Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-05-20
Grant County 4erald,
News Notes.

last Friday in 2;351, beating the record.
There are one hundred moonshine-
whisky prisoners in the Coyington, KY,
jail.
The steamer Alert win be sent on
another Hudson Bay expedition this
season.
Senator Sherman has bought 1876 acres
of land near the Soldiers Home at Wash
ington.
Wednesdays hurricane in Madrid
killed thirty-two people and injured
over 600.
1t is rumored that Mr.. Gladstone has
some intention Of withdrawing the
Home-Rule bill.
There was Slight earthquake shock
in the County of Dumbarton, Scotland,
last Thursday night.
Sheep men in New Mex leo complain
of a great loss of lambs, owing to the Sc
verify Of the weather.
The new Catholic cathedral in San
Francisco will cost $500, 900. The cor
ner stone will be laid July 1.
Ferd Wards country seat at Stamford,
Conn. was sold last week for S35, 900 to
Charles Richards Of Rockaway.
A syndicate of English capitalists has
proposed to build the Chesapeake & Del
aware Ship Canal at a cost of IS, 900, 600.
The resources of the Manitoba uni
versity foot 500. There are 100 stu
dents and a call has been made for sup
port.
The bronze statue Of William LLOYD
Garrison recently completed BY DIN L.
Warner, in New York, is greatly adj
mired
Dr. Mmchall, the evangelist, has left
SAN Francisco to her idols after wrest-
ling with the rampant iniquity for six
weeks,
Bishop Taylor. of the NJ. f. church,
has penetrated over four hundred miles
into Angola, Africa, with forty mission
aries
1t is now stated that the Panama Ca
nal Company have received one-thrd of
tlt6 Sl2O,0o0,000 loan asked by them
some time ago.
The Hawaiian trade last wear en-
ployed PA American ships, onc-fourth
the entire number of American ships in
the foreign trade.
Joe Howard, BY lecture in New
York for the purpose OF raising money
10 buy burial plat for the press club of
that city, Melted $4,000
The Atlantic system of the Southern
Pacific Railroad earned in March 1927
100. This is surplus over operating
expenses of $50, CSC.
Tue family of the late broker, Charles
+. Woerishoifer, arc anxiously looking
for a will which it is believed he made.
The estate is valued at 100000
Gen Miles has left Nogales for Tue
son for the purpose of getting a hundred
Papago Indians, who are hereditary
enemies Of the Apachcs, as scouts.
The Virginia organized militia con
tains thirty-four white companies, nine
teen colored companies, three batteries
Of artillery and three troops of cavalry.
A change of 900 voters in the Seventh,
of $50 in the Eighth and S50in the Ninth
will send Republicans to represent those
districts Of Missouri in the Fiftieth Con-
gross.
The supreme court Of New York has
denied the application Of Miss Kate
Stoneman for admission to the bar, and
holds that women cannot practice in the
courts of the state,
The Western Nail Association in Gin
cinnati last week reduced the price of
nails 10 =. Is per keg, ten cents per key
off in carload lots, sixty days, or ? per
cent. off for cash.
Boston claims to have sixty Anarch-
lists who are awaiting orders from Chi
cage to rise in their wrath and smash
things. There are indications in the Up
per Lake region that they will wait 4
long time.
The Erie Railroad has organized an
express company 10 be known as the
Erie Express Company, and which will
take the place of the United States Ex-
press Company on the Eric Road.
Monoay afternoon Troop X, Tenth
Colored Cavalry, commanded by Cap
tain Loeb, had AN hours battle with the
hostile Apaches in the Pinjoe Noun
tain a cavalryman and three of the
hosties were killed.
The fire which destroyed the Bancroft
publishing house IN san Francisco win
not seriously retard the issue of II. IL.
Bancroft's History of California The
next volume, which brings the record
NtMl 10 tltt wv va llit ANlt Ni>tONti =
win appear in July instead Of this month.
A narrowing report comes fro IN
Washington to the effect that it is Mrs.
Folsom, the mother instead of Miss
Folsom. the daughter, whom the Presi-
dent is to marry. Ii this is the fact. the
newspapers will have to be lively
about overhauling their stock OF cuts
and finding one that viii pass in an
emergency for u good-looking widow.
Near Winchester, Ky, last Thursday
s. b. Knight, while digging Il post-hole
struck a copper box about nine inches
square, with lock. Breaking off the
lid he found It filled with gold and sil
yer coin to the amonut Of 81, 2S3. 10
Jacob Stoddard lived alone. years ago
in an old log cabin over the site where
the money was found. He was reputed
wealthy. but when he died nobody
could find any trace of his money
The Poor WOrk-WOmen.
Ii the present labor movement shall
among other things, result in increasing
Il. $50 H., D