Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-10-13

years, died recently, in Brooklyn.
The Crown Prince and Princess of
DenmarShave fallen heirs to a fortune
of SIS, 100000 by the death of relative.
Hon. j. w. Rewey has again been
nominated for the Assembly from the
southern Assembly District of Iowa
County.
Nelson w. Aldrich, of Providence,
r. L., has been elected to fill the senate
rial chair left vacant by the death of
General Burnside.
The son of Tom Sayers took profit by
the example of his father and eschewed
pugilism for music. He now ranks as
a very fine baritone.
If Dame Rumor is correct Litta is
soon to be married to Harry Cleveland,
the tenor. In such case false notes
may soon be expected.
Ex-Gov. Moses, of South Carolina,
was recently incarcerated in a New
York bastile on charge of swindling.
At his old tricks again.
Ella Giles, of Madison, a young lady
well known in literary and social cir
Giles, has gone to Meadville, Pa, to en-
ter upon course of study.
Franz r. Falk, son of the Milwaukee
brewer, will struggle for prospective
Treasurship honors in place of Colonel
Jacobs on the Democratic ticket.
Edwin Booth appeared for the first
time since his return from Europe.
Monday evening, Oct, 3, at Booth S
Theatre, in New York, as Richelieu.
The Crane family have had reunion
in New York. That city must have
been troubled to supply rooms of lofty
enough proportions for this convention.
Fletcher Harper, head of Harper
well known publishing house, died Oct.
4, at the age of seventy-five years. He
entered the house as a partner in 1925.
Geo. M. Scoville, Guiteau's brother
in-law, will act as his counsel and do
the necessary preliminary talking be-
fore that interesting rascal is sentenced.
Mrs. McGraw, who last year married
Prof. Fiske, of Cornell university, died
recently at Ithaca, leaving fortune of
$4,000 900. Still everyone cannot be
a professor
John A. Lansing, New York spirit
ualist, has been arrested in Boston un-
der charge OF embezzling $4,000 from
Mrs. Upham, who entrusted her prop
erty to Lansing and a confederate.
Another ''boy preacher has come to
grief. Rev. Geo. +. Meredith was re-
Gently expelled from the ministry by
the Central Illinois Methodist Confer
ence for falschood, drunkenness and
profanity.
Capt. A. n. Randall, of Brodhead, is
the nominee for State Senatorship on
the Republican ticket for the district
comprising Green and Lafayette coun-
ties Candidates were thick and it took
thirty-three ballots to do it.
Capt. Howgate has returned to Wash
ington. His search for the north pole
would seem to be unavailing had he not
forgotten to bring his pretty treasury
clerk back with him. This would in
dictate an intention on his part to re-
turn
lsIifondr OF the Gmrcn OF the Heavenly
Rest, in New York. St. Johns Church,
Washington, which he attended on the
day of President Garfield's funeral, was
formerly the favorite church of Presi-
dents Madison, Monroe and jackson.
W. A. Simmons, Buffers pet collect
tor for the port of Boston, and whose
appointment occasioned such excite
ment in that city several years ago, has,
after numerous speculations that filled
his pockets, drifted into the manage
ment of penny evening paper in Bos-
ton, and is one of the solid men of the
city.
Kate Kane, Milwaukee's lady lawyer,
has brought suit for damages against
ex-Sheriff Van Vechten. alleging that
he ''maliciously, willfully and wrong
fully injured her in her profession by
refusing to allow her to see clients in
carcerated in the jail and in other ways.
The lady has lawyer-like instinct for
working up business.
Abdul Hassan Bey, an Egyptian Off
cial who lately visited General Merrill,
of Andovcr, N. H., has presented to his
host slight acknowledgement of his
hospitality in the shape of a mummy of
a princess of the house of Rameses III.
Abdul Hassan has rather "got the
bulge on the boys in this respect. 1t
isn't every one that can give mummied
princesses IS presents.
The first woman lawyer to startle the
Hub out of its equaninity is Miss Leila
j. Robinson, who has lately hung out
her single on Boston street just the
same as if she wore pantaloons, smoked
cigars and attended caucuses. Instead
of dusty papers and old tobacco ouids
mingled in hazy and uncertain per-
spective, her Office contains a bird-cape.
lace curtains, flowers and other neces-
sary adOrnments of the modern Black
stonian school.
Miss Vanderbilt, the only unmarried
child of William II. Vanderbilt the rail
road magnate, will be led to the altar
by DIR. Seward Webb, son of General
James Watson Webb, the veteran ex-
journalist late in the fall or early in
the winter. Another equally interesting
event is the marriage of August Bel
mont. Jr., the bankers Youngest son.
and Bessie Morgan. daughter Of Edward
Morgan. Both families are very
wealthy
Henry f. Durant, well known as the
founder of Wellesley College, forladies.
in Norfolk county. Massachusetts, died
at Boston Monday evening, aged about
40. His name was originally Henry
Welles Smith, but IN 1852 it was
changed to that given above. He was
4 native of Lowell, graduated at Hair
ward in 1871, and studied law with Gen.
Butler. He was one of the leaders of
the Boston bar but abandoned his pro-
fession to engage in the rubber trade.
in which he amassed large fortune.
Two women have been made doctors
Of natural history in the University at
Rome. One of them. Catherine Magis-
treli, is said to be brunette, pretty.
and twenty-three years of oge. She
draws moderate stipend specially con-
tributed by the province of Mantua.
The other lady, Evangeline Botters, is
also twenty-three, modest and self
possessed, and the owner of chestnut
hair and charming eyes. The Italian
Minister of the Interior has granted a
stipend Of 600 lire (about Si20) to each
of the ladies to encourage them in the
prosecution of their studies.