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Lake County Register (1922), 19 Aug 1925, p. 1

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handle Tecauellt worked at the hote! un-- til 2 o'clock and then had a big meal before going into the lake, It is believed that this caused "him to suffer cramps after he had been swimming for a time. There was a heavy undercurrent, which car-- ried the man into the lake, although uinddtohvo'ngd-m battle against great odds. ___ S A,'..,m.mwn." years old, of Highland Park, an em-- ploye 0 fthe Moraine~ holel, ; drowned Friday afterncon 2 _ 1 Michigan near the hhl.u'"' panion tried to save him, -- smailer of -u-nau-r: and than Locatelli, which made it im-- possible for him to save the man. n.p-hhdhlmole&htufi' have sufficierit strength to bold hin Others who were swimming nearby at the time went to Locatelli's as-- _ His companion, also an employe at the Moraine hotel, was much shorter sistance, but he saNM TEIIMW® 7""% could reach him. ~He drowned about 8:15 o'clock. A mm""b&.mn«nfld Mmummbm'- m"w. He started diving for the .m.gunhhthe remainder of the afternoon and most of the night. Th could not be fourd. since last Friday night, Life Guard James Griffith found the body Sun-- wm' &0 P dus i4 oo & morning that the head of a man was showing above' the surface of the water and upon examination, found it to be the dfowned man for whom men had been searching nearly a day and a haif. and Kelley ma and then to the home of m'Z'f':w rélative, an vncle, Santi Ori, also of Highland Park,. Coroner John L. Taylor held an 'inquest into the death Sunday at which time the cause of death was given as accidental drowning. A sult wak Sled Monday in the Cireuit court by a Chicago Attor-- ney, N. M. Kahn, in behalf--of a Milwaukee woman, -- Mrs. ~Frieda en on thicagh mt Hert Wase from the and North West-- ern Railroad Co. The suit is the outgrowth of an accident at _a railroad company crossing-- in North Chicago. 4 Mrs. Glass claims .she was in-- jured in an automobile aecident on November 23 and charges that man was not hurt so badly. drive. Griffith, lfe guard at Highland The body was taken to the Priot ilwaukee Woman Sues Road in Local Court; Blames Poor se J =-- _ _ yy9 "I" 4 K _ : @# 14 e % ' Mss o 5.. < *¥A B :: THL « $ M ~--f * P } . , j | {_ ;,{ C ,'_" 2' .4: , < ,u\ : -V # 'fi" t * * + P 4 & '"# S in Z7 &T C <4» / . o Samna t i% & t Publishe | Ewice Weekly . ' _ rctamalite s en aor o on on ommmmen aeeneeenen mm mmremmaneds + ce mmmmmemmenieneeeteentenemmemen uoo cnommecocectemnnnetntenteaiiagaememeetecgece ues iermmmintinmarstiae =« 9 -- rew ' $2.0 y d -- + ..'. y 'L s l W LIBERTYVILLE, Xbk INOIS, -- }'l)§li,sDA\, AUGUST 19, 1925 % ol JA o Ns ie c C +\ emtmnin it Ee Bat _ -- r * o--mpurrryrrprctecercmatiecem m on uce sec ce antaniai in ie ienrarenthe nreienrrmmiintitttet n in loeeciemrmgen omm ommcmmnanannn nc The body, however, pwe avenue, Chicago, lies in the Tans cuieiy Genere] hoopital. ser. fering from severe burns to his right leg and arm--an example of what happens when gasoline and a lighted match come in contact with each other, ® C La Cotoa was at Gage's Lake Sdn-- day and for a great deal of the time wt. It grew dark and after La Cotoa: was 'ready to journey home. / The gasoline in his M was "'p ""'"'" but in order to make sure he lighted a match and neld it over the gas tank. The inevitable happened. The ga> tank exploded and the car burned. It is at Gage's Lake now, just a charred mass. Le Cotoa standing over the tank was burned severely. "mmfinmd with the aid of companions the blaze which attacked him was extinguished But not before he had been sericn='y burned on the leg and arm. Companions Aid Him. } Frank Sullivan, 4815 Lowe av--| enue, and Nick Siric, 2815 Union| mm.mdmu'o. 1 La Coton in 'nis painful jour--| ney to Grand avenue. Each of his eompanions, who had escaped the| Aames, held him on either side. He | limped slowly into the darkness| gan, driving past--on--their--way to Waukegan. saw one of the burned man's companions waving <a light of might be robbers and were trying a ruse. They stopped finally. the three into the machine. It was then 5 o'clock this morning. They took the imjured man to the