Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-11-11
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Dewey Atkinson, 81, East Troy, and
Miss Hilda Knoll, 26, of East Troy,
were principals in a wreck near Elk
horn when motor car they were rid
ing in, was struck by another ma
chine. Atkinson's neck was broken
and he died in a few minutes. The
girl suffered a broken collar bone and
a punctured lung. She will recover.
1t is said that Atkinson was driving
on the left side of the road and with
out lights. His car was struck by a
machine occupied by man named
Hill and his wife and daughter. They
escaped serious injury.
An hour before Mrs. mary Wright of
River Falls, was to have been married
to B. r. Burnett, she suffered perhaps
fatal burns. Neighbors hearing loud
screams from the rear of the Burnett
residence, where the bridal party was
assembled, rushed out to see Mrs.
Wright, aged 62, rush from a small
building with her clothing in flames.
She was found to be badly burned
How the accident occurred no one
knows. The impending wedding was
known to but few in the community
Three Kenosha school boys playing
on the thin ice of park lagoon went
through and were drowned. An in
vestigation showed that the deaths of
two were due to efforts to save the
third. Leo Kaplan, IL, Leo Dorff, IL,
and Vernon Butcher, II, were the
boys drowned The pupils of the
school had been warned not to go on
the ice.
Joseph Buman of Marathon City at
tempted to be good fellow when two
men stopped his car on lonely road
and asked for ride AS Buman halt
ed the men seized him and beat him
up After taking $40 from Mr.. Buman
the strangers fled and have not been
apprehended. He is unable to give a
description of his assailants.
By wild drive over icy roads from
Clinton, Wis, to Rockford hospital,
Mr.. and Mrs. Magnus Anderson saved
the life of their 18-months-old son who
was in paroxysms of strangulation all
the way after swallowing peanut.
Surgeons removed the nut from the
baby's lungs but his life is still in SER
ious danger from pneumonia.
William Kaufman, Sc, employed on
the farm of Mic Scheuer, near Mishi-
colt, was killed by team of frighten-
ed horses when about to start plow-
ing with a tractor The tractor had
refused to start and the team was
hitched to it. Finally the tractor
started and the team ran away,
trampling the man to death.
Robert McIntie, IS, of Dumbell, Ont,
died at a Columbus hospital as re-
suit of injuries received when an au-
tomobile in which he and three other
men were riding, was struck by a Mil
waukee road freight train near Reese
vile. McIntie's back was broken. The
men had been warned not to cross the
track as train was coming.
An examination made by city
school nurse of 1893 children in the
Rhinelander schools, showed 1,184 had
goitre. The check was based on GER
tain methods recommended by the
state board of health. Ala were found
free of the disease. The board of edu-
cation has made an appropriation for
iodine treatment.
Ernest Uecker, 81, of Appleton, was
found dead in the yard of his home
with bullet through his heart. His
family asserted that the youth had
been killed by stray shot from an adj
jacent wood but after an examination
the coroner is convinced the young
man shot himself.
Albert Bean, H. Madison, had his
right leg partially shot away while he
was hiding in a clump of bushes near
Lake Monona, A DR.. Apps, not
knowing who was there, fired at
flock of ducks. Bean stood upright as
App fired, receiving the charge in his
legs.
Stuart Halberson, %, who confessed
to a score Of burglaries in the vicinity
of Madison and Middleton, was given
a penitentiary sentence by Judge Ole
Stolen at Madison. The youth was
sentenced to two terms of one to eight
years each in Waupun.
Michael Hintz, 20, son of Josephus
HintZ, Dewey farmer, was drowned
when the car he was driving struck a
plank bridge and turned somersault
into a small creek. Hintz was pinned
beneath the wreckage and persisted in
six inches of water.
Mayor A. r. Whitman of Merrill,
came off second best in a suit for dam
ages brought against him by G. E.
Garrison The mayors and Garrison's
motor cars came together in smash
up a few weeks ago. A jury gave the
plaintiff 500 award.
Injuries received Sunday, when she
was struck by an automobile, caused
the death of Mrs. Peter BREEDER, Man
itowoc The accident occurred at Mish-
icott when sh was returning home
from church.
Joseph Bennish, As, Sun Prairie
farmer, was found dead in the base
ment of his home. A twisted bed
was tied to water pipe and Bemmish
jumped from a chair He suffered
breakdown six years ago and was in
poor health.
Francis L. Lessnow, 4, of Racine,
was killed Monday when run down by
a street car The child had crawled
under a barricade and onto the track.
A small brother who performed SIM
liar stunt was unhurt
Frank Korn, %, narrowly escaped
drowning in Lake Mendoza while duck
hunting. His boat capsized and threw
him into the water. His numbed body
was taken from the lake by DR.. James
A. Jackson.
A general store and hardware es-
Enlistment at Ontario were destroyed