Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-04-08
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

construction of new church to cost
$4,000. The building will replace
one erected SO years ago.
While assisting neighbor to cut
wood on his farm, Herman Ansorge,
Al, of Manitowoc, met death by falling
head foremost onto a circular saw.
His body was ripped into two parts.
Glenn Wheeler, 81, was instantly
killed on the Janesville-Darien road
when a touring car he was riding in
turned over Robert Untermyer, Fl,
escaped with bruises. Wheeler sus-
tanned broken neck.
A complaint charging that Oshkosh
police are attempting to collect taxes
by threat was filed with the city legal
department and may result in str1n-
gent action unless the procedure is
stopped.
John W. Courtney, window clerk at
the Fond du Lac postOffice, is under
arrest charged with thefts of stamps
tota1ing $685.. A postal inspector or
dered the arrest after investigating
numerous small thefts.
A legislative committee is investi-
eating charges made by Col. John
Hannah, secretary of the state board
of control, that food served to inmates
of the state charitable and penal in
situations, is unfit for human con-
SUMPTION
Two large barns on the dairy farm
of Arnold Zastrow, Portage, were
burned Tuesday. 20 head of horses
and cattle were rescued. The resi-
dence and other farm buildings were
saved by Portage 1remen. The loss
of $4,000, is partially insured.
A frame barn on the Alfred Nelson
farm near Oregon, was destroyed by
fire Wednesday night. The fire was
discovered eating its way through the
roof and the Oregon fire department
was called to save the home from
sparks. Is tons of hay, a cow, two
calves, straw and fodder were lost,
the loss reaching $4,000, partially in
sured.
Mrs. Charles Heyerdahl, 25, wife of
a La Crosse motor bus operator, was
found dead in a bathroom in the home
of her sister, with her face and hands
badly burned and an extinguished
match in her hand From the appear
ance of the body and room, it was evil
dent she had attempted to light the
gas heater and an explosion had fol-
lowed, with escaping gas causing her
death.
The arrest Friday of Clayton Thorn
as, Stanley youth brought the total
taken into custody as the result OF a
probe into conditions among Stanley
high school girls started by the state
board of control, up to three Thorn
as was held for trial on April 8. The
investigation so far has disclosed de-
linuuency on the part of a dozen or
more girls, and number of boy stud
ents are involved.
Tax assessors of Rock county will
be called in for conference on 1925
assessments by +. A. Taylor, super
visor of assessments for Rock county.
April TO- Under the new tax laws, a
radically different assessment roll will
be used this year. Instead of farm
lands being subject to tax as unit,
the farm is divided up under such
units as timber, marsh and pillow lands
and taxed at different rates.
Though Raymond wager, Campbells-
port youth, and two companions were
severely beaten by Joseph Mack, Lo-
mira farmer, when he discovered the
young men attempting to make an es-
sault upon the daughter, Is, of a
neighbor, the chastisement failed TO
satisfy Dodge county authorities and
warrants were issued for the culprits.
They were held under 81 900 bonds and
face long terms in the reform school
The Whitewater Ku Klux Khan held
an open meeting Wednesday with a
number of men and several women in
uniform. The meeting was held in a
vacant lot adjoining the armory. Khan
members say they rented the armory
and paid the fee When members ar
saI-
from the building, saying they had
orders to bar them from the building.
Between 800 and 400 attended the
meeting which was orderly. A cross
was burned during the ceremonies.
Members from Elkhorn, Darien, Del
avian and Sharon were present.
Loren Smith, chief operator at the
Sparta hydro plant, was knocked un-
conscious for 20 minutes and severely
shocked when his forehead accident
ally came in contact with two wires
charged with 1000 volts In raising
up from a STOPPING position, while
wiping grease from the switch board,
he touched two high tension wires on
the street lighting circuit Usually
electric current will hold a person in
tact, but the STOPPING position and the
reaction to the shock caused his body
to fall quickly to the floor, probably
saving him from death. Although I'M
conscious for 20 minutes he only re-
ceived slight burns on the forehead
and on the hand where the current
grounded through his body.
Attacking an Infatuated bull with
their automobile, as the beast was
about to gore VIM. Doell, Fl. Atkin-
son farmer, Jennings Boynton and H
HI. Curtis saved Doell from serious in
jur1es if not possible death. Doell
was leading the animal across field
when the rope broke. The bull at
tackled Doell, knocking him to the
ground and was trampling him, when
Boynton and Curtis, driving along the
road, saw the mans plight. Finding
clubs Intellectual, they drove their car
through the field and rammed it head
on against the animal. The impact
freed Doell who managed to make his
escape from the field, after which he
fell exhausted. He was badly cut
and bruised but will recover The