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NEWS FROM ALL AROUND WISCONSIN Items of Current Interest By Mail and Telegraph. GRACE LUSK RECEIVES CONDITIONAL PARDON To save her life if possible, Grace Lusk, Waukesha school teacher, who slew Mrs. David Roberts, Waukesha, in an eternal triangle case' involving her victim’s husband, Thursday was conditionally pardoned from Wiscon sin state penetentiary at Waupun. Governor Blaine in announcing the pardon revealed that Miss Lusk is in a critical condition in an unnamed sanitarium from advanced exophthal mic goiter an 1 other complications. She was serving a 19-year term, having been sentenced after a second degree murder conviction in Wauk esha county circuit court June, 1918. “I cannot condone her offense; neither can I return her to prison where her illness would eventually have a fatal termination,” Governor Blaine said. Her release is conditioned on her conduct being “compatible with good citizenship.” Miss Lusk formerly lived in Stuogh ton. Saloon Keeper Freed. Nathan Gordon, Kenosha, sentenced, last February to the state house of correction for a total of 57 months following conviction on seven counts of violation of the state liquor laws, Thursday was free. Governor Blaine in a memorandum announcing that Cordon’s sentence was commuted to expire Thursday, de clared that his violation of the law “was to a large extent encouraged oy public authority.” Fines of .$3,500, or which Gordon’s failure to pay resulted in 42 months of the sentence inflicted, were reduced to $2,000. “The courts, the district attorney, sheriff and police of Kenosha county knew that this party was running a saloon the same as before the prohib ition law, and there was no necessity to hire a private detective as agent provocateur to induce violation of the law,” the governor said. DEER KIILEDBYTRAIN AT DEVILS LAKE PARK A deer was killed at Devils Lake, a few days since, according to a report from Atwood Smith, park superinten dent. The animal was found on the C. & N. W. railroad track near the south end of the lake. It body was badly mangled. Mr. Smith believes it was struck and run over by an early morning train. Game Warden F. A. Dockham states the animals are attracted by the head lights of the engines and seem to be dazed and unable to move when con fronted by the strong lights on the track. One engineer, observing two deer on the track at the lake recently, turned off the Headlight of his engine for a moment and the animals disap peared. The Tead animal was dressed and sold at Baraboo, the net proceeds go ing to the state conservation commis sion, BERRIES 38 YEARS OLD ARE EATEN IN PIE MONROE, Wis.—The question of how long canned fruit can be kep has arisen as the result of a story printed here stating that the mother of E. C. Copeland of this city had a can of blueberries for 38 years. The berries were picked by one of the Copeland “boys” in Michigan many years ago. When the family moved here, the berries were scarcely ever grown in this country and the one can was kept. After 38 years, the can was opened and Mrs. Copeland made a pie of the fruit, which, while not exactly fresh in flavor, was pa’atable. POLICE NAB COUPLE; GIRL DEFENDS SHEIK RACINE, Wis.—“ He’s my sheik; he’s the best fellow that I ever met.” So spoke Elda Schmreidel, 20, former ly of Kohler, Wis. She made the statement to Chief of Police Hehry Baker, who was questioning her about her relations w’th Allen Christensen, Racine, who is also being detained on a disorderly conduct charge. The couple was arrested Sunday evening in a rooming house, where the girl has been living for several months. Christensen is said to be a married man. but has not been living with his wife for some time. BACK AUTO ON TRACKS; TWO HURT IN CRASH BRODHEAD, Wis.