Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-01-27
WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW,


THE EAST
THE New York Board OF Health hes
passed very stringent ordinance to prevent
the spread OF infectious or contagious disease.
II makes II misdemeanor. punishable by fine
OF $3.50, TO hold public or church funeral over
the remains Of any person vino dies from
smallpox, diphthelia, scarlet fever yellow
fever, typhus fever, or Asiatic cholera.
A FIRE at Lynn, Mass, burned A. B.
Martins morocco mandatory AID the ole
Revere Beach Depot, and damaged seven
dwellings, The total loss Is S130. eco. Three
hundred men are thrown out OF employment
-. .Coasting on the mountain roads in Penn
sylyania is very dangerous Two ladies were
killed near Centralia, Pa, by the sled striking
telegraph pole.
francis b. BooTH and his wife Eloise,
an aged couple in New York, were found in
bod periAhing from hunger. They had teen
III for thirty days, and had eaten nothing Ter
nine days Their recovery is d0Hbtiul. Mr..
Booth was once wealthy but l0st lis money III
specutations. "A fire 1t Wilton, n H., dc.
stroyed thirteen stores, bank, and several
ofices, tile loss being $4,000.
Nav York dispatches state that the
indignation aroused in tbs community b. the
scheme to consolidate tho Western Onion,
American Union, and Atlantic and p4ei6c
Telegraph Companies is cf the most intense
description. The dOBn-to&n merchants par
ficuIarly are IN ear4est IN thelr deter
mioatson not to submit 10 tle I'M losi-
uoa which will b. insNi able trd +
70 secure money enough TO pay dvidea
On watered capital Of Ss0.0QJ,010. an
many Of them expr, ssei tJei rea diatss TO sub
scribe toward the construction ui O NOW sSstela
OF Lines, which will lie 30 organized rs to l1ul
II Impossible that IL will ever he absorbed by
any Other company. q. Juns Never, OF NeA
York. was fue'i $3.50 AMI sent t, tsc psniten-
tiary Tor thIt mouths 70 using dscaved meat IN
the manufacture OF sausagus. . The o1si h
was placed ON lis pedestal III Central H. Tx, New
York, bist week. Secfetaliss Eyars ana d0ii
AMI Gen. Arthur were IN attendance.
beside a large crowd OF spectators.
A frightful aceiieat occurred on the Ere IL
road nea OwegO, n. y. The axe Of ono O
the driving wheels Of the locomotive broke, and
the entife express train, going 1t tue rate ol
thi-ty-nve miles ali hour, was thrown lIoai tht
track. The engine Kept it, ieat, and the en-
Elnesr aud hreman ESCAPED ulin! Lrcd, but the
Forward cars were turned over md over
Ine postal car caug lit fire and four N, lin
cserAs were burned to death. A hole was cut
N the door OF the express, ear and Tie Iaessel
ger put his head out, but c1ull not extIi5att
his Lody. The trsiu men trsd to pull hin out.
but were drtS Ell Lack by the flames, and they
paw HlLl sAOhLf buIu 10 GEhLil. IHGfG MtfE
n ne passenger coaches, bat nome Of tic pas-
SINGERS sustained any injury
THE WEST.
DPHTHERIA is raging in the vicinity
Of Valparaiso, Ind, with virulenco that a.
most equals that Of the yellow fever. Chauncy
Gaylord, residing near Chiisman station, bur-
led five children III one grave a fendish
4raa II.
mind, was perpetrated at Lapeer Mich. AIiR.
T. Z. Barnard has for soIns months follower
the mOgem nts OF Rov. l.. S. Curtis and wife
During the absence OF the paAtLr at
church, Mle. Barnard went to his resi-
dence, charged his wife with having
wronged her. threw gasoline over the vener-
able lady, and sct Il Oh tire, returning to
church and joining in the hsmhs ri praise
Tho dying lady gave tho details as her liio
ehbed out. The mur1eress was placed In Jail
-. During the progress OF a dance ut Las
Mulas, Mexico. hsnt occurred between Mex
leans and Americans, in which two of the latter
and one OF the former we're Killed -
Philip j. kreiger, Jr., formerly Cashier OF the
Broadway Savings Bank, st. Louis, killed him.
self with morphine at the Western Hotel III
Tint city. He had wrecked the bank and mis-
appropriated school funds, rliining his father
financially Samuel Smart, the 1t OF a rich
and prominent family of Ci,cleville Ouio hay
ing spent fortune in two years of dissipation
blew out his brains.
