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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-15

Notwithstanding the terrible lesson
of the plague-stricken countries of
Europe, and the repeated warnings of
the press, nothing definite is be ing
done to prevent the dread disease from
reaching our shores. or in case it does, to
prevent its spread The following from
the State Journal is to the point:
New cases of cholera continue to be
reported daily in widely-sc altered To-
calities in France, Spain and Italy.
The cold weather alone seems to be
holding it in check. There is now no
reason to doubt that the advent of sum-
mer will witness renewal of last year's
scourge. but with greater intensity and
over Il much wider field. Prof. Koch,
indeed, predicts its appearance in every
quarter of Europe. 1t will indeed be
very remarkable if the disease does not
reach the United States early in the
season. The communication between
our shores and those of Europe is so
constant and extensive that il is not
reasonable to hope for escape. 1t
therefore behooves this country to be
we'll prepared. The disease. if it once
comes over, will not long be restricted
TO the seaboard cities. Any train-load
OF immigrants. or party of west-bound
passengers, may scatter its germs
widely into the interior Wisconsin
cannot expect to be exempt: Too
many of our cities are without adequa te
sewerage facilities, and the grossest
carelessness in regard to sanitation is
\ almost everywhere practised. Pesti-
lential diseases. which are generated
/ in filth and scattered by impure air, are
not confined to large communities, but
are often the deadliest in small towns
where there are no sewerage systems
and no official enforcement of the rudi-
mentary laws of health. Now is the
time to clean up. to develope sewer
schemes. and to prepare for the ex-
pected visitor by giving it nothing to
/ feed upon. Health officers should be
appointed in every community, who
are not mere functionaries. knowing
nothing of the principles of sanitation,
possessing no official backbone and
caring only for the salary the position
commands. The danger is terribly
real, and not many months will elapse
before it may be too late to do much to
stem the expected calamity. The old
adage, In time of peace prepare for
war, was never more apropos than
now.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-15
NUMBER 46.
The Stone WIN Case.

The contest of the will of the late
Mrs Valera q. Stone, of Maiden, Mass.
has ended in the Supreme Court of that
state with failure of the jury to agree.
Mrs. Stones husband died in 1873,
leaving her $4,000, 900 Internationally,
simply recommending the distribution
of share of it among charitable insti
tutions. She being advanced in years,
and unaccustomed to the details of bus.
mess. selected William H. Wilcox, pas
tor of the Congregational church in the
neighboring town of Reading, and one
Of the executors of the will, to act as hel
adviser.
The recommendation of Mr.. Stone
that charitable institutions be favored
was not needed, and instead, colleges
and various educational institutions re-
ceived more than $1,000, 900, while the
gifts of the lady toWilcox and the men,
bers of his family amounted to $3.50, 900,
including his salary of $1,000 year.
Last year Mrs. Stone died leaving a
will naming Wilcox as her sole execu-
tor without bonds and without restric-
ton. So absolute was the control
which Wilcox had exercised over the old
lady's purse strings. that she had at this
time only $4,000 of the 100000 left
her.
The attempt to break the will was rot
with view to affect any of the dona-
tions to educational institutions, but
only those to Wilcox personally, and to
remove him from the trust of her re-
manning property.
The jury agreed that Mrs. Stone was
of sound mind when she made the will,
but could not agree on the question of
undue influence. No further effort will
be made to interfere with the trust.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-15
Dedication Ceremonies.

The dedication of the Washington
Monument which is so soon to preeede
the Inauguration ceremonies, promises
to be rather tame affair at best Mr..
Winthrop's Grafton has been prepared
some time but the orator will hardly be
able to deliver it in person, while the
proposition that Mr.. Winthrop's son
should read it is far from being salts
factory. When the corner stone of the
Bunker Hill Monument was laid on the
18th of June, 1925, Daniel Webster was
the orator, and his magnificent address
on that occasion was inspired not only
by the presence of Lafayette but by
hundreds of the old veterans of the
Revolution themselves who occupied
seats directly in front of the orator. On
the 18th of June, 1S43, just eighteen
years afterward, the capstone of the
monument was lifted to its place, and
Mr. Webster again delivered the ora
ton, this time with President Tyler and
his Cabinet among his auditors. and
still hundreds of the Revolutionary
fathers with open mouths and hands to
their ears, drinking in the sublime
eloquence of the country's greatest
orator. 1t was this occasion that
brought forth the familiar quotation:
Venerable men! you have come down
to us from former generation" &C.,
which was not in Mr.. Webster's pre-
pared speech at all, but was suddenly
inspired by the surroundings and cir
cumStanceS CT the occasion.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-15
Wooden Craft Built Without Nails.

