Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-02-03
WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW.
THE EAST.

THE EAST
A DUTCH emigrant named Roeloff
ON Barren, who has been living on charity IL
New Haven, Ct, Is said to have fallen heir to
an estate vaiued fomee here from $25 0O0, 900
TO $40, O00,000. The MAY or of Hamburg is one
OF the bearer of TIE GLAD tidings. The name
OF tie accumulation OF the fortune was Heinrich
Spier, and among the lttn are seventy ships
and number OF ship Yards. Owing to fatal
ARRAY With af-brotber, Won Barren dare not
return ~ Hollaud.
SENATOR HALL has introduced, in The
Pennsylvania Legislature, bill to declare for
feited the telegraph property aiming at con-
soiidation in defiance of the provisions of the
State constitution.
Mrs. VALERA STONE, OF Boston, in
distributing the remainder of her husbands
estate, has given $4,000 each to colleges at
Crete, Neb.; Topeka, KAN; and Colorado
Springs, Col. Her benefactions amount to
Sl,793292. Catherine Crane, New York
clearinghouse keeper, was fatally shot by
printer named William. Liadrum. whom She
had elected. A mass Of coal and rock, esti-
mated at 1900 tons, fell IN the Empire mines
at WilkesbaTe, Pa, burying Morris and Thos.
Evans.
TEE dry-goods store of Robert Cor
don, at oswego, N. Y, burned, the estimated
loss being $3.50 IA slx-story building at
365 and 367 Broadway, New York, occupied by
several dry goods and importing firms,
has been partially burned. The losses
aggregate about 100000. .Ex-Goy. sprague
has filed his .oss- bill in the suit
for divorce brought by his wife. He dc
clares that she has committed adultery, has
driven her eldest son out of doors, and per-
sistently squandered his property, embarrass-
ing him in his efforts to extTieate himself from
his pecuniary siraits as well as persisting in
course Of slanderous and obscene language
toward him.
THE six day go-as-you-please contest
for the O'Leary belt in New York was won by
John Hughes, THE Lepper," with score OF
$685. miles, which is the beat on record.
O'Leary has entered him for the nsat Asst e.
belt contest in England. The other comp,ti-
tors who shared IN the gate money. and their
icJres ire Albert, 55S miles Vint, $50
mics; Krohnc, $40 miles; Howard, 5155S
m les This was an astonishing race no less
than five men GOV ring more than 500 mixes
each, three Of them equaling or beating Yves
tons great performance OF $50 miles,
and one OF them all previous records
Being ambitions IN judicial way, Nh. Thorn
ton offered TO strvo as Judge OF Sullivan
county, n. Y, for 81 200 per year, the salary
Bang $500. This pledge to taxpayers IN ad-
vance OF election IL held by the courts u be-. IL
tcat on the bench. Selma P.t,rs, aged H.
was killed, and several cOmpanioss seriously
injured, while costing al Bayside, n. j.
THE WEST.
A PARTY Of friends of the late james
Bowers, OF worthington, Ohio, undertook to
watch over his corpse for a night, and wer,
startled at hearing noises in the room whtrt
he was lmd out Cautiously entering Tia,
anrfr ont hrtF fNatN ioa~ al.
had the c. fin halfway nut OF al open window.
The widow Of Prot W .tAon. tho astroI oner
will contest his will, which left his fortune o
the Advancement of science. "A broth, al
Secretary Of War Ramsay committed suicide nj
NJ Paul, MINI. Burglars ovtrpoNprtd and
found the Waterman III the Office of the Union
Iron and Steel Company, Chicago, blew open tn,
safe, helped themselves to $4,000 in cash, am
made good their escape
The fifteenth annual meeting of the
Northwestern Dairym,n MS Association will l..
held at GAINESVILLE Wis, on the Sth, 9th al,
10th Of February. A cordial invitation l.
extended TO all daTymen, butter and cheese
manu- acturers, dealers, mdIluinctur r. of da =,
implements, and al ohers intcrested in thu
great aud growing industry TO lie present "a,
this Occasion.
]. NJ. SMITH, Cashier Of the Bank Of
Kansas ity, started to desc nd bluf BY
stairs which had rec ntly been removed,
which fact he was ignorant. He fell sixty f.,
TO the railroad track, and fata ly injured
LEVI u. LETTER has withdrawn from
the great Chicago dry-goods house II Fed
Letter & Co., and the remaining partners vii
continue lusine under the name of Marshall
Field a Co. Its chief oundeis, VITO are onls
about 40 years Of age, ara credited with the
Possession OF sG,O0O,0OO each. joint reso-
luton expressing sympathy for the suf-
fering pee pie in Ireland, and inVif-
ing them TO emigrate to this country,
was adopted by the Michigan Legislature
Commodore Davidson and others have filed
with the Secretary of State at st. Paul, articles
for company, with S2,000.U00 capital, TO i'm
prove the water power at Sank Rapids.
Smallpox has broken out III the penitentlary VI
Fort Madison, Iowa, and the foremen on on
tract work have fled in fright. Lieut.. Arcli-
bald Gibson, OF the seventh cavalry, Gied in st.
Louis from congo stion Of the BRAIN, caused by
the bite Of spider when q cadet at West
Point.
PRoF. RILEY warns the people of Mar
quette and Green Lake counties, Wis.,, that
the seventeen-year locust Will appear there this
summer. he thirteen-year brood Will Visit
Southern Illinois.
The farmers of California are endeav-
oring 10 dispose of their wheat at a remunerat-
i've price. All the ships to arrive for three
months are under charter, and negotiations
with the Central and Southern Pacific roads
have not resulted satisfactorily. Farmers Can
not sell their grain at present rates without
loss, and the banks cannot forclose loans
made without creating panic. j..
The picture-frame factory of Sammons CLARK
Il Co., on South Clinton street, in Chicago, has
been burned. Tho los, Is estimated at S27, 600
-Four trick blocks at South Bend, Ind
have been almost destroyed by fire. the loss
being estimated at $4,000.
ALBERT p. and Charles j.. Talbo.t
have been convicted and sentenced to death al
Marysyile, Mo-, for having, in September last
murdered their own father, who, at that time
the editor Of Greeuback paper ut Mar, $.
vile. Du,ing the year 1881, 10,462 persons
died in Chicago, of whom 1882 were born II
the United States, 1,CS9 in GERMANY and 7S(
In Ireland. The mortality among tho infant,
was dsproporti)uately large-there wer,
S,liI deaths Of children under / year. The
utalh rete for the year was 20.79 per 600 in
habItants, While in 1879 ii was only 1901
California has been Vi tied by the heaviest rail
experienced SINCE 1861, 1t spread along ncarl,
the Whole Pacific coast, and has done immense
damage at Beuecia, Nepa and Santa Cruz
q, u. John Love, Of Indianapolis, gallaui
officer IN the Mexican war and during the Re
belion, died at indianapolis of heart disease
49,. .Uud the st malus of a Lounty of SOS
wolf mining is the chef amusement at Pal
nyra, Wis. .StosK men from the ranges il
Western Nebraska report great loss of catiI,
from stolms and SNOW.
THE SOUTH.