Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-05-06
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
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and Telegraph.

LlSnLnlnS, carried over Wires I1LO
the farm home and barns of VIM.
Garske, Wausau farmer, started fires
which caused property loss of about
$25,001
Frank Rueping, 5, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. F. w. Rueping, Fond du Lac, died
at hospital Friday as a result of in
juries received Thursday when he was
hit by motorcycle.
Damage estimated at approximately
100000 resulted from fire in the
carriage room of Edwards Hines
Hardwood and Hemlock Co. plant at
Park Falls Thursday. The origin of
the fire is unknown.
The honeymoon of Max Sell and
his bride, living near Mayville, was in
terrupted by the arrest of the couple
on a warrant charging that they con-
tracted marriage within one year
after the divorce of Sell from his for
mer wife.
Manley Fosse and Oscar Setter, Me-
nominie linemen, were burned severe
ly when they came in contact with a
wire carrying $500 volts of electrici-
ty while repairing transmission line.
Attending physicians believe they will
recover.
A Richland Center mass meeting
adopted resolutions calling for the
resignation of Sen. George Stauden-
mayer of the 9th district. Senator
Staudenmayer stood by the Blaine tax
program, arousing the ire of Richland
county voters.
The death of Albert J. Gilbertson,
so, Walworth county deputy, whose
body was found on the sidewalk in
front of the Methodist church at
Whitewater Wednesday, was due to
natural causes, it was decided by
physicians at an autopsy.
Joseph Drucks, farmer living near
Hartford, suffered a fracture reaching
from the rear of the skull through
the forehead Thursday while working
at a rip saw sharpening posts. He
was taken to the hospital where it is
said he has slight chances of recov-
cry.
Returning to her home to learn why
her husband had not appeared at
neighbor's house where they had been
invited to dinner, Mrs. Abner Ecklor,
of Ella, discovered the body of the
man hanging in the garage. Members
of the family said Ecklor had been
acting queerly for several days.
Following an alteration over
woman, Tim Robinson, negro of South
Beloit, is dead and police are search
ing for William Brown, also negro.
Robinson, police charge, was shot by
Brown during a quarrel Thursday
night. The negro was taken to hos
pital where he died Friday morning.
While his wife was waiting for him
at the gate of his home only a few
rods away, William F'rasier, 80, was
killed by a north-bound passenger
train at a crossing near Winnebago
Thursday evening. FraSier, a stone
mason, was returning home in his au-
tomobile from Neenah, where he had
been working and it is believed the
man killed the engine of his car just
as he got to the tracks.
Nathan Fisher, president of the Fish
er Fish Co. at Green Bay, pleaded
not guilty in municipal court to five
counts charging violation of the state
fish law. The complaint charges that
over 10000 pounds of pike were about
to be illegally transported to firms in
New York The fish were seized on
April by a game warden who found
them underneath a layer of carp, in
four boxes of fish billed as carp.
Tests were made last week of Mad
ison's water supply in an effort to
trace the cause of several eases of in
f1uenza which are now under super
vision of the city board of health. Sew
eral persons have been seriously i'll
with influenza during the last two or
three weeks. Gov. and Mrs. Blaine
were confined to their home several
day. One death, that of Mrs. Minerva
Chase. wife of DR.. S. H. Chase, oc-
Cured Thursday.
New record prices for" grade dairy
cattle in Wisconsin were established
in the sale of a number of Guernseys
from Fond du Lac county herds to
Stewart Bros, Richland Center. Sell
ling at an average of S142.50 a head,
Y COWS brought a total of $1,710 for
their owners. The price paid by Ste
wart Bros. has not been equaled in
many years. according to leading
dairymen of the county The average
is as high as prices often paid for
purebreds of several breeds.
Mrs Charles Schisel, %, was ar
raigned at Amigo Friday on charge
of numbering her husband and prellm-
mary hearing set for next week. Schis-
ell died from wounds on his throat,
winch MIS-. SCUlSel CldlIlS were III
f1icted in a suicide attempt Schisel,
before he died, said his wife attacked
him as he slept. Mrs. Schisel declared
that her husband awoke her early on
the morning of April 10 and told her
to investigate some noises he heard
in the yard When she returned. she
said, she found he had slashed his
throat with butcher knife.
Three acres of light, sandy soil on
the Charles Guse farm near Augusta
will be planted with jack pines next
Thursday. as the first attempt at re-
forestation in Eau Claire county. The
move is the beginning of we'll or
ganized plan to reforest central Wis
consin with pine timber The jack
pine seedlings, supplied by the state
conservation commission, will be
planted six feet apart and permitted
to grow for Is or 20 years, when they
will be thinned In 40 years, the re-
naming trees will be full grown and
ready to be cut. Plans call for the
planting of small sections each year
for 40 years to provide a regular har-
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