Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-12-09
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Topical
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

Sake Hoverson, 81, Stoughton JUS
tlce OF the peace, leaped to his death
from hotel room Thursday night.
He was found unconscious in the
street with fractured skull, five
broken ribs, broken right wrist,
punctured lung and crushed ankles.
IL health is given as a reason for the
act. wife and six children survive.
In a special verdict a Racine iury
Wednesday awarded $4,000 to Mrs.
Constance Rusczak, executor of the
will Of her late husband, Theophi1e
Rusczak, in a suit against the North
Western road. Rusczak died of in
juries suffered on the night of March
%, 1925, when an automobile he was
riding IN was struck by a North Wes-
tern freight train at a Kenosha eros
sing.
R. A. Davis is dead and William
Bauer lies with a bullet wound in his
abdomen as the result of a SHOOTING.
ut roadhouse near Wisconsin Rapids
Friday night. The shooting was done
by two men wearing white masks.
They entered the roadhouse quietly
and without warning, started firing.
They escaped in an auto. Habitues of
the roadhouse profess entire ignorance
of the affair.
The report of Coroner Jos. Friend
submitted to the Kenosha county board
Monday, shows that the county now
has four unsolved murders. The mur-
derers of Jimmie Sears and Madalyn
Latimer, Bruno Adreoli and Lena Ri
pinski are still at large. The report
lists six suicides, nine drownings, 70
struck by trains, seven killed by au-
tomobiles and IS deaths from heart
disease during the last year.
Galesville was startled before day.
break Tuesday by a fire alarm that di-
rected attention to the $4,000 steel
and concrete bridge just completed
across Beaver creek in the heart of
town. Flames leaped across the
structure and dense smoke filled the
adjacent streets. There was no dam
age done to the bridge Automatic
heaters under the newly laid concrete
floor set fire to heavy coating of
straw covering the 150-foot span. The
straw and canvas made a brisk blaze.
Mrs Charles Hartwig, aged 70, of
Fl. Atkinson, died in a hospital follow
ing burns received in a kerosene ex-
plosion Mrs. Hartwig poured a pail
full of kerosene into a Round Oak
stove and throw a lighted match on
the liquid. An explosion was the i'm
mediate result, the woman being en-
quilted in flames. A son tried TO re-
move the burning clothes but was I'M
successful He finally threw quilt
over the body to extinguish the fire.
Soren Christopherson, 55, a farmer
living eight miles north of Portage is
dead, and his wife, aged SO, is expected
to die as a result of escaping fumes
from a gasoline farm lighting plant
Saturday after oon Christopherson' s
dead body was found lying on the
kitchen floor of MS home by a neigh
Dor who had sto ped in to pay Witt.
Mrs. Christopherson was found uncOn-
scious sprawled partly on the floor
and on q bed. Three daughters up
stairs were found unconscious but will
recover.
After two prior attempts had failed,
the Wisconsin Ku Klux Khan succeed
ed in incorporating with the filing of
new articles with the secretary of
state Friday. Previous attempts to
incorporate were turned down on the
grounds that the Badger Khan was a
subsidiary of the Georgia corporation
In the new articles the Wisconsin
Khan is described as an independent
organization. 1t will be known as the
Knights of the Ku Klux Khan of Wis
consin with headquarters at Milwau-
kee There will be no capital stock
and no dividends. The state now con-
stitutes an independent realm, the aF
ticles declare. Charles B. Lewis, Ray
G. Twining and A. L. DittmOre are t.
incorporators.
Three of the five girls who escaped
from the Wisconsin Industrial Home
near Milwaukee after eating Thanks
giving dinner, were returned to the
institution Friday, "cold and hungry
The girls are Florence Stewart, IA, of
Sparta; Florence Mielke, 16, Keno
sha; Anna Jungwist, II, Milwaukee.
Manda Weight, II, Milwaukee, and
Margaret Bollman, II, Superior, are
still at large. The girls eluded po-
lice officer, John Stinsky, after an
exciting chase through an east side
park. During the night the three
girls appeared at the home of John
Barney, told him who they were and
begged to be returned to the institu-
ton Barney called the police