A WIDOW named Matilda Scott, her
grown daughter Maria, aud an adopted son
named Charlie Good, residents of Plain City.
Ohio, were murdered by Robert Garner, who il
under arrest Garner was in love with Maria
Scott, who refused his addresses, and it il
supposed that in revenge he outraged her and
then killed the whole family 10 shiell himself
from the consequences Of tho crlme Ms
s0uri Paeido engineers are engaged in survey
lug o route southwest from Parsons, Kan, to
the Mexican border.
THE Keokuk Northern Limo Packet
Company has made au assignment of its prop
esty TO Charles Green, OF st. Louis. The
concern owned fourteen steamboats, and thirty
barges, and Its liabilities are over s200, 600
Adyices from the West report that fifty LODGES
OF Sitting Bulls Indians are now OH the way to
Fort Buford TO surrender, and forty more
lodges, under Sitting Bull, have left the mouth
Of the Milk river for Canada. OF his band OF
1000, Sitting Bull has less than 800 men,
women, and children with him.
THERE have been great floods in Ore
gon and Washington Territories. very warm
rain fell in torrents for over thirty hours,
melting the large quantities Of snow which had
fallen early Ia the winter, and swelling the
rivers TO an unusual height The
Loss Il estimated at 5000, 900. 49,
The Illinois State Grange adopted resolutions
demanding tho passage by Congress of the
Reagan Interstate Commerce bill Two
freight trains c0llided on the Lake Shore road
at Clayton, Mich. Both engines and twelve
III were wrecked, and one man killed.. The
receipts of tho city of Chicago for the year
1880 were S7,726,594, and the expenditure
G7,6t9,il9
THERE has been fled in the Recorders
Office at Chicago general mortgage from the
Wabash, st. Louis and Pacific Railway Com
pany to the Central Trust Company. of New
York. and James Cheney, of Indiana (trllsteesl
for S50, OoO, 0O0, the mortgage 10 run Tor forty
years, with interest ut 8 per cent. per annun.
payable on the LIST day Of June and December.
IN the city Of New York, in gold. a
train on the Rock Island road struck
broken rail near Tiskilwn, H..
and the coaches were dragged over
the ties aud rollel down an en-
bnnkment The first car was set on fire by liz
stove. Mrs. Mary A. Kirby, of Wyandotte,
OHIO, was burned to death. and thirteen 9TH
ers were so badly injured that they could not
proceed. .Father Edward Purcell, a brolhes
- the Archbishop of Cincinnati, died Of pne,l-
monia Mt the Ursuliae conveNt in Brown
county, Otio. He was the manager OF
the church banking business which end.
ed in such disastrous eollause
-.
South Canal street, Chicago, has burned, caus-
ING loss OF about $1,000 During tie con-
migration the south wall If the struotu fell
partially burying la the ruins fifteen firtaneI
and pohce.nan. Two of the hremen were fat, !
y and nearly all the others severely Injured
Frederic kester was hanged at Danville ILL.,.
Tor the brutal murder OF Ills wife. Tie crimt
was committed on the night Of Aug. 9. 1879, lii
farm house near Buckley. Iroqnois county.
Z. Il. Bkckus q merchant OF Independeslce
Iowa, went TO the grave of his wife and Shol
himself in the temple A gambler named T.
q. Watson shetland killed n soldier of COMPANY
+, Sixteenth infantry, ct San Angelo, Texas.
REPoRTs from the southern parts OF
Inliana. Illinois, and contiguous territory, re-
eeived at the Evansville Courier of6ca, state in
almost entire failure Of Che whole crop in the
sections named, owing 10 late planting and the
carly and hard winter. large portion of the
wheat land being a mass of ice with
the seed frozen out Reports say that not
over hith OF tho crop eau be MAJ,
uneer tile most favorable circumstances.
Aug istus p. I.adew di,d at Atlanta, Ill, from
an overdose OF OPIUM He was engaged i,
bnAna with Horace Greeley and Robert Dali
Owen in New York, in 1920 and was 4 we'll
known type-fouudsr IN ST. Louis in later years.
He lost has fortune in purchasing the ST. Niah-
olas Hotel, az Bloomington, III.
THE SOUTH.
LYNN SMITH JONES, LII. D., one Of
the most prominent physicians in Virginia, l.
dead
Miss WEKTs, white girl of Pros.
perity, s. O., was outraged and murdered by