Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-02-27

Rather than permit himself to write
bogus checks-a crime for which ne
had been in prison for two years
Albert Marcus, %, Milwaukee, killed
himself. S. M. Ryan, GAINESVILLE, U.
S. Asst. Dist Atty, received letter
penned by Marcus shortly before his
death in Chicago. Marcus said he felt
an overpowering desire to write bogus
checks and preferred death to the
consequences.
Dist Atty. James Murray, storm
center of politics in Fond du Lac
county for the last several years, was
assaulted and badly beaten on the
principal down town street of Fond du
Lac Monday by George William, To-
connective engineer. The district at
torney pressed a charge OF assault
and battery against William, who
plead guilty and was fined $50.
In the case of the state VS. Frederic
Chapleau, Fond du Lac, the court held
that possession of bottle of prescrip-
ton whiskey was not illegal even
thouhg the bottle was kept in soft
drink parlor Chapleau had been SEN
fenced to serve five months in prison
by the circuit court. He appealed to
the Supreme court and won his free
dom.
One manufacturer, one banker, the
retired head of former great indus
try and Manitowoc, and North side
woman dubbed together and raised a
fund sufficiently large to finance the
purchase of 800 pairs of shoes offered
at bargain by the Luebke & Kellner
shoe store, Manitwoc, and the shoes
I'd fo n
Rural school ma'ams of TOmah are
bewailing the loss of good hard coin
as the result of their credulity in
trusting magazine grafters. The men
interested the teachers in cheap mag
duced to sign checks for So, 81 or Sc.
The checks came back but the maya
zines are missing.
Henry Burke, brakeman for the
Milwaukee road, fell under the cars
at Racine, losing his right heel and
cutting the leg severely. The injured
man crawled mile along the tracks
and collapsed. Another train picked
him up after he had narrowly escaped
under it's wheels.
The jury in circuit court at Jeffer-
son, Feb. Is, awarded Mrs. Evelyn Nc
against Mrs. Ida Effie McLery. Mrs.
Evelyn McLery, formerly a nurse in
a sanitarium near Stevens Point,
charged her mother-in-law estranged
her husband from her, and caused
them to separate.
Liquor is declared by DR.. f. l.
Drake, superintendent of the Mendoza
state hospital at Madison, as the prln-
cipaI cause for the insanity of the
Evenson family Of Cady, Wis. George
Evenson is being held at Hudson for
the murder of his sister, Ida, last
Tuesday.
Supt. Jackson of the Interstate Pow
er Co. has established headquarters
at GAYS Mills, Wis, and is engaged in
making surveys for the purpose OF oo-
tanning a site for a new dam across
the Kickapoo river at or near the vii
Iage.
Stanley Manskey, 5, was shot acct
dentally by his father, Peter Manskey,
of Weyerhauser, Wis, the bullet en-
tered the boys right side. The father
shot at chicken. Physicians say the
boy will recover.
Otto Lechner, a farmer, brought 10
the county clerk at Medford, for boun-
ty, a large coyote which he had killed
with a club after the animal Jumped
at him.
A. G. Metzinger of GAINESVILLE has
begun suit for $993.19 against the New
Amsterdam Casualty Co. for repairs
to his automobile. Metzinger's car
turned turtle on a country road.
A broom house on the Trena Eel
land farm northeast of Madison, was
burned to the ground Sunday with a
loss of $4,000. Sparks from a burn
ing chimney ignited the roof.
Mrs. J. c.. Penn, Monroe, claims
that she awoke at 1 a. m. during re-
cent blizzard and saw lightning
flashes for Is minutes.