Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-09-10
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

is serving a sentence of 80 days IN
the Dane county Jail for habitual
drunkenness.
Claude Hines OF Marshfield is dead
as the result of fall a week ago.
While employed at road work Hines
fell on some bars with fatal erect.
Bill Hart, so, a travelling chimney
sweep. was instantly killed by train
near Sturgeon Bay Tuesday night.
Members of the crew say Hart was
asleep on the track
John Murphy of Platteville has pur-
chased Orphan Annie, the racing mare
owned by B. Luchsinger of Monroe.
The fast little animal appeared at the
Platteville races last week.
While watcing ball game between
the Indians and the Marshfield team,
Mrs. Mike Steinweinger was hit in the
eve by a batted ball. A hemorrhage
resulted and the eye had to be re-
moved.
Edw. Alder, 25, of Belleville, put
bullet into his brain while respondent
but failed to end his life. He is in
critical condition at a Madison nos
pital. Relatives are unable to ascrlpe
a motive for the mans act.
Arthur Yell, IS, was electrocuted
near Wilton Saturday when kite he
was flying came into contact with
high line wire carrying $500 Volts.
He was not killed instantly but died
before a doctor could reach him
Mrs. Catherine Pulaski of Krakow,
a Polish settlement near Green Bay,
is in a Green Bay hospital, suffering
from poisoning self-administered. She
told the physicians that she had taken
a drink of sulphuric acid, thinking IL
was pop. The acid was in pop bot
tie.
More than 100000 pounds of crude
powder we're burned at the Washburn
plant of the Dupont Powder co. Satur-
day, after the powder dump had been
struck by lightning. The entire dump
was consumed in 80 seconds. There
was no great explosion and the hre
did not spread. The loss is estimated
at $4,000.
A roadster driven by Reuben Bauer,
Marshfield, burned in a ditch on 5. 1.
T.. IS, Tuesday night, after 1t had col
lided with a touring car driven by
Frank Dudzik, Portage county farmer.
No one was injured, but companion
of Bauer, pinned under the tiamlng
car. was rescued just before the gas
oline tank exploded.
Ivan Riley, 8, of Waterloo, was hit
by an automobile as he alighted from
a milk wagon early Wednesday. me
child was taken to a Madison hospital
where it was found he had suffered a
double fracture of the skull and a
broken leg. The car was from MIL
waukee. The child was on his way TO
visit his grandparents when injured.
While Mrs. Ella Carter and two
children and Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Cor
don of Dodgevi1le were enroute to
Madison in the Carter sedan, they
struck a COW near Mt Horeb. Inc
animal ran through an open gate d.
rectly in front of the machine. COW
and car landed in a ditch, seemingly
little the worse for the encounter.
The animal ambled off and the only
damage to the car was bent lamp
FIR. Leo Binz of Stockton has re-
ceived orders to report to Rome ABOUT
the last of September. He will leave
Stockton this week and expects TO
remain in Rome three years, teaching
and studying. FIR. Binz went to Koch
ester, Mimi, couple of weeks ago TO
have a physical examination before
going abroad. The MayoS reported
favorably on his condition and recon-
mended only that he have his tonslls
removed.
Two officials of the state fair re-
signed at the close of the fair after a
row with the commissioner of agr1-
culture, over the question of liquor
being sold on the fair grounds. Sew
eral arrests of concession men Tor
selling booze at their stands on the
grounds during the fair, brought the
matter to an issue. The commission
er claims that no effort was made to
stop the traffic.
More than $4,000 spectators wit
messed a Labor day demonstration OF
the khan at Knapp, Wis, where l,250
robed and hooded klansmen marched
in a solid phalanX. Twenty mounted
klansmen headed the parade followed
by the hundreds in full regalia. Two
bands played Onward Christian Sol
diers" while the klansmen marched.
At night $50 novices were naturalized
on a hill near Knapp. A wooden
cross 80 feet high was burned on a
hill top.
Steam issuing violetly for many feet
in two directions from the boiler, aid
ed in reducing the fire in an explos-
ion of threshirg machine engine at
Green county. The machine had a
few minutes before been pushed into
the farm yard nv the owners, Bren-
nan Bros, who had left in search of
a block of wood 10 hold the engine in
place Although the fire was blown
in all directions, nothing ignited A
ball of flame shor into the barn where
men we're milking A large quantity
of milk was used to extinguish the
fire
A man giving his name as Thomas
Stope," and his home as Cudahy, was
found bound hand and foot and al
most dead half a mile north of Win
thrOp Harbor, Wednesday. Slope
made the statement that he had been
kidnapped by negroes and $3.50 stolen
from him His chest had been brand