Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-09-24

In a fit of dependency over con-
tinued Ill health, Edw Schmidt, So,
Eau Claire, shot and killed himself
last week.
Vivian, 10-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Dave Machia of Sawyer, died
at local hospital Tuesday from burns
received when her clothing caught fire
when she came near an oil stove. The
hands and arms of both the father
and mother were badly burned in put
ting out the fire that enveloped the
childs clothing.
Four men are believed to have lost
their lives in a cave-in of sewer tun-
mel in which they were working in
Milwaukee. Fire and police rescue
squads are making every effort to
reach the men who are said to be I'M
der SO feet of earth and gravel. The
tunnel sides gave way shortly after
the men started work. The four men,
two of whom are from Dertoit, are
employed by the Hammer Construc-
ton Co., and were working on city
sewage project.
John Gross, arrested at La Crosse
on a burglary charge, escaped from
the La Crosse county Jail in broad
daylight by saving two bars from a
window Having been permitted the
freedom of the corridor during the
visiting hour, Gross succeeded in saw
ing through the bars without being
detected. He dropped II feet to the
ground and escaped through a swamp.
Gross had been out of the state pris-
on at Waupun only three days when
II hrn1yn into q cfOrn
Performing special duty in Edger-
ton Saturday night and patroling the
highways of the county all day Satur-
day and Sunday, alternating between
his motorcycle and roadster, Con-
stable I. G. Miller, Rock county high
way patrolman, made IL arrests for
alleged traffic violations as follows:
insufficient lights, Z; speeding, s.;
reckless driving, 2; parking, 3. The
offenders hailed into court Monday
were assessed fines ranging from $40
to $100.
Richard Torrison, Manitowoc, is on
trial in circuit court charged with
manslaughter in the death of Carl
Dobberfuhl, 5, in an automobile acct
dent July 10. Torrison ran over the
boy who was playing on the sidewalk
near his home The state charges he
was recklessly driving while the de-
tense holds that Torrison was driving
carefully but that when he turned out
to pass a car parked along the street
he was afraid of running into an au-
tomobile approaching from the oppo-
site direction and turned out too much,
going upon the curb.
oriT1Yl1nd THhino
youth, was freed Tuesday evening by
a circuit court jury at Oshkosh, where
he was tried as an accessory to an as
sault on Richard Beauvais, Chicago
engineer, July 26, for which Joe Stab
ulak and Steve Lihocky are now serV-
ing sentences at Waupun. Stahulak
and Lihocky, brought from Waupun
for the trial and going on the stand
wearing handouts, were the chief
witnesses for the state, declaring that
they were on their way through Wis
consin in Rehak'S car, which broke
down, and that he was a party to their
plan to rob some autoist of his car
and proceed together on their journey
1t was admitted that Relax was not
present when Beauvais was attacked
A fight to reduce the annual ap-
Preparation of the Wisconsin National
Guard from $250000 annually to $780,
900 annually will be made at the COM
ing session of the legislature. Thos
Duncan, assembly floor leader of the
socialists, announced recently that the
socialist group will make fight to
cut the National Guard appropria-
tions. 1--WE have found that the state
of Wisconsin is maintaining about the
same National Guard strength on an
appropriation of $250000 that was
maintained on the former appropria-
ton of over 100000 a year." said
Duncan At the present time Ma
tional Guard strength of $500 men is
being maintained. Before the war the
Guard strength was about $500 men
"Why should we have larger guard
now than we had before the war? We
believe that the pre-war strength OF
the guard can be maintained on an
appropriation of 100000 annually
said Duncan.
DR.. Lewis Bickiord, until recently
an assistant physician at the North
ern Hospital for the Insane at Win
nebago, committed suicide in the city
jail at Oshkosh Tuesday night. Dr.
Bickford was arrested about noon on
Tuesday Police said that he was in
toxicated and that officials and a
woman employe at the hospital had
received letters from him threatening
their lives. DR.. Adm Sherman had dis
charged Dr. Bickford a short time ago
after complaints had been entered that
the man was drinking heavily. When
arrested DR.. Bickford was searched
before he was placed in a cell but he
was successful in concealing small
bottle of poison in his trousers. At
6 p m. a Jail attendant came to the
cell to give the man hi ssupper and
found him stretched out on the floor
dead. Physicians said he had been
dead only a few minutes. 1t is said
that DR.. Bickford has wife in Tope-
ka, Kas., from whom he had been sep