—Fred Kohler and Fred Rangoll, both of Juda, mir aculously escaped serious injury Sun day when the automobile in which they were riding was struck by a Mil waukee road passenger train. The car was being backed out of a drive way from a farm in front of which run the railroad tracks. The men were brought here for medical atten tion. WOMAN AT BELOIT, 79, GREAT-GREAT-GRANDMA BELOIT, Wis. —Mrs. Susan Kistler Gates is a great-great-grandmother and not yet SO. When she celebrated her seventy ninth birthday here she was sur rounded by representatives of five generations. She has 33 grandchildren, 29 great grandchildren and one great-great grandchild. TWO FREED OF CHARGE OF SELLING HARD CIDER LA CROSSE, Wis.—Samuel Grant and Henry Rick, running different soft drink saloons in this city, were .ound not guilty by juries in circuit court of vioiaiing me \oistcad act by the sale of hard cider. Following the icqu.ttal of these two men, the dis trict attorney announced the dism.s :ai of two other cider cases and fed ; ral prohibition agents made known ! the fact that these cider cases will be aken .nto fedeiai court. Ignoiing the county court, where Judge C. W. Hunt is presid.ng in the tbsence of Judge Brindley, the state and federal prohibition agents ob tained a search warrant from a court commissioner, raided the roadhouse of Peter Stephan, confiscated 10 cases of home brew and had the proprietor arraigned before Judge Higbee in cir cuit court. Stephan pleaded guilty and was ned $250 and costs. This is the first wet case to be haled directly into cir cuit court here. LIQUOR SUIT HUSHERS FALL INTO POLICE TRAP BEAVER DAM, Wis.—Charged with impersonating federal officers and at tempting to obtain the sum of SSOO in hush money from a local saloon keep er, Robert V. Arnson and Albert Schwenn, Madison, were arrested by Chief of Police George Grolling. It is alleged the two Madison men called upon a Beaver Dam saloon keeper and claimed they had evidence that would convict him of a violation of the fed eral liquor law. Later, it is alleged, they intimated that for SSOO the case could be hushed up. The saloon keeper hid his sus picions and agreed to pay the sum to the men at a designated place. He then notified the police, and as he was about to hand over the money Chief of Police Grolling stepped up and ar rested both mtn. One of the men was armed. They had come to Beaver Dam in an auto mobile with license plates that had been exchanged with those of another machine. Dist. Atty. George Hartman tock up the case Tuesday. . NEIGHBOR DROVE WIFE INSANE, DAMAGE CHARGE JUNEAU, Wis. —Charging that his neighbor, Robert McNutt, had driven his wife insane by constant annoy ance, Frank Thornburg, Oxford, Mar quette county, is complainant in one of the strangest cases that have ever come to Dodge county. The case was given to circuit court here on a change of venue. Thornburg asks damages of SIO,OOO alleging that McNutt, by malicious annoyance had so unbalanced Mrs. ; Thornburg’s mind that she has been ' confined in the Northern Hospital for ] the Insane. The jury failed to agree on several questions of a special verdict sub mitted to it. The action raised a num ber of peculiar questions. The wo man appeared as a witness in the trial. A large amount oi medical .tes timony was adduced. Among the wit nesses were five experts from asy lums throughout the state. GIRL KILLED, TWO HURT AS TRAIN HITS MOTOR CAR MADISON, Wis. —One Madison yirl was killed and two other persons were seriously injured here late Sat urday when a Milwaukee road passen ger train struck an automobile in which a party was riding. The ma chine was demolished and the occu pant® thrown against a tree. Dell Beorve, 10, a niece of Mrs. Wil liam Boyd, who was injured in the accident, died as a result of the acci dent. Mrs. Boyd, wife of a desk ser geant on the Madison police force, was seriously hurt as was Martin Jones, 39, a machinist. Paul Boyd, 12, son of Mrs. Boyd, jumped when he saw that the train was nearing the machine, and escaped without injury. RIG FISH ARE HAULED THROUGH SUPERIOR ICE ASHLAND, Wis.—“ Bobbing” for trout through Lake Superior ice has been in progress since Jan. 1. One Ashland fisherman brought home 27 lake trout for his day’s work. Trout caught now average from two to six pounds. As the ice thickens and ex tends further into the open lake, mucn larger fish are caught. The hook is sunk in five or six fathoms, baited with herring. Ttie bottom of the ice hole is rounded so as not to cut the line, and when there is a bite the fisherman runs with the line, and brings the trout out. Small tent shelters are erected on the ice. MAKES POLISH; SAVED BY LEAP FROM ROOM KENOSHA. Wis.