Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-12-29
WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW,
TIE EAST.


THE EAST.
JOHN A. INGRAM, miner residing at
Mount Union, Pa, placed small quantity Of
dynamite on the stove TO melt the ice. Almost
instantly there was an explosion like an earth
quake. -Four children we're blown to atoms
and the father and mother were fatally injured.
S1Ro DELMoNIoo, who recently be-
came tho head Of the famous clearinghouse in
New York, died of apoplexy the other day.
leaving Charles Delmonlco, a bachelor, the last
Of the family on this side OF the Atlantic
Miss LEILA OsGooD VANDERBILT,
Youngest daughter of the millionaire was mar
roi 0 DR.. W. S. Webb, son of Gen. j. w.
Webb, at 81. Bartholomew Church. New York
city. Tie bride was atared in one OF Worth's
MASTERPIECES OF silver sstin en- traine richly
ooorusd with lace aud Topped with diamonds
1t Is iumOred that her well-to-do pspa made
her a P.essut OF S5m,0JO house and $3.50. 90
In cash ION the nail" OtAer wedding presents
wee Of the richest kind.
PIG-IRoN sold at Pittsburgh, the other
day, at S26 per ton, aud bar-iron will be sd-
vsnced to cents at the next meeting of the
ASSOCIATION "A syndica Q Of members of the
Manhattan Club OF New York has purchased
BOoh's Opera H0u-e from the estate OF Cakes
Am,s, paying $3.50 900.
TEE WEST.
THE school-house and farmhouse at
the Wichita Agency, in Indian Territory, we're
destroyed by an inccn iiary fire, eighty pupils
escaping in their night clothes
Two passengers on Hannibal and st.
Joseph train drew reviewers and demo nded tho
money OF the passengers. Conductor Bushnell
and tie train crew threw the ruff as into the
ditch at Utica, and sent back men TO arrest
them.
A FIRE in West Bay City, Mich, which
burned three business blocks and destroyed
the public records, caused loss OF So, 0O0 on
which thoIe was $4,000 insurance.
ADvIcEs received at the Indian Office
in Washington are to the effect that smallpox
is rapidly spreading among the Indians in the
belt ~ country extending from Montana to
Idaho.
THE SOUTH.
THE bodies Of three Mexicans, who
had been robbtng travellers near San Antonio,
were found hauling to tree. German far
ncrs Of that section are believed TO have done
society this favor.
A COMMITTEE of the Arkansas Legis-
lature, appointed last winter to investigate the
backs Of state Treasurer Churchill, now Gov
Churchill, has made report showing short
age in Chucchil!s accounts Of from t75, 600 to
100000 Gov Churchill says that the discrep-
aucy Is apparent and can etsily be explained by
HIM il arises, he SAYS, from the fact that GER
TAN bonds ordered burned had through mistake
been charged to HIM.
WASHINGTON.
ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL HAT
ToN has decided that advertising, insurance
and other sheets OF a similar character shall
not be- admitted to the mails as second-class
matter.
Mr.. JOSEPH X. MCCAMMoN, Commits
Fioner Of Railroads IN his annual report to the
Secretary Of the Interior, says that the iudi-
catious are that within a short time there will
be five different routes TO tho Pacific coasl,
where les, than yonr ago there was bnt one
The tendency Is toward increased Developments
prime patly IN the Wpst and South. II Is believed
that operations IN railroad construction this
year viii exceed any previous ye.r....
An effort IS being made by the Southtiu me,u-
bers Of Congress 20 pressure the repeal Of the
law restricting the sale OF tohaccoin the pl mt.
ers' hands, and several bills have boon intro
ducea vita IA general purpose. Some OF the
Sou hern men favor the repeal Of al the IL
terealregt4ue laws.
ALL the jmymen IN the Guiteau case
attended the iuero+ Of tho wifo OF Juror
IIobhs They were accompanied bv Dep
uty Marsha! and BaI.n
PRESIDENT Arthur LEFT Washington
on the 23 OF December for New York. It is
seid that b. wae guarded by three detectives,
employed by oyrrl, a!ous friends vlnle on the
way 10 NV Aa.5....ih" wi'a Of ex-Just ce
Swaouc. x N Y itod ~t4tcs Supreme Court,
d'ed IL Wellington r." DAYS ago.
POLITICAL.
II. Fl. RIDDLEnEBGER, the Readius-
ter cond dat. FOR Sluator from vit,iaia IN Con-
Rrcs-, received tie saud vote OF the General
Assembly 1T EchuuI,.i.
THEHE is very general dissatisfaction
among Cougressmen 1t the make-up OF the
Congressional committees. The Western
Representatives. say that tt East has re-
ceNod tie most nay ltant Chaiman-hips
Rui the hou's shulc Of tho good comm tees
TIE ne" YORK. meu are anery btc8n.e New
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