Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-03-05
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.


Harry Hewitt, raided IL saloons at
Kenosha Tuesday and found liquor in
nine of them. The dry squad worked
so rapidly that the raids had been
completed by 1870.
Plans for a new $1,000,000 Hotel
Wausau, which is to be built by Chris.
Schroeder & Sons Co., of Milwaukee,
on the Hotel Bells site at Wausau, are
being rapidly completed.
Storming a Waukesha hotel, where
a Ku Klux Khan meeting was schedul-
ed for Tuesday night, mob OF hun
dreds of persons, put out the lights,
smashed windows, and wrecked furni-
ture before the proposed meeting was
finally broken up.
Pronounced legally dead by the Ke-
Waunee county court, his estate pro-
bated and his life insurance collected,
Adolph Blahnik has returned to his
home town after an absence of eight
years. He returned to find his share
of a $4,000 estate awaiting him.
Paul Mckinney, Menasha, has a
knowledge of jails and knows where
it is best to be arrested, at least for
drunkenness. Mckinney was picked
up by Appleton police too benumbed
to know where he was going. His
lodging cost him 81 and court costs.
The creamery at Chelsea, Wis, six
miles southwest of Rib Lake, Wis,
burned to the ground. The fire was
due to an Over-heated chimney. The
loss is estimated at $1,000. Al Lindow,
the proprietor, has the reputation of
being one of the best buttermakers in
the state.
With the measles epidemic which af-
fected 60 per cent of the population of
the village of MinOng, Wis, under
control and less than half of the origi-
nal cases now under quarantine, the
discovery of small pOX has threatened
to again cripple the business of that
community.
L. M. Norby and Milton Munson,
Holmen, employees of the Wisconsin,
Minnesota Light and Power company
at La Crosse, were killed when the
automobile driven by NOrby was
struck by Burlington train at a
crossing in the south end of the city
late Monday night.
Struck in the forehead by a stray
bullet as she was leaving the school
grounds at Chippewa Falls for home
an 11-year-old daughter of Lee Briggs
of Donald, was seriously injured but is
expected to recover. A snOwmobile
was used to carry DR.. r. G. Rodecker
from Holcombe to the wounded girl.
Funeral services for John GiVian
Davis Mack, Madison, state chief en-
gineer. who died early Sunday, were
held at Christ Presbyterian church
and at the mausoleum at Forest Hill
cemetery Tuesday afternoon. Brief
church services were held. Masonic
burial rites were observed at the GEM
etery.
Mrs. John Gandt, mother of the two
children who were burned to death in
an explosion of gasoline at the home
in ManitoWOc, was still alive Saturday
night, but her recovery is still uncer-
tain The explosion happened when
a spark from the stove flew into a can
of gasoline that had been brought up
from the cellar short time before.
At a mass meeting of 300 represen-
tative citizens of Pra. du Chen, Wau-
zeka, Ferryville and Bridgeport, Wis,
and McGregor, Marquette, Lansing and
Postville, Iowa, a resolution was
adopted to urge upon congress the
immediate enactment into law of the
McCormick-Hawe bill, a bill to make
the w 1luGSul6h d hdl1O4lCi1 ScIIAAS pAS
serve.
John Stettbacher, farmer residing
four miles north of Lomira, received
three fractured ribs, numerous bruises
and narrowly escaped being killed
when attacked by an enraged bull
The pet dog of Mr.. Stettbacher came
to the rescue of his master and drove
the bull into corner, while Mr.. Stett-
bacher was lifted from the ground and
carried into the barn by his son.
Gust Bunnow, 26, is in a critical
condition at St. Agnes hospital, FOND
du Lac, as the result of burns receiv-
ed while working in the combustion
room of the power plant of the East
ern Wisconsin Electric Co. Physi-
clans said he would recover. The &C
cident occurred when hot ashes which
Bunnow was removing started to fall
and blow into his face and about his
body, causing the burns.
Ernest G.. VasseloS, magnetic yOuns
business man of Sheboygan, has made
the announcement that he has com
pleted a real estate transaction witt
the Wisconsin Public Service corpor.
alton whereby he became the owner
of the building and property now oc
cupied by the gas company headquar
tiers at 61S n Eight street. He is {
Greek who came to America IL years
ago He paid $4,000 cash for the
property.
One hundred dollars a head, dead
and $50 a head alive, for bank burg
lars and bank holdup men, taken with
in a reasonable time after the deed
This is the offer made to Wisconsin
sheriffs and chiefs of police by the
protective committee of the Wiscon
sin Bankers association, according tt
Walter F. Gaulke, chief of the protec
tive department at the annual meet
ing of group 1 of the association a
Chippewa Falls Friday.
A 3-year-old girl grooming bah!
lullaby to her doll as she swayed tt
and fro in her little rocking chair wa:
discovered early Tuesday to be the
only living occupant of home or
father and grandmother Law dead O.