Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1888-07-26
The World in a Nutshell.

The World IN a Nut-Sneii.
President James Campbell, of the
Universal Confederation of Window
| glass Workers, Patrick Cleary and John
Phillips, all of Pittsburg, sailed Satur-
day for Europe. They are the delegates
from this country to the biennial con
yention of their organization at Char
leroi, Belgium This convention will
be the most important to Windows glass
workers ever held.
The Dunn coal breaker at Scranton,
Pa, was burned causing a loss of 500,
600.
The new silk mills ut Pottsyille, Pa,
equipped at cost of S250,000, began
operations last week employing 1000
hand
Circuit Judge r. M. Montgomery, of
Grand Rapids, Mich, has resigned and
will enter upon the practice of his profess
sion.
Mrs. Elizabeth Wathen, aged Sc, the
richest woman in Indiana, died at her
home in Jacksonville. She leaves an
estate of over 100000.
The remains of General Logan will
be removed in about three months to
the mortuary chapel which Mrs. Logan
and her son-in-law, Major Tucker, are
having built at the Soldiers Home
Cemetery in Washington.
Fire destroyed three million feet of
lumber on the docks of Montgomery,
Champaign q Co, at Lakeside, Mich.
Loss 100000.
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| German Yacht Hohenzollern, with
Emperor William on board, entered the
roads amid volleys of salutes from the
war ships and forts. The Hohenzollern
was received by the Russian yacht
Dierava, on board of which was the
ear, The imperial yachts approached
each other between double line of Rus
sian and German war-ships, bedecked
with bunting The weather was fine
and the scene was an imposing one
The German imperial party went aboard
the Russian Yacht Alexandria, which
| thence proceeded to the Peterhof palace.
| The czarina, in a handsome pavilion
erected on the quay of the military har-
Dor, cordially greeted Emperor William.
The latter inspected the guard of
/
| lido the Prussian National anthem. The
| party then proceeded to the palace. The
car, Emperor William, Prince Henry
| and the czarewitch rode i'll a kind of
wagonetts. The clarina and the other
members of the imperial parties fol-
lowed in open carriage. The route was
lined with troops.
A Trinidad special says the man who
represented himself as Remington, the
artist for Harper's Weekly and COM
mitted suicide there last week has been
fully identified as Raymond Baron Won
Rohowski, of Germany. His father is
colonel in the German army and of
noble family
The Kansas prohibition State conven-
ton met at Hutchinson last week.
About 200 delegates were present, thirty
of whom were ministers. An unusually
large number of women were present.
The first Minnesota convention of the
United Labor party was held in Mime
apolis last week.
In duel between John Rose and S.
S. Hall, his son-in-law, at Stanton, Ky,
Hall was killed and Rose wounded.
Twenty frame houses and a church
We're demolished by a violent wind
storm in the village of Bekleman, Neb.
Cholera is reported as fearfully preva-
lent in the city of Hong Kong. China.
The members of the Northwestern
Associated Press. composing the lead
ING dailios, in the territory west of
Chicago, including Omaha, held their
annual meeting in Chicago last week.
The Cincinnati Baking Company's
establishment at Cincinnati. Ohio,
burned with loss of $4,000.
In tearing down the Germania Socie-
ties old club house in North Chicago,
the brick wall fell crushing to death
two workmen.
Yellow fever is spreading at Tampa
and Manatee Florida.
Two men were killed and several
wounded by the collision of passenger
train with a gravel train on the Louis
vile q Nashville railroad near Barbour
vile Ky.
Two colored men were crushed to
death by the breaking of the derrick
used in erecting the new soldiers
monument at indianapolis, Ind.
A coal and freight train collided in
tunnel near White Haven, Pa. on the
Central Railroad of New Jersey. Several
train hands were injured and conduc-
tor reported killed.
BY a sudden flood caused by cloud
burst at Wheeling, W. Va, and vicinity,
twenty-five lives were lost and S150,000
worth of property swept away.
Seven of the crew of the tug-boat
Convoy were scalded to death by the
explosion of the steam supply pipe near
Westport, Ind.
Cut worms are doing great damage
on the Portage plains near Winnipeg,
Man They destroyed field of barley
belonging to Finlay Macarthur, and
cleaned neighboring wheat field.
They travel in thousands, and leave the
fields as clean as though they had been
cut with a reaper
A. G. Tying & Co, grain dealers of
Peoria, H., have failed for the fifth
time.
Corroll Stokes, the 10-year- old son of
t. II. Stokes, editor of the Lincoln,
(Ill.) Times, was driving some cows to
parture, when the horse he was riding
fell, injuring the lad so badly that he
died in an hour.
As coal train was coming out Of the
western end of the bridge tunnel at ST.
Louis, the engine and four cars jumped
the track. Conductor William Willard
and fireman Frank Balcour were thrown
under the wreck and crushed to death.
Three citizens were arrested in Hyde
Park, south of Chicago, on charge of
a violation of law at the recent town
primaries. at which they were judges of
election. They are accused of 'bulldoz-
ing voters.
Twenty lives are reported lost by the
recent wrecking of the British ship in
Australian waters, and six men are re-
ported drowned near Calgary, British
Northwestern Territory, by their boat
becoming unmanageable in the rapids
ofBow river
The Western Manufacturers Iron As
sociation-employing Iron and Steel
Mills-has dissolved its organization,
and henceforth the Iron Mills will each
ago it alone without reference to the
others.
The Bauer Piano Workhouse, at Chi
cago, was destroyed by fire. Loss,
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