Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-01-31

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the time was occupied in discussing the Sundry
Civil Appropriation bill. At the evening SEES
sion twcntynne private pension bills were
passed.
DOMESTIC.
ROBERT nj. ADAMS, the assistant book
keeper of a Detroit clothing merchant
upon being told on the 2lst that his serv-
vices were no longer required emptied the
cash drawer of 81, OBS and went to Canada.
SAMUEL HATToN, of Riley, Kan, shot
and killed Mrs. w. II Beale and her
little daughter on the 22d because the
woman rejected his attentions
THE st. Louis crcmatory was destroyed
by fire on the 22d. 1t was opened up for
cremation of dead human bodies last May
SEBATHAI CHAsANowIcz, genuine Rus
sian Nihilist arrived at Castle Garden,
New YORK Oh the 222d He was opposedto
the Cars government, and feared Danish
ment to Siberia
W. d. RUcTsAMEN, aged sixty-1ve years,
a retired banker, shot and killed himself
in his home at Hobozen, N. j., on the 22d,
while insane; and at Newton, Mass, Rev.
Thomas Marcy, aged seyenty-two years,
committed suicide in the same manner
AT Philadelphia on the 22d Patrick
Bradley, charged with cnticing young
girls from their homes on the pretense of
engaging them as domestics, was SEN
fenced to twenty nine years imprison-
ment at hard labor.
SAMUEL SPYKER, Willie Crider and
DOM Fazier, aged eight five and six
years, respectively, were arrested on tho
22i for systematically robbiBg the shoe
store Of Hoover Bros, at Lima, o. They
turned ever large quantity of stolen
goods.
rr,- oo...,, oro,, n th;, ,,oo,. u ,,,aa aaid
on the 22d, would be the largest ever
known, approximatiug seven and one-half
million bales
A JOINT resolution proposing an amend
ment to the Pennsylvania constitution pro-
hibting the manufacture or sale of intox.
icating liquors was passed by the Legis-
lature on the ed by vote of 1872 to So.
WILLIAM PEARoE, after serving fifty
years in the penitentiary at Auburn. n.
Y, for tho murder of his father was re-
leased on the I'D He was hopelessly in
sane
A FIRE on the I'D at Unionvillc. Mo,
destroyed eight Of the finest stores in the
city.
BIZ vote Of Is to 0 the Louisville (Ky)
School Board on the 22d decided to dis
continue the teaching of German in the
public schools in that city after the close
of the present year
The Southern Mlllers' Association was
organized on the 23d at Nashville for the
purpose of regulating sales and manner Of
payments
DIR. CHARLES BLISS, a we'll known New
York physician. fell down the steps of his
residence on the 23d and was killed
LAFAYETTE FREDERICK, q st Louis tray-
cling man, murdered h wife and then
killed himself on the 23l at Quincy, III.
Jealousy YVES the cause.
THE President on the sd approved bills
pensioning at the rate of thirty dollars a
month the widows Of Dr.. Pavy and Ser
geants Cross and Gardiner, who died
while serving under General Greedy in the
Arctic regions
WOLVES were on the 23d said TO be kill
ing many cattle in Montana
BIZ an explosion on the sd at Nanticokc,
Pa, p. S. Sharsus, an engineer was blown
TO pieces; Chet owen, another engineer,
was instantly killed, and John Williams
was fatally burned.
The Nashville (Tcnn) Iron, Steel a.
Charcoal Company made an assignment on
the 23d. Its assets figured at $550000, and
its liabilities were placed at $40 600.
Mrs. Lot WHITE, Of Bryant's Creek,
Ind, married woman, was dragged from
hes bed early on the morning of the 23d by
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idle gossip about her character before
marriage was given as the cause.
Miss SARAH BRADBECK, OF Golden, n. Y,
hanged herself on the 23d because she re
ceived a note Of warning not to marry
young man to whom she was engaged.
A rlRE on the 23d at Mckinney, Tex,
destroyed an entire block Of business
houses and shops.
IT was announced on the 23d that the
Pullman Palace Car Company had gained
control Of all the palace car lines in the
country except the Wagner
CHARLES l. CoLBY resigned the presi-
dency Of the Wisconsin Central railway on
the 23d and was succeeded by his brother,
Joseph l.. Colby.
AT Battle Crock, Mich. on the 23d the
T. j. Burns Company railway contract
nrs. assigned to s. S. Hubert The LA
bllities were estimated at 100000
LOGGING operations on all Indian res
ervations in Wisconsin and Minnesota
we're stopped on the 23d as the result Of an
order by Indian Commissioner Oberly to
Agent Gregory
A NEGRO named George Brewington on
the Esd entered the house of Miss Charity
McAllister, an estinable white lady, at
Raleigh n c., and attempted to make an
assault upon her, but relative named Nc
Allister discovered the heud and shot him
dead.
JAMES A. MOORE, leading citizen of In
dianapolis, Ind, and for sixteen years
agent for the Connecticut Mutual Life In
surance Company, was on the oath dis
covered to be a defaulter to the extent of
5000 0OO.
The twenty anniversary of the
adoption Of the Connecticut constitution
was celebrated on the oath at Hartford.
A COMPANY Of United States troops drove
over SIX hundred famii es OF boomers
ont Of the Oklahoma country on the oath.
THE Norwegian bark Aft Captain Bach,
which sailed from Demerara October 81
for Philadelphia with cargo OF sugar,
was, with her crew Of clevea men, given
up on the Gath as lost
A WOMAN was attacked on the oath in
Omaha, Neb., by man who said he was
Jack the Ripper" Her screams brought
two men % hor aid. when her assailant
ran.
WHILE Martin Houseman, Of Elkhart,
Ind, was building fire on the oath a can,
of gasoline which he was using exploded,
and he and his wife we're probably fatally
burned.
THE Ohio Legislature or the oath passed
a bill providing that after January 1,
$780, all criminals IN OHIO sentenced to
death shall be executed By electricity at
the Ohio penitentiary.
L. L. KIBBEE, sheriff OF Boyd County,
KY, was on the oath said to be $4,000
short in his accounts He had left for
parts unknown.
ADvicEs OF the cath say that in a riot
between the P5cahontas and Elkhorn min
ers in the West Virginia coal regions five
white men and two negroes were killed
and several others wers wounded
HENRY OvERToS killed Thomas Swern-
ing at Memphis. Tenn, on the Gath in
quarrel over the ownership Of lantern.
They were switchmen on the Kansas City
road
CHARLIE YouNe, fifteen years old, was
killed on the 24th at Durand, H., by the
accidental discharge Of a pistol in the
hands Of a playmate.
TIE Glasgow Iron Company on the Oath
closed down its steel plant near Pottstown.