Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-11-01
NEIGHBORHOOD
BREv|TIESAND
NEARBY NOTES
Important Events
of Week From Tri-
State Area.

lots from Cuba City TO Chicago, has
! been announced the routing being via
| the Northwestern to Galena and over
! the l. G. to Chicago.
| A story and half residence valued
! at $4,000 and owned by T. H Whippo,
Galena, was totally destroyed by fire
| Monday of last week. The origin of
| the blaze is a mystery
! Crawford county jury commission
/ ers drew the names of IL women on
venire Of SO names. There were 202
mems names and 100 Women's names
in the list drawn from.
! Byron Curry, Gays Mills, saving
] lumber, attempted to kick a stick from
! the carrier and was carried into the
saw. Curry's foot had to be amputa
/ ted later. He will be cripple for
| life.
/ John Beede, aged veteran of Post
vile, Iowa, was crushed to death when
/ car backing out Of a garage ran
| over him. Mr.. Beede and wife, inmates
of the soldiers home at MarshalltOwn,
were visiting relatives at Postville.
| W. S. Manning, founder of the Kick
apoo village by the same name, died
recently at Ladysmith, aged 81 years.
! Mr. Manning was a lawyer and in re-
| cent years was postmaster at Lady
| smith. He moved north a number Of
| years ago.
Elmer Schroeder, Turkey River, en-
! gagged in putting mud guards on big
| tractor engine without stopping the
/ power, lost one foot The machine
/ began to move and Elmer's foot went
between the spokes and was crushed.
1t was amputated later.
| E. S. Nyeland, Muscoda painter, was
nearly killed last Monday when he fell
from ladder while he was painting
a warehouse in the railroad yards
Mr.. Nyeland's ladder was hit by
string of freight cars and the frail
support collapsed. Nyeland suffered
| The man found dead at E. Dubuque
few days ago was identified as being
| Charles Rosway, 815 Iowa ST., Dubuque.
| Mr.. Rosway had been missing from his
| home for two weeks. Deceased left
! two brothers in America and a sister
! in Sweden Walter Kringle, a monu-
ment man, made the Identification.
A blaze shooting out of tree at
| Galena attracted attention of passers-
by when they saw that every few min
utes blush sparks would proceed
from the branches. An investigation
disclosed that an electric wire passing
through the tree had worn through the
| insulation and that a ground" oc-
CURED when the wind swung the wire
! against limb.
/ Conrad GlOeckner, Galena, had the
bad luck to run into a rattle snake
while walking IN the woods near No
! lan's hill Sunday a week ago, and the
good luck to XIII the snake before he
was bit GIoeckner has the skin, two
laLLIes and button TO prove his tale.
! hattie snakes abroad at so late time
as md OcLoDer is a sign OF a mild tall
and winter.
The frank Turtscher home at Pra.
du CHEN was robbed of $500 in cash
aDouJ midnight Sunday night OF last
week. No clue exists as to the rob-
bers. Along ABOUT IL a. m. Mrs. Turf
scher discovered the robbery when
she arose to see if the children were
ali right. The house was topsy turvy
and the place had ben ransacked.
lac stolen money, Turtscher's saw
ings, had been taken from bureau
drawer. Part of the money belonged
to Sol Swingle, Turtscher's father
in-law, an invalid The authorities
believe that some local person did
the work as the dog gave no alarm.
Sitter is known as the town OF
pumps without handles. says the Mont
fort Mail True, pumps are scarce,
and most folks drink cistern water.
Ii you want drink-Of well water
in Sitter, YOU hunt up the owner OF
the pump and get the handle. 1t was
a just cause for excitement in Sitter
last week when Jos. Cook & Brother
hauled their big drilling outfit into the
burg and actually started to drill
we'll for James Reed, and many OF the
curious gathered to watch the pne-
nomena when operations started.
This means another pump for StltZer
and whether or not it will have re-
movable handle remains to be seen.
The W. D. Wisherd line Of steamers
is building a new excursion boat TO re-
place the Majestic, burned to the null
at Havana, ILL.,, last summer. The
new boat will be of so foot beam and
! longer than the Majestic which was
2281a feet from bow to stern. The
steamer G. w. Hill, we'll known on the
upper river has been marooned at
Spottsville, Kentucky, owing to low
water in the Ohio. The Hill grounded
on sandbars in the Ohio, which is the
lowest it mas been for years, and was
unable to cross various wing dams.
The Hill will wait in Green river, a
narrow and deep stream draining the
Mammoth cave region, until the water
rises when it will be towed to Quincy,
ILL.,, for winter quarters.
A Hungarian employed at the Unity
mine near Galena, was ylctlmlzed Dy
one Of his countrymen to the extent OF
$4,000 in hard earned savings. The
trusting miner was told by his new
found friend that the latter had been
left lot of money by his father. This
money was to be given to deserving
persons. The miner conf1ded that he
had S2,700 saved up. The friend Of
fered to double the sum and produced
a box to put both sums of money in.
The miner went to the Galena bank
and drew out his savings, placing the
cash in his friends" box. The box
was left with him and the friend went
away on "other business" When the
confiding Hungarian opened the box
to feast his eyes on his great wealth
he found four one dollar bills. The
authorities have found no trace of the
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