Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-04-29
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

Edward j. Stormer, former emplOye
of the J. l. Case threshing machine
company of Racine, committed suicide
at his home there Monday while facing
prosecution for embezzlement of 5000
of the concerns funds.
F. d. McCabe and R. D. McCabe, Civ
ing their homes as Brumley, Mich,
were arrested by game wardens last
week for killing deer during the closed
season near Ashland. They were fined
$3.50 each after they pleaded guilty.
Mike Nakroz, At, known in Kenosha
as "Red Nike" died Monday as the
result of injuries received when he
was struck by truck. Mike got in
the path of the car and was hurled to
the pavement with broken neck.
The Midwest School Furniture Co.,
a concern making school desks, ETC.,
has entered Stoughton with factory
and will employ $50 people. The city
bought up the plant of defunct pillow
company and resold to the furniture
people.
The first annual Southwestern Wis
consin Athletic league track and field
meet will be held at Mineral Point on
May 8. Monticello, Monroe, Cuba
. City, Mt. Horeb, DOdgeville, Fenni-
more, Lancaster and Mineral Point
will be represented by strong teams
George Mcfarland, negro orchestra
player, is in a hospital at Appleton
with a crushed skull due to an acct
dent Mcfarland was riding with
other members of the orchestra when
their machine collided with another
ir
Ill.
Theodore BREEDER, Sheboygan, was
sentenced to serve Is months in state
prison upon his conviction for an as
sault upon a girl of Is. He pleaded
guilty. Frank Berganger, charged
with family abandonment, was sem
fenced to a year in Jail by the same
court
Ferdinand Haubenschild, IS, of JEFF
ferson, committed suicide Sunday by
blowing his head off with a shotgun.
He had a rope in his pocket and indi
cations are that he intended to hang
himself and changed his mind. The
aged man had been ill all winter and
it is believed was respondent.
John Saymorski, Al, Bellevue far
mer, was found dead seated in his car
in his garage with the engine running.
Saymorsk entered the garage with
the motor running, closed the garage
and re-entered the machine. The
body was found by hired man. Rel
atives scout the theory of suicide.
John Billingslea, 35, Madison negro,
was found guilty of first degree muir
der by a jury last Monday. He was
convicted of shooting to death Hattie
Davis, 35, with whom he had quarrel
ed over the possession of a mattress.
A second woman, TO- mother of the
victim, was wounded in the affray.
According to Health Officer J. N.
Cunningham of Stanley, analysis of
the city water shows it to be unsafe
for drinking purposes Wter there
will have to be boiled before being
used for cooking or drinking. The
condition is due to lack of rain to
flush the drainage channels running
through the city A test not long ago
showed the water to be safe.
Two brothers living in widely sepa-
rated cities died within a few hours of
each other Sunday morning a week
ago and were buried at the same time
although hundreds of miles apart.
The brothers to answer the summons
of the grim reaper were Joseph Laus,
president of the Laus Candy Co. of
Oshkosh, and Henry Laus, Denver,
Colo, candy man. The Wisconsin
man was 20 and his brother ga.
Harrison Blake Mccormick, a des-
cendant of John Jacob Astor, died the
past week at Waupun where he had
served five years of a life sentence for
wife poisoning. Mccormick fought his
case stubbornly and intelligently and
death came as his attorney was max
ing final plea to the Supreme court
for a new trial. Mrs. Jennie McCor-
mick, wife of the man, died at Lady
smith in 1915, after a long illness.
The husband was convicted of having
administered stychnine as poison.
The state claimed Mccormick killed
the woman to obtain possession OF her
large estate. Mccormick always de-
MED the crime. His death was due to
cancer of the liver.