Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-02-17
THE WEST.

JOHN II. HAvERLY has arranged with
Chicago capitalists to erect, IN that city, one Of
the finest heaters in the United States.
Damage of nearly $50, 600 has been inflicted BY
fire on the town of Walnut, Iowa The
large pork house of J. G. Ferguson Il Co of
Indianapolis, has been entirely destroyed by fire.
The loss on the stock il S375, 900 insured $685.
QUO on building, Sl35, 900 insuied, SGT, 900
The business portion of 0mro, Wiz, has been
destroyed by ire. The loss Is estimated at
600, 900. Alb Barnes, freikliter was asked
10 drink by James Fowler at Custer City. Oak,
and, declining, WAS shot dead by Fowler, who
was taken away by the vigilants, and his body
Was found the next morning hanging 10 a tree.
JAY GOULD has purchased 100 shares
In the Vulcan steel works of st. Louis Scout
Cub, rtson and ten Yanktonais Indians we're
recently sent out from Poplar river Montana,
by Col Ilges, to ascertain the whereabouts of
SITTING Bull. They have returned with report
that the hostiles number forty-three lodges,
and made seven camps ON the march to their
Old stamping ground at Woody mountain.
THE propeller City of Ludington got
imprisoned in field of ice OFF the Michigan
shore, and was carried across Lake Michigan
whom it moved Two men were killed bv an
explosion III q hnsced-oil mill near St Psul
MINI. The building then took fire and burned
do BERTHE Chppcnger, messenger in the
Michigan House OF Representatives. while
playing in the Capitol, foll sixty foct through
tho web hole, striking on his face on he
marble hoor. His death was instantaneous.
THIRTEEN miles from Santa Fe.
n. NJ, Julian Vigil, MEXICAN, killed his wife
and young daughter, ohopping them with an
Ak, and severely wounded his son, leaving him
for dead The man then hung himself 10 a
Taiter 10 the same room. Cause, insanity pro-
dused by liquor.
The interior of the Michigan Avenue
B.ptist Church, in CLi1sgo, was DESTROYED by
ON incendisry fire. The loss was about $50. 600.
-. Six laborers were burned to death byan ex-
plosion in the Belmont mite, near Helena. NJ
T.. .Onaha is TO have a grain elevator
with capacity OF GOO, 100 bushels. The Union
Pacific railway VIII subscribe @6J, 600 toSard lis
construstion and leading citizens have pledged
$4,000.
THE SOUTH.
AT Museville, Va, negro, convicted
Of tr fling ofFense, became enraged. and.
with the assistance of some other negroes. as
saulted all the whites with blulpeon One
man was killed and two seriously wounded
The negroes escaped 10 the clnb-room OF tlle
True Friends" who resolved not to give Their
Conlrhues up. Ihoy paraded all night
with the murderer at their head Leaf
ing drum. Twelve men, well armed. ,e-
cured their arrest and lodged Thorn in iall
firc At Memphis utterly destroyed the South
ern oil works, with large amount of material
and product, the loss being 1900 600. The At
lantic, Mississippi and OHIO railroad was sol6
at auction At Richmond, Va. Clarence II
Clark, Of lhdadsiphia, was the purchaser al
SS,6e5,000
In case brought by railroad stock
holder against the Railroad Commission of
Georgia, Judge Woods fully sustained the lat
ter IN prescribing freight and passenger tariffs.
on the ground that tne roads ure Subject 10
Legislative control unless protected by Their
charters Twenty con cts, at work in tiIn-
nei near AShville, n. O. were bn led under a
mass OF earth which fell into the cut. -Four
were He'd and several injured.
TuE mu der of +. H. Peterson. of
Madison. Fa., by a negro named Savage. crc-
atcd intense excitement The ASSASSIN was
sent to jail, AMI the Governor sent two m fin
co apanics TO keep guarl over him "A VOL
ca o has been dis severed in .ue Alle.hsny
M dttdins, IN Fayetta cC,lnlv, Va. Seam
7 SOS IN considerable volume, and stones tarosn
were heard plunging down the abyss for sew
0rll seconds,