—With his cars singed. Joseph Stepank broke through a window of his home and leaped to safety when he found his. bedroom ablaze. He had prepared some stove black with kerosene to be used the following day and lu.d gone to bed, leaving the mixture near the stove. Th? heat of the stove ignited it and he awoke just in time to break out of the room to safety. The damage to the home was about SI,OOO. All other members of the family were away from home. AUTO BEATEN BY STORK IN RACE TO HOSPITAL DELAVAN. Wis.—The newly born babe of Mr. and Mrs. Alber, Elkhorn, died in an automobile while the moth er was being brought to the Delavan hospital. The auto stalled and the child was born before the mother could be taken into a home. The child died a few minutes after birth. Mrs. Alber was taken to the hospital. M'CARTNEY CABINS- BURN Cabins near McCartney station, owned by L. Roschi of Cassville and a Benton man, burned to the ground in a mysterious manner Tuesday night. Mr. Roschi suspected incendiary ori gin and sent for bloodhounds at once. The cabins and contents were a total loss. Any developments as to the fire’s origin will be followed up and published later. GRANT COUNTY HERALD, LANCASTER, WISCONSIN, WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 24, 1922. YOUTHS WIN 50 MILE BATTLE WITH WOLF PACK GORDON, Wis. —Staggering into this village early Monday completely winded and near collapse, their cloth ing dripping wet with perspiration, two Superior young men, Jay E. Adams and Kenneth Ellison, related a story of be.ng chased through two miles of snow by a pack of 50 wolves The two young men fell exhausted in the street and were carried into a store build.ng an’. revived. Return ing late at night irorn Whitefish lake, six miles from the village, the two men had encountered a blinding snowstorm. plunged into the blizzard, walking in the direction of I the village, and when about midway i heard the howling of wolves. The pack, estimated at 50 beasts, , closed in on the two men, who were ' unable to make progress at any speed j through the deep snow. The men had i armed themselves with clubs and had i to beat off the leaders of the .pack i several times during their race for | life. When they came within a quar ter of a mile from the village, the lights of the town frightened the wolves and they slunk back into the night. Huge packs of wolves have terror ized the farmers of the vicinity for the last several weeks. DRIVER HELD GUILTY IN AUTO CRASH DEATH MANITOWOC, Wis.—A jury in cir cuit court found Anton Weber, Hil bert, Calumet county, guilty of man slaughter as a result of the death of Mrs. Bertha Meggers last October. Mrs. Meggers died from injuries re ceived when an automobile in which she was riding was ditched,. due to carelessness of Weber, it was con tended. According to the testimony, Weber was on the wrong side o f the road when he forced A. Schmirrier, owner of the other car, too far to the side of the road, causing Schmirrler’s au tomobile to topple over. The woman had a baby in her arms and attempted to jump from the car, which was a closed model. Weber, a telegraph operator at Hil bert, faces a centence of not more than two years at Waupun, not- more than a year in the county jail or a fine of not more than SI,OOO. The case was tried here on change of venue from Calumet county. VILLAGE GOES TO TOWN; FUNERAL IS POSTPONED MANITOWOC.