Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-05-07
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

400 tubs Of butter were stolen from
the Albion creamery at Albion Tues
day night Burglars gained entrance
through rear window.
When Maxwell Goodrich of Ft. At
kinson was accosted by hold-up man
and ordered to pony up he retail
ated with his fists, knocking the rob
Der down. The man fled.
Harry L. Moehleman, stenographic
clerk of the railroad commission ad-
mitted at hearing Friday that he had
made false statements in regard to
immoral conditions in the commission
offices.
High water in the Chippewa river
has made an island of the village OF
Holcomb. While it is expected that
the flood waters will recede rapidly,
all streams in that vicinity are high
at present.
Jack BorrOtto, wealthy shoemaker
of Sharon, paid a fine Of $1,000 in
cash after pleading guilty to illegal
possession of liquor. He recently
completed a thirty day Jail sentence
for stealing coal.
M. r. Tuder, Washburn farmer,
was arrested with 13 green deer hides
in his possession. He is held on a
charge of killing deer out Of season.
It is claimed that Tudor has killed
so deer so far this year.
A lone partridge flew clear through
a plate glass window in the Jas. Kin.
cannon store at Brentwood, breaking
a hole in the glass just large enough
to admit it, The bird was uninjured
except for the loss of few feathers.
When Rev o. L. Harley, pastor of
the Lutheran church at White Rapids
returned home with his family from
a Sunday night church service he
found his house heap of smoldering
ashes. The origin of the blaze is un-
known.
Guy Wilcox, 80, Shell Lake, was
killed when an automobile he was
driving went into a ditch. Wilcox at
tempted to change places with q COM
panfon with the machine going 30
miles an hour when the accident
happened.
Apparently carrying out threat
that barns would be burned if pay
ments of money were not forthcoming
unknown parties set fire to a large
barn on the ROsko place near TOmah
last week Another barn valued at
$4,000 is being guarded
Lightning struck the Jas. Shwery
farm near GAINESVILLE causing a loss
of $500 About the same time
bolt struck the barn on the Holden
farm at Heart Prairie in WalWOrth
county doing damage of considerable
amount. Destructive storms of this
kind in April are rare in Wisconsin.
N. e. Anderson, the young man who
since an auto accident near Month
cello two weeks ago has been in
plaster cast with complete body par
alysis, has been taken to Chicago to
son was given only a week to live
after his car executed triple turn
on concrete road. He has shown
remarkable vitality.
Worrying over a fancied debt was
cause of Aloysius Rousar, farmer at
Haugen, killing himself. Rousar
signed a note for 5000 with a neigh
Dor. The neighbor moved away leav-
ing a balance of 5000. ROusar got to
thinking he would have to pay the
entire $4,000 and lost his mind. The
suicide by hanging followed.
A man and a woman are in the
general hospital at Madison after an
attempt on the pat of each to take
their own lives sunday. Mrs. August
UntifranZ, So, is said to have drank
poison. Dan c. Oliver, 60, railway
fiagman, inflicted a score of cuts IN
his abdomen with a jackknife. His
condition is not serious
Miss Lettie Anderson, 62, former
music teacher of Waterloo, committed
suicide by hanging herself at the
Mendoza state hospital Miss Louise
Felix. Chippewa Falls, was found
dead by strangulation self inflicted
few DAYS previous to the death OF
Miss Anderson. The latter had been
an inmate at various times in years
previous.
Shielding his 3-year-old daughter
from certain death, Frank Mutuslnes,
40. Milwaukee fireman, was struck by
a North Shore electric train near Ra-
cine Sunday night and received in
i1ries from which he died at a Mil
waukee hospital. Mutusines with his
wife and seven children, had been Wis
ting near Racine They were waiting
for a train to return home on and
the child got on the tracks. Mutu-
sines pushed the child out of danger
and was struck himself.
George Dunn was found guilty by
a Jury at Chippewa Falls of fourth
degree manslaughter in connection
with the deaths of Chas. Lavigne and
Arthur Danieison in an auto accident
Dec. II. The jury was out So min
utes. Danielson and Lavigne were
killed when the car driven by Dunn
struck a cement culvert. Carl Roen,
a third member of the party, was UNI
hurt. Dunn denied he was driving
the car. saying it was piloted by DAN
ielson. a former racing driver.
Reuben Liebertrau, IA, was in
stantly killed and his father, August
Tiebertrau. badly hurt, when an auto
in which they were riding at their
home near Cross Plains, crashed into
a barn, went through the building
and plunged ten feet to the ground.
The machine landed bottom side up,
pinning the occupants beneath it.
Will Whey of Belleville has been
held under bonds of $1,000 for falling
to stop after he had run down ana
injured Roland Shepherd, also OF
Belleville. Whey pleads not guilty
Shepherd is in a serious condition