county that search for the --car. Later a report THEFTS BLAMED ON _ SLOT MACHINE WAR vere there is no immediate danger. Rival factions, seeking to disrupt each other's slot machine trade in Lake county, are at the bottom of the numerous petty thefts and rob-- beries that have occurred in var-- lous resorts and flling stations in the last week, according to Sherif Gage's Lake after the man was charred pieces. eame to the hospital that all that was left of the nthchine was a fow anatched up in the hurry and scurry of alot "machine thefts, are taken. go to the root of the matter in the hunt for the guilty parties. It is The theory of county law 'enforcing officers that rival parties in Chicago, which regard Lake county as their happy hunting ground, are strug-- machine business here.. Sheriff Ah!-- strom is of the ~opinion that the thefts of slot machines are engin-- sered by one faction in order to ruin subteeded in doing away with many of the machines, The sheriffs office is on a sharp lookout for further thefts and promises quick and vigor-- ous action 'to stop the visiting thieves from looting Lake county business houses in Aght for control, Wars for gambling mg Cook county have brougbt gun. » ing and slayings in their wake. Up to this time there has been no blood-- shed in this county, as robbers have M. C. Botsford and Clarence Starr, at Seck Control, Is Theory the it ihe burrs , Wauke-- SAeh Philip Ronaski, Chicago, Falls From Boat While Changing | . Places With Companion; To ~Dynamite for Body. f LOSES LIFE AT LAKE IN EARLY TRRP Ronaski, 82 years old, 629 m« avenue, Chicago, was elaimed by the waters of Fox Lake Sunday when he tcppled from a toat after he and his companion Jo-- seph Whelan, also of Chicago, had eomunleted a fishinfi trip. At 5:00 o'clock Sunday morning Renaski and Whelan, after hours of fishing at Fox Lake turned their craft toward the west shore of the lake where the Mincola hotel is lo-- cated. Victim Falls Over t The two decided to change place:« | in the boat. Ronaski stood up and | apparenitly lost his balance, He feli over the side of the boat into th« water about 1,000 feet from shore. His companion told authorities later that he wus unable to do any-- thing to sav. his pal since the body failed to come to the surface again It is believed Ronask| may have been caught in weeds at the lake bottom. To Dynamite * Marshal Riggs of Fox Lake and several others were busy '@ll Sunday and Monday trying to locate the for the body. It was decided today to dynamite the lake water in an ef-- fort to free the body and allow it to come to the surface. ; The drowning victim was married H's family, notified of the drown-- ing, arrived at Pn'x Sunday to direct the An in-- quest will be held when the body is were emploged with hooks dragging SAVE STATION > CHAMBER ASKS The Waukegan--North Chicago Chamber of Commerce Monday got behind the moverient to save Great Frank T. Fowler, secretary of the Chamber, in a letter sent <to George Edmund Foss, former con-- gressman and now leader of the movement to save the station, offer-- ing the services of the Chamber, In his letter Mr. Fowler stated that the Waukegan Body Ready to Aid In Fight to Stop Great Lakes station might be closed game Satur-- day in dispatches from Washington which deciared that Badget Director Lord has recommended its abolish McHENRY TAKES SERIES FINAL h?:.hd to mxi'n's-dly .la its third straight game from ting star of the game, clouting out a home run with the scored tied at $ all and the bases loaded in the dollars' worth of goods stolen fro farmers were recovered.-- for region, seized taining 15 pir kitchen a weeks ago. * _ Waligai Ziodi 926 Adams street, Wanukegan, found 50 'm of beer. DR. BROWN IN JAIL; _ HE wAITS APPEAL was sentence| to the federal peni--« tentlary at Fort | »veaworth, Kan., when convict~< 1%*--r being accused us the brains 0( <»e @@ng that loot-- v"'i"'flaylnz n the Cook | mtc i. : » outemare * t he be «ont %o Lake coun-- ty that ho would rather be f~ He has been there since that * Brown has sccuted two stays s alrcady, each one saving : #rom being transferred to the penitentiary to gerve out his Wife and. trico sind. frien Brown to raise to retmain in c ab* word fr States M» Grip Has Gin Edward H se --store, lake ¥re taken. 