The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-14
SUMMARY OF THE :! NEWS.

f. *Dulnth's ice blockade was still Sin
force, z, on the Sd inst.
A Viola amazon was fined $l4.98 for
pounding neighbor, recently. +
A little girl was crushed to death by
atalling tree, at Wolf Creek, Wis, last week.
A Swede was frozen to death near
Denver, in Colorado, in the middle of the
month Of May.
The lightning struck an Oil City oil
tank, the other day; causing an extended
confagration and loss Of 100000.
An old gentlemansxwas crossing a
bridge on the railroad track, near Albert Lea,
Mimi, when a train struck him causing IN III.
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A Belleville, Ill.., man shot his wife
and child and then himself. An died in
stantly, though not found for two or three
days. Cause, poverty. ~~~
The boiler of the Collier white lead
works, in St. Louis, exploded and seriously
injured a number of workmen and causing a
oss of over 1000. q ~
The deputy Z. S. Marshal for middle
Tennessee while on trial for obtaining money
under false pretenses, drew a revolver and
shot himself dead. He was originally from
Dayton, Ohio.
Two clerks in the State department
of Pennsylvania, were recently arrested on
complaint Of Gov. Hartranft for an attempt to
detraud the State out of $1,000 due from the
city of Scranton.
A duel was fought at River Bend,
near Denver Col, Oh the Sth inst, between
two men named Jessup and Davis. The
and the latter with Colts navy revolver Jes-
sup was killed on the second round.
Two well-dressed men calling them
selves R. and F. Griswold, were lately az
rested i'll St. Louis, for carrying on a bogus
commission business. They sent circulars
all over the west and northwest soliciting con-
signments of butter, eggs ETC., and Offering
extraordinary inducements.
Personal. lmpersonal and Political.
The Florida Republican convention
had split.
Dr.. j. G. Aver, the patent-medicine
man, has been placed i'll an insane asylum.
1t is now reported that the eldest
son Of the late sultan Of Turkey has COM
mitted suicide.
Young Mccormick, son Of the reaper
man, was lately married to the daughter of
Joseph Medill, editor Of the Chicago Tribune
The affair was quite notable in Chicago society
matters, and the number Of distinguished
guests present at the ceremony was large.
Senator Morton having been publish
ed physical wreck, for the purpose of les
sening the ct ances of his nomination at Gin
cinnati, his family physician, DR.. Bliss, an
nounces that his prospects for a long lite are
as good as those OF any other man of his
years.
Abdul Aziz, the dethroned Sultan of
Turkey, locked himself in his room, on the
morning Of the 5th inst, and committed sui
eide by opening the veins Of his arm with a
pair OF scissors which he had concealed on
his person. The funeral was attended by all
the public officers OF rank, and the body laid
in the Mansoleum Of Sultan Mohammed
Democrats of Indiana have bolted
the nomination of Buskirk and Petit, and
will hold convention for the nomination of
candidates in their places. Petit is the can
didate for justice of the Supreme bench, who
so shamefully interrupted a religious meet
ing, not long since, and cursed the minister
while the latter was praying.