OF the mechanical arts known to the
people of Polynesia the most important
was the construction of canoes. Some
of these were more than 100 feet in
length, and would carry two or three
hundred men, Sometimes they were
bu 1t double, the two being united by
a platform. They were propelled by
oars or sails. The latter were three
cornered mats, suspended between two
masts, one in each ship. The smaller
craft usually had an outrigger on one
or both sides to prevent upsetting.
When we consider that the only tools
used were made of stone or she'll. we
can see that it must have been the work
of years to construct one of the larger
canoes. One must not think of the
parts as fastened with bolts or nails.
The keels We're trunks of trees followed
with the stone adze or fir; to these
were attached planks trimmed to fit
closely, and bound with cords of cocoa
nut fiber. They were made water-tight
with filing of gum mixed with the
same fiber finely divided. These see
mingly frail craft were yet SO seaworthy
that they outrode severe storms, and
endured voyages of hundreds of miles
W tn entire safety. american 4nti-
Qaaridn.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-15
A Breath Of Freedom.

WAUPuN, Jan. 10.-The alarm bell
at the state prison pealed forth sharply
at little after 6 o'clock this evening.
announcing some unusual occurre nee.
The news spead with lightning like
rapidity that Michael Hogan, Thos.
Deedy, VIM. Burns and Richard Page,
the former three recognized as the most
desperate and incorrigible crooks con-
fined within the walls of that institution
had effected an escape.
Pages breath of freedom was, how
ever, short-lived. At half-past a
farmer living few miles west of town
arrived at the prison with him in Gus
tody, having captured him in the act OF
taking horse from his barn to further
his escape.
LATER,-Deedy, Hogan and Burns
have just been captured. being found
buried in the hay in n barn located on
the prison grounds. Page being the only
one who left the grounds.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-15
The Hudson Bay Route to Eurupe.

The proposed route from Canada to
Europe Ella Hudson's Bay is now be-
lieved to be impracticable. 1t has been
found that for nineteen days out of thirty
one during August the straits were
blocked with ice, and snowstorms pre-
vailed on five days. If this is the show
ing for August, what must it be for the
other months?
Mr.. j. w. Klatze, Dominion Gov
eminent official, who was sent to in
quire into the feasibility of constructing
railway from Winnipeg to Hudson's
Bay, has returned to Ottawa. He does
not speak favorably of the ultimate
success of the undertaking, and thinks.
if it Is ever accomplished it will be at a
price which few capitalists would care
to pay Putting the difficulties of the
navigation of the straits and the almost
insurmountable barriers in the way OF
constructing railway to the bay to-
gether, the outlook for northwest settlers
having direct communications by this
route with Europe is not at all hopeful.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-15
Taken TO the Gnardhouse.

DAYTON, Ohio, Jan. 1.-THE Saliva
ton Army persisted in singing and
marching on the streets last night in
defiance of police orders, and the lead
ers were arrested man and four
halleluiah damsels. In the station house
the women were offered their release,
but they refused to accept il unless the
man was also permitted to 90. They
spent last night and to-day singing
hymns and praying. There was a large
crowd around the station tonight.
There was considerable excitement and
the action of the police was severely de-
nouuced in several pulpits this morning.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-15
Attempted Murder OF Noted Irish Ma
tiOnalist In New York.

