Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-10-06
WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW.



the Society of Friends, has been totally de-
siroyed by fire. II was insured for S150,00O,
which quite covers the loss, and will be re-
built Immediately.
A New YORK telegram of Sept. 30
says "Cyrus W. Field has collected 1924, 675
for the wife and children Of President Garfield
which can be devoted to no other purpose.
One check for $500 and another for $3.50 were
sent in yesterday for the aged mother OF the
President, and will be duly forwarded"
AT a meeting held in Pittsburgh of
the Western Nail Association trade was report
ed greater than it ever was before, and it was
decided to advance the price Is cents.
GoLD memorial medals, bearing on
one side the medallion of President Lincoln
and on the other the medallion OF President
Garfield, Will he issued from the United States
Mint at Philadelphia
john w. GARRETT, in q lengthy let
ter takes Issue with Vanderbilt on the ques-
tons connected with the present railroad war,
and announces that the Baltimore and the
Pennsylvania roads can take care Of their sec
ton.
THE WEST.
a CAR loaded with dynamite, resting
on the track near the Rock Island round
house, at Council Bluffs, exploded the other
day, demolishing four engines, freight-house,
Nh lcc-house, seven passenger coaches and
eighty freight cars belonging 10 the Rock Island
Railroad Company Some oil cars resting on
the track were set on fire, and the flames com
municatsd to some hOuses in the vicinity, and
seven Of them were burned to the ground. The
loss 10 the railroad is estimated at 800, 600
The Maxwell bandits have made their appear
ancc IN Calhoun county, III. An attempt to
capture them resulted III the killing Of Sheriff
John Lammie 4ud the wounding of John II.
Churchman and Frank McNeif. The Deputy
Sheriff OF Pike county, q. W. Roberts, pur-
sued the desperadoes, but was kept back by
steady firing.
TYPHo-MALARIAL fever, bilious collie
aud pneumonia are playing sad havoc among
the PERSONS rendered homeless by the recent
forest fires IN Michigan. MANY deaths have
already occurred ana several of the sufferers
are now lying at the point Of death. 1t is esti-
mated that 1t would take about g. 500. 900 to
place tLe unfortunate people in anything like
comfortable circumstances, and not one-tenth
OF that sum has been subscribed thus far. It
is 70 De sincerely hoped that the people Of the
United States, who have ever been foremost 10
succOr the unfortunate OF other countries, will
be no less generous to the unfortunate Of their
own.
A FEIGHTFUL accident happened on
the Dcs Moincs Northwestern marrow gauge)
railroad, in Guthrie county Iowa. CON
struction train, consisting Of locomotive, six
tlatcars and a cabo0se, which was carrying q
party to work on the line, left the rails and the
cab0ose was badly smashed. Three men we're
killed outright and thirty more or loss injured.
FoR the purpose of BUSTING some Of
the Duecors.-a meeting Of stockholders of the
Nevada and Oregon railroad was called at
Reno. Nfv Treasurer Coffin and two gentle
men from san francisco were ordered to re-
tire from the room, hut did not do so. In
second the n was filed with whistling bullets
fatrl wounds being inflicted upon d. w. Balch.
Of San Francisco, and Il. G.. ScOvill, Secretary
Of the company. The slceping-car st. Clair
running over the Canada Southern road was
flung Of the transfer boat into the
water IN the slip at Crosse isle near Detroit A
passenger coach following was nearly thrown
from tho steamer. Six passengers went down
with the sleeper, but all mnaculously escaped
unhurt "A dispatch from Camp Thomas, A.
L., announces that the murderous Apaches
who fired on Gen. Cars troops have nearly
all surrendered, and that military com
mission will shortly try the culprits.
A blll has been filed at Springfield ILL.,, to de-
clurc vold the issue Of $500 900 OF alleged
fictitious stock Of the Lake Erie ami Western
railway, and for the appointment OF a receiver
Ia lightning stroke at Sumter, Wis, killed
three horses, seven COWS and twelve hogs be-
longing to Isaac " Barr.
THREE-FoURTHs of the capital stock of
the Burlington road was represented at the an
nual meeting Of shareholders in Chicago A
resolution was passed that the track be ex-
tended TO Denver, to punish Jay Gould for
.ncroachments in Nebraska Bill Ryan, one
of tho james boys gang who participated in
the first Glendale robbery Of the Chicago and
Alton train has been convicted of the crime at
Indcp, ndcnce, Mo. and sentenced to twenty
five wears imprisonment. His conviction was
secured on the testimony OF Tucker Basham a
confederate III the robbery, and an ex-convict
The Northwestern depot at lexington.
Iowa. was struck by lightning, prostrating
eighteen men. Tho first one to recover con-
seriousness, thinking his companions beyond
recovery, dragged their bodies ont iuto the rain,
when all hut one were restored to activity
a herd of $4,000 cattle belonging to ]. G.
aud T.. 5. Jones, of Colorado, has been
roti to +. /. Underwood a Co, Of Kansas
civ for S625 900 ...I The widow of the late
Prsidcut Garfield has announced her inten-
tion TO permanently reside at Mentor.
A STRIP OF territory in the Cottonwood
valley in Kansas, thirty miles long by four
miles wide, was devastated by cyclone.
Twelve persons are known to have lost their
lives. A tor nado, which swept over Nebraska
on the morning Of the 30th ut, nearly demol-
tshcd the Town Of Madison. which has popu-
atipn Of l.OO0. and two persons are known 10
have lost their lives. In the village of Stanton
twelve buildings were blown down and twenty
persons injured.
Az Washington, Ohio, Presley Cowan
undertook to go up in balloon alone. Near
ing some frees, he got scared, tried to catch a
lrec-top and fen fifty feet to the ground.
HE furmCr WAT chief Of Victoria died al San
CutNs Reservation, aud his father applied for
Itltmssiun to XIII sguaw charged with be
Nuchug HIM John NJ Forbes resigned the
Presidency of the Burlington road, and
Charles l.. Perkins has been elected to succeed
him.
THE SOUTH.
A FERRY from the Isle of Hope
10 Skldaway island off the Georgia coast,
sprung leak about 200 yards from the shore.
The boat sunk in few minutes OF the eigh-
teen persons on board twelve persisted
HOLLANDS tobacco factory at Dan
yily, Va, valued at SG3,O0O has been burned
to The around.
The three robbers who captured and
robbed the train on the Iron Mountain road, al
Hop, Ark. have been captured and Jailed
Capt, Clark Hall. conductor ontho Iron Mount
ain road, followed the robbers with n posse t.
lhe village of Ben Iomond. in Sewer county
There the robbers separated, one going into
Texas and two into the Indian Territory. The
pursuing party divided, Capt. Hall following
tn, Itxas-bOuud robber. He came NJ
WIN the roober wbio the latter was
taking breakfast. Hall pulled down on hin
with doub.e-baucled shotgun. The robbel
surrendered. saying, III You had given me d
minutes more notice would have given you
lively dcal." The remaining two robbers wer,
followed IN the Iudian Territory and captured
with no trouble .. A shooting affair, in whicl
two mon were killed and one wounded, tool
place IN a Magistrates court of Burke county
Ga