Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-30

patch. He had used a necktie to
strangle himself with.
Otto Meyer, 40, of Sheboygan, des-
pondent over ill health, sent bullet
crashing through his brain. He left
widow and three children.
Because of a crop failure Nick
Barbarian, Union Grove, Racine coun-
ty farmer, hanged himself from raf-
ter in his barn He finished his chores
before ending his life.
The deaths of Joseph Newman, 81,
and Waino Kakko, 35, within "a
hours at Superior, are attributed to
the excessive use of moonshlne by the
police there Companions of the dead
men are held for questioning.
Joseph Loban, aged farmer living
alone near Hawkins, was attacked by
three bandits, beaten into insensibility
and robbed of 5000 in bonds and $40
in cash. The robbers were not masked
and Loban gave a good description OF
them to officials.
Clinging to the pilot of an engine
after being struck and thrown from
the truck on which they were riding,
saved the lives of Agendia Strachato,
y, and her uncle, Leo Straub, rs, of
Fond du Lac Both are in hospital
but will recover. doctors say.
Mr.. Keitel, Kilbourn rattlesnake
hunter, has on exhibition over 100
| live rattlesnakes which he captured
in various parts of Sank county. Mr..
Keitel will keep the snakes alive for
| the summer for the benefit of tour
lists and then kill them for their oil
and skins.
yxv;l1,v,d T%r,,oo, 10 Now Richmond
| is in jail on a charge OF murder fol-
lowing the discovery of the dead body
of his father, Otto Kruger, buried in
pig pen on the Kruger farm. The
boy made no effort to deny the crime
but says his father "got what was
coming to him" for mistreating the
family.
| Trying to rescue a playmate who
had fallen off the raft on which they
were playing, Peter Swentcky,, IL, of
Racine, drowned in the lagoon at An
derson park. The lad was pulled out
of the water by John Anderson but
could not be resuscitated. The play
mate, John HOroheena, craWled back
on the raft.
Floyd Miller of Racine stole car
and started on a summer tour with
! two lady friends. The three we're ar
rested on a vagrancy charge at Mar
! inette. Floyd said he was Gust TAX
ing the girls on a little ride" The
/ girls, aged 16, were sent home and
Floyd the accommodating was taken to
| jail at Racine.
John Hanna, 70, Oakf1eld, seized a
| bucket of water and threw it onto a
| II 900 volt transformer when a bolt
of lightning set fire to the device.
The water formed circuit from the
! high line through Mr.. Hanna'S body to
ground, throwing linn several feet and
/ stunning him. Hanna escaped death
! by a narrow margin.
Arthur Mckinley of Durand, ILL.,
was drowned just below the dam at
Pra. du Sac. He was fishing from a
boat when extra power was turned
on, causing a great rush of water
which swamped the boat Mckinley
| jumped out but was unable to swim
more than a short distance owing to
becoming entangled in fish lines. The
body was recovered two hours later
Alex, 6, and Theodore, 8, sons of
Ensign and Mrs. Alexander of the
Salvation Army, Kansas City, were
killed by carbon monOXide gas as
! they lay on the floor of their parents
open car while returning to Army
| Lake, Wis, from a meeting at Beloit.
The parents who were in the front
seat thought the boys were sleeping
and did not discover what had hap
pened until too late.
Armed with two boxes of 38 caliber
cartridges, a revolver and two bottles
of carbolic acid which he indicated
were to be used for suicide purposes,
! w. c.. Mcfarland, Oshkosh taxicab
driver, was arrested and is being held
for a sanity test. Mcfarland had
made threats on his divorced wife.
| He is also wanted for passing bad
checks at Fond du Lac, Oshkosh and
Kaukauna.
John Buckley of Norway, Mich, and
Jack SUNNI of Rhinelander, are in the
Marinette county Jail in default of
| 81 1000 bail on charges of attempted
assault upon four girls, after they had
| forced an entrance into a house at
| Goodman, Wis, in the night time. The
four girls escaped in their night
clothes and fed to the homes of adj
| jacent neighbc IS, where an alarm was
sent to the authorities.
| Sam Ucella, Madison bartender, has
been held for selling alcohol to two
Madison youths who in turn diluted
the alcohol with water and sold it to
soldiers at Camp Douglas. The boys,
Gordon Dewitt and Frank Weber,
had doctored $13 worth of alcohol in
to $50 worth of booze. They were
caught by guards at Camp Douglas
and questioned until they confessed.
| If convicted Ucello faces a prison
term.
Automobile bandits failed in their
effort to burgle the State bank of
Kendall due to watchfulness of the
| local marshall, J. W. CockrOft. Mr..
| Cockroft was summoned to the bank
by woman who saw the bandits at
work from her hotel window. When
the bandits saw the officer they threw
their tools into a car and escaped
down the Madison road. A small
sum of money was taken. The bandits
had acetylene torches and other ap-
proved burgling devices.
Charged with abducting a boy from
his home at Appleton, Frank Brab-
randi, 80, married, is in the Outagam-
lie county Jail awaiting hearing on a
charge of kidnapping. Brabrandt was
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