Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-02-24

THE EAST.

Pa, for Aiken with 200 pounds Of nitro-glycer
inc in cutter. His horse evidently ran away,
as after an explosion only pieces Of flesh re-
NAMED OF the outfit. "A committee OF di- |
rectors Of the Permanent Exhibition Of Phila- I
delphia voted 10 sell the building, which was
the main structure of the Centennial
THE exports from New York since the
LIST Of January, exclusive of specie, are valued
at s51, 100000, against S42, 600 900 worth dur
ing the corresponding period Of last year, and
81, 000, 900 during the same period Of Is79....
by an explosion ut Logan Sons oil works at
Hunters Point, \. y, three men we're fatally
injured. The billiard match between Jacob
Tohaefer and william Sexton, in New York
city, resulted in favor of sehaefer, who won by
four points. Now Workers say it was the finest
game ever played.
The bark Hazard, Of Salem, Mass,
was wrecked of NaRtucket, and seven of her
crew drowned Pierce's Palace Hotel, Of
Buffalo, N. Y, one of the finest structures OF
the kind in the country, and valued at $780,
COO has been destroyed by fire. The Convent
Of the Good Shepherd. the principal female
Catholic school there was also burned. -.
The heavy ice blocks in New York lay and
Long Island sound have done much damage
70 the docks. Several Of them will have to be
rebuilt in consequence. -. Il Is reported from
New York that Jay Gould and Russell Sage
have obtained control Of the New jersey Cen
trail road.
An immense project has been under
taken by the firm Of Henry Disston & Sons
and other capitalists, of Philadelphia. 1t is to
drain and reclaim the vast tract OF swamp |
land In Florida known as "The Everglades" !
The capital stock Of the company is 10000 |
eco, and the work Is 10 be performed under |
contract with the State Of Florida. e.
Thomas Moore, Pr, sident Of the Youghiogheny |
Coal Company Of Pennsylvania, has given some |
spicy testimony before the Philadelphia Com |
mon Council committee to investigate charges |
against the management OF the gas works of |
that city. He agreed to supply the works with
coal at IS per ton, but his bid was rejected, he
having refused 10 make the bid SG10 and
divide the extra sl.10 per ton at the suggestion
Of "ring." The city has already lost $780,
600 through tho rascaty Of its officers in the
item Of coal alone.
The spinners and weaycrs of Fall
River, Mass, have decided TO inaugurate
strika ct from five TO ten mills The mill
owners have decided, if the persons employed
at some mills strike, 10 close out all the opera
tiyes. Smallpox has broken out in the
Massachusetts State prison. One of the
prison officials has been taken down with the
disease.
AT q meeting Of stockholders of the
Western Uaion telegraph held in New York, ii
was voted to water the stock to Ss0,000,O00
William S. Williams, who recently brought suit
against the corporation, voted 100 shares in
opposition to the scheme.
THE WEST.
THE terrible severity of the past win
Ter In Montana is thus stated by a correspond
emit in Helena, Mon, under date of Feb. 10
"Ths Territory will lose at least one-fourth Of
all its stock, both cattle and sheep. The snow
IN most places is three feet deep, and often
from nine TO twelve feet. Cattle with sufficient
remaining strength will often follow a load Of
hay 'oming into market fifteen and twenty
miles, with the hope Of catching stray bite
The streets are full of dying animals. Fifty
died the other day, all in one lot, Just outside
the town. fear this last snow will finish ALL
II has showed every day for seven days" ...
Since Dec. / over S1,000,000 has been dis
bursed for pensions at tho Chicago agency ....
bill has been presented in the Illinois State
Senate providing that children may be taken
away from drunken brutal or negligent par
ents, and placed under proper guardians.
SMALLPOX is raging at Calliope, q
village in Sioux county, Iowa. Sixteen cases
occurred there in one day recently. 1t is i'm
possible to obtain nurses to attend the sick or
undertakers to bury the dead After two
weeks struggle the Kansas Legislature passed
what is known as the Ironclad Temperance ILL
10y vote of I03 to Il.
