Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-03-05

one of the oldest patients who has
ever undergone a major operation, &C
cording to medical authorities. Mr..
Hubbard is a man of unusual vitality
The Central Wisconsin hatchery at
Waupaca, has completed the installa-
ton of mammoth incubator, which
has a hen capacity of IL, $50 eggs. A
special installer completed the task OF
erecting the large machine in one
week.
Dismissal of the case of John As
pinwall, son of County Judge P. H.
Aspinwall, of Hurley, charged by Hec-
tor McGillis, a saloonkeeper, with the
theft of $1,000 to $1,000 last Septem-
Der, was ordered by Judge Griff
Thomas at Hurley last week.
A rum war, which is said to have
been waged in Madison's Italian sec
ton for more than two years past, is
believed by police at Madison to have
led to the murder of Anton Bruno,
poolhall owner, who was shot dead by
an unknown assailant about II p. m.
Saturday.
Forcing open a window on the
ground floor of the Palace theater at
Superior early Monday morning, burg
lars gained entrance to the show
house office where they smashed their
way into a large steel safe and es-
Sunday shows.
Shantytown on the Lake, an area of
dilapidated lighthouses on the shore
of Lake Winnebago, at Fond du Lac,
which has been a favorite spot for
petting parties and other wild and
warm goings-On, is hotter than ever.
The city council order the houses de-
stroyed.
While undergoing treatment for the
cleansing of a facial cavity, Herman
Schroeder suddenly collapsed IN the
office of Fond du Lac clinic and de-
spite the use of a pulmotor could not
be revived Death was caused by
acute dilation of the heart, an examl-
nation revealed.
Louis Stricken, employed as an at
tendant at the Southern Wisconsin
Home for Feeble Minded, was SEN
fenced to serve 10 years in the state
prison at Waupun when he pleaded
guilty in municipal court Monday
morning to a serious statutory ofense
with an inmate of the institution.
For the first time in Stevens Point
history, policemen will get a day OF
rest The board Of fire and police
commissioners voted to relieve the Of
ficers from active duty one day in
seven. Heretofore, they have worked
seven days and when they laid off took
loss in pay.
Loss of $500 was caused in the plant
of the bennington laundry at Stevens
Point by an explosion and resulting
fire. A fur-trimmed silk garment IN
a dry cleaning machine became
charged with electricity, causing the
blast. Robt. Normington was burned,
and the flames destroyed the machine
Joseph Bonnin, Chippewa Falls,
and his sister, Mrs. John Phalen, of
Menomonee, Wis, both former resi-
dents of Rice Lake, have received
word that a brother, Isaac Bonnin, has
lust been found at Ladysmith While
the Bonnin family was living at Fort
William, Ont, 26 years ago, Isaac
then young lad, disappeared.
The city of Viroqua is certainly TAX
ing on an 'air" of mOdernness these
DAVIS. Two citizens of Viroqua now
have planes and are making flights.
Bernard Root has ordered the third
plane. A fleet of three planes in V1ro-
qua is quite distinction, but it is pre-
sumed that in a few years they Will pc
as common as fivverS.
1t took a farmers pitchfOrk to
bring back a mail pouch stolen from
the village depot at Junction City,
near Stevens Point, last fall. John
Sebora Sr., went to his farm mile
Of
junction. He drove his fork into the
pile of hay and out came the sack.
The contents were not disturbed.
Following a charge that he tried to
shoot the town constable of Stanley,
Wis, as we'll as young lady of that
place. John Thompson, a soldier sta
toned at Fort Smelling, Mimi, was
taken into custody by Maj. Lee Sum-
ner of Eau Claire, and is in jail at Eau
Claire pending arrival of officers from
Fort Smelling. He admitted being A.
w. o. L.
Mrs. Myrtle Schaude completely col
lapsed Tuesday afternoon in hte coun-
ty jail at Elkhorn. Fear for her life
was expressed by the sheriff who has
been watching her constantly since
she was taken back to the jail await
ing commitment papers for Waupun,
following conviction on five man
slaughter charges and sentence to
prison for 10 years.
William Brand, operator of the pro
iecting machine in picture theater at
Ladysmith, saved himself from being
burned to death when a film caught
fire in the projecting room, by jumping
through a small window, landing on
the concrete walk Is feet below. He
was severely cut by glass and bruised
by the fall Several films and two
projecting machines were destroyed.
Just before he died at the ST. Cath
crimes hospital at Kenosha, James
Mcnamara, SO, an expert knitter, de-
sired to see the wife from whom he
had become estranged several years
ago. She was finally found by tele-
phone in Chicago and told of his dy-
ing request. I'm sorry" she told the
nurse, "but 1 cannot come. Yesterday
was married to another and it would