Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-03-11

x,orcod narSonS from marrying WlLnm
ono vaar after obtaining their free
dom does not apply to Wisconsin res
idents who obtained their divorce III
other states. Atty Gen. H. L. EKefn
hold in an opinion sent to OllVe ..
Ctrane district attorney OF BurnelI
county. Extradition from announcer s' az
of husband who had desterteo MS
family may be demanded by the sly
ornor Of Wisconsin even Wnen Ille
man is not a fugitive from Justlce' an
oninion sent to R. M. Orchard us
trict attorney for Grant county, sdlu'
Hartwell Farwell, town OF vienna
70 rnoar who killed Theophl Hosteh'
q farm hand, in 1922 and tried 10 ouIn
tba hodv in a hay stack near forIasG'
was denied a pardon by Gov. Johh j.
blaine Monday afternoon. FarWell was
found entity by jury in Dane conuty
a;,.o1,i+ court and sentenced to seven
1rnors at Waupun prison. The killing
of Hosten was one OF the most SG 1oo
tional slayings ever to occur III D''iio
county. 3,~ county
since the prohibition laws became e @i
! fective. state agents and the sheiln ,
office staged a successful SealcH IL
Reloit last Friday night, selzlns pa
| barrels and five jugs OF VINE anu Gun,
! siderable moonshine. The truck lodu
! of alleged illegal liquor was unloaueu
at the county Jail by stan Oh prlS-
onere whose parched Threats became
| drier as they rolled off the parrels VI
wine. 7door+on
Three raids were made in Edgertoll
INV the civ. state and county authorl-
+ias under the direction of Chlet ben
Snring er. Saturday night, resulting IN
! +ha arrest of Ed Kaufman. Inc autlolo
/ tiles raided both the pop factory ol
tho defendant and his home. AL the
residence the deputies found two DOL
t1es of alleged moonshine. other places
raided were the residences OF DaIe
! Ogden and Weston Hallett.
Elizabeth Sullivan, II, was Instantly
killed Tuesday night when the auto
mobile in which she was riding Win
bor father and mother crashed mead
On into stalled truck near Kenosna'
Mr.. and Mrs. Sullivan were palnL Ii
| injured but will recover. Anotner
daughter, Katherine, 8, escaped WIFI
out injury. .;1o
Breaking through thin ice wnlle
walking on Lake Mendoza SATURDAY
A. Walton Lane, Janesvllle, unlVel-
sitv Junior, narrowly escaped drown
ing in the lakes icy waters. Albert
Rlunt. Evanston, engineering student
at the university, and Dwight Hart,
Madison, former university athlete,
rushed to the scene, and rescued the
young man.
Valentine Ernst, of Milwaukee, SEN
fenced in 1919 to 80 years in Waupun
prison on charges of asSaultlng MS
| 15-year-old daughter, was freed by
i Gov. Blaine last week. The daughter,
| Catherine, now married, has admitted
her charges were false and grew out
| of a desire for revenge because he
! had beaten her.
A check for $866,781.08 was paid to
State Treasurer Solomon Levitan by
| the Northwestern Mutual Life Insur-
ance Co. for the 1924 taxes of the COM
pany. Henry F. Tyrell, legislative
counsel for the company, also turned
over a check for $48,588.59 which the
company is paying under protest.
Postmaster William R. Homermiller
of Tomah has received word that the
bill providing for new postoHce
building in that city has passed. APP
preparations of $4,000 will be avail
able for the work. Work is to be
started as soon after July 1 as pos
sible.
Robert Schultz, former pop factory
owner of Sheboygan, committed sui
eide early Friday morning by shoot
ing himself with a 20-guage shot gun.
He had been suffering i'll health for
the past eight years during which
time he suffered two heart strokes.
Roy Gratias, Glenfiora trapper,
claims to have caught the largest tim
Der wolf seen in upper Wisconsin in
years The animal weighed 95 pounds
and measured seven feet, two inches,
from tip of nose to tip of tail.
An inheritance tax of $222,202 minus
per cent was paid to the county
treasurer at Eau Claire Wednesday by
A. J. Marsh and A. H. Shoemaker ex-
ecutors of the Cordelia TruaX estate.
This is by far the largest inheritance
tax ever paid in Eau Claire county.
Two firemen were injured, one prob
ably fatally, when they fell from an
icy roof during fire at GAINESVILLE on
Monday morning.