Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-01-28
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

Carol, 2-year-old daughter or MI.
and Mrs. Alvin Wardas of Florence,
died from burns received when she
fell into a kettle of boiling water.
r. R. Robb, of Hanover, hotel prop
rietor, was fined $500 by Judge Max
field on a charge of possession of
liquor. lie paid the fine on the charge
which followed a raid conducted by
B. C. Parkinson, Madison deputy
state prohibition agent, and others.
BY a tie vote of members of the
board of education of Madison the mo-
ton to permit the Ku Klux Khan to
use the Central high school auditor
ium was lost, with the result that the
Khan will be unable to carry out its
plans of bringing a national speaker
to a municipal hall.
Trapped in the north revolving door
of the state capitol at Madison, a
young boy created an undue proper
ton of excitement Monday night I'M
til he was released by the police after
an hours Imprisonment. When the
doors again swung in their true Or
bit, he scampered off without even
saying Thank you"
Jas. Barrett of Marshfield, state
high power line inspector. had 11,000
volts pass through his body at Auburn
dale, and is still alive. Several fin
gers on his right hand were burned
off, and his left hip was severely
scorched when his body formed a
short circuit between live wires car
rying high voltage.
Arthur Guthrie, Eau Claire dray
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his son, Allen, 4, while backing his
heavy truck out of his yard. He drove
off, leaving the lad unconscious in
the snow. The boy was found some
time later by neighbors. He was bad
ly bruised about the head and Shout
ders, but hope is held out for his re-
covery.
Edw. Horne, So, life long resident
of GAINESVILLE and well known as prop
rietor of the Ideal Chemical Works for
more than Is years, took his own life
by hanging in private garage build
ing. Loneliness and dependency over
poor health were given as the cause
for his act in a carefully prepared
note which was found in pocket of
his coat.
Tony Leonetti, 80, formerly of Ke-
nosha, shot his sweetheart and then
killed himself, according to word
reaching Kenosha relatives from Ar
lington, Ore, where the tragedy oc-
Cured several days ago. The shoot
ing was the sequel of a lovers quar-
rel. Leonetti was killed instantly and
the girl is near death at a hospital in
The Dalles, Ore.
Death claimed Gustavus A. Welt
stein, 81, writer and former Monroe
jeweler, before the browning glory of
his life as an author and poet could
be made known to him. He was strick-
en- at the Green county home as his
son, Theodore Wettstein, Detroit, was
on his way to his father bringing the
news that a large eastern publishing
concern has requested all manuscripts
of the elder Wettstein's works with a
view to publishing them. While MAX
ing a scant living with a small jew
elry trade he studied intently and
wrote lavishly.
While her fiance, Walter Raymond.
at the wheel, was making a dash for
a hospital, Mrs. Dell Hendricks, 20,
Milwaukee Divorce, who had become
violently ill, laid her head on his
shoulder and died. The woman, ac-
cording to Raymond, became i'll, APP
parently a victim to some poison,
while they were driving home. After
having told his story to the coroner,
Raymond was held for further ques-
tioning. Death was due to ptomaine
poisoning. according to his opinion.
Mrs. Hendricks complained of being ill
after having eaten some soup at a
restaurant Monday night.
Charged with the murder of his s.
year-old son, Roy, Arthur Haufschild
was arraigned in district court at Mil
waukee and his case continued to Feb.
g. The child died from the effects of
phosphorus poisoning week ago. Po-
lice and members of the district at
torney's office started an investigation
of persistent report that the agon-
lied screams of child had been heard
by several neighbors of the Haufschild
family on several occasions during the
two days preceding the death of the
child The child died last Tuesday at
ter he had been taken violently ill. A
physician had been summoned and de-
clared the boy had died from WI at
appeared to be ptomaine poisoning.
Contents of the child's stomach were
examined by chemists, who reported
they found several grains of phos-
phorus.
Earl Cannon, Delavan, University of
Wisconsin student who, with Walter
Wegner. sophomore student, is alleged
to have enticed two 17-year-old high
school girls to State street apart
ment entered plea of guilty Tues
day to charge of contributing to a
minors delinquency and was fined
500 and costs by Judge o. A. Stolen.
Wegner was fined $50 and costs. Ac-
cording to the facts brought out by
the two hearings of the students, Can
non apparently made the date. with
the two girls, inviting Wegner along.
Wegner declared to the court that he
had never seen the girls before, nor
had he anything to do with the ar
ranging of the evenings entertain
ment. The two youths were arrested
on a warrant sworn to by Mrs. Kath-
crime Soderberg, night policewoman,
who is said to have trailed the four
young persons to the apartment, where