Capt. Thomas F. Phelan. of Kansas
City, Mo, was stabbed several times by
man giving bis name as Richard
Short, in the office of O'Donovan Rosa,
editor of the United Irishman. Phelan
went to New York at the request of
John I. Kearney of that city and was
by him taken to the Office Of o. Donovan
Rosa who was not in at the time. Soon
after a man entered who Immediately
attacked Phelan with knife, stabbing
him in several places. Phelan rushed
from the Office down the stairs, followed
by his assailant who inflicted several
more wounds before they reached the
sidewalk, where the wounded man
sank down from loss of blood His
assailant was captured while trying to
escape, and when brought before him
for Identification, he rose up and drew
if I'm going to die, I'll die game, and
there will be two of u.s. and before the
bystanders could interfere he fired two
shots at the man, one taking effect in
the thigh. Phelan was removed to the
hospital and his would-be murderer to
the station.
The accepted theory of the attempted
assassination is that Phelan was lured
TO New York to meet his death at the
hands of Short on account of an inter-
view published in the Kansas City Jour
nal in which Phelan had given in detail
an account of the attempt to blow up
the English steamer Queen, at Liver
pool, and also the story of the attempt
to blow up the Glasgow railway station.
lO'Donovan Rosa reprinted the inter-
view in his paper. and it caused quite a
sensation among the dynamite fratern-
| ity in New York City.
Phelan was one of the originators of
the skirmishing fund. and was AT one
time suspected of being the famous
mo L. mentioned BY Informer Cary
in his testimony. He has been an Irish
Nationalist all his life, and has been
always prominent in Irish revolutionary
movements.
Richard Short is known as 1.-The
Ayenger, and il was he that attempted
to kin Jim McDermott in a saloon in
New York City in 1882 for the reason
that McDcrmott was supposed to have
betrayed the Irish cause and become a
British spy. Warrants have been issued
for O'Donoyau Rosa, Jno. j. Kearney,
Rocky Mountain O'Brien, and other
dynamite leaders.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-15
American Exhibition in London.

An exhibition is announced to open
in London in May 1886, to be so ar
ranged that visitor on entering will
be reminded of the approach to this
country through New York harbor, and
thence taken in imagination by success
sive stages to the most prominent OBJ
jects usually sought by sightseers, in
Guiding "trip across the continent
the whole being so arranged as to exhi-
bit the arts. manufactures, products,
and resources of the United States, oil
every kind, from the brokers office in
Wall Street to the camp fires of Nevada
Applications are said to have been al
ready made for considerable space il
this unique exhibition from prominent
American manufacturers and patentees
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-15
Left DAVIS Still Hnnefnl.

SHREVEPORT, La. Jan. 8. The As
ISOLATION of Confederate Veterans adj
journed to-day. Letters were read
from jefferson Davis. General Beaure-
gard, and others. Davis's letter thanked
the association for the invitation, and
assured them that he was present In
heart and mind "with those who brave
ly struggled to maintain the right and
still honor the truth, despite its over
throw. and hopefully look forward to
the resurrection. which truths eternity
insures.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-15
The Chicago Election Fraud.

A special grand jury has been i'm
paneled for the purpose of inquiry into
the commission of the frauds in the
Eighteenth Ward. 1t is composed of
men of undoubted uprightness and
ability, and from their character and
the attitude of the Court and the prose
cnting attorney, the inquisition is likely
to be thorough. As the jurisdiction of
the federal court in this case is mat
ter of doubt, and the obstacles to secur-
ing q conviction are greater than if
prosecuted by the state of Illinois, this
more was considered proper and judi
cious. 1t implies no reflection upon
the jury which has already indicted
some persons in the Federal Court.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-15

The whole number of votes cast for
President on four electoral tickets was
10,036, 057, of which Grover Cleveland
received 4,S42, 292; James G. Blaine,
4,S10,2l9; Benjamin f. Butler, 234, S4S;
and John P. ST. John, 1868. Cleve-
lands plurality over Blaine is 32,07s
votes. This shows nearly an equal
division of votes between the two lead
ing candidates.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-15
Insurance on a Sealskin Cloak.

The answer in the suit of George ii.
Noyes against the Northwestern Nation
al Insurance company. has just been
filed. The action was brought to re-
cover the value of sealskin cloak lost
in the Chapman fire, which was insured
by the company. The defense CLAIMS
that the policy did not insure the prop
erty while it was stored in any other
place than the owners residence, and
that the risk was increased by taking il
to the store where it was destroyed.
They therefore claim that, in accord
ance with the terms of the policy, the
company is freed from all liability.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-15
Sadly Ominaus.