0 Frank _ Cashmore, Brasswood land, Fox rivcr, took samples of William Shunnesos, Grass lake, und a cuart bottle of whiskey, .nc'urr-! a W'm appe«! to & Migher f"l""m"M to the a in the feder Sate 3 pints of gin. Samples _ a -- container in the the rear of the store vo he was to have been the Lake county Inability of Dr. is has forced him --emanded to the | _A Norta "omn is dying at |the Victory Memorial hospital, as a |result of a mysterious shooting af-- |fray at a late hour Sunday night at his nome and gearch is being made | by police authcrities and the sheriff's | office for the man alleged<to have MAN IS SHOT _ AFTER PARTY -- AT HIS HOME Gunman Flees After Shooting at Boarder Who Sought to | Had Argument | Prior to the shooting the two are | said to have held an argument, the | police as yet being unable to get any | information on the trouble. Follow-- lin(&wmw the police say, went outside and fired four shots from a .48 caliber revolv-- er through the panels of the front door. One of the bullets hit Mrko-- | brod, who was preparing for bed. He ' struck in the abdomen and he , shyhkeog, / . *>* ssi P ) done the The man shot, according to the report, at the hospital, is Steve Mrkobrod, 29 yedrs old, 1716 Jack-- son street, North Chicago. John Miletivich, 1741 Commonwealth av-- enue, North Chicago, is alleged to have fired at him several times, one bullet taking effect. --A state war-- rant for the arrest of Miletivich on a charge of assault with intent to kill was issued this morning by Jus-- tice of the Peace Harold J. Tallett. According to Chief of Police Frank Tifany, Miletivick was one of a number of guests at a party held Sunday afterncon and last night at the home . of Mrkobrod. Miletivich is said to have been un-- der the influence of "moonshine" when he went on the shooting ram-- page. The police department --was noti-- fed and Policemen Edward Carrol} and H. Brean responded.: They had Mrkobrod sent to the hompital, the wounded man being taken there in a machine by Rupich and a man named Peter Robin, 3328 East Ninety-- see-- ond street, Chicago, who also had at-- tended the party. Dr. A. H. Claebos and Dr. W, 8. Bellows were called to the hospital to attend the victim. Dr. Claeboe said that . Mrkobrod's condition is critical. He said that Mkrobrod's intestines were pierced five times by the builet. Chief Tiffany went to the hospital l.fifinflbbmny'm-._t from the dying man, as he was in cither 'an unconscious or semi--con-- sclous state from the time admitted. A roomer at the:home, Joseph Ru-- pich, opened his bedroom window to learn the trouble, and Miletivich 1s said to have fired at him, the bullet missing his bead by inches. The'al-- leged gunman then left the place. . Tuaken to Hospital A deed was filed Monday at the of-- fHee of County Recorder L. O. Brock-- way showing the transfer of 81 acres of land by Chicago people to the Chicago Title and Trust Company. Those turning over the property were Ernest Recher and wife, David Recher and wife, and Emil Bollinger ad wife. The purchasers gave $10 'and other valuable consideration for the property, the deed stated. 'Adam B. and Mary Behm of Wawu-- rhnw'flmd ad to Arba D. Lam of Chicago, the desd being fled Monday The definite BIG ACREAGE *-- DEAL ENTERED trinl call in the Mg': of The defendants are Waliter and Louis Thomas, colored, otherwise known as Louwis Norfolk.--All cap-- inses are due and it is expected that trial call in the County court today Stahton Point, Long Lake,.charged TWO CASES ON CRIMINAL C. with a w.fiq will. be the Arst one He failed to ap-- ..th.tn-huvhn& case was called and of 42000 were declared forfeited. Blamed by Cops. RIMINAL CALL of 47th Reunion at Waukegan forty--seventh -- annual reunion at Waukegan on Thursday, August 20, The ceremonies, which are to be all on daylight saving time, will open at nine a, m., with registration of members. There will be a short pnh:" at 12 o'cleck with dinner at 12:80. 'The main exercises will begin at 2:00 p. m.. at the court house and the following is the program as ar-- and Eva Louise Meyers. 10 Solo--Margaret Sisty, 11 Violin Duet, accompanied by piano--Elizabeth and Cecelia Kroe-- ger and Jennie Jenkins.