Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-14

suit or slipping IN some loose gravel
while attempting to get out of the
way when high-powered automobile
forced him off the highway where he
was walking.
Mark Bells jr., Wausau, was fatal
ly hurt Saturday when motor car
he was driving overturned north of
Merrill. Bells suffered a crushed
chest. Ralph Weinkauf, companion,
was but slightly hurt.
Appointment of Andrew J. Volstead,
father of the prohibition law, as legal
adviser to Adjt. Gen. w. F. Rhinow,
new chief Of the northwest dry en-
forcement district, which includes the
western part of Wisconsin, was for
mally announced last week.
Stanley Duba, Gust Mackstrom, Jan
Lipkoski and Emil Bergeson, a quar-
tet of Polish and Swedish soft drink
sellers at Kenosha, were held by the
police after evidence was secured
showing that the men had liquor for
sale in their places. All pleaded not
guilty.
Chester Swenson, 20, one-handed
forger, swindled New Richmond mer-
chants out of $40 on bad checks and
landed four stores for $1,000 each at
River Falls. He was caught and SEN
fenced to from one to five years in
Waupun.
Two persons committed suicide at
Madison Thursday. Alva Crandall, As,
Edgerton, patient at the Madison Gen
eral hospital, siashed his throat with
a razor. Mrs. Edwards Richards, So,
was found dead in gas-filled kitchen
by her 7-year-old son. Both persons
were victims ON melancholia.
Carl Eichman, Madison fireman,
was overcome by gas when the in
tense heat of a fire at the home of
Max Bornstern melted a gas pipe.
The gas filled the cellar and ignited
just after Eichman was dragged from
the building. The house was destroy
ed. The gas was shut off at an out
side main.
While attempting to start fire in
a range with gasoline poured from a
can, Mary Harris was severely burned
at Wabeno. An explosion resulted.
The girl had the presence of mind to
eXtinguish flames on her clothing by
rolling in water and slush left by re-
cent rains Neighbors put out the
fire to the house.
Pleading guilty to beating his aged
grandmother, Mrs. Mary Dorr, rs, to
death, Elmer Dorr, Is, was sentenced
by Judge Risjord at Waupaca, to from
IA to 25 years in state prison. The
boy attacked the old woman when she
refused him entrance into the house
after quarrel.
AS a result of a change of vote of
Robert F. Conway, president of the
council, the ordinance to reduce the
salary Of GAINESVILLE City Manager
Henry TraXler, from 81 500 to $4,000
was lost When the ordinance was
given preliminary readings, Conway
voted for the reduction.
A feed mill operated at Elk Mound
by the Wisconsin Milling Co. of Me-
was damaged by fire with
loss of $4,000 For time the blaze
the town and steps We're
being taken to send to Eau Claire and
Menominee for help when the tIremen
put the blaze under control.
Bernard Bogart, one of two men
who escaped from Mellen officers in
July last, was surrounded Tuesday
night in an abandoned farmhouse near
Fifeld and captured by a posse of
Price county officers. Bogart is held
for passing bad checks. Fifteen guns,
all loaded, were found on the prem
Uses.
Moonshine whiskey is blamed for
the death of Edward Iittlejohn, 10,
Tomah Indian, who was killed in a
motor car accident near Wisconsin
Rapids. Littlejohn's three redskin
left him lying in the
wreckage and were found asleep at a
nearby farmhouse. The body was
found by passing motOrist.
State prohibition agents have made
1 200 arrests this year, Commissioner
Herman w Sachtjen announced last
week Jail sentences imposed aggre-
gate 40 months and fines collected
total S61 ,175. SO cases are pending
The report indicates widespread law
breaking, expensive enforcement and
an increased number in the liquor
traffic.
Travis Boggs, a stunt aviator on his
way to the Columbia county fair at
Portage, was near death Monday of
last week when his plane crashed to
earth at Madison. The gasoline sup
ply ran low, forcing the plane down.
The machine was wrecked but Boggs
escaped with broken nose. He was
flying from Valentine, Ill, to Portage
when the accident happened.
Miss Marie Bresnahan, 25, Kilbourn,
was unconscious for several days fol-
lowing an unexplained accident. She
was found unconscious at the side of
? road two blocks from her home,
shortly after she left her employment
in an oil station. She had been hit
on the side of the head and the pre-
sumption is that she was struck by a
motor car which did not stop.
Cases of infantile paralysis which
has been prevalent in parts of wes-
tern Wisconsin, have been discovered
in Barron county. An 8-year-old son
of S. l.. Larson of Cumberland, died
after short illness with the disease.
Two other cases exist in the county
and one has been located in Rice Lake.
Tnfantile paralysis has been reported
in Polk county, eastern Sawyer coun-
ty and in Buffalo and Trempeleau
counties.
Emmett Jones, II, was killed and
Harold Strobush, IS. injured, while
Emil Tank, Al. was badly hurt due to
a collision between a motorcycle and
a buggy on S. t. l.. 81 near Waupun.
Tank driving the rig was run into by
the two young men riding a motor
cycle 1t is claimed that Tank had no
light on his rig. Both young men
were thrown from their machine and
Jones suffered a fractured skull. He
died Immediately.
Heroic action by his wife saved the
life of J. A. Patchin, Chetek farmer,