EIGHTEEN THOUSAND families are suf-
fering in the Kansas counties of Pratt, Ellis,
Rush, Phillips, Graham, Decatur Norton,
sheridan, Trego and Osborne, and meas
ures arc being taken TO distribute the
e25,000 recently appropriated by the
State Legislature among them. Charles
Rwagnrt went uninvited to dance
ipfEIssGh6ttig sac l2gke COUNTY, Ohio. He fired
scnted his action, and shot him lad.
DoRAN V. KENNEDY, Postmaster ut
Farviow, Neb., has been lodged in jail al
Omaha on the charge of robbing registered
letters. He has confessed his guilt The
rharge Of II per car on grain loaded from the
Milwaukee elevators has been abolished
Belle Nichols, keeper Of a hagniO, at Munc O.
Ind, defending her door against Bill Wart and
lon Sutton, 10th drunk, discharged seven
chambers OF 22-caliber pistol at the as
satants. Sutton was MORALLY wounded.
A SAN FBANoIsco dispatch says that
after tho examination of $40 citizens, extend
ing over period OF twenty days, jury was
secured TO try Isaac KalIoch, the murderer of
Charles De Young. TRIAL was proceeded with
81 once. Tho murder was committed on the
23d day Of April Inst.
THE SOUTH.
THE Pope has appointed Vicar Gen.
oral Janssens, OF Richmond, Bishop of Natchez.
&c. Eeerez is to be Bishop Of San tnionio.
a tornado sweeping through tho p.nes of North
Carolina crushed rude hut occi pied by tur-
PEI ne makors, killing ten of them aud seri-
Ously wounding three others "A loss Of $50,
Ou0 was sustained at Charleston, s. c.. by the
burning Of two bag factories.
GEORGE T.. WEBsTER's cotton ware
house at Columbus, Ga, occupied by Allen &
Crawford, has been DESTROYED by fire. Loss.
$4,000. .Advices from Alabama show that
the murder OF the Rev. Mr. Pickens, late
Greenback candidate for Governor, was a
brutal assassination. Mr.. Pckens was acting
as peacemaker in a deadly quarrel between
two men, when one OF the bystanders shot
him down.
A NUMBER of Swiss farmers of the bet
ter class have determined to settle on land in
Eastern Kentucky. A number Of the colonists
have already arrived. The bulk OF them will
come in April. The proposed amendment TO
the constitution of West Virginia PROHIBITING
the manufacture or sale Of intoxicating drinks
was defeated in the Senate Of that Stale
Mn. JOHN HOWARD PARNELL, brother
to the Irish agitator, addressed Land-League
meeting at Atlanta, Ca, last week George
Ricke.t, his daughter Martha, and Peter Allen.
cOlored man, were drowned in a creek near
Wetherford, Tex, by the falling Of bridge
over which they were passing
Twenty-Five houses we're destroyed by fire al
ScottsborO, Ala, last week. AT the close of
the LarraGe murder trial ut Springfield. Tenn.
the mob rushed into the courtroom, took the
i've murdcrers b the yeranda OF the second
story Of the Court House. and hung them.
NEAR Milton, y. c., while boy
named Daniels was eating bis breakfast alone
IA his fathers house, large eagle awooped
down upon him through an open window. and
seized fish he bad in bis hand, which he was
about to put in his mouth. Quickly dropring
that the bird attacked Daniels, tesrins
his heeh from his back and face in a
fearful manner. lie made an attempt 10
defend himself. but was no match for the oaole
The boy was finally drag Ell ont Of the door
into the yard, where the stack was renewed
With heak and talons. Daniels called loudlv
for help. His father. who was in another parf
OF the house, answered his calls ut not know
ing what 10 make Of the singular fight. and. IS
be says. thinking 1t was the devil scampered
away as fast as his heels could carry him.
After desperate battleof nearly half an hour
the eagle finally struck q sharp stick in the
ground with Its neck and was fatally wounded
The boys injuries were Of very psin(ul ma
tnre, .kx0dus agents are distributing railway
tickets gratuitous'y snoag negroes in Southern
Tennessee.
POLITICAL.