---- $ 14 Selection: Tenting Tonight" --Great Lakes Band. -- » BATHING GIRLS PROVE BASHFUL The Lake County Soldiers' and Aun# Kroeger. 10 Song: Male quartette--Mes-- srs. Hendren, Hessey, Rothermell, Aufterhall. Aufterhall, $% 13 Selection --Fife and Drum Waukegan. One is a protty bobbed hair blond, with striking blue eyes, and the other a decided brunstte, with equal beauty, North khas three, Lake Bluff one, Highland Mh-mhhmh.} Graysiake, three, Antloch four, Fox Lake leads with vix, Druce lake, two Harbor on~, and tw township listing. the American Legion on the 29th and 30th of this month. Only two girls among the thirty--seven now Are Waukegan girls bash#fol? This seems to be a question that is paramount with the committee in charge of the bathing beauty contest to be held at the summer festival of been yejected because of the fact that thes> applicants have already won bathing beauty prizes. Four, however, will be permitted to appear but are disqualified as far as the money awards are concerned. Bath-- country by storm, R Legion bas had -- requests 'md 12;80 in G. A. R.fall petition, however, will be limited to girls of this section of the country, this is Lake county and North Shore. *From all indieations it looks as if there will be one hundred beautiful maidens to greet the spectators on the days of celebration. The com-- mittee in charge feels that the inter-- est that has been displayed up to this point is only a stall one in vroportion to the keen competition that will be aroused when the judg-- wan were more than pleased to nc cept the position at the committec's wequest, but it appears to them now that they are mh have'a real task on their * o %. M Taylor, ing will be done, 12 7 'Solo--Mr, Ira Lee. -- : 11° Selection--Great Lakes Band, 2 Judges Accept The Judges: Judge Decker, Judge 2 P. M. at the Monument Address--T. Arthur Simpson. Camp Fire at Court House, 8 p. m Selection --Fife and Drum Cecelia and Mary $2.00 PER MAN FATALLY _ INJURED AS -- Two Others in Car m Also Hurt But Their Injuries Prove Slight ; Taken to High-- land Park After Mishap. _ lived on the Waukegan road near the Lake--Cook county line, was fat-- ally injured and his paby boy and brother--in--law were slightly hurt in an automobile accident on the west _ side of Highland Park Saturday, / "The accident eecurred at 5:20 o'clock _ few minutes later as he was about to be taken from an ambulance into . the Highland Park hospital.~ . <__. "~ wes testing with a view to purchas> iu'mmodomin::li_tqh' der the machine and ces from the Pfiu&m kome in Highland Park were sum-- Malget's brother--in--law, who in Evanston, and the little boy cut, and bruised. 'They were al leave the hospital after Dr. Dr. Gatewood, a Highland Park physician, attended Malget he was taken in the ambulanee said there was no hopve for him. spioe, uce held Taylor, who ' the death Sunday chine went ) 0 a complete som ing h.:'-d n£ were % 1edl -- -- Dr, Taylor performed --an aut whkh-wu-la;'h had been ruptured. The: the coroner's : jury was-- death of Malget was ta hemmorhages resulting tured liver, which he red -- the automobile turned over. -- car. apparently ditch. partment over the Three automobile collisions were reported to the Waukegan police de-- 6:10 p. m., Saturday on Sumae ave-- road. Andrews stopped his car and Valentine, to avert hitting the cat ahead of him, swerved to the side to pase Androws' car. As ho. did #o, h".--d&c*:. opposite direction driven , Ibe, 110 North Seventeenth avenne, agreed to settle for the damages, A car driven by Frank Cerk, Wau-- kegan, collided with anocther maching driven by Walter Muenstermann on the corner of Washington and Gene-- see streets. Cork was driving his machine west on Washington and was turning south in G "Mm.'ulm'_ lided with machine and bent the rear fender. y A second hand car which Maiget dents in City; Cars Are _ street and was closely followed another machine driven by Wal-- a machine west on Washing-- YEAR IN ADVANCE i that -- Maiget's tured. The ve ¢ i mees iiget -- was > h} 518 ; week--emd. No -- in ~any of them, -- : sum-- | Parkk . _/ befare . ce and r© him, < # 4 $ 4%9, ,

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