Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-08-02

| 81 Yoemans, LaFarge, fishing in the
/ river near his home, was drowned
| Searchers found the body when he
failed to return. His stopped watch
IN his pocket indicated that the trag-
| edy had taken place a little before
noon.
Adam Bronkow, garage man, has
! been elected head of the Darlington
| fire department, succeeding t. H
Murphy, resigned. Murphy was re-
Gently hurt in the legs and could no
longer go on with the work. The
company has sixty members.
Sylvester Moody, Montfort, a Civil
war veteran past so years, has had a
cancerous tumor removed from his
| lower lip. Mr.. Moody has scars on
his body from wounds received at the
battle of Shiloh one of the heavy en-
gagements of the great war.
Henry Mcdowell, a Wauzeka youth
who was with the A E. F. in Siberia,
is in a San Francisco hospital for an
operation to relieve kidney trouble
contracted in the service. His par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. T. A Mcdowell,
have gone to San Francisco to be near
their son.
The first prairie schooner seen in
southern Wisconsin for years visited
Prairie du Chen last week. 1t be-
longed to a party of seven, a family
rendered destitute in the storm area
Of northern Minnesota and on their
way back to their old home in Indi-
ana. The family were without funds,
the older members bringing in a liv-
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visited on the way homeward
Mrs. Mary Pranger, aged So, Du-
buque, fell into a shallow gully while
taking a walk near her home and laid
for three days exposed to the ele-
ments. Passersby heard her means
| but thought the cries were made by a
wild animal of some kind. Relatives,
alarmed by the old lady's absence,
informed the police and a search re-
suited. Mrs. Pranger was taken to a
hospital where it was said she would
recover from her three-day exposure
and fast.
Zemlicka Bros, Highland farmers,
have traded their big place for the
Fillbach Bros. garage in the village.
H. Petrus, for many years one of the
leading business men of Highland,
sold out to the Salzman Bros. and
went to Beyrouth, Syria, to visit mis-
mother and son. During his absence
his store was burned to the ground.
Workmen are now putting up a mod
ern building, 50-foot front and 100-ft.
depth. The building complete will
cost $4,000. Mr.. Petrus will resume
merchandising.
The Horrigan farm, near Tavera, in
Richland county, was the scene of a
holdup, smuggling and robbery early on
Monday of last week when Miss Ellen
Horrigan was beaten with a club and
and unknown sum in gold taken by
three desperadoes. The visitors en-
tered the house about 1880 a. M, after
they had made sure that the brothers
were in the field. They demanded the
money they knew was secreted in the
building. Miss Horrigan, rs, resisted
and was severely beaten and left for
dead The house was ransacked and
the gold discovered. The men made
a quick getaway in car When the
brothers came in for dinner at II they
found the sister unconscious. They
applied restoratives and she revived,
telling her story. The gold coins
taken were Of SIS, $40 and $40 denom-
ination but in what quantity was not
known. The sister and two bachelor
brothers lived alone on the large farm
and with a distrust for banks, con-
verified their savings into gold and Sc
creted the coins. The Richland and
Crawford county authorities are at
work on the case.