Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-25
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

riding academy teacher, has brought
suit for S250.OO0 against his father-in-
law. Charles G. Forster, wealthy Mil
Waukee manufacturer, claiming that
Forster has alienated his young wlfe's
affections The wife is Emily FORSTER
Bradley, daughter of the rich man
Miss Forster attended the academy and
fell in love with the young and hand
some instructor. They eloped and were
married. When Mrs. Bradley told her
parents of her venture they locked
her in a room and refused young Brad
lev admittance to the home. He con-
suited a lawyer and brought suit.
Forster refuses to talk beyond saying
the marriage shall not be consum-
mated.
The winter and spring of life called
on the county clerk at Madison Mon
day to get permits to wed. Shortly af-
ter John L. Willard, 10, of the town
of Windsor, and Harriet V. Watland,
16, also of Windsor, secured their Ii
cense, Geo. Lemberger, Sr., 70 of
Madison, and Frances Klinegsisaen, 20,
of Milwaukee, entered the office to fol-
low in the footsteps of the youthful
bride and groom-to-be. The older
OAANO
before, the former wife of Mr.. Lem
berger having been-before her mar
riage-Mary Klinegsisaen, but the flu
ture bride declared that she was not
related to the first Mrs. Lemberger.
William Sonny" Hopp, 27 found
guilty by Milwaukee jury in circuit
court of fourth degree manslaughter
resulting from the automobile acct
dent in which Mrs. Margaret Thomas,
burIesque chorus girl, was killed, was
sentenced to a year in the House OF
Correction by Judge Hickman. Hopp
had been in a roadhouse party with
the girl last March, and in returning
to the city his car left the road, crash
ing into a light post and killing the
girl instantly Testimony that Hopp
had been drunk and was speeding at
the time was instrumental in sWaylng
the jury to the decision of manSlaugh-
ter
Frank and Kate Vejih, Waukesha,
who were held under $1,000 bail each
on a charge of receiving stolen prop
erty, have disappeared. The case was
set for trial in municiap locurt at
OconOmowoc. 1t is reported that the
defendants have entered Canada. The
pair deposited $4,000 bail with the
county authorities and until a few
weeks ago were conducting a grocery
in milwaukee. They are said to have
received several thousand dollars
worth of stolen goods from Hartland
which had been taken from the Hart
land depot, including rugs and fur
niture.
Injured when struck by a bowling
ball while working as a pinsetter du-
ring the tourney in January last year
of the Wisconsin Bowling Association
at GAINESVILLE, Frank Zinck of that city
has been given an award of 81 ,404. IL
against the local concern and its in
surance carrier, the Continental Cas-
ualty Co. The award was made by the
state industrial commission, which
found that Zinck is suffering a Is
per cent permanent disability of one
leg at the knee.
Judge George Grimm dismissed the
$4,000 alienation of affections suit of
Irwin RemuS, Marshall, Wis, against
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles F. Reese Lake
Mills, Thursday, on motion of defen-
dart for non-suit on grounds of in
sufficient proof The Reeses are par
ents of Mrs. Remus, and, according
to Remus, turned his wife against him.
The couple were married April 20,
1922, and separated in February, 1923.
Asa Fox, 20, Monroe, is in serious
condition following a dynamite blast
which threw him some distance in
flicting serious burns and bruises. The
aged man was working among some
~ AFRO 10 nd hoH Mo q nJ,
of dynamite under one of them to help
break it up. The charge failed to go Off
several minutes after lighting, and he
went back to relight the fuse when
the blast came.
Owing to the recent thaw the ma
jority of the small logging operators
in northern Wisconsin have been
forced to stop work, and many lum-
Der camps have closed within the last
few days. Practically all the snow on
main highways is gone making impos-
sible the transportation of logs and
pulp wood on sleighs This is the earli-
est curtailment of logging operations
in many years.
Rufus Bruce. 90 year old Hills
boro lad. was killed and two other per-
sons escaped death when the auto in
which they were riding to church on
Sunday, slipped backward down the
hill and crashed over an embankment
Bruce's neck was broken. Miss Ella
Marshall and Robert Bruce were not
seriously injured although the girl re-
ceived many cuts about the face and
neck
In serious condition lying on a
lake shore road near Neenah Monday
Mrs Eta Meyer of that city told po-
lice she was enticed into an auto, at
tackled by two men, then bound, hand
and foot, and thrown into ditch. Mrs.
Meyer said she was held prisoner in
hut for So hours by the two men,
one of whom she was able to identify.
The Superior childrens home was
badly damaged by fire Friday All of
the several score of children housed
there escaped unhurt. Most of the
children weer absent at school. Eight
babies were carried to safety.
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