Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-12-23
TOWN AND COUNTY:
Big bargains in vases, toilet sets and
fancy pnoda ~ Crannasa

short visit.
-"ToY HEADQUARTERS" at II. p
Greenes, with Ohio cider, fresh oysters and
the choicest of candy, nuts and cigars.
Il. ]. Arthur reports a new candidate for
the Presidency at his house The candidates
running weight starting out on the race is
nine pounds.
The thinnest and seftest thing that pas
ses for newspaper, aud the least liable to
leave an impression if it hits man on the
head, is the Dodgeville Chronicle.
We hear that the Methodists will have
Chri:,=.a tree at the church tomorrow
evening christmas evs), in the enjoyment of
which everybody is invited 10 participate.
A poem BY WILD BIRD, commemorative
The most universal holiday of the year, is
given on the FIRST page. Also HERALD read
ersare furnished with good Christmas story,
by home author.
Two mail and passenger trains now
leave Lancaster daily. The train for Galsna
leaves at 10 a. m. and arrives at p. m. The
leaves at l;50 p. m.
Last Tuesday John Wright of this plsce
was brought before the city council on a
charge of violating saloon licnnse. His Ii.
cense was revoked, and the council refused
to grant him new one.
Most Perfect of Juvenile Magazines, us
what the Detroit FIRES Press calls 81. Nicholas.
Aad what big thing it is, to be sure, to be
cai!ed Juvenile" If it isn't full grown,
wonder what t will be when it is senie.
Bachelor Brown-no, il is J. B. Brown
editor Of the Galsna Gazette, has rece lived
tie appointment Of Postmaster of Galena.
He has been doing good Republican work
for many years and the appointment falls to
him legitjmately.
Tuesday Charley Fritz, of Fennimore.
was arrested ond brought to Lancaster on a
charge Of highway robbery. The charge is
that he knocked down and robbed drunken
man Of bis poeket-book on his way home.
He is in Jail awaiting trial.
Next Saturday being Christmas the
monthly market is postponed for two weeks
We understand that considerable business
was done last market day. Mr. Gingrich
sold some sheep; Mr.. Bidwell sold sle!ghs
and cutter; Mr.. Graham sold a good horse to
DR.. Smith, and Mr.. Fitch sold one to Mr.. Fl.
Austin So that Notwithstanding adverse
circumstances, the market may be considered
permanently established. The next market
day viii be Saturday, January sth.
The following letter is supposed to have
been written by Lancaster youth who went
down to Indiana to school, little while ago:
"Dear Father 81 like college first rate, but
it will be two weeks before can feather an
oar just right. Tell mother to send me a
doubesoled pair of pants | slid for third
base on my best, and they look like cam
2aign banner after gale. It's lucky prac-
ticed on your meerschaum before | came It's
awful strong tobacco they sell here. Affec>
.ionatey your son, James Fresh"
One thousand dollars we're offered for
the capture of the villain who attempted the
assassination OF Judge Page, at Austin, Min,
nesota. Page himself it seems suspected
family named Riley had something to do with
it. Without knowing this fact, how ever, an
officer named Clay, of the Waupun peniten>
tiary, wrote to Judge Page that aman named
John Riley had just previously served cut
fifth sentence in that prison and there were
circumstances led him to believe this Riley
was bis assassin. One of Pinkerton's detec-
tiSes was put on this scent and Jack Riley
was tracked into and out of Austin at about
the time of the assassination. He had no
money when he left Wisconsin he had as
much as nine hundred dollars when he re-
turned The day he got out of the peniten~
tisry, his brother Frank, saloon keeper Of
Austin was at Waupun with "Jack" and be.
tween them word reached the ears Of one or
two persons that Frank had "job' for Jack
to DO at Austin. He denies having been in
Minnesota at that time but his denial tends
against him for the evidences that he was
there are demonstrative. A month after the
shooting was done a gun was found under
sidewalk not far from Pages-clearly the one
used TO do the shooting. This gun had be-
logged to a dealer in Austin named Jones.
Jsck Riley. in talks with the detective, gave
tho connection with this gun by saying that
th.-e was more against Jones in the Page
matter than there was against him. Jack
Riey is desperately bad character. The
"business" carried on by him and his wife
was keeping house of i'll fame. He is pro-
fessonal thief, burglar and cut-throat. His
brother Frank is a hard case also and Page
has connected him and another brother, Tom,
with very bad acts Tom is detective
aud a deputy sheriff of Mower county. They
both figure conspicuously in conventions and
caucuses, and the backing one received as a
delegate in a convention where Page was also
delegate made Page withdraw with some
OF hI friends from the convention. This
WAS, we understand, preliminary to toe nom-
inatiou OF DunnelI, for Congress. The SYM
pathies Of the majority of the people of Now
er county have been against Page, the poli-
ticiaus especially, and the Pioneer Press, and,
a. eve here, many people of good intent,
lack mtnhOod TO stand oat against the loud
mouthed blubbers who, thus countenanced,
manipulate the offices to their corrupt uses
They have even gone 80 FIR as 20 say that
Page had himself aSsassiuated. A six inch
charge of large shot and heavy slug were
fred into his head neck and shoulders, some
shot goirg so deep that they cannot be re.
moved, and the circumstances 10 every way
showing that his life was saved by what may
well be called a miracle, and yet people who
call themselves respectable viii say he did it
himself, and have so far given their sympa-
thies to the loa,hsome fellow charged with
the crime and to his vile friends who evident
" provoked ard insligatcd the crime. Page
has been 'down," in the accepted use of .hs.
word, but he is coming up. Papers that havs
been timid are beginning to be bold for him.
Rloy's examination resulted in holding him
for '-ial. He is in jail unless he can furnish
$4,000 bail. The Minneapolis Tribune which
never sided in th, case, says the examination
"his convinced even the dearest of Mr..
P.rq's foes first that Mr. Poe did not shoot