—A funeral which was to have taken place at Kellners ville Monday morning had to be post poned when practically the entire community came to town to be pres ent at the first meeting of creditors, following the bankruptcy of Michael Kellner several days ago. About 250 farmers of Kelinersville had loaned Kellner money on unsecured notes. The undertaker and other essential to a burial were among those who at tended the meeting over which Judge Prescott of Sheboygan presided. Ow ing to the roads being impassable, preventing the people from driving to this city, the merning limited train on the North Western line was order to stop at Maribel at 4:30 in the morn ing to accommodate the crowd. FENNIMORE BANKER TO SUCCEED COUSINS MADISON. —The name of Dwight Parker, Fennimore banker,* is inti mated by an official close to Governor Blaine as being the most prominent among those considered for the job of banking commissioner now being held by Marshall Cousins, and whose term expires in May. Mr. Parker is a La Follette man. He has played a prom inent part in the progressive faction and was urged as chairman of the state central republican committee by Governor Blaine in 1920. “SURVIVORS OF CUSTER BATTLE” LIARS, SAYS VET NEENAH.—“Anyone who claims to be a survivor of Custer’s last stand at the Little Big Horn, Montana, is a liar,” Joseph T. Hill, Menasha, sur vivor of the old Seventh Uoited States cavalry, told Wisconsin National guardsmen of the Fox River valley in gathering here. Hill was on scout duty near the Little Big Horn, the scene of the battle, and says that the only living survivor of that massacre was a lone horse, which was found afterward riderless, and quietly graz ing along the banks of the river. JUNEAU CONDENSERY HIRES COUNTY AGENT A. A. Brown, who has been county agricultural agent in Dodge county the past three years, has been put in charge of a new department estab lished by Libby, McNeil & Libby at their Juneau condensery. The new department is to be known as an ag ricultural service department and marks the beginning of a new depar ture in the policies of the company, for the benefit of patrons and the good of the community. The era of co-operation is at hand. STORE BANDITS BREAK TOY PISTOL, THEN FLEE RACINE, Wis.—Police are search ing for two well dressed young bandits who Tuesday night held up two stores while customers were mak ing purchases. The proprietor of the Kassell furniture store and three pur lasers were backed against the wall while S3O were taken from the till. In the tire repair shop of H. J. Small, the same pair took SSO and laughingly broke a toy pistol at the feet of their victims as they made their exit. BOY’S SKULL CRACKED WHEN CAR HITS SLED ABLEMAN, Wis. —Adolph Fey Jr., 14-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Fey, su Tered a fractured skull and broken jaw bone when the sled on | which he was coasting, collided with i an automobile last Monday. He was picked up unconscious and rushed to the hospital at Baraboo. Tuesday he was removed to a Madison hospital for an operation. It is not known whether he will recover. GOOD BOOK, EVOLUTION PROOF, SAYS MINISTER MADISON.—Page Mr. Bryan and show him that the Bible is the best proof of evolution. The Rev. George E. Hunt, pastor of Christ Presbyterian church, in his sermon Sunday evening declared that the thousands of fossils illustrative of the varying stages of anatomical structure since the dawn of creation are no better evidence of evolution than the Bible. “Must an intelligent man, choose ' between Darwin and Bryan?” he ask ed. “No, a thousand times, no. Are we forced to choose between evolu tion and the Bible? I should say not. ! “The trouble is not in evolution or ! the Bible, it is with ourselves. Men have manufactured the theory that th 3 Bible is a sort of magic book, written i by the finger of God, a complete and | infallible authority on all subjects 1 from stars to tadpoles. The Bible is '■ the record of a great nation’s life and j growth from a tribe of shepherds to a great people. Tn that book we trace the evolu- ■ tion of man from a mere beast of the world to the educated individual he is , today—a conqueror of the universe.” OLD MAN TEMPERATURE MAKES BEST DRY AGENT ■ MONTREAL.