Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-12-02
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Topical
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

William Brandt, aIleS OpdZ, Con-
fessed murderer of the Arthur BUD
dy'' Schumacher, 8, of WauWatosa' IS
serving a life sentence IN the Mlnhe-
sofa state prison for the murder OF
an 11-year-old st. Paul boy. Brandt
confessed the murder OF the Schumd-'
cher boy to the warden OF the Mime
sofa prison. He was ION the pun
and going through WauWatosa Wneh
he met and conyersed the Schumacher
lad He attacked the child and after
nerpetrating depraved purpose,
killed him and hid the body. The de-
caved remains were found weeks later.
Brandt is a typical moron OF murder
ous impulses, penologists claim.
Five quarts of alleged Illicit liquor
were seized by Sheriff A A. Briggs
mad deputies at the home OF John
Struzak, north Fond du Lac, in raid
on a search warrant issued after sam
Max. village laborer, had been Sc
verely beaten, it is alleged, by Mrs.
Struzak. Max was taken to the county
iail for treatment. The attack is said
to have been caused by the belief OF
the woman that Max had Informed
authorities of the presence of a still
seized by officers in a previous raid
at the Struzak home.
Police over the state have been re-
duested to be on the watch for Mrs.
Kate Armbruster, 68, who disappeared
in Milwaukee while on visit with
relatives. The aged woman lives at
ShebOygan She carried a consider
able sum of money at the time of her
disappearance. She is feet, inches
tall, gray haired, wearing black and
white clothes and wearing glasses
She is hard of hearing and carries an
ear trumpet. 1t should not be hard to
locate her if she is alive.
Roy dresser, Melrose, Mimi, Albert
Vonsefeld, So. Milwaukee, and Dale
Card, Superior, lost their lives when
an automobile in which they were
riding was struck by Northwestern
train and tossed in front of another
train near Milwaukee Tuesday night.
dresser and Card died almost in
stantly their bodies being mangled.
The other man died after being taken
to a hospital.
The famous John Dietz farm near
Winter, Wis, will be logged off this
winter, an agreement having been had
between the Dietz heirs and lumber
ing interests. 1t was through an ar
gument over driving logs through the
Dietz land along Thornapple river
that bailiff was killed and John
Dietz served 20 years in Waupun. He
is dead now. Buried at Rice Lake.
H. B. Burns, So, Wednesday in
stalled a new flag cable on the Fond
du Lac post office. He is Fond du Laos
pioneer steeplejack and one of the old
est active steeplejacks in the United
States Burns performed the task with
little difficulty, despite hiss years. He
has been a steeplejack for 40 years
and has never had a serious accident.
Confined in the Eagle River jail
awaiting commitment to the Winnie
bago asylum, Frank Sallmen, a husky
woodsman, attempted to wreck the
building. Sallmen had succeeded in
demolishing all the windows within
reach and was tearing out the plumb-
ing when the officials subdued him.
A Superior coroner's jury after ten
minutes debate Tuesday returned a
verdict stating that mystery car
which on Saturday morning ran down
and killed two men in the business
part of the city, was one driven by
Jack Levinsky, cafe owner. Levinsky
will stand trial for manslaughter.
Walter Isabel, %, Rhinelander
pleaded guilty to shooting and SER
iously wounding Grace Christian, %
maid at a hotel. He was sentenced to
serve one to three years in Green
Bay. AS the result of the shooting
physicians found it necessary to am
putate Miss Christians foot.
An increasing demand for woodsmen
is registered by the numbering COM
panies who are preparing for the
annual cut in the northern counties
Employment bureaus in the Ashland
district report about 400 jobs open in
the camps of that vicinity.
Three firemen were injured, one per-
haps fatally, when a big truck of the
La Crosse fire department overturned
while rounding corner on the way to
a fire Wednesday. Romano Kruger,
driver, was buried under the truck and
suffered a fractured skull.
Gust Johnson, So, resident of Polk
county for 81 years, was sentenced to
from one to ten years in Waupun for
embezzlement of 5000 while secretary
of the Apple River Mutual Insurance
Co. He pleaded guilty
Ralph Phillip, 10, Milwaukee, was
killed when he fell fro ma truck on
which he was riding. One of the rear
wheels of the machine passed over
his body, causing instant death