Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-04-02

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made with Governor Blaine against
Sheriff Smith of Jefferson county.
Oscar Whippert, As, New Butler car
checker, chased his wife and five lit
tie children from the home and then
cut his throat with a razor He had
been drinking moonshine.
Mrs. Caroline Mas, SO, Wausau, is
dead as the result of fall she took
down a church stairs while attending
a guild meeting. She stepped into
stairway thinking it was a room.
Melvin Knapp, 7, Iron River, acct
dentally shot and killed his niece,
Dorothy Greckel, 6, while playing
with loaded gun. The children were
alone in the house when the shooting
happened
Michael Gerovich, arrested at Mel
len for shooting his wife, told the Of
ficers he thought he had right to
shoot her as she was This" wife. He
was taken to Jail while the wife went
to hospital
Robert Cooper, Madison carpenter,
was found dead in his room with two
charges from a double barreled shot
gun in his chest. Cooper shot himself
using a nail driven into the wall to
pull the trigger.
Awakening to the fierce barking of
the family dog the family of William,
Beck. Howard, discovered their house
on fire. They fed as the upper story
crashed in The dog was burned to
death in the embers.
Herman Steinhaus, Sheboygan, was
given 60 days in Jail for beating his
15-year-old daughter, Helen, with
razor strap. The girl brought court
action against her parent. Stelnhaus
admitted he was drunk
A petition signed by 1000 persons,
protesting against the taking OF game
fish from the streams of the state
until June 1, was presented to the
state game and fish commission. Inc
petition claims the law is unjust
A team pulling a load Of tobacco
was killed by a Milwaukee road train
at Madison. The horses took fright
at the train and dashed against the
locomotive. Louis and David Dyre-
son, owners of the team and riding IN
the rig, escaped with out injury.
DYING under the ether as dentist
stood with poised forceps, John Fox,
I SIS, Sheboygan, escaped having his
I. eth pulled. H. | a. been stuff ring
from pyorrhea for months and ex-
traction of the teeth in his ], Wer Jaw
was prescribed a. a la ;t RENE dy
When the soft drink parlor of Fred
C. Thomas of Racine was raided, Of
ficers found several gallons of liquor
and wine. Thomas declared that the
liquor had been left by man who en-
deavored to sell him but he V1rtuOusIy
refused to do so. He was held under
$3.50 bail
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the Jefferson high school early last
! Wednesday morning. The loss is
100000. The building was a four
story brick structure with metal
roof. For the present the schools
will be scattered through the city.
Rebuilding will start this year.
Tony Lamonica, Belvidere bootleg
ger, returned to Madison and paid a
| fine of 81 900 and costs assessed by
Judge H oppman. Tony could not be
| located after he jumped his bail. He
later found the federal officers were
after him and lost no time in getting
back for trial.
Edw. Koppa of Merrill, during
pneumonia crisis, armed himself with
a blanket, jumped out of the window
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a fire station several blocks away in
his bare feet. The next day he evil
denced no ill effects from his novel
experience and his temperature and
pulse were normal.
Adolph Guinness, former Edgerton
resident, is in pail at Chicago because
he failed to go through the formallty
of getting a divorce from his wife in
! ~ hof mo T1sXy Anna
Furpess Gunnesss of Edgerton. Mrs.
Guinness No. 2 claimed and recovered
household effects and linens used to
| furnish the last menage.
Inmates of the Brown county asy-
lum aided attendants to subdue fire
| that started in the attic and caused
damage of $1,000 before being sub
dued. There was no signs of fear
among the patients, only one trying to
get away. He was promptly seized by
another patient who threatened to
chain him down if necessary.
A stout iron safe in the office of the
| 'Wachter hotel at La Crosse will be
blown by John Wachter III to discov-
er the amount of the estate left by his
! father, John Wachter jr. The old
| gentleman presumably left large
/ estate DuC no Trace VI IL CcllL NC AOuhu'
1t is thought part of the estate may be
found in the safe along with the Will
of deceased.
The sensational case of Robert A
White VS. DR.. H. F. Waters, Nekoosa
physician, was settled out of court at
Wisconsin Rapids. The doctor was
charged with having been intimate
with Mrs. White during visits to his
office. The woman on the witness
stand last fall admitted intimate rela-
tions with the doctor. Defense attor-
neys charged blackmail.
Rebates totaling $4,000 will be paid
by the Wisconsin, Minnesota Light &
Power Co, branch of the Northern
! States Power Co., to gas consumers
| in La Crosse in settlement of rate
| litigation pending before the Supreme
court The rebate represents zoe
thousand feet for all gas delivered in
La Crosse between Dec. 20, 1921, and
May 80, 1928, while decision was
pending on a new rate schedule.
Lying wounded in the road for four