Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-09-03

Trial of Patrick j. Powers, former
Madison patrolman, charged with the
shooting of Peter NJ Posepny, Two
Rivers student, will be held in Octo-
ber The trial was at first set for Sep
TENDER.
Lake Monona claimed its third vic
tim of the season late Thursday when
Brady Brown, 81, was drowned while
swimming with party of friends. Eff
forts by life-guards to save Browns
life failed. Exhaustion from long
swimming was the cause of the acct
dent
The city of Monroe is still searching
for a noisy fire whistle to take the
place of the big steam siren which has
served the city for the past 80 years.
The device will pass out of existence
with the abandonment of the old pow
er plant, now that Monroe is served
by the Wis. Light & Power Co.
A long string of store and school
house robberies, extending over the
past six months and battling Marsh
field police, were cleared up last week
with the arrest of a gang of boy
thieves, none older than sixteen. The
burglaries included three schools, a
restaurant, grocery store, hardware
store and dance pavilion.
A telegram received by Fred w.
Keller, Mellen, states that an auto
bearing license plates issued to him
is being held by Sheriff V. E. Fisher
at Tyvan, Sask. The auto was stolen
from Jasper Minton, Mellen, by Leo
Parks a month ago. If Parks is be-
ing held eXtradition papers will be OBJ
taine1 and he will be brought back
to Ashland to face charges of butter
theft, jail breaking and auto theft.
After her husband had not COM
municated with her for 10 years, Mrs.
Frances Buchenberger, Kaukauna, the
had been deserted. She applied to
Judge A. M. Spencer at Appleton for
divorce. 1t was granted. Joseph
Buchenberger disappeared in 1902.
Mrs. Buchenberger has not heard of
him since. She was given title to their
property and the custody Of one chile
under legal age.
Alleged to have shot and wounded
r. c.. Mazer, wealthy Chicagoan, Chas.
Kuhn, former official of the town of
Pennington, is held in the Eagle Riv
er Jail charged with assault with in
tent to kill. Kuhn is said to have
claimed Mazer didn't live up to the
terms of a lease in regard to a sum-
mer cottage on land owned by Kuhn.
Bad feeling is said to have resulted
between the two men and the shooting
followed
Robert Thompson, who said he was
from Milwaukee, was arrested at Kau-
kauna when he attempted to sell TWO
bonds worth $76S for the price of
few drinks. He admitted that the
bonds were taken from grip which
he stole in Green Bay. Investigation
disclosed that the bonds were the
property of w. D. Morgan, Lady
smith, and that Thompson had dis
posed of a file containing valuable
papers taken from the grip by push
ing them through a hole in a plat
form over the Fox river. Police tore
UP the platform and found the papers
which had been in the water two days
but were unframed
All places of business and offices
in Augusta, Fairchild and Osseo re-
manned closed Monday and every able
bodied man and boy in the three towns
and even some women, taking their
meals with them, went to the Osseo
district, where Al barns. houses, an0
nearly 100 smaller buildings were lev
eled by terrific wind storm Thurs
day. Armed with tools, they spent
the day assisting the storm sufferers
to clear away the wreckage and pre-
pare the way for immediate rebuild
ing. The damage in this section is es-
timated now at close to half a mil
lion dollars, and steps are being TAX
en- to inaugurate relief measures, for
many families lost everything they
had, and are without tornado insur
ance.
j. F. Zeidler of Wanderoos, Wis,
arrested on a charge of forging the
name of Perry s. Jerdee, of Deronda,
on a note for 1924 last March while
Zeid1er was cashier of the now de-
funct Farmers Exchange bank a
Wanderoos, pleaded not guilty at a
hearing at Balsam Lake and was
bound over to the circuit court for
trial Bail of $20C was filed and Zeid-
Ter was Immediately arrested on two
other charges, one alleging forgery
and the other accepting money for
deposit with knowledge that the bank
was insolvent. Bail in the last case
was set at $1,000 on each of the lat
for NJ