—OId Man Tempera- j ture, King Winter’s able lieutenant, has scored a knockout against a ring I of American silk smugglers. He also '• has hampered, far. more than the American law enforcement officials ! have ever been able to do, rum run ning into the United States. Coed weather, bad roads and deep snow | were the weapons used. The result is that the operation of the smugglers, -whose activities dur ing the summer and autumn seasons i demoralized the legitimate silk trade in all parts of Canada, finally have been curbed. A steady war waged by the royal Canadian mounted police and the cus toms officials of Canada and United States failed to stem the tide and the fight looked hopeless, until wintei took its hand in the proceedings. MAN EATS 20 CARLOADS OF FOOD IN A LIFETIME PARlS.—Statistics are sometime ; I useful, sometimes baffling, but almost always give curious indications. Thus : M. Jean Louis Dumont tells what a [ man with an average appetite eats 1 during his life. A man arrived at the age of 70 has since his birth absorbed more than 20 carloads of food. The food consumption of a man from infancy until old age is on the I average 7.04 pounds a day. A freight ! car carries four tons and an entire , train 80 tons. If one multiplies the | 25,550 days (contained in 70 years) by ; 7.04 pounds a total of 179,872 pounds is obtained. Thus man has found means to swal low up a quantity of victuals equal to 1,326 times his own proper weight. It isn’t so much what you do so long as you do it. CLOSING OUT SALE! On the Morse farm, on Beetown-Potosi road, 3 miles east of Beetown, 5 miles west of Hurricane, which farm has been rented for cash, on WEDNESDAY, FEB. 7 Commencing at 11:00 a. m., the following described property: 60 Head of Cattle 60 16 Registered Scotch and Scotch Top Shorthorns Herd Bull “Villager’s Favorite,” No. 923,550, (Grandson of Imported Villager). Two Roan Yearling bulls by “Sultan Royal” and “Sultan of Wardland.” Two Bulls coming 1-year-old. Six Cows, 1 2-year-old Heifer. 2 Yearling Heifers. 2 Heifer Calves. 14 High-grade Shorthorn Cows. Two Holstein Cows. 9 Heifers, yearling and 2- years-old. 6 steers. 13 last Spring Calves. Cows and Heifers Bred to Scotch Short horn Bull. 34 Head Hogs, Mostly Purebred Poland Chinas 25 Sows Bred for April Farrow, 21 of them being Pure-bred Poland Chinas. 8 Fall Shotes. One Poland China Boar. 6 Horses; 14 Sheep; 200 Chickens Team of Bay Geldings, 1,100 Pounds. Gray Gelding, 6-year-old, wgt. 1,600. Gray Gelding, 4 years old, wgt. 1,300 pounds. Gray Mare, 6 years old, in foal. One old Mare. One Span of Mules. 13 Oxford Ewes and one Buck. 200 Plymouth Rock Chickens. Hay, Grain and Farming Machinery 45 Tons of Clover and Timothy Hay in Barn. 1,500 bu. Corn. 200 bu. Oats and a Quantity of Silage. Appleton Silo Filler. Papec Silo Filler, loader. McCormick Corn Binder. 3 Riding Osborne Disc. Osborne Side Delivery Rake. Wagons. One Narrow Tired Wagon. One Heater. Feed Cooker. Samson Tractor. Feed Mill. Gas Engine. Separator. Gang USUAL TERMS. E. J.MORSE & W.E.PIERCE J. c. VESPERMAN, AUCTIONEER. L. A. CLARK, CLERK. AUCTION! As I have sold my farm I will sell at public auction on the farm known as the old Charley Roberts place, 3 miles east of Lancaster, on the fair grounds road on Tuesday, Feb. 6 Commencing at 11:00 a. m., the following property: 82 HEAD STOCK 82 » 29 HEAD OF CATTLE 17 head of black Angus, 2-year-olds, 8 steers and 9 heifers. Five Shorthorn yearlings, 4 steers and 1 heifer. Six Shorthorn heifer calves. Shorthorn bull 2-year-old. 3 HEAD GOOD HORSES 3 Black gelding wgt. 1,100. Brown mare, wgt. 1,100. Gray mare, wgt. 1,400. 50 HEAD OF SWINE 50 50 head extra good July and August shoats. HAY, GRAIN and MACHINERY 50 bushels choice potatoes. 5 bu. seed corn. 25 tons of hay in shed. Some straw in shed and one straw pile. 800 bu. oats, good enough for seed. 500 bu. corn. John Deere hay loader. Six-shovel cultivator. Sharp ies cream separator. Some oak lumber. Some white oak posts. Some barb wire. One stone boat. Feed rack and feed trough. Telephone and share. USUAL TERMS. LUNCH AT NOON. Ed. Jentz GEO. A. MOORE, CLERK. J. C. VESPERMAN, AUCT. McCormick Husker, 6 roll. Keystone Hay- Corn Plows. International Corn Planter. Two 3-section Drags. Two Wide Tired Great Western Manure Spreader. Tank One 2-bottom tractor plow. Harnesses. Plow, and many other articles. LUNCH AT NOON.