Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-04-02

Leaving his body to medical science,
]. A. Smith of Superior, ripped a gas
jet loose in his hotel room and died
by asphyxiation. He was wealthy at
one time.
Two deaths from toxic poisoning re-
suited at Sheboygan. Mrs. Gustave
Kruschke, 60, and Miss Meta Ehren-
reich, 80, died few hours apart. An
examination disclosed that death was
due to goitre poison in each case.
The Boston department store at
New Richmond burned to the ground
with loss of $4,000 The blaze was
discovered about II p. M. and an all
night battle to save the building en-
sued. Partial insurance was carried.
The timely assistance of Mrs. Chas.
Koenig saved the life of Earl Palmer,
7, as the youngster was playing at the
rivers edge in Green Bay. The ice
gave away and the boy fell in. Mrs.
Koenig, looking from her kitchen win
dow, saw the accident and rushed over
honey-combed ice to rescue him.
Two girls who escaped from the
industrial home at Taycheedah were
caught in a farm house half mile
south of Lomira. The girls had spent
two days in haylofts and one night in
a rabbit hutch. They suffered severe
ly from the cold although they had
taken blankets from the reformatory
when they decide to roam.
Necedah and other points in Wood
county report an appalling aftermath
of the recent cold snap in a harvest
of dead prairie chickens. The frozen
birds were found in large numbers in
the marshes and low places along the
Wisconsin river. Because of the thick
crust on the heavy snow, the birds
were unable to scratch as usual for
food. Consequently they starved and
frOze to death.
Warrants are out for the arrest of
two men who lured Miss Violet Sidell,
Madison, to lonely spot near Middle
ton and attacked her The girl, en-
ployed at a newsstand, says the men
accosted her as she was walking home
and asked her to take ride. She got
in the car and was driven away. She
returned home in the morning with
her clothing torn and her body
bruised and scratched.
F. G. Rawlings Of the Forest Prod
ucts laboratory at Madison says that
in ten years newspapers will be print
ed on pulp from cOrnstalks, straWs
and other vegetable fibre. He bases
his conclusion on the enormous con-
sumption of wood pulp which is now
a billion cords year. The supply IN
the upper states is nearly exhausted
now and Canada has placed ban on
the expectation of pulp. The south
and west contain large supplies OF
pulp but the demand is so great that
even these tremendous resources may
be exhausted Paper making from
vegetable fibre other than wood has
long been practiced but the process
is more expensive.
Touching a match to a can Of gas
oline while at play resulted in the
death of Joseph Dion, Superior, when
the can exploded and scattered its
flaming contents on Joseph and his
small companion. He died in hos
pital few hours after the accident.
Earl G. Rickmeier, %, Madison, was
sentenced to serve 81 months in jail
by Judge Hitz of the Washington, u.
c., courts. Young Rickmeier was found
guilty of a conspiracy to defraud the
government out of 100000 in taxes,
promising taxpayers he would exert
Influence" with the revenue service
for a consideration. He was formerly
an auditor in the income tax unit OF
the treasury. Garnett Underwood, an
accomplice, received similar SEN
tence.