Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-10-01

ruptured by the blow.
Dan Donahoo, Reedsburg, was con-
Victed of cruelty to animals, fined $25
and given 80 days in jail. The COM
plant was that he had starved his
farm animals.
Fishermen from outside the state
will pay $150,000 into the state license
fund this year. $4,000 fishing licenses
at So will lhave been taken out before
| the year closes.
| The parsonage of the First Reform
ed church at Black Wolf was burned
! to the ground Thursday The church
adjacent was threatened by hot en-
! bers but hard work saved it.
| When she upset a kettle of hot lard,
the 6-year-old daughter of Leo Wells,
Rhinelander farmer, received burns
which may prove fatal. The accident
occurred when the child's mother was
! frying doughnuts.
| Injuries received when he fell on a
pitchfork handle resulted in the death
| of John Traes, So, Oostburg farmer.
While working in hayloft, Traes fell
| four feet, receiving the injury. He
died in a hospital.
The body of Jacob Grabowski, 70,
missing at Baraboo for ten days, was
| found in the woods 80 rods from the
home of his son, in the town of Sum-
! ter. Families difficulties were held
responsible for the act.
| Mrs. Peter Heiser of Madison took
her rum to bed, but failed to fool the
police who claim to have pulled jug
of moonshine from underneath the
! bed clothes. Mrs. Heiser played
possum' but was taken along.
Leo Schoenrock, New London, re-
ported lost while hunting on Lake
Poygan, returned home Monday He
had been caught in storm and took
refuge on a houseboat Grave fears
were entertained for his safety.
A loss of $4,000 was suffered near
Darien when fire early Tuesday des-
troyed barn with 125 tons of hay and
thousand bushels of grain on the
farm of John B. Johnson. The fire
was due to the backfire of a gasoline
engine.
Oscar Reams of Peshtigo came near
contributing his life to the cause of
hunting. He was hit by charge of
fine shot and painfully injured, the
shot striking him in the hand and
left side, some penetrating close to
the heart.
Soon after the body of Frank Jones,
recluse, had been found in his home
near Appollonia, thieves broke into
the house and confiscated clothing,
guns and other possessions of the dead
man. No trace of the thieves has
been found.
Anton Matheson, ManitoWoc man, is
defendant in suit for $4,000 brought
by the estate of Joseph Bukosky, for
the death of Bukosky on July 7, said
death being caused by automobile run
by Matheson. The complaint alleges
careless driving.
James O'Brien, overseas veteran, is
dead as the result of a stump blast
Tuesday near GAINESVILLE. O'Brien
was employed by the city clearing
roadway in the municipal park He
was 200 feet away from the blast
when struck by the flying stump.
SO gallons of moonshine, three huge
stills and 20 barrels of mash were
seized in two raids in the towns of
Chiffon and Stockbridge, near Fond
du Lac. Henry Leudtke and Anton
Stransky are under arrest. On the
Stransky place the mash was found
in hog pen.
Mrs. Lawrence Waterbury of Elk
horn, relented and dropped divorce
proceedings against her hsuband af
ter he shot himself with 20 calibre
revolver. The wife charged cruelty
and non-support. The couple are on
their way to Waco, Texas, to live with
the wife's parents.
Federal agents, raiding FIT. Atkin-
son brewery, arrested 20 Chicago
beer runners and captured IA trucks
and hundreds of quarts of the amber
fluid Thursday night. The gang was
found to be one of the most notorious
in Chicago. They were manacled and
held incommunicado.
Oshkosh police wired tickets to Ra-
cine Thursday for the return of Ruth
Johnson, Is, Florence Cartwright, IA,
and Blanche Cartwright, 10, held by
the police in the lakeside city. The
girls ran away from home and were
deserted at Racine by three men who
took them there from Oshkosh. Their
parents refused to provide transporta-
ton.
Depositors of the defunct Northern
State and Bayfield, County State banks
of Washburn have received dividend
of $154 900. The Northern State bank
paid soc on the dollar with promise
of sc on the dollar more. The Bay
field County bank paid 15c on the dol
lar. The banks "blew up year ago,
leaving Washburn without banks for
a time.
Lawrence Nicholson, Neenah gar
age man, frustrated an apparent at
tempt at highway robbery while driv-
ing home at night from Genesee, Wis. !
A board fence had been placed square
ly across the highway. Nearby was
a car parked without lights. Nichol-
son stepped on the accelerator and
drove straight through the obstruc-
ton. The bumper knocked the fence
over and the heavy car passed on in
safety.
Sylvester Decimal, 20, Dodgeville,
suffered a broken ankle Monday of
last week when struck by an auto
mobile on S. T. L. 10, five miles east
of Dodgeville. Decimal was about to
alight from his car to repair tire
trouble, and was standing on the run
ming board, when a sedan carrying
two men swerved in and struck him.
The other car did not stop. Descrip