Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-03-04

farmer died suddenly thursday dI the
age of rs years. He lay down on
couch after supper, saying he was not
feeling well. A daughter was reading
to him when the old gentleman passed
away.
The body of Mrs. Peter j. Mayer,
living on a farm two and half miles
north of Fredonia, was found burned
TO a crisp by her husband Monday
morning when he returned from de-
livering milk. The tragedy is believed
! to have been due to a gasoline eXplo-
| sion.
Mrs. Florence Sayle, so, wife OF DR..
R. C. Sayle, prominent Milwaukee
nhysician, was found dead in her room
with a bullet thru her heart, the wound
said to have been self-inf1icted. 1t
was learned Mrs. Sayle had been a
paralytic for a number OF years, ana
she is believed to have become de-
spondent over her condition.
Mrs. Louisa Esner, 81, one OF the
/ oldest twins in the United States, died
/ at Sheboygan Wednesday. She Would
(! have been go if she had lived until
| Nav a. She was the mother of IL chill
dren. seven of whom are living Her
husband died 26 years ago. Among
her survivors is her twin sister, MRS.
Eleanor Jung. There are So grandchl-
dren and rs at-grandchlldren.
William Dunn, 80 years old, Wau-
kon farmer, died from burns which ne
i received following an explosion at MS
farm home. Dunn had started hre
in a kitchen stove. 1t failed to ourn
properly and he used kerosene. An
explosion resulted and threw burning
LIQUID all over his person and the
kitchen. While medical aid was sum-
moned Immediately, the injured man
was beyond human aid.
Federal Judge Geiger, Milwaukee,
recently ruled that 80 watts and 3,5OO
barrels of real beer stored at the Belle
CITY Products company, Racine, should
be destroyed. He also ruled that
permanent injunction issued Dec. 8,
! 1924. closing the brewery, should re-
main in force, despite the fact that
permit was issued some time ago by
the prohibition department legallzlng
the manufacture of near beer
When Victor Raber, settler living
near Rhinelander, entered a hay shed
Friday he was confronted by large
lynx which, splitting and snarIing,
glared down at him from a rafter. AS
Mr. Raber hurried for the open door
the big cat leaped for him and its
front paws hit his shoulder, ripping
his clothing and decorating his flesh.
Raber was knocked down by the i'm
pact. The animal then bounded out of
the door and disappeared. Old woods
men say it was probably as badly
scared as Raber was.
Mrs. w w Lewis of Ridgeway sus-
tanned severe injury Friday evening
whiel returning to that village from
the farm near Rockwell Mills. Mrs.
Lewis, son Will and others were rid
ing in a car which skidded on the
slippery road Mrs. Lewis thinking
the car was going over a bank leaped
out breaking a bone in her knee. On
Saturday she was brought to ST. Jo-
seph's hospital in Dodgeville where
she will be cared for until the injured
member is healed.-Chronicle
L. W. Thiesen, "war mayor" of Ra-
cine, and a power in political circles
of the city, county and state, was
drowned Thursday night when his au-
tomobile plunged over the embank-
ment at the North Main street bridge
ana dropped into Is feet of water.
Spectators say they saw the Thiessen
machine approach the bridge from the
south at a rapid rate. Apparently the
driver did not note that the bridge had
been opened for the passage of boat.
Thiessen made frantic efforts to avoid
a disaster. The body was recovered.
Ruth Blanche Wightman, 22-year-
old Beloit girl, who worried because
she had been married three times, di-
vorced once, and all husbands and
ex-husbands living, is at ease. Judge
Grimm Strengthened her tangle last
week Ruth had married Albert Oes-
treich, and was divorced from him in
1919. Before waiting the year required
in Wisconsin statutes before a divor-
Gee may marry again, she married
Chas. L. Weber in April, 1920. Then,
without being divorced she married
John Roy Wightman, July /, 1924.
Judge Grimm declared the marriage
| to Weber void.
Mrs. Herbert Weavill of Viroqua
was badly bruised in an unusual way.
The Weavills are having a new heat
ing system installed in their home and
workmen left an opening for cold
air register without fastening the graf
ing securely in place. While at work
about the house Mrs. Weayill stepped
on the grating and dropped part way
into the hole. She tried in vain to
rescue herself but was unable to do so
and finally tainted. Men members of
the family found Mrs. Weavill and
summoned a doctor No bones were
broken but the woman was badly
bruised by the injury.
The charred skeleton of girl,
found in the burned wreckage of two
automobiles after a collision near
Green Bay early Wednesday, was
definitely identified Wednesday after
noon as that of Miss Martha Marshall,
"a Michael Marshall section foreman,
said he was sure it was his daughter
after he looked at small piece of
coat which escaped the flames and
ring which was found in the wreck
age. This identification was corrobo-
rated by the statement of W. E. Chaim
son, Shawano, owner of one of the
wrecked machines that Miss Marshall
was with him at the time of the col
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