
found him hiding near the city. He
gave no reason for his act.
Three officers of the Consolidated
Producers and Refners Co. OF Fort
Worth, Texas, were sentenced Mon
day at Milwaukee to spend the next
21b years in a federal prison. Ihey
used the mails to defraud and WIS
consin suffered to the extent OF $780,
600. At least 100000 of the sum was
paid in by Delavan citizens.
Mrs Sarah Macarthur, "a, widow OF
the late John Macarthur of Platteville
died at her home there Thursday
morning. Deceased was born in Can
ada in 1880 She leaves four sisters
residing in Canada, all over so years
of age. Mrs Macarthur had the re-
markable experience of losing hel
evesight when we'll along in life ano
later regaining it.
The village of Wilton has been az
itated over a school row, resulting
from two boys being expelled iron
school The local authorities handled
the matter and an appeal was taker
to the county superintendent and theI
to the state department at Madison
The boys have returned to school eou'
the town has been split into TWO
factions over the matter.
John Dietz, IS, defender of Cam
eron DAM" died at Milwaukee Thurs
day His family, from whom he hac
been estranged, were with him wher
he passed away. Mr.. Dietz fought
wealthy lumber concern which de-
sired to run logs through his place
on Thornapple river in Sawyer coun
ty. After a five-year battle, on Oct. .
1910, Oscar Harp, deputy sheriff
i. was killed in an attack on the Diet
place. Dietz was found guilty of muir
der. He was pardoned from WaupuT
May Is, 1921. Since then he had llyec
in retirement
Their claim having been disallow
ed by the county board, the Southern
Surety Co, an Iowa corporation, has
sued Dodge county, asking damage.
of S70.240.00, together with interes
from Nov IS, 1928 The action is the
outgrowth of the failure of the Lu
dolph Hansen Construction Co. to fill
its contract on the Juneau-ColumbuS
road in 1922. The plaintiff as surety
was forced to fulfill the contract al
a loss, it is contended, and claims thai