TORONTO, Ont, Jan. IA sensation
was created in the East King Street
Methodist church tonight. The pastor,
Rev. Kennedy Kreighton, chose for the
first lesson Paul's conversion on the
way to Damascus. He had just finished
reading the words, 'And he fell to the
earth, - when he was struck with pa
ralysis and dropped unconscious in the
pulpit There is little hope of his re-
covery. He celebrated his golden we'd
ding recently.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-15

Prof. r. o. Doremus, of New York,
says that the Egyptian obelisk in Gen.
tral Park is slowly disintegrating under
the influence of the climate. Particles
of the stone are falling and can be gath
cred by the handful at the base at any
time. The disintegration is more rapid
in the winter than in other seasons.
Prof. Doremus think that under present
conditions the characters upon the ODE
lisk win be obliterated within five hun
dred years, though they have withstood
the climate of Egypt four thousand
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-15

The Cooper Union, in New York. ex-
pended the past year upward OF $i0,-
COCOON its free night classes Id Science
and art, and upward of ten thousand
on its Free Art School for women. The
number of pupils enrolled in the various
classes during the year was 1927.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-15
Perfect limitations.

. LONDON, Jan. The Bank of Eng
land has notified the various banking
houses throughout the country that
there are in circulation perfect imita-
tons of its notes, in denominations of
from Is to $500. A number of the ESQ
notes are circulating on the continent
and in America. The bogus notes are
supposed to be the work of American
manufacturers.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-15
PRINCE Albert Yieior,s Majority.

LONDON, Jan. S..-Prince Albert Vic
tor, of Wales. -presumptive to the
British throne, attained his majority
to-day. This event was made the occa-
sion of rejoicing throughout the country.
In London the day opened with ring
ing of bells, hosting of flags and music
at st. James palace. The university
of Cambridge sent an address of con.
graduation to the young prince.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-15
New York Merchants Favoring the New
Treaty.

New York, Jan. IA petition in
fa-or of the Spanish treaty, addressed
to the Chairman of the Committee on
Foreign Relations of the Senate, is be-
ing circulated among the merchants
and manufacturers of this city, and has
already received great number of sig
natures from prominent firms and rep
resentatives of houses in all branches of
trade
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-15
Pullman Cars Wrecked.

JACKSONVILLE. Florida, Jan. 11.-Ar
accident occurred on the Pensacola &
Atlantic railroad yesterday forenoon
between Chipley and Bombay. A pas
senger train with two Pullman coaches
for this city was followed by freight
The head train broke in two and the
Pullmans were left standing on the
trace. They had just rounded curve,
so that the freight train could not be
seen, and before it could tagged il
came dashlng around the point, struck
the rear Pullman, telescoping the two
cars and making n complete wreck
Several passengers were seriously, bul
none fatally injured
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-15

A large model of the Bartholdi statue
with the proposed pedestal and the
ramparts, as it will stand on Bedloe's
Island. has been erected in the rotunda
of the Capitol at Washington, by the
pedestal fund committee, evidently in
aid of the movement to secure an APP
preparation. Congressman Cox is hope
full that he may be able to get Congress
70 appropriate the entire balance of the
needed sum.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-15
Unpleasant Adventure Of Mile. Aimee.

NASHVILLE. Jan. "a train from
Evansville, via Henderson, KY, to this
city, conveying the Aimee troupe, was
delayed at Pembroke, Ky, by the burn
ing of the bridge over the Yellow Fork
River. The passengers had TO walk
through tie woods to get to the county
road, where Aimee lost her French slip
pers in the mud aud had to walk half a
miletin her blue silk stockings. After
crossing the river to take the other
train they had to wait four hours in the
open air. A house was built in an old
cornfield for Aimee with twenty-four
trunks. A fire was built in the center
OF the court so formed. The troupe
did not arrive here until 10 o'clock to-
night too late to play.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-15
1885.
HarpGr'S Magazine! !!
ILLUSTRATED.

