Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-09-30
Badger Brevities

While motoring near Park Falls,
VIM. GotZ of Springstead won a bare
handed encounter with large wolf.
| Gotz's car struck the wolf with suf-
| hc1ent force to stun it, He then
leaped from the machine and grabbed
the animal by the tail The wolf re-
covered and attempted to bite the man
on the hands and wrists. Realizing
! his predicament Gotz commanded all
MS strength in one mighty effort and
swinging the beast in an arc over his
mead, dashed it against the side of the
car. The wolf died instantly. Gotz
Iater collected a state bounty of $50.
FRANK kuntz and Lawrence Kelly
received injuries which nearly cost
the men their lives when a fywheel
broke on corn shredder in operation
VI thelr farm near Turtle Lake. KEEL
y, VINO almost bled to death, had his
ISM arm so seriously shattered by
piece Oh the flywheel that it was found
necessary TO amputate it. His chest
also was badly cut. Kuntz's left leg
was shattered and the flesh and bones
50 seriously crushed that amputation
may De necessary. The men were
'dA H7il 10 Rice Lake hospital.
william }. Sauer, Chicago confidence
lildn, was sentenced to serve 10
Ilonths at La Crosse Friday for OBJ
tanning $500 from Henry W. Olden-
weluer' GAINESVILLE, under false pre-
lenses oauer advertised for a chant
ceur 70 drlve a wealthy Wilmette. TIL
tdnllly 10 Los Angeles, and when OIL
uenweldef responded made him MT
up SoOO cash bond to assure his stav-
lis on the job all winter. Sauer then
started Tor Chicago, but was over
edhen at West Salem and put under
arrest He pleaded guilty.
When Ernest Birkell and wife of FL
raSo went to their home Monday
nlght they found Mr.. Birkell's broth.
81 TWO children huddled on the door
steP' AFRAID to go home. Mama and
papa quarreled this morning" thew
sac, we don't dare to go home. At
tne nome of his brother BirkelI found
ms Drother,s wife dead in a pool of
plood on the kitchen floor. In the
Darn the brother was hanging from q
TaIIef. Both had been dead several
hours. 1t was patent that Birkell had
sell. e illiil-
Cornelius Donohue, So, one of the
o!uest men IN Brown county. died at
us nome near Green Bay Tuesday
nloFhlng where he had lived for 70
Years. Donohue never rode in an an
toluoolle. HIS sons own several, but
! tney could not persuade him to take
rue: nave none of them things. !"
ne sdld. during his entire life it is
S"Iq lie never sat for photograph.
i'm
IlVed with her daughter, Mrs Edward
Baier at Oshkosh, committed snici rid q
FRIDAY by drowning in the waters of
Lake Lake Wlnnebago. The body was
FOUND floating in the water by George
Phillips of Appleton. The old Ia6v
was a victim of i'll health.
Five police raids at Kenosha IN die
cIuerly houses, gambling and booze
JoInts hetted the officers a bag of 40
- IooLers. inc inmates resisted in
several cases but were subdued. At
Que saioon lVe of the men arrested
Grained to be high school students.
IN an automobile accident two miles
H WeSt OF spencer Sunday night, John
MIller, 20 was killed and Ted Free
nan' ~ seriously hurt, when the lat
ter coupe crashed into another an
| occupants OF the other car
escaped injury. - o''1
FIRE OF unknown origin DESTROYED
the farm house of Theodore steven
son near Merrill. Mrs. Stevenson and
TWO children were in the burnino
building and barely ESCAPED WITH
their lives. None of the contents warn
saved. "oie
Joseph, 14-year-old son of Mrs T
Alberts of Oconto had his right arm
broken when his sleeve was caueht in
the gears of a cheese cutting machine
The knife at the same time cut off
three of the boys fingers.
A 200 ton wet zinc mill is helm
built for the Blockhouse Mining q
ABOUT three miles south of Plattevi1le
Two men and one woman from
Alaska are enrolled in the University
OF Wisconsin this year.
slipping on a rock at Hawks Bill
near Kilbourn, Otto F. Jensen, 25. of
chicago, fell into the Wisconsin river
and was drowned Friday A compan-
ION was unable to save him. The hodv
was recovered.
a fall from the roof of his residence
at Waukesha caused the death of 7 p
Judln, 50, widely known insurance
man. No one witnessed the accident
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