Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-06-10
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to change his wet clothing and then
returned to duty.
The state prohibition department
has issued 1884 permits since Jan. l.,
and collected $28,530 from the afore-
said liquor permits. Delinquents will
be severely dealt with.
Tosten Thompson, so, county clerk
of Waushara county, died at his home
Tuesday after a three-day illness
with brain fever complicated with flu
Fred Strupert, Sheboygan, who en-
tered plea of guilty to charge of
driving a car while drunk, was given
90 days in the workhouse and fined
SIS. Fred began serving his time at
once
Robert, 8-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Richard Mum, Haydn, died last
Monday from effects of fractures and
burns suffered in a gasoline tank eX-
plosion The child dropped a lighted
match into the tank.
Edmund Fleming, 25, electrician for
the Wis Public Service Co. at Green
Bay, died at a hospital from burns
received when he came into contact
with a high tension line. He never
rallied from the shock.
George Johnson of Clay Banks, for
mer town chairman, was instantly
killed Wednesday when he was run
down and dragged so feet by truck
he was cranking His body was dis
covered by a son, James Johnson.
Ronald Conner, manager of a Mel
len pool hall, was killed last Monday
night when struck by bolt of light
ming while fishing. The bolt hit in a
boat occupied by Conner and two other
men who were knocked unconscious.
Carl Kastbaum, 70, of Manitowoc,
fell over a five-foot embankment on
the river front and landed in deep
mud. The aged man was unable to
extricate himself and smothered. He
was a native of Germany and is sur
vived by five daughters.
Failing to recover from the shock
received when two masked burglars
entered his room at Chicago a month
ago, DR.. w. F. H. Smith, former Fond
du Lac city official, died in a Chicago
hospital. DR.. Smith suffered heart
attac kand steadily grew worse.
Poor Commissioner Louis M. Jacobs
of Baraboo has instructed that the
body of the little boy left by tourists
be placed in the vault of Walnut Hill
y
Ringing hospital by it's supposed par
ents. 1t died of pneumonia two days
later. The age of the child is put at
two or three months.
Judge Kirwan of Sheboygan handed
down a verdict upholding a jury de-
cision awarding $4,000 heart balm to
Miss Edith Ableman of Elgin, ILL.,,
who sued one Gust Holman, Sheboy-
gan junk dealer, for breach of prom
Use, and Mrs. Marie Kalk for conspir-
acy. Holman has been making every
effort to have the damages reduced.
There are 1927 convicts in confne-
ment at Waupun, 1T more than the
prison has room for. Many of the
corridors are provided with cots to
take care of the overflow A number
of paroles soon to be granted is ex-
pected to relieve the congestion I'M
less the modern crime wave pours an
other flood of prisoners into the peni-
Tertiary.
Mrs Charles Swartzlow, 48, of Mon
roe, died Wednesday following high
way accident. A wagon on which she
was riding with her son-in-law, Will
liam Schmerse, was caught and over
turned by passing truck. She was
pinned beneath the wagon box. Mr..
Schmerse, and the driver of the ma
chine, Paul Nath, escaped unhurt.
Walter Benish, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
James Benesh of West Point, was SER
iously injured while helping dynamite
a stump at home of neighbor, Edw
Trinen. His legs were badly torn and
one hand mangled. The child was
standing by the stump which he did
not know had been loaded when the
accident happened. He was taken to
a Madison hospital.
Workers eXcavating at Port Wash
ington narrowly escaped being en-
tombed in the wreckage of st. Johns
the east wall and roof of the edifice
crashed to earth. The church was
being excavated for basement when
the accident happened. One of the
men heard a cracking noise and saw
the wall giving. He summoned his
companion and the two ran for their
lives. The entire building will now
be RACED.
Charged with larceny and carrying
dangerous weapons. two youths who
robbed the ]. G. Funhess grocery at
Baraboo were sentenced to five years
each at the state reformatory at
Green Bay. The pair gave their
names as Charles Olcott of Fenville,
Mich, and Fred Mackenzie of Doug
las. Mich. They claimed to be trav-
cling north from New Orleans to sum-
mer resorts in northern Wisconsin.
]. D. Martin, Chicago driver of
car which crashed into the sedan of
Leo Westby. Stoughton, injuring three
people Sunday, was sentenced to one
year in the Milwaukee House of Cor
rection by Judge Maxfield at James,
vile Tuesday. Martin pleaded guilty
to driving while intoxicated, reckless
driving and transportation of liquor.
Dorothy Anderson, sunshine girl
was given a parole by the state boardr
of control Tuesday at the State In
dustrial Home for Women at Tay-
cheedah, where Miss Anderson has
been confined for her participation in
the death hoax" perpetrated by Ed
ward ]. Sailstad, Eau Claire manu-
facturer Miss Anderson's once vivid
beauty is now pallid and wan. She
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