Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-01-15
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

ID JSnuhry reach S1,VUV,UVV.
Canal boats are still moving be-
tween Buffalo and Lockport.
The millers will meet in Nation.
al Convention at Chicago, January
"a.
"A rich strike has been made in
the Emma mine. So says report
from Salt Lake.
Salt Lake City wants branch
mint; also geological survey of
Utah Territory.
The Government estimates for
the ensuing year will probably be re-
duced 81, 100000.
Judge Durrell, of Louisiana, is
said to have placed his resignation
in the hands of the President.
Government wishes to settle
claims for war supplies furnished in
the campaign against the Modocs.
The trustees of the Washington
national monument want Congress
to appropriate 5000, 900 for its conn.,
pany.
WIN. Fl. Crisp, Sr., once con-
spicuous actor on the New York
stage, died in Dallas, Texas, on the
I'd inst.
Senator Ames has left Washing.
ton with his family for Mississippi,
where he is to be inaugurated as
| Governor.
The Rowing Association of the
American Colleges will hold its an
nual meeting in Hartford on We'd
nesday, January 81.
Congress will probably pass an
inter state railroad bill without a
subsidy; but this will not suit the
parties urging the scheme.
"A number of drafts on the re
funding of taxes were stolen from
the Internal Revenue Office in Wash
ington during Tuesday night.
The Massachusetts Legislator 9
organized on Wednesday by electing
George B. Loring president of the
Senate. The House reelected Speak
er Sanford.
R. e. Revere, late Treasurer of
Franklin county, Iowa, residing at
Hampton, is charged with being a
defaulter to the amount of from ST.
900 to $4,000
Serious freshets were threatened
in Virginia during the recent storm.
A charlottesville fha n
higher point than it had been since
the great freshet of 1870.
The Secretary of War agrees
with General Sherman that a re-
duction of the strength of the army
would be unwise, and contrary to
the interests of true economy.
The Maine Legislature was or
ganized on Wednesday. The Senate
elected the Hon. John E. Butler as
President. The House elected the
Hon. VIM. W. Thomas, Jr., as Speak
er.
Secretary Belknap thinks our
Notifications ought to be completed
and rendered more effective partic-
uIarIy those of New York, Boston,
Portland, New Orleans, and on the
| Florida Coast.
Tho Republicans of New Hamp.
shire have nominated farmer can
didate for Governor, Luther Nc
Cutchins, of New London. James
A. Weston, of Manchester, is the
Democratic nominee.
The body William Osborne, aged
60 years, late Superintendent of the
Washington Board of Public Works,
who had been missing since Dec. 19,
was found hanging from a tree near
that city, Wednesday.
During a fracas, On Tuesday
night last, at Berlin, Rensselaer,
county, New York, Matthew Casey
shot two brothers named John and
Orlow Rathbone. John was serious
ly and Orlow fatally injured.
Representatives Houghton has
secured the Secretary of the Treas
ury's approval of his bill to author.
ize national gold banks to issue Cir
culating notes TO the extent of 80
per cent. of the government bonds
deposited as security.
H. c. Annoy, the well-known
sheep king of New Mexico, commits
ted suicide, Thursday night, in Santa
Fe by shooting himself through the
body, the ball passing near the heart.
4 nioo nf lnun 10 caSA -
have been the cause.
The Maine Legislature (Republi.
CAM. has elected George G. Stacy,
Secretary of State; Fl. NJ. Plaisted,
Attorney General; B. B. Murray, Jr,
Adjutant- General 2. p. Burleigh,
Land Agent Silas G. Hatch, of
Bangor, State Treasurer.
The Pennsylvania coal operators
have made proposition to the min
ers to make the basis for their wages
during 1874 on slid ng scale, to go
as low as 1925. It is believed that
the miners will accept, and that no
trouble will occur in the coal region.
Manager Fox, of the American
Varieties Theatre, Philadelphia, who
was sued for payment OF State
license, has been found liable by the
jury. This was test case, and de.
cided number of other prosecutions
against theatrical managers in that
city.
Officials of the last Iowa legis.
lature are in CONSERVATION every the
discovery that an important law,
passed last wister, regulating the
disbursement of funds appropriated
to the State institutions, was stolen
and never was signed by the proper
officers or the Governor, and does
not appear in the published laws.
The Commissioner of the Gener.
q! Land Office has rejected the apph-
cation of the segregated Belcher
Mining Company for patent for a
claim on the ConstOck lode, for the