Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-05-13
NORTH LANCASTER
Badger Brevities

OcOnIO, Llpp6u over seven IAISo "hOh
it left the road near a curve. Occu-
pants of the car, seven in number,
were unhurt.
Mrs. John Ole, Is, died at Chippewa
Falls Thursday just day after the
death of her husband, John Ole, 10.
Pneumonia took both. A double fu-
neral was held.
The tourist who stops at Ft. Atkin-
son this spring may cook his meals on
a gas range. Prepay gasometers
with cooking range, tables and other
utilities are being placed in the park.
Robt. Bruckner, 50, Egg Harbor,
was instantly killed Wednesday when
a blast of dynamite, used for uproot-
ing stumps, struck him in the face.
1t is thought he investigated slow
charge.
Mesdames Bertha Pollack and Jules
Bahr two women of Markesan, were
held for trial on charges of having
stolen merchandise from the Hill
Bros store at Fond du Lac. Rela-
tives put up $500 bail.
William Brager, rs, of Cedarburg,
went to the lone cemetery where MS
wife was buried and hung himself to
a tree a few yards from the grave.
The wife died a month previous and
the old man was lonesome.
Eunice,3, daughter of Harvey Poreth
of Rice Lake, was instantly killed last
Thursday when she was run over by
a tractor on her fathers farm The
father, who operating the tractor, did
not see the child until after she had
been run over. Her neck was broken.
The Bower City Millwork company
of GAINESVILLE has been induced to
move it's plant to F't. Atkinson. $780,
900 was raised by Fl. Atkinson c1tl-
zens to buy the property of defunct
mandatory for the purpose of pro-
viding housing for the new concern.
Mrs. George Rowell died at a Wau-
kesha hospital Monday the second vic
tim in two weeks of the same auto ac-
cident The women were struck by a
taxicab driven by Clarence Beitchie on
April 20. Mrs. Ella Marsh the other
woman, died shortly after the accident.
Mrs. Frederick Albrecht, 80, of La
Crosse, was found dead in the woods
near her home with her clothing par
TALLY burned from her body. 1t is be-
lieved the aged woman wandered into
the woods, stopping at burning pile
of brush to get warm, and that names
ignited her clothing.
Buddy Simon, 8, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Jos. Simon, Waukesha, met death I'M
der a truck body in a garage. 1t is
assumed that the child in clambering
over the truck upset the body and was
pinned beneath it. Workmen laying
fresh concrete had chased him away,
thinking he might step on the soft
work.
Mrs. Elmer Dreger, widow Of Pa
trolman Herbert G. Dreger, who was
murdered while walking beat in Lit
tie Sicily" last winter, was awarded
a death benefit of $5,205.65 by the In
dustrial commission. The ward in
cluded $59435 for funeral expenses.
Mrs. Dreger also receives a pension
of one-third of her husbands salary.
Mrs. Ella Jacobsen, %, and her IA
months-old daughter are in Madison
hospital with fractured skulls as the
result of a collision between the JAG
OLSEN auto and freight train at
Brooklyn. Mrs. Jacobsen saw the
train as she approached the crossing
and meant to step on the brake but
hit the accelerator instead. Both may
die.
Since Charles Burtis of GAINESVILLE
has been Rock county sheriff, total
of $2,17196 has been received from
employers hiring county prisoners I'M
der the Huber law The Jail report
shows that in four months, ending
in April, the fines from prisoners
amounted to $2,536. There were II
arrests by the sheriffs office. IS
places suspected of violating the pro-
hibition law were raided and 2O6
prisoners have been Jailed.
Wendell Hoover, Milwaukee youth,
on trial for the murder of Mrs. W. A.
Bosshard, living in fiat of a build
ing occupied by the young mans par
ents, was found guilty and sentenced
to life in Waupun. Hoover, sales
man. claimed he entered the fiat and
found the woman weltering in her own
gore. Terrified, he claims he ran
from the place, into the arms OF
policeman Hoover has a wife and
little daughter He has record as 4
moron and this went against him at
the trial.
Mrs. J. w Hall and daughter, Mrs.
Olaf Johnson, of Whitewater, are re-
covering from the effects of coal gas
asphyxiation which they underwent
one day last week Mrs. Johnson had
gone to a small room in her home to
rest while her daughter was drying
her hair in another room. Feeling
herself growing faint, Mrs. Hall called
her daughter to help, but received no
response. Just as both women had
lapsed into Inconsistencies the time
ly arrival of Miss Irene Wolfgren, a
Normal student, saved them. The girl
smeiled the gas and summoned help.
The Ernest Pfaeffle, Wisconsin, .
who was swindled out of his $4,000
savings recently in the state of Wash
ington, has been identified as Ernest
Pfaeffle, a cheesemaker, formerly of
Darlington. Mr.. Pfaeffle left that city
early in March to join John En-
menegger, who had gone some time
before to Chimicu1n. Wash. Soon af-
ter his arrived in Seattle Mr.. Pfaeffle
got in with a bunch of schemers who
induced him to put his $4,000 into a
Seattle cheese factory in which they
declared they were investing money.
The cheese factory later proved to be
a myth.