Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-11-25
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WISCONSIN
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accidentally drowned when he fell in
to an interior cistern in back entry
way of his home.
The body of John H. Harris, go, was
found in Baraboo river Wednesday
following a months search for him.
The body was not badly decomposed
but had probably been in the water
since the day Harris disappeared,
Oct 49,
Clifford Genge, held at the county
jail in Portage on a larceny charge,
asked Turnkey Fred Bennett if he
could go get a pail of water one ev-
ening just before going to bed. Ben
nett consented. Although several days
have passed Genge hasn't returned.
Three firemen were injured, one
perhaps fatally, when big truck ov-
erturned while on the way to a fire in
La Crosse Wednesday. Roman Krueg-
er, the driver, who was buried under
the truck, is at a hospital with a
fractured skull and internal injuries.
President Glenn Frank of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin at Madison for
mally broke ground on the site of the
new Memorial Union, which will be
erected during the next year at a cost
of $1,275,000 The building will be
constructed in three sections and will
be three stories in height.
John Starkovich of Rhinelander,
pleaded guilty in circuit court to a
charge of assault while armed with a
loaded gun and was sentenced to Is
years in the state prison at Waupun.
StarkoVich was arrested in Park Falls
coz off !, 1aI Io1I
up and robbed Helmer Johnson, a
WOodsman.
j. @. Emery, state dairy and food
commissioner, announced last week
that Harry Bernstein, Milwaukee, had
been fined $50 0and costs for violating
the state trading stamp law. The Of
Tense consisted of selling contracts
together with coupons which were
used in the distribution of silk stock
ings, the scheme which was recently
forbidden under the trading stamp act
by an opinion from the attorney gen.
eral
Walter Kitowsky, Stevens Point,
was killed Tuesday in a friendly au-
tomobile race with his cousin, Joseph
KitoWski, on a country road after they
had attended the wedding of the vic
TINS brother, Nick Walter attempted
to pass his cousin on rough piece of
road and was hurled 40 feet when the
car turned over twice and crashed in
to the ditch. His skull was fractured
when he was hurled to the frozen
ground.
Charles Bates, IS, farmer living
near EdgertOn, was arraigned last
week in the Rock county municipal
court following his confession that he
was the author of two bIackmail let
tiers written to Edgerton and Evans
vile men. Bates readily confessed
when taken into custody, but stated
he had no intention of carrying out
the threats of death contained in the
letters but he admitted writing the
notes because he was hard up for
money"
While repairing a motor car in his
garage, Ed. Beier of Madison, former
ly of BoscObel, set fire to the auto and
barely escaped severe burns Beier
was under the machine making repairs
when matches in his pocket ignited
from friction and set fire to gasoline
used in cleaning the car. In an instant
the whole machine was ablaze. Some
what burned Beier managed to scram-
BILE to safety. The machine, new
Nash, was a total loss. Beier was
insured.
ing along with six feet of height, gave
the laborer part of his money back
Five men held up and robbed the
bank at Shiocton Friday, escaping
with cash and silver amounting to
$4,000 John Wagner, cashier, was
forced at the point of a gun to open
the vault and hand over the money.
The bank was thoroughly guarded
while the robbery was taking place
and people on the street were unaware
of what had happened until Wagner
set off the alarm.
A travelling man made the purchase
of a seal skin fur coat" from two
marines" at GAINESVILLE last week,
paying only $125 for a genuine seal
skin coat which ordinarily would cost
sevaral times that amount. He exhibit
ed his buy to the clerks in a store and
learned that his seal skin coat was
rabbit fur trimmed and dyed and
treated just like seal skin. He hurried
to a lawyer, got out the necessary pa
pers and found the marines" and got
his money back.
Following action of several county
boards in the northern part of the
state, the Manitowoc county board of
supervisors repealed the dance hall
ordinance by a vote of 10 to IA, and
as result dance hall proprietors
can hold at many parties as they
choose with no inspectors, and dances
may continue until any hour of the
morning. Those who favored repeal
of the law stated that it was not be-
ing respected anyway. Recently the
ordinance was repealed in Kewaunee,
Calumet, Sheboygan and Brown coun-
ties.
With his skull fractured by the blow
of a blackjack in the hands of a ne
Gro hoidup man, E. w. Riley, BelOit
auto salesman, lay for hours at the
side Of a concrete road near the city,
gagged and partially conscious. He
was picked up and taken to hospitl.
Doctors found a fractured skull and
fear pneumonia as the result OF eX-
nosure. 81 was taken from Riley by
tbe negro. Police arrested two pro-
fessionaI gamblers of the city and
Riley partially identified one of them
before he lapsed back into uncon-
seriousness.
Two iailbreakers from Ashland lie
wounded in the hospital at DEBORAH,
Ia Another, with a Ford car, is being
eouobt And John Schoedelmaier, a
+ranner from Park Falls, being held
Of the DEBORAH Jail, has told officials
of being held up, forced to drive the
+broa f,1eitiyes in his car across three
states with a gun at his back, and a
o,,n fiebt in which the two were
sra,,rded and the third escaped. Joe