Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-08-07
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

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Parson Brownlow has discharged
q third letter at General d. II. Hill.
A slight shock of earthquake was
felt at Santa Fe, N. NJ, on Saturday
last.
There were 113 buildings Destroy
ed by the fire at Baltimore on FRI
day.
The annexation OF Georgetown to
the District of Columbia is being
canvassed.
Brigham Youngs seventeenth
wife, Ann Eliza Webb.sues for $780,
900 damages.
Many of the highest prizes of the
exhibition at Vienna will be awarded
to Americans.
Two women wero killed by Indi-
ans at Camp Brown, Wyoming Ter
ritory, last week.
The Third Iowa district has gain
ed 26,422 population since 1870, and
the fifth has lost 1904.
Mrs. b. f. S. Osborne of Kalama-
zoo, Michigan, suicided Friday,
Cause, domestic troubles.
]. Fl. Ripley, clerk 10 the Post
office Department at Washington,
committed suicide, the I'd.
1t is said that ex-Boss Tweed has
escaped new indictment through a
stupid blunder or design of some of
fetal.
The Amazon and Triumph insur.
ance Companies of Cincinnati sue
j. b. Bennett, in foreclosure, for
$4,000.
A movement is on foot to create
a new state out of West Tennessee,
Northern Mississippi, and Southern
Kentucky.
During the present month the AS
sistsnt Treasurer at New York will
sell 100000 gold aud purchase
$1,5O0,0O0 bonds.
The Chambers-Seddons prize.fight
took place Sunday about five miles
from Brooklyn, the latter being de-
feated in fourteen rounds.
Republicans of Virginia met in
State Convention on Wednesday
and nominated a full ticket with
Col. Hughes for Governor.
Hon. j. r. Doolittle has associat-
ed himself with Lyman Trumbull,
and ex-Chief Justice Lawrence in
the law business in Chicago.
The convicts in Monroe county,
N. T., penitentisry, broke from the
guards on Saturday. One was shot
fatally, and the others escaped.
The sheriff of Des Moine county,
Iowa, returned from the hunt after
the railroad robbers. He says they
have fed to Texas and Mexico.
Fred Bussey, driver, was shot
and dangerously wounded by man,
Dorsey, at Little Rock, Arkansas, on
Saturday. The latter escaped.
The public of San Francisco have
discovered the existence of secret
society for the purpose Of selling
Chinese women to lives of prostitu-
ton.
Counterfeits of the half>eagle coin
age of 1872 are in circulation in
New York and Boston. Counterfeit
twenty dollar pieces are also in Cir
culation.
No moro of the Ku-Klux suits
now pending in the United States
are to be prosecuted by the Govern
ment, except in few unusually
heinous cases.
Government surveyors report the
discovery of immense tracts of pine
lands in northern and northwestern
Nebraska, a country heretofore
thought to be barren.
j. Fl. Wilson, of Michigan, has
been committed for trial, at Buffalo,
on charge of giving a forged check
on the Eaton Co. Savings Bank, Ea.
ton Rapids, Michigan.
The Commissioner of the Gener.
al Land Office is in receipt Of infor.
nation that valuable deposits of gold
have been discovered by army off,
GERS stationed in Alaska.
Robt. Chew, chief clerk of the
State Department in Washington,
who was stricken with paralysis
several weeks since, died at an ear
ly hour Sunday morning.
Deaths at st. Louis for the week
ending Saturday evening 211; de.
creased from previous week, 20.
Seventeen are reported as cholera,
and 20 as cholera morbus.
The Attorney General has recon-
mended the pardon of r. o. Short.
wall, of North Carolina, and VIM. AT.
Fulton, Of South Carolina, convicted
and imprisoned as kuoklux.
Col. A. NJ. York has received in
telligence that two more bodies have
been discovered at the Bender grave
yard and that no clue to the where
abouts of the Benders can be found.
The Texas cattle fever, which has
been prevailing in DeKalb, Davies,
Nodaway and other counties of
northwestern Missouri for two weeks
past, has carried off several thousand
head, and is still raging.
1t is reported that the Southern
Apaches have left their reservation
on account of one of their chiefs be.
ing arrested for theft; but troops
are after them; and will soon rasuln
them to the reservation.
Senator Thurman does not believe
that the time has yet come for the
dissolution of the Democratic party
and, like Mr.. Groesbeck, he proposed
to stay under the old shed so lone
as there is single left.
Thomas Coyne and William Ohm. |
stead, while unloading coal barges |
in st. Louis, Saturday afternoon.
got into a quarrel, and the former |
knocked the latter from a barge into |