Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-03-26
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

The body of Mrs. Ulrich w. Merz,
who died Wednesday at Port Towns
end, Wash, from scarlet fever and
complications arising from an opera
ton for removal of a needle that had
become embedded in her thigh, was
temporarily inferred at the Washing
ton city, it was learned Saturday.
Mrs. Merz was the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Benjamin Houston of Mont
fort and formerly lived in Madison,
moving west last April.-State Jour-
nal.
The afternoon freight train one day
the latter part Of the week ran over
a red fox between Argyle and Blanch-
ardville, cutting it's head and tail Off.
This raises a question as to whether
bounty is collectible, and if the train
crew should have a hunting license.
The conservation warden might want
to know if the head and tail were both
on the same end of the fox, and if not
how they were both cut off. This is a
nut for Conductor Reardon to crack
Argyle Atlas.
Leslie E. Osborne, former cashier
of the American National Bank of
Racine, was among q persons lnd1ct-
ed by the federal grand jury several
days ago at Milwaukee in connection
with the investigation Of the Union
Food Stores company, which was a
successor to the Waukegan Tea COM
pany. Others indicted with Osborne
are John H Snehuok and VIM. t.
Lechler, Milwaukee statesmen.
BY special order of the court, at
Wisconsin Rapids, Atty. T. W. Brazeau
was appointed to represent the state
when the John Magnuson appeal is
taken up by the supreme court. The
appeal will be made early next fall.
Magnuson was convicted Of having
sent a bomb in a Christmas package
to J. A. Chapman, chairman of the
Wood county board, in a feud over a
drainage ditch.
W. e. Dunn, Indian agent for the
Wood county region, caused the ar
rest of Edmund Lincoln and Mrs. Otto
John, charging them with living to-
gether as man and wife without going
through the formality Of marriage.
Both were bound over to county court.
Lincoln is only Is and has been living
with Mrs. John since her husband left
six or seven months ago. Mrs. John
has two children.
Dona Hagler, Eau Claire, is in
trouble again. This time he is
charged with stealing a watch and is
held under 81 900 bail. Hagler was
arrested for participating in a duel
with Stanley Robinson, who was cut
by knife welded by Hagler. He was
charged with assault with a deadly
weapon, but when Robinson refused to
Il
missed.
Partridges are so plentiful within a
few miles of Sturgeon Bay that they
are attacking buds in the orchards for
food. The birds discovered it diff
cult to obtain food due to the deep
snow and turned to the buds The
next years fruit crop is being en-
dangered and growers have petitioned
the conservation commission for right
to kill the birds to protect property.
Hearing on the suit for divorce
started by Leona F. Sailstad, also
known as Leona f. Richardson,
against Edward F. Sailstad, Lake Ne
bagamon death hoax perpetrator, now
serving four years in the Green Bay
reformatory, will be held during the
March term of circuit court in Eau
Capital Times.
The oldest woman in the history of
Wood county to be arraigned for IL
quor violation was Mrs. Henrietta
Wadel, rs, charged with selling a bot
tie of moonshine in the town of Sigel.
She was granted, an adjournment until
March 18, but was lodged in the coun-
ty jail at Wisconsin Rapids, when she
urac abIo m raise SS00 hail
A fiery cross, flaming on the
grounds of the new East side high
school, was the first sign that the Ku
Klux Khan has arrived at Green Bay.
The cross, IL feet high, created a SEN
sation A crowd gathered to see the
white robed knights, but they had de-
parted as mysteriously as they had
come
While testifying that her husband
dragged her out Of bed by the feet and
then stamped on her, and that he and
his sister drove her from their home
at a. m, Mrs. Viola Hills, Fond du
Lac, broke down on the witness stand
in her defense against the divorce ac-
ton brought by her husband, John A
Hills
Spring blowing and other farm
work in Fond du Lac county will be
delayed for nearly a month as the re-
suit of the heavy SHOWS of winter, in
the opinion of several leading farmers
This condition will have a decided eff
feet on fall harvests, it is said.
The city of Eau Claire has been
granted the right to rebuild its mum
icipal dam to meet water reservoir
requirements. The dam is located in
the Chippewa river near the city.