With the new volume. beginning in December,
HARPERs MAGAZINE Will conclude its thirty-ifth
year. The oldest periodical of its type, it is yet,
in each new volume, HelC magazine. not simply
lures, but also, and chiefly, because it steadily
advances in the method itself of magazine-mak
ing. In a word, the magazine becomes more and
the faithful mirror of current life and move
ment LeadingTeatures in the attractive pro-
gramme for 1885 are: new serial novels by Cou-
stance Fenimore Wooson and W. ID. Howells; a
tive illustrated papers by f. D. Millet r. Swain
Clifford. L. A. Abbey, II. Gibson, and others
Goldsmith's "She Stoops to Conquer, illustrated
by Abbey; important papers on Art, Science, etc.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-15

Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines. the famous
ltigant who claimed the title to great
part of New Orleans, died of Pneumonia
in that city Jan. ., at the age of 80
years.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-15
East River TO be Tnnnelad.

The New York Central Railroad
Company has agreed, to- let the Long
Island Railroad Company share in the
use of the Grand Central Depot in this
city upon the completion Of tunnel
under the East River to connect Hun
ter's Point with Manhattan Island. II
is said the tunnel will be begun soon.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-15

John Bach McMaster will complete
his History of the People of the United
States with the end of Buchanan's
administration. The second volume
will appear early next year, and three
more will be brought out as soon as
may be.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-15

Saturn is now coming again into fine
position for observation. The rings
are open nearly to the widest, and the
planet is SO far north that the opportun-
ity for studying them is nearly the best
possible.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-15
NOTICE TO oREDlroRs-cA1vrs Curry

NOTICE TO OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES CURRY
State Of Wisconsin. County Court for Grant
County-In Probate.
In the matter Of the estate OF Calvin Curry
deceased
Notice Is hereby given, that the claims and de-
mands OF all persons against Calvin Curry. late
of the city of Lancaster, in said county. de-
ceased. will be received, examined and adjusted
by Lewis Holloway, Joseph Nathan and Franklin
county, Commissioners appointed for that pur-
pose by the County Court of said county, at the
office Of the County Judge in the Court House in
the city OF Lancaster, in said county of Grant. on
the Sth days OF April and Jnly, A. d. 1885 Also
that six 90 months from and after the Sth day
of january, A. ID. 1885, is the time limited for
The creditors of said Calvin Garry, deceased. to
present their claims to said Commissioners for
examination and allowance.
by order of the Court,
WM. McG0NIGAL, County Judge.
Dated January s. 1885. 40w4
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-15

A Charity Ball under the patronage
of President-elect Cleveland was given
at the Genesee House, Buffalo. N. Y.
on the evening of Jan. 8. The ex-
Governor was the center of attraction.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-15

TORONTO, Ont, Jan. 11.-Grey Fall
Ion, while in delirium tremens at Union
Station, said he wanted to die for his
country and threw himself across the
rails. A constable dragged him away
in time to save his life, but he lost both
arms
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-15

Stanley, the African explorer, is not
married, and probably never viii be-
When he first started for Africa he was
engaged TO pretty New York girl,
who gave him up for dead in a year
and married another man within two
years. He did not return until the end
Of the third year, and thought the dam
sci should have waited for him, and her
course embittered his life.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-15

A way has been discovered by which
marble may be saturated with certain
paint, SO that it is possible to place a
flower or head upon a block of mar
BILE and then obtain as many slabs bear
ing the imprint as one sees fit to have
the block sawed into. The process is
called .Endolithy.n
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-15
Ben Bntler Damaged s2s. 900 Worth.

BosroN, Jan 11.-Gen. Butler has
brought suit against The Boston Herald,
claiming $4,000 damages, for the pub
LEGATION of an article which purported
to come from one of the crew of the
steamer Mt. Vernon, claiming that Gen
Butler caused the arrest of the captain
of the transport Mississippi, while the
vessel was on her way to Ship island
from Hampton Roads, because he would
not put into Hatteras Inlet, and that in
consequence of this arrest and assump-
ton of her command by Butler, the
Mississippi went ashore and was dam
aged and the Nit. Vernon was sent to
her relief. The allegations are denied
! by Gen. Butler.