Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-04
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

Dale Bird of Richland Center was
arrested Friday night at the home OF
his father, Frank Bird, on receipt OF
telegraphic advices from the sheriff OF
Aberdeen, S. D., stating that Bird is
wanted there for wife desertion. The
Richland county sheriff placed Bird
under arrest and wired the western
authorities that he had the man in
custody, and that there might be
bit of trouble in getting Bird back to
Dakota without eXtradition papers.
Telegrams were received from Aber-
deem to hold the man by all means as
in addition to the charge of deSertlon
he was wanted by federal authorities
on charges of white slavery and kid
mapping. Bird is held in the R1chland
Jail awaiting arrival of the western
officers.
Ralph Kupferschmidt, 10, Kenosha,
who escaped from the Waukesha in
dustrial school Wednesday night,
week after he had been sentenced
there for theft, was captured at Deer
field late Thursday by Undersheriff +.
T. Finn, of Madison, and will be re-
turned to the institution. A series OF
burglaries of the past week were
cleared up with the boys capture. He
confessed that he broke into the N.
W. road ticket office and stole 16 tick
cts; that he boarded a train for Deer
field where he broke into the Deerfleld
Motor Sales Co. and stole a Ford coupe
and abandoned it when it ran out of
gasoline. Deputy Finn found the car
and boy in Deerfield Some of the loot
was found on his person.
Tightly locked in each others en-
brace and with lips firmly pressed to-
gether, a girl, 10, and youth, Il, at
Racine, learned what "that guiltlest
feeling means when a policeman OPP
ened the door of the automobile in
which they were spooning. I'VE
weren't doing anything" said the
youth after he had recovered from
period of speechlessness. "What% said
the copper as he pointed to powdery
substance on the shiek's coat collar.
No answer The youth was ordered to
drive to the station, where Lieut.. Geo.
Crangle told the two they had better
confine their spoonipg to more private
places, as neighbors of the girl had
complained.
With his back broken, but still liv-
ing, Thomas Link, "a, farmer, lies in
a Kenosha hospital. He was injured in
an automobile accident when he was
hurled headlong from the drivers
seat of a tractor which was being
towed behind an automobile when the
tractor, gaining momentum, crashed
into the car going down hill. Link
was found to have broken vertebrae
and internal injuries. Physicians hold
out hope for his complete recovery,
but declare it will take several
months.
Senator John G.. Schumann of Wat
ertown will call for a vote for modifi-
cation of the Volstead act in this SeS-
sion of the legislature. Legislators
will be asked to express an opinion as
to whether or not the VOlstead act
should be amended to permit the man
ufacture of light wines and beer.
Another question will be whether or
not the Volstead act should be amend
ed to permit the distribution of intox-
icating liquors through government
dispensaries.
The frozen body of Mrs. Anna Err
ickson of Beloit, patient of the
Jefferson county asylum who wan
dered away early last Monday, was
found under the steps which lead to
the main entrance of the asylum, by
Ralps Voigt, son of the superintendent,
Sunday at l D. M 1t is believed the
woman became frightened and crawled
into the small opening under the
stairs outside, was overcome by the
cold and froze to death.
Kenosha had it's first Ku Klux Khan
funeral Thursday when more than so
robed and masked klansmen from Ke-
nosha were in charge of the obsequies
at the grave of Louis Smith at Green
ridge cemetery. A khan service had
been requested by the deceased. The
body was buried in full khan regalia
Mr.. Smith, formerly a resident of Ke-
nosha, died at his home in Dayton,
O., where he had been a leader in
khan activities.
While engaged in target practice in
the basement of his home, Chas Col
we'll, q, Beloit youth, tripped and his
rife was accidentally discharged,
causing a fatal wound. The bullet en-
tered his left eye and lodged in his
brain. 1t is the third serious accident
in the family, the father having lost
leg and a brother an arm.
Chas. Meyer, a farmer near Pra. du
Chen, lost one hand and injured the
other while helping neighbor repair
a deep well pump The lowering de-
vice slipped and he instinctively
grabbed the rod which was sliding
down the we'll, and the hand was
crushed to pulp.
Gas generated by milk in a cream
separator caused an explosion which
tore the machine to bits and imperiled
the life of Mrs. Jos. Calba at Morgan
A neighbor boy. standing near by was
cut on the arm by a flying splinter.
Henry Miller, 50, Eau Claire, was
killed when attacked by an enraged
bull at his farm home in Dunn coun-
ty, last week. The force OF the ami
mails charge is believed to have
caused an internal hemorrhage.
Oscar Emerson, 81, farmer living
near Menominie, blew his head off with