Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-04-22
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

> the Frank Trace Lumber and Coal
Ncompany, Stoughton, Sunday morning,
Vas, fooled when Axel Mortenson,
NJ 1T watch, frightened two yeggs
awII before they gained access to the
safe
-Four horses and two cattle were
killed when barn on the farm OF
Alfred Collins, six miles northwest of
Edgerton, was struck by lightning on
Monday afternoon The building was
destroyed. Other buildings on the
farm were saved because the rain pre-
vented them from catching fire.
Edwin Erb 81, inmate of the Bethes
da Lutheran home at Watertown, was
drowned in Rock river Wednesday
night. His body was discovered below
the North Western bridge near the
home, but whether he fell or jumped
from train is not known. Erb came
to the institution from Boone, Iowa.
His parents ar travelling in Europe.
= A stream of money has been pour
ing into the state treasury since the
inauguration of the new gasoline tax
of &c a gallon on motor vehicles But
$4,000 was appropriated to enforce
the law and as a result State Treas
urer Levitan has had his force work
ing overtime in an effort to keep up
Walter Johnson, 10, who was in
jured when a Milwaukee road train
struck the car in which he and Geo.
Koeppler were riding at the Lakeside
crossing in Madison, died in the So.
Madison sanitarium just six hours af-
ter the death of his compan on. Both
bodies were taken to Oconom woe for
burial.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the Polar school at Amigo Monday OF
last week, causing loss of $4,000.
The three teachers and $50 pupils
marched out in safety. The town has
no fire protection and bucket brig
ade was unable to cope with the
blaze. A church will be used until a
new building is ready.
Joe Smith, 40, woodsman employed
at a Rib Lake lumber camp, was in
stantly killed Friday when he stepped
in front of a locomotive. The mans
act appeared to be intentional, accord
ing to witnesses, but no reason is
known for the suicide. Smith had
been employed in the camp for two
weeks, coming there from Minneap-
oils
After she had lain in deep and I'M
broken slumber for three weeks, Jene
Marie BENIN of Chippewa Falls, aged
three, died Friday. Sleeping sickness
aggravated by meningitis, was given
as the cause of her death. She never
regained consciousness after falling
into her fatal sleep. This was the first
case of sleeping sickness ever reported
in Chippewa Falls.
The Hunt bill repeating the Wis
cinsin homestead exemption law, up
in the senate, is due for strong oppo-
sition by administration progressives
on the grounds that the law has not
had a fair and full trial and that the
bill would tend to nullify the funda-
mental principle of the new admin
stration income tax measure, accord
ing to Sen O. III. Johnson.
Will G. Hood, former president of
the defunct American National bank
of Racine, was found guilty by jury
in federal court at Milwaukee Friday,
of violation of the national banking
laws The counts were based upon
Hoods connection with the United
Food Stores Co.; also defunct. Hoods
attorneys have moved for new trial.
Hood claims he was not aware of the
illegal practices involved
The same violation of the law can
constitute three separate offenses, so
Judge George Grimm of the Rock
county court ruled in a decision re-
fusing to release Stanislaus Makes
SetaS, Beloit rum runner, who received
record penalty for Rock county when
he was fined $4,000 with the alterna-
tive of IS months in Jail for trans
portation and possession of liquor.
A motion was made to discharge the
defendant on the grounds that three
separate charges were made out Of
one offense.
A shipment of lambs from Edger-
ton to the Chicago market, averaged
$1375 cwt. The lambs averaged rs
pounds in weight There were 343
lambs fed at the City View Farm,
brought in from Montana. They were
fed on ration of alfalfa, hay, shelled
corn and oats balanced with oil meal
and molasses feed. The lambs were
bought in December when they aver
aged 40 pounds. They sheared six
pounds of wool each, which sold at
40c pound.
Attracted by the screams of Anna
Verba, IS, held in the Milwaukee
county Jail on suspicion, jailers found
Esther Kasner, IS, Kilbourn, attempt
Ing 10 emu u0T lie Dy uduSluS. MISS
Kasner was arrested by detectives af-
ter she had made an attempt to end
her life by drinking poison in front of
the Wisconsin Industrial School for
Girls where she had been an inmate.
She was taken to hospital where she
will be held for observation. She told
the police, following her first attempt
at suicide, that she had been dis
heartened because of financial diff
: ficulties.
Mrs Anna NJ Cover of GAINESVILLE
was the first beneficiary of the Chi
cago Tribune life insurance accident
policy, receiving check for $500 in
full of policy. In March Mr.. Cover,
a GAINESVILLE taxi driver and former
police chief there, clipped an insur-
ance coupon from the Tribune and.
mailed it with a dollar. On the night
of March 81 Mr. Cover and two pas
sengers were killed by train at a
GAINESVILLE street crossing. Under or
binary policies passengers in public
vehicles are protected but drivers are
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