Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-14
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Topical
Interest BY Mail
and Telegraph.

ton league convention at Green Bay
Oct. IA and Is, when a representative
Of the Paper Mill superintendent as
ISOLATION will speak.
Corn cutters are taking their toll
of fingers in Wisconsin, During the
past week in II hours three persons
were brought to Green Bay hospitals
with injuries to their hands, received
while feeding corn cutters. All of
them lost three fingers in the ma
chimes.
If Wisconsin doctors write all the
prescriptions for liquor that they are
entitled to this year, residents will
receive $3.50 pints of whiskey for
medical purposes. At the average cost
to the consumer, this alcoholic rene
dy will make total medicine bill of
$3,141, 800
Internal injuries and fractured
skull suffered when the automobile in
which she was riding was struck by
car driven by Albert Somers, %, on
Thursday, caused the death of Mrs
Abbie Donnelly, 40, deputy county
clerk and justice of the peace, of
Rhinelander.
James Goude 101, Baraboos oldest
resident died Wednesday at the home
of his daughter Mr.. Goude would
have been 102 in February. He was
born in England and came to the
United States in the 40's. During the
Civil war he served with the First
Wisconsin heavy artillery.
Rattlesnakes are wild animals; but
the Wisconsin conservation commits
sion has no jurisdiction over them,
Atty. Gen. Ekern Thursday advised
Elmer S. Hall, conservation commits
sioner The opinion held that the state
authorities cannot interfere in the
raising of snakes by DR.. Frederick
Eigenberger in Sheboygan county.
Mrs. Louisa K, Theirs, Ill, Wiscon-
sins oldest citizen, celebrated her
111th birthday recently. Mrs. Theirs
resides with daughter, Mrs. Charles
Quarles of Milwaukee. Mrs. Theirs is
in full possession of her faculties and
enjoys excellent health. Her father,
Seth CaprOn, was a soldier in the war
of the Revolution and she cast her
first vote for Harding.
c. W. Chesley. Omro truck gardiner,
VIII think twice when gets out Of his
car on highrOad to help people in
trouble. Driving near Kewaskum,
Chesley saw a car overturned in the
road Like a Good Samaritan he got
out to help out. A speeding car went
by knocking Chesley down and break
ing his leg. He was taken to hos
pital
Peter Svigum of Madison alfghted
from a train in his home city and
handed a bagga geman 4 check for his
trunk When the porter went to the
checkroOm for the trunk the trunk
was gone as the police had been there
ahead The trunk was opened and
found to contain 80 pints of liquor.
Svigum, who seemingly is well named,
denies that he was transporting liz
uOr
Charges Of fraud against Sheriff w.
H Ristow of La Crosse county have
been filed with Gov. Blaine by f. w.
Guenther. member of the La Crosse
county board, who is asking the sher-
ifs removal and charging that that
official has filed claims for board for
prisoners who have never been in jail.
1t is also asserted in the complaint
that Sheriff Ristow also illegally col
lected and kept fees in criminal cases
totaling 81 .03O since he took office last
January.
Speaking of longevity and endurance
IGEOIuS,
two Waupaca county farmers who,
when their records have been added,
have spent 142 years on the same
farms The first is X. P. Hayward,
who lives in the town of Royalton. Mr..
Hayward has lived on his farm "A
years and will be 80 years old next
Christmas He never misses a milk
ing. The second is Thomas Goodell,
who lives near Ogdensburg. He has
lived on the same farm Sc years.
Grace Lusk, the former school
teacher, who. in 1917 killed the wife
of DR.. David Roberts as the climax to
a love triangle, and who was convicted
of second degree murder. has been
pardoned by Gov Blaine. The COVER
nor stated that owing to Miss Lusk
having married respectable profess,
sional man last month and that she
has conducted herself we'll while serY-
inc several years of her 19-year term,
he wished to remove all possible bar
riers to her happiness The pardon
now is complete.
A plea to save the partrldges has
been made to Wabeno sportsmen 1t
is set forth by w. P. Clawson, forest
ranger at LaOna, that the partridge is
nearly extinct due to the unfavorable
sprine of 1924, lack of sufficient snow
TO protect the birds last winter and
especially to the ravages OF forest
fires. which burned thousands of nest
inc birds in the 10000 acres of For
est county swept by fire last spring.
To shoot the birds at this time, Mr..
C{awson says, is equivalent to eXter-
minating one more species OF WHO
game in Wisconsin,
Jordan Mccain. held by the Super
ior police in connection with the
death of Mrs. Eta Ward Roe in her
cottage home on Bony lake, Bayfield,
county. has confessed that he shot the
woman. Mrs. Roe died a couple of
DAYS after the shooting, steadily
claiming it was an accident. Mccain,
who was crazed and violent for sew
eral DAYS, became rational and told
the whole story He says that he and
Mrs. Roe quarreled over his leaving
and that the woman seized rife and
shot him. He wrested the gun from
her and started out the door when the
woman hurled a last insult. He then
shot and fatally injured her.
State reports indicate that the
nick1e industry of Wisconsin, is eX-
handing RAPIDLY. The growth IS at
tested by the hundreds OF recelvlng
stations scattered over the. hghter
area soils. The acreage in Wisconsin
has trebIed in the last three years,
now outranking sugar beets, caooage'.
fax seed and beans. The Wisconsin
weld this season has been the best IN
years-75 bushels per acre beng IN