Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-01-28


rallied two of the freight cars.
Sentence of 10 years was passed on
Warren Boucher, Summit lake resort
proprietor, who was convicted by
jury on statutory charges preferred by
Marjorie Skeel, 16, domestic, who
has since become mother. Boucher
was found guilty on five counts.
Fire of unknown. origin Sunday de-
stroyed the sauerkraut and pickle fac
tory of George Raemisch, two miles
north of Madison, causing a loss of
$50 900, About 5000 barrels of kraut
were stored in the building, together
with two carloads of new barrels that
had just been unloaded.
Louis Schier, 38, was killed near
Wauwatosa when his auto was stalled
on a Milwaukee road crossing, and
was struck by passenger train en-
route to Milwaukee. The auto was
completely wrecked an dthe debris
strewn 100 feet along the track. Mr..
Schier was tossed onto the track, the
train passing over him.
While cutting logs near the edge OF
a ravine, Henry Pitkin, Tomah, suf-
fered fatal injuries when failing
tree rebounded and struck him, throw
ing him to the rocks some 20 feet be-
low, where he landed on his head. Pit
kin was taken to the Sparta hospital,
where he died shortly after. He is
survived by a wife and family.
Ill health is believed to have
prompted John Schiller, retired far
mer, who has lived in Monticello for
IL years, to kill himself by shooting.
He was found dead upstairs by his
WIFE He had suffered for two years
with heart trouble. Schiller was about
SO years old and had been resident
of that vicinity all his life. Surviving
are his wife and two sons.
Approximately 80 hogs were burned
to death, and damage estimated at
$4,000, was caused by a fire which
started from torch at the Planking-
ton packing plant at Milwaukee last
week. The flames spread rapidly thru
the grease-soaked hog department.
where $500 animals were penned for
Strengthening. With the exception of
about 800 animals, all were saved, the
workmen risking their lives in the
smoke-filled building to drive the hogs
to safety.
when she saw a switch engine in the
Northern Pacific yards at Superior
bear down upon her, Mrs. Carl G. Nor
deem, 20, was struck and instantly
killed by the locomotive Thursday af-
ternoon. The woman, her arms filled
with groceries, was on her way home
to prepare the evening meal for her
aged, husband when the tragedy oc-
Cured. She was horribly mangled. Be
sides her husband one married daugh-
ter survives.
George Mann and Tony Christ are
being held in the Walworth county
Jail at Elkhorn charged with passing
a counterfeit $40 bill. Officials indi-
Gated that they do not believe that the
men are guilty of manufacturing the
money, a poor imitation of 1914 fed
eral bank note printed on an inferior
grade of paper, but that they hope
that questioning will bring out some
clew to the ring that has been pas
sing a large amount of spurious paper
money in the vicinity.
A summons and complaint were
served on the Capital Times Co, Mad
ison, in behalf of Fred j. Rist, the in
vestigator who recently conducted
the raids in which a number of ar
rests weer made in the Sicilian quar-
ter. Mr.. Rist asks $4,000 in damages
from the Capital Times Co. Mr.. Rist,
through his attorney, G.. H. Juergens,
of Milwaukee, asserts that he has been
damaged by articles which have ap-
peared in the Capital Times regarding
the recent raids in the Sicilian sec
ton
Prosecution of 81 cases under the
prohibition law in 1924, 80 convictions,
$3,250 in fines collected and jail SEN
fences of 121 months pronounced, are
reported by the Rock county municipal
court, GAINESVILLE, in special bulletin
prepared for the state board of con-
troll last week. The board was partlc-
ularly anxious to obtain statistics on
the enforcement of the prohibition
law Criminal cases prosecuted during
the year averaged better than one a
day, there being 1876 felony cases and
179 misdemeanor cases, total of 374.
Crossword puzzles will not be used
in the freshman English examinations
at the University of Wisconsin unless
they change in nature from the var1-
ETY. in use today, according to Prof
Taylor, department of English. 'fThe
puzzles are ingenious to certain ex
tent" Prof. Taylor said, "but, good
heavens-we have enough here to
keep the freshmen busy. We are con-
cerned with so many things of proved
value that we would be loath to con-
Germ ourselves with anything the aca-
demic value of which it still uncer
tain"
Another effort to bring brides-to-be
within the scope of the Wisconsin eu-
genics law will be made by one of
the states three women legislators.
Miss Mildred Barber will introduce
bill to amend the present law so that
women as well as men will be re-
quired to undergo medical examina-
ton before they are married. Her IA
Their, Senator ]. L. Barber, offered a
similar amendment in the 1923 legis-
lature, but it was killed after it had
stirred up fiery argument centering
around the chivalry of such propos-
al Sponsors of the amendment say
the present law will be Ineffective so
lnnO &c only ono marty t0 the mar