Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-12-24
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

Edward M. Hong, of Ladysm1th cleo
in a local hospital from the eHecls Vi
an electric shock. He was working on
a tower when he accidentally touched
a live wire carrying $4,000 Volts
Martin Sampson, well-known real
estate and insurance agent OF belolI'
was found dead in bed Saturday morn
ing at his home, victim OF neart
failure. He had lived in Belolt all MS
life. &c
Amendment of two temporary Of
fcers for the protection OF the local
hanks was refused by the city council
nv an III vote at Beloit Monday.
"Where are the police, anyway asked
one alderman. Running gasoline STA
tions." was the reply.
An attempt to admit Effie Radel, 70
Richland Center girl charged WIN
murder, to bail is expected to be made
at Raraboo. 1t was also indicated the
girl probably would be tried before
Circuit Judge Stevens at Madison. The
girl was arrested following the death
Of her day-old infant week ago Fri
day.
Mrs. Herman Miller was burned to
death in her home at Melrose, near
Tomah, when her clothes caught nre
after she had poured the contents OF
a kerosene can over stove hre. Inc
can exploded and Mrs. Miller died lO
minutes later of severe burns. She
thought the fire in the stove had Deen
extinguished.
Thirty-four barrels of wine and sew
eral bottles of whisky, vermouth ana
other liquors were seized Thursday
afternoon in raid on the basement
of a house owned by Ben Di Salvio in
Madison. Four federal dry agents from
Milwaukee and members of the state
prohibition force and police depart
ment took part in the raid.
Robert H. Lee, %, Dubuque and
Chicago, convicted in United States
district court at Madison by jury
of violating the national motor theft
law, was sentenced to the federal pen1-
Tertiary at LeavenwOrth for four
years. DR.. Fred Philips, veterinarian at
Dodgeville, convicted with Lee on the
same charges, was fined $500 and sent
to the house of correction at Milwau-
kee for one year.
The Rev. N. E. Mclaughlin, of the
Monroe Universalist church, turned
"inuuiring minister" and obtained
answers from 20 leading citizens to
the question: What does it mean to
be a Christian? He quoted the replies
in his Sunday sermon. Three things
stood out: Conscience, the Golden
Rule and the spirit of Christ. Church
attendance was not included as essen
tial in the makeup of Christian by
a number of those asked the question.
Dance hall owners and promoters
of dances in Sheboygan have flooded
the city council with petitions pro-
testing the action taken recently by
the county board making the county
dance hall ordinance uniform for cities
and villages, as we'll as in the towns.
The section the city promoters oppose
is that requiring payment of ST. for
each dance as salaries for inspectors
and license fee of $40 year. They
already pay SIS year for licenses to
operate in the city.
Radio madness" has at last be-
come manifest in the northern part of
the state with the finding, Saturday,
by two Indian police, of ]. F. Hop
kins, white woodsman, who claims
that he can send and receive mes
sages through the tips Of his fingers.
Hopkins was found near Birch, about
80 miles east of Ashland and brought
to the Ashland county Jail. When he
was taken into the Jail he commented
forcibly on the way in which the In
dians had interfered with his receiv-
ing and broadcasting. Offered food at
fine iai1 no said "Dop't bother M.
now. can't you see I'm trying to get
Buffalo? All I've got it. Now go away
and I'll eat as soon as l get through
talking to them" Hopkins will be ex-
amined by alienists.
Legal action to force Iowa county
to vote its share of the bridge over
the Wisconsin river bottom at Lone
Rock will be started soon, it is be-
lieved. The state highway comm ssion
sent an order in November to Sauk,
Iowa and Richland counties for the
construction of the bridge. Iowa coun-
ty was to pay rs per cent of the cost,
Richland county 20 per cent, Sank
county per cent and the state the
other so per cent. The cost was to to-
tai about $135,000. Iowa county has
refused to vote. 1t is expected suit will
be started by the highway commits
sion and the legal departments or
Richland county and Sank county
Iowa county has announced that it
will seek at the coming session of the
legislature the repeal of the law I'M
der which the Lone Rock bridge was
ordered