Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-05-20
Badger Brevities


Ace, who worked with Pra. du Chen
last season, is coach of the baseball
team in Waupun, where he is guard
in the state prison.
A 5-foot timber wolf, weighing AZ
pounds, was shot by Milton men near
otter Creek last week The wolf had
been killing chickens, pigs and wild
geese until farmers became aroused.
John Leonard, 10, is dead and his
brother, Donald, 6, is in serious con-
dition at hospital in Madison. The
two bows, sons of John Leonard, Dane
county farmer, were hit by an auto di-
rectly in front of their home.
Herbert Jay, 81, and Virgil Arnes,
20, of Minneapolis, were sentenced to
three years each in Green Bay by
Judge Wickham in circuit court at Eau
Claire. They had pleaded guilty to the
theft of an automobile from school
teacher.
A home run swing that failed to con-
meet with the ball cost c. M. Mcintosh,
Alma Center druggist, a fractured
skull and the possible loss of his
right eye in a ball game. The bat
slipped from the batters hands and
struck the druggist in the right eye.
He was rushed to a hospital at Eau
Claire.
John Shorty Stone, 46, GAINESVILLE,
said to be an expert and dangerous
criminal with a record of half dozen
prison terms, was convicted Friday OF
breaking into a freight car at Milton
Jet, and stealing &c pairs of overalls,
valued at $71. Stone implicated
man named Chambers, who, he says,
tipped the railroad detectives off.
After he had told fishing companions
he would cast his net once more and
then go home, Chas. Strang, Two Riv-
ers, fell from bridge and drowned
in Is feet of water. From the small
amount of water found in his lungs,
physicians concluded he may have
been stricken with apoplexy. Strang
leaves two little children. Coast
guards recovered the body.
Heroic efforts by employees prevented
a disastrous fire in the Chevrolet Mo-
tors Co. plant at GAINESVILLE Tuesday
when they went into the terrific heat
and smoke of a burning enamel oven
to turn on the automatic valves, flood
ing the compartments of the finishing
rooms. 1t was declared that an ex-
plosion would have resulted had the
flames reached the highly inf1ammable
vapor The loss is figured at $4,000.
Herman Woodstock, residing three
miles north of Evansville, found on
his farm a solid piece of copper ore
weighing SO pounds. 1t is 16 inches
long, 81 inches wide, and 4 inches
thick, and is said to be the finest
specimen of copper ore ever found IN
southern Wisconsin. 1t was picked up
1N1r
for the last 40 years. 1t is supposed
to have been brought to the surface
by the frost.
Police are attempting to learn the
cause behind the death of Miss Tillie
Grant, who died in hospital in Mil
waukee Monday night after swallow
ing poison. A note, addressed to Miss
Ruth" with Racine telephone num-
Der, read: "Your poor friend. l am
leaving you now and hope that you
will be happy in life. You killed me
for good" Bits of torn letters were
found in the girls room. Most of them
had been received from Racine.
The body of Mrs. Leota Bissett was
found hanging from the rafter in the
barn of her farm home late Wednes-
day, by her husband, Whitewater
farmer. Mrs. Bissett had been in i'll
health for months. Life was not ex-
tinct when the husband found the
body but the wife died before medical
aid arrived. Mrs. Bissett was II
years old. Her father met death some
years ago in a canning factory acct
dent.
Setting fire to his barn, chicken
house and residence six miles north of
Sun Prairie, Frank May, so, barricaded
himself and his wife in the burning
home and slashed his own throat. The
man, crazed to the point where 1t
took three men to control him, was
taken to the Dane county Jail and
will be held pending an investiga-
ton of his sanity. His wife, it is re-
ported, was partially overcome by
smoke but is not in a serious cOndi-
ton.
Although reputed to be quite kid
der himself, John Tiegs, Sc, of Oconto,
shot and killed himself because he
could not stand being kidded. He had
been in a melancholy mood for several
days and Monday afternoon laid off
from work and came home, where he
told his aged mother he would not re-
turn to work Tiegs was a bachelor
and, it is said, was kidded about
girl continually. He bought revol-
yer and early Tuesday fired shot in
his right temple.
Harry MINER of Friendship, near
Fond du Lac, has found a new method
of exterminating skunks. But the
means is rather expensive. MINER
was told that carbon monoXide would
kill rodents He filled the holes under
one of the small buildings on his farm,
backed up his car to the structure,
connected a hose from the exhaust
and allowed the engine to run for
half an hour. Being satisfied that
there was enough gas to kill the
skunks he turned the engine off. 1t
backired, spark ignited the accum-
ulated gas under the building and a
tersif1c explosion occurres. Two dead
skunks were found in the wreckage.
Alvin NJ. Anderson, land agent of
Eau Claire, holds some real estate
which has probably jumped in value
to the amount of $4,000 despite the