Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-01-07
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found frozen to death. His death was
prabably due 10 moonshine, officials
said.
William Clark, Hudson, who killed
his wife Dec. 81, with hammer dur
ing a fight, died from wounds which
were inflicted by MS wife during the
fight.
Frank Washer, 80, Sturgeon Bay,
was found frozen to death few feet
from his home Friday morning. Rel
atives say the old gentleman left the
house during the night.
Mrs Annie Pechacek, Sc, widow
who resided alone on farm near
River Falls, was found dead by the
rural mail carrier on his round Sat
urday. The body was seated in
chair by the stove.
Gilbert Lien, IN unmarried nan OF
so, in fit of depression afte"
Christmas spree, cut his throat at
Spring Valley Saturday and died i'm
mediately. He left note blaming peO-
pie for commenting on his habits.
Prison doors closed Monday on
Charles Hansen, Kenosha man of
three wives, who was taken to state
prison to start serving his sentence
of two years on charges of abanGon-
ment and desertion brought by Mar
tina Bloom Hansen, his first and legal
wife
William Clark, 60, held in the Hud-
son jail on charge of wife murder,
declares that he struck his wife with
a hammer in self defense Clark is
in critical condition from knife
wounds. Neignbors say Clark and
wife were both slightly demented
and quarreled frequently.
Mrs Henry Larson, so, matron at
the Trempealeau county asylum at
Whitehall, was instantly killed Sun
day when the automobile in which
she was riding skidded on the icy
road and overturned. Supt Ofsdahl OF
the asylum, driving the car, and two
other occupants of the machine, were
unhurt.
A cache of 1882 gallons of moon
shine is alleged to have been found in
the home of Stanley LikwrZ, at Wau-
sau, as the result of Investigations
conducted by the federal prohibition
department during the past week
which eliminated in the arrest of
Stanley and Andrew Likwrz, Walter
Rose and Teofil Pudelco, by VIM. R.
Chellis, U. S. Marshal, of Madison.
A 19-year-old lad, John Liska of
Wisconsin Rapids, has been awarded
a $4,000 scholarship at the university
for submitting the best essay on good
roads. The contest is conducted each
year under the auspices of the Nation
al Highway Educational Board of
which J. J. Tigert of Washington is
honorary chairman, and Henry Fire
stone, awarder of scholarship. Near
ly every state in the union was rep
resented in the contest
Crying for aid, his hands and feet
frozen, Bernard Ulik, 10, an inmate of
the Manitowoc county insane asylum,
was found miles south of ManitOwoc
Wednesday, after having escaped from
the institution three hours earlier. He
was clad only in his underwear. The
thermometer registered below zero.
He was found by farmer who called
a physician, and the latter packed the
boy in snow. He was returned to the
city by the sheriff. His condition is
serious.
Just at the close of the Sunday
school Christmas program at the
Stanley Presbyterian church, group
of robed and hooded klansmen in
vaded the building. They presented
the pastor, Rev. Griffith Davis, with
five SIS gold pieces. This is the third
visit of klansmen to Stanley churches
they having previously called on the
Methodist and United Brethren con-
gregations, leaving gifts of money in
each case. The visits were heralded
by the burning of crosses.
Poison moonshine, supposedly part
of the deadly supply prepared for the
s'holiday" trade, claimed life in Be
lott Wednesday night. Chas. Wilson, a
negro, aged 80, died at $50 Friday at
his home. He bad been in apparently
perfect health at six o'clock, but after
drinking a quantity OF moonshine,. had
lain down in his room to sleep. Short
ly after o'clock his wife heard his
sterterous breathing. and, failing to
arouse him from sleep, summoned a
physician. The man was dead when
the doctor arrived a few minutes af-
terward. Both the physician and the
dead mans brother, Robert Wilson,
declare that it was the moonshine
that caused his death. Every effort
will be made to learn the source of
the booze and who sold or gave it to
Wilson.
Mrs Julia Roth. viroqua, has seen
more than 20 Christmases, but this
one was the first to bring her the gem
uine spirit Of the season because she
spent it with her daughter from whom
she has ben separated during the %
wars che has SOauf at thn a0IIvfv D00r
farm. When Mrs. Roth was Al years
old, her second husband died, and, be-
ing ILL., she was unable to care for
the little girl, then s. Circumstances
forced her to go to the county institu-
ton while her daughter was placed in
the care of a family in Monroe coun-
ty. Although mother and daughter
corresponded throughout the years,
the occasions of their meeting were
too few. and when the daughter. now
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