Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-01-20
WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW


lie Qeatn IS announced OF Hon. John {
d. Brown, the wealthest citizen OF Portland, /
Me, who was prominent in the construction of I
ali the rtilways In thar State AMI a director Ia
the chief manufacturing enterprises.
Mas. EGERToS and her 2-year old son
were burned to death in Washington n ]. A
eoal-oil lamp exploded and Sc; fire 10 their
clothing. A negro 10y Of Philadelphia, 3
Years old, heated poker 70 red-hot heat and
killed bate By putting down its throat the
burning iron.
MIS-. SToSg, the well-knovn i6dy phi
lln.hropist of Boston, has made the following
bequests in addition to a great ninny previously
announced: To The Hampton institute. Fortress
Monroe, Va; Oivet CVlsEe, Ohyet 3ich;
lipOn College Rpon, Wiz; Illinois Ctlege
Jacksunyllei BelUit Co!legr. 3 hit VIZ;
and Robert College, tonstantinople, s2o,p5u
each to Marietta College. Marietta, Ohio,
aud i rea College, Bcrea, n.y., 10000
each She gives s25,iA0 10 tho Howard
Cnlyersty at Washington, Sl5,4DJ for evan
geilcal work in France and 1880 10
tho New York Eds at onsi Comah,sion. 49,.
~ Petersboro, \. r.. H1teh Welsh liieI
h's life and cut Ing own throat. One mar
WIS Killed and two fataiy brrned by n explo-
SION IL . celluiOid factgry &. NcwburypOn,
Mass
EDWARD BERHHAEDT, who murdered
hs wife, was hanged at the Jail on Staten
island, n. Y. As bis body was jerked into the
AR tae undertaken Tell IN fainung ut.
A FGTE-sToBY building on Corilandt
ttre,t, Nov York belonging to the Vanderbilt
estate, and occupied By Brun 8 Sons, dealers
IN musical instruments, and by the Waterbury
Clock c. nrany, was almost totally Gtstrol ed
b. the REQ .nlly. The loss to the clock con-
pADy estimated az S75 90.
TEE WEST.
MILE. SARA BERNuAnDr is creating as
grcs. furoie in Chicago as in the cities size
has previously visited IN America. the advance
sale Of sea being far ahead of that at
tending any former Tresen' alton to the public
81 the Western metropolis. Manager Nc
wicker has nearly 'reyeited the securing Of
the best seats by t.ckot spectators Ly his r,gu-
tiGn ot voniai's private character Is none
o! their business - Probably larger amount or
money viii 10 taken il than ct any previous
twelve ptrfoi mancos IN the history Of Chicago
amusemcntA
A SHOCKING accident, by which two
estimate ladies' lost their lives, Is reported from
Iiayane, Ohio. Mrs. c. G. Galley ana Mrs. T.
-. Ellis were riding i'll q sleigh. Approaching
the baitlmOrG and Ono railway through cut
In the road. the bells drowned the noise of the
epfilO itlAuB AOCDluOuNA Win chpJcfc. Inc
puttcr and locomotive reached Tho crossing at
tie same time. Mrs. Galley, ~ i9g her peril
stood up ia tho sleigh and was struck by tho
pilot Ia such manner that she Was thrown
oStf the cab OF tho engine and fol- in the arms
OF the fireman, standing on tho tender Mrs
FILLS was thrown forty feet. Both ladies
were killed The horse was also killed
and tie cutter ground TO fragments ~
DIR. Patton, tho chemist II the Chic 80 Health
Department, has aislyzed sample OF Lakr
Michigan. He finds it comparatively free II ON
, Organic matter, but strongly Impregnatod with
maSncsian salts. Uncle Tom the hero of
Htr-et Beecher SIo yes novel, lectured last
week n Chicago.
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE
pounds Of gunpowdor exploded III the store of
John Andrews, at Climax, Mich. There were
eleven persons in the store at the time. three of
whom were fatally and seven badly wounded.
PooL-sELLING is now crime in Ohio,
under new law just passed and approved :.
Du. ing the past year there were erected in CHI
cage 565 new buildings, at total cost of So
lU0, 200. a convention OF the farmers of Kan
sax, lii session at Topeka, adopted resolutions
IN favor of Congressional enactment con-
trolling all Interstate transl o 'tatlon. 4 lie
Union Touring mills. at Detroit, were COM
petely VIZ, cked by the explosion Of tue boiler
The engineer, fireman and oier werc
killed. The damage was $50 600
A policeman at Alton, ILL.,, caught three bur
glars et work, and inflicted upon one of them
mortal wound. ihe st. LOUIS Central
Rair' al Company. which proposes TO build n
line from Murphysboro, Ill to the Mississippi
nVer has been Incorporated at Springfield.
A HORRIBLE tragedy was enacted near
Oshkosh, Wis, few nights ago. The farm
house, barn, and granary of fanny named
Wikow wero burned. When the neghbors ar
rived on tho scene they found the doors Sc
curely locked. Miss Wlsk0w was found
eOme rods from the house insensbe, with
two deep gashes on her head and face
aud her clothing partly burned The bod,
OF Mira Wiskoy was found III tho burnius
tInbers, but sufficiently preserved to show thai
she had been mu dtred. In the ruins or tic
bard were found some bones, presumably ali
thai was left of Mr.. Wlskow. 1t il believed
That the crime was perpetr8ted by Wskow while
laboliug under fit Of insanity.
TUE probable murder of Charles
Buckles, in sight Of the famous Bender farm
IN Kansas, by Henry c. Forrest and wife, has
aroused the citizens to frenzed pitch of OK
element. Forrest has Fecn placed IN iail in
OswegO. II IL asserted That Buckles BODY WAS
boiled, the flesh being fed to the hogs, and the
bones burned in the stove.
HAvERLY's New Mastodon Minstrels.
an organization which has lately been pt rfected,
return to his Chicago theater for an engage
rnent of one week. The press of other cities
has spoken of the company in the highest
terms. Ii has even been SAID they excel the
cKgnal Mastoaons.
The Denver and Rio Grande Railway
Company las ordered IA locomotives. Their
cost will be something over : 1000, 900, and
thoy are 70 be delivered within a year. This Is
PROBABLY the largest order for locomotives ever
given at one time. "A band OF Indians at
tackled st go near Fort Cummings and killed
the driver aud our passengers, uuilatlng and
burning their bodies.
A SALT LAKE dispatch saws that
''snow has fallen almost continuously in the
Wahsatch range OF mounta ms since Christmas.
slide ON Wednesday at the little mining ham
let OF Ala swept away n house. killing fopr
prisons, and another avalanche buried two
unfortunates. On Friday night a tIde hall
mile in width, which would have demolished
the town but for = fat area intervening. caus NJ
four deaths and swept away the buildings OF
tho Joab Lawrence Company. People ara ice.
ing from tue Big Cottonwood region az ss.y-
sral other avalanches are impending
THE SOUTH.
The Masonic lodge in Fredericksburg.
Va, in which Washington was Initiated Nov.
4, 1852, has determined to erea memoir
temple.
BILL is before the Legislature of Ten
nessoe to settle the debt of Memphis with
bonds at 20 cents on the dollar, bearing pei