Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1888-12-13
The World in a Nutshell.

Bevier, Mo, mines aud several houses
Yiddled With bullets.
A box containing $4,000 in money
and securities was stolen from Henry
n Tucker. q Westheld, Conn farmer
Geo. Z. Harrison. who is in love Will
fuckers daughter, Is suspected and hsS
disappeared.
s long inward bound freight train on
the Pittsburg. Fort Wayne and Chicago
Railroad was run into at Chicago by
switch engine going full speed, caus-
| ing terrible wreck of locomotives aud
cars. The loss is estimated at 800, 900.
| In fire at Blythe, Ontario, Michael
Dryers wife and three grandchildren
were burned to death.
| A movement is on foot to celebrate
/ the centennial OF Washington's inaugu'
ration, April 80 next, by holding relig-
Gus services in the churches.
Mr.. E w. Halford, private secretary
to President-elect Harrison, was given
q complimentary dinner by Judge
Martindsle, formerly proprietor OF the
indianapolis Journal.
| G.. w. T. Adams, of the Empire
Freight Line at Lafayette, Ind. brother
in-law Of j. G. Tucker, Of Chicago,
committed suicide by taking morphine
Tao people of Wapella, DEWITT Co.,
H., were treated to the novel sight Of q
city in the air. 1t was the town of Md
land seen through a mirage.
The Welsh Choral societies of the
Pennsylvania anthracite coal region
have decided to form one immense choir
of 500 voices TO sing in Washington on
tho day of Harrison'S Inauguration as
President.
The raiers in the mills of the Potts
town, Pa, Iron Co. have been asked to
accept reduction Of % per cent in
wages.
At Havana, Cuba, the wife of Judge
Olivia opened package containing an
Internal machine intended for her hus-
band and was severely injured.
Mrs. Barbara Smell was burned 10
death at Lima, Ohio. her clothes having
caught fire from a spark from stove.
John McLowry, a young man en-
ployed at Weston's mills, at Olean, n.
Y, was caught in the revolving machin-
cry and torn limb from limb.
While at work in saw mill in Elliott
county, Ky, Cal Tolliver got in a
quarrel with Conley, and seizing hood
ak, split Conley's head open down to
his neck. Cal Tolliver is a cousin OF
the once famous Craig Tollivcr. When
that king of Kentucky outlaws was,
with number of his followers, shot to
death by outraged citizens OF Morehead
year ago, Cal Tolliver was with him,
and fought like a tiend against the big
odds.
The Calumet and Hecla Company
advertise reward OF $4,000 for in
formation leading 70 the arrest of the in
cendiary who started the fire in No. 3.
shaft of the Calumet branch on the
night of Thanksgiving Day.
One hundred and thirty women aud
girls in George Branson's American
Knitting Mills, at Philadelphia, struck
against proposed change in the wages
on Il certain class of stockings made on
knitting machines.
| The Chamber of Deputies has APP
proved the report of the committee
recommending that NJ. Wilson be pros
ecutod Tor libel.
The Board Of Health Of Gainesville,
Fla, declared the fever epidemic ended
Dec. i.
The wife Of one of the miners who
were lost in the Calumet and Heels
mine Gre has gone mad.
Nine men who are supposed to be
white Caps" have been indicted and
arrested at Corydon, Ind.
The first rails OF tho Duluth and
Winnipeg Railway were laid last week
at Duluth in the presence of several
thousand people.
Six disastrous fires ragged at one time
ia the lumber yards at Muskogon,
Mich. Loss, $4,000; insusance 975,-
900.
While William Ignite was riding in a
horse race at Mount Auburn, ILL.,, bis
horse fell and he was killed, having his
neck broken.
Mrs. Mary Stahl, aged 81, who had
resided in Bloomington, ILL.,, for more
than forty years, is dead, She was the
mother of tive sons, whose combined
services in the Union army amounted
to about twenty-five years.
Rev. William l.. Parker, of Christ
Church, Oswego, n. Y. has disap-
peared. He was about 40 years old
and unmarried. It is said that finan-
cial embarrassments have worried him
lately, aud that charges were to DO pre-
fsrred against him by tho Bishop.
One man was killed and several scri.
ously injured by a collision between a
freight train and passenger train near
Youngstown, Ohio.
Charles I. Parsons, of Northampton,
notorious for hiring ignorant immi-
grants at Castle Garden and leasing
their services to farmers, was arrested
at Holyoke, Mass, for having a Polan-
der, dressed only in oyeralls. shoes and
thin coat, chained to the seat of his
buggy and suffering intensely from the
cold, which literally froze the tears on
his cheeks The people were greatly OK
cited over the matter, and Paesons
arrest was all that saved him from bang
mobbed.
Representatives OF twenty-four mills
III Southern Dakota met at Aberdeen to
organize an association.
Bert Meyers, member of the Peoria
Bicycle club, finished twenty four
hour ride over the boulevards OF Chica-
go, making 2S9 miles, and beating both
the Chicago AMI National amateur
records.
An Instruction is reported from the
island of Formosa. Too much taxation
is the alleged cause.
Cashier Barker, of the Argentine
(Kas) Bank, was robbed of 81, 900 in a
Kansas City street car.
The Sultan says he will consent to
the joining of Bulgaria and East
Roumelia, if Prince Ferdinand will
renounce all designs upon Macedonia.
Bishop Wigger, of the Roman
Catholic diocese of Newark, n. j., has
prohibited the celebration of midnight
masses on future Christmas. ewes. He
says the services keep attic ndants from
bed, disqualifying them for proper
religious observance the next day.
The trial of William Bell, Clerk of
Garrett township, Douglas county, Ill.,,
charged with forgery and falsitication
of the records, resulted in Bells ac-
quittal.
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