Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-03-18
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

Two foreigners dropped into Evans
vile a week ago Sunday and early
Monday morning visited clothing
stores, one of them selecting small
purchases while the other lifted suits
of clothing and other wearing appar-
ell. Their game worked smoothly I'M
ill they had to purchase a suit when
a clerk became suspicious and the
marshal was on hand to prevent them
leaving on a passenger train, discov-
ering several suits in their yalises.
Within two hours the loot had been
recovered and the two were jailed to
await hearing in circuit court.
Mrs. Margaret Carey, alleged fem
mine "Fagin," was found guilty at
GAINESVILLE Friday morning on charges
of larceny and receiving stolen prop
erty Mrs Carey is said to have cOun-
seled and plotted robberies for her
son, Elger, 16, and Keith Van Pool,
Is. Young Van Pool, star witness for
the state, swore that Mrs. Carey plot
ted robberies, offering SIS to $40 for
diamond rings worth hundreds, to be
taken by smashing jewelry store win
doWs He also testified she purchased
stolen candy and helped to conceal
the property.
A stirring plea before Judge T. J.
Connor in county court at Chippewa
Falls won freedom for Elmer Nelson,
soft drink parlor proprietor charged
with the sale of illicit liquor. Nelson,
unrepresented by an attorney, told the
Judge that he had lost $4,000 in lum
Der company deal and that, unable to
obtain work, in order to support his
wife and four children he was forced
to enter the ranks of booze peddlers
Misfortune iss rapidly repeating its
visits to William Nettleton, whose
farm is a few miles from Marinette.
Two weeks ago Mrs. Nettleton died at
a local hospital and a few days ago
his house was burned to the ground
He was at home alone with two chill
dren when the fire was discovered,
but the flames had progressed so far
that he was unable to do more than
save some of the household effects.
J. w. Shiels, 72, who for 81 years
was an engineer on the G. & N. w.
railroad, but who retired two years
ago, was instantly killed late Satur-
day when he fell from the roof of his
home in Madison. Mr.. Shells had been
painting the roof of the house, and
either lost his balance or missed his
footing on the slippery shingles, and
fell to the ground. He suffered a brok-
en- neck.
Daily bus service between Chippewa
Falls End Wausau will be started this
spring as soon as highways permit.
Two new busses of the crOss-country
type, equipped with chair seats to hole
q passengers, have been purchased by
the Motor Bus Co. and will be used for
this service. A round trip will be made
daily by the busses, one operating out
of Chippewa Falls and the other from
Wausau.
Julius Sadler, So, night Waterman
at the foundry of the Lauson Manu-
featuring Co. at New Holstein, was
found drowned in the cistern at his
home Thursday by his wife, who,
alarmed at his absence, made an in
vestigation. Mr. Sadler, it is believed,
had crawled through small space
close to the wall to get into the els
tern.
A huge elm tree, a landmark in
southern Wisconsin, has been felled
on a farm near Lowell. The tree was
100 feet tall and four feet in diameter.
The rings on the stump numbered
255, indicating the tree was approx
mately that many years old. More than
six cords of wood were made from the
trunk and limbs.
After a six days hunt, farmers near
Neva killed big timber wolf which
during the last few years is estimated
to have destroyed several hundred
deer in that locality. Trained wolf
hounds were used in the hunt. At one
time six of the dogs overlook the ami
NAL but he succeeded in fighting them
Off
VIM Lochner, 80, of Marxville, was
crushed to death under the wheels of
C.'M. e st. P. train at Madison when
the gravel truck he was driving stalled
on grade crossing on the outskirts
of town.
George Murray, seriously burned
two weeks ago at the Dupont Powder
Co. plant at Barksdale in a smokeless
powder blast, died at the Washburn
hospital Friday.