Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-28
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Topical
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

Louis Bethel, IOr 80 years d ISS1-
dent of Rhinelander, died in Grand
Rapids, Mich, at the result of injuries
received when kicked by horse more
than year ago.
His skull fractured when he fell
from an automobile while riding with
his son from his home in the town of
Scott to Markesan on an errand, Fred
Lambrecht, so, farmer, died at hos
pital in Fond du Lac Monday.
A posse searched the immediate vi
cinity of Baraboo Tuesday for John
Harris, go, missing from his home
since Monday morning. Harris was
last seen when he started for work
at the Island wooden mill, Monday
morning, but he did not report at his
job.
Robert Strangewey, IS, Boniface,
Mich, is at a hospital in Ashland SUI
fering from hemorrhage to the eyes.
The hemorrhage is said to be due to
attempts to scream when he was
caught between dump cart and the
ceiling of loading shed where he
was employed.
In attempting TO extract the hook
from the mouth of % pound turtle,
which he caught while fishing, Steve
Hasche of New Lisbon, was severely
bitten on the hand. 1t took Hasche
who was alone at the time, half
hour to release his hand from the
turtles grasp.
The mystery of frequent robberies
in the Logan Junior high school, ex-
tending over a period of six months,
was solved when the police appre-
hended three boys, sons of prominent
residents of North La Crosse. In the
last raid on the school the youths took
a kodak worth $40.
Judgment of $1,750 was awarded
Dominik Botkus, Medford, in his suit
for $3,305, which he claimed was due
him for work on his wife's farm.
While Botkus was rebuilding barn
on the farm which had burned down
the two were married, but lived to-
gether only a short time.
Robert Bricknell, former restaurant
cook in Madison, who was brought
back from Pittsburgh last week in
company with a 16-year-old Madison
girl, was sentenced to serve from one
to three years in the reformatory at
Green Bay. The pair, police said,
passed about $1,000 in worthless
Discovery in the northern part of
Wood county of large deposits of
soapstone and mica, said to be of I'M
usually good quality, has brought I'M
precedented activity to the little viii
lage of Milladore near Wisconsin Rap
ids. Land values in the vicinity of the
deposits have taken sudden jump,
and new Quarries are to be started in
the near future.
Tom Jones, boy from the village
of Cornucopia, was brought to the
Washburn hospital Tuesday with a
gunshot wound through the body
which he received when he got in the
path of a bullet fired by companion
who was shooting at target. The
bullet passed through the boys body
just below the lungs. 1t is believed
the boy will recover.
Paul Steiner, %, married and the
father of two children, died Tuesday
from injuries received Monday when
his car crashed into a freight train
near Medina. Fred Browne, Ashtabu-
la, Ohio, was killed in the accident,
and Miss Theresa Treble, Stevens
Point, the third occupant of the car,
is lying at the point of death in an
Appleton hospital.
Bodies of Carl and Bernard Hessen,
brothers 10 and 81 years of age re-
spectively, who were drowned in Dix
on lake, near Boulder, have been re-
covered by searchers. The brothers
had been at the lake on a hunting
trip. A chum went to their camp Sun
day afternoon and saw their canoe ov-
erturned with Carl still clinging to
it, his hands frozen to the keel of the
craft. Search revealed the other body
late Sunday.
Jail apparently holds no terrors for
James Parker, Bayfield, county resi-
dent. Parker is serving a 30-day SEN
tence in the county Jail at Ashland
for driving while drunk, but he is
content. 'I want 80 days in JAIL" he
declared as he appeared before Mu-
nicipal Judge McCloud. The judge
speedily granted his request. "I've
been drinking for several weeks and
/ know I can go straight if I can get
away from the stuff for a while"
Parker explained.
With five arrests made and addi-
tional loot recovered, authorities at
Stevens Point are probing further in
to many recent burglaries. Frank
Stanczyk and his wife are charged
Will ISCSlFlnS anu COuCSdlIuS pTOp-
erty stolen by their minor sons from
more than half dozen local stores
Three sons of the couple are being
detained at the county Jail and ac-
cording to the sheriff he has obtained
confessions of burglaries from them.
Victor H. Baker, Berlin chiroprac-
tor, took the stand in his own defense
at his trial at Oshkosh for the muir
der of his wife year ago.
Mrs, Caroline Ebersold of Wausau,
has instituted suit in circuit court of
Marathon county against Otto Wen
dorf, asking $4,000 as damages grow
ms out of the death of her son, Phil
lip, which occurred following an au-
tomobile wreck on June 16. The COM
plant alleges that Wendorf was in
toxicated at the time of the accident
Raymond Rasmussen, Mineral Point
who was injured Sunday when the
automobile in which he was riding
with Herman Trebalce, Racine, and
Raymond Blocher, Beloit, died at
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