Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-08-22
The World in a Nutshell
For the Wool Ending aug. 10

For the Week Ending Aug. 10.
bust Of Hannibal Hamlin by Mr. Sim.
mons has been received at New York from
Italy.
Thirteen patients were poisoned on SAT-
urday ut Atchison. Kan, b. the "lite-
elixir"
Il is said that Mrs. Maybrick Is Iairly sure
TO be reprieved, with a possible pardon to
follow Ii time.
Harriet Beecher Stowe is saiu to be great
" improved in health and her mind CONS
fletaT restored
Walter Asburg (colored) was lynched at
pooler, Ca, on Sunday for assaulting Lulu
Kissmap, aged II years.
Christian Fueger. while trying to cross
Ktokapoo creek on a rail below Peoria, Ill,
Thursday, was drowned
The 4~year-old child OF Isaac McClaine
was fatally burned Thursday at Lebanon,
Ind, while playing with FIRE.
The Postmaster General has directed that
q pnkgmatic system OF letter collecting be
tasted Ii the oity of New York.
Large quantities Of merchandise are said
to be sihhgGled into Florida from Cnba, the
coast hot being properly guarded.
ReY William Il. Johnson, for fifty years =
Methodist preacher iu various towns IN III
hoia died Sunday at Bloomington
William H schoneld, at one time prosi-
dent6f the Ottawa & Burlington road, died
recently at Brooklyn, aged 20 years
Dell bazzetu, a notorious burglar and
swindler, hanged himself in his cell at the
iait In South Bend Ind, on Saturday.
Parker Paris tcolored) cut his wifes
throat in a fit Of Jealousy at Memphis, Tenn,
on Sunday and then cut his own throat
Judge John Irwin, one Of the oldest iron
masters OF Bellefonte, Pa, died in that
city Wednesday of paralysis, aged 81 years
Catherine Mulig, an insane woman,
drowned herself at Philadelphia Friday by
holding her head under water in a wash
tub
There were ISL business failures IN the
United States during the seven days ended
on Friday, against 10 the previous seven
days
Tho forest fires which were raging on
Sunday ali over Montana had destroyed
hundreds OF thousands OF dollars worth OF
timber.
John LYONS a farmer of Carroll County,
Mo-, found a tin can containing ninety %
gold pieces while cleaning out his well a
few days ogo
Gladstone told Rev Or Guyler that
Americas greatest dangers were the
growth of plutocratic powers and easy
divorce laws.
The remains of Mrs. Ranney, wife OF Rev.
Dr. Ranney, OF kalamazoo, Mich, have
been identified among the victims Of the
Johnstown disaster
ste phen sherman, arrest ed for COM
plicity in the grain shortage case at Buff
falo, n T., was admitted to bail Thursday
| afternoon in So GOO
The bronze monument of Robert Il. Lee
| at Riohmond, Va, will be myailed in No
vsmber next The pedestal is being built
| Of New England granite.
A Tennessee desperate wanted for moon
shining shot his wife and her mother and
then killed himself on Friday ten miles
northeast of jackson, Tenn,
| An Eastern paper says that negotiations
| have been completed by which all the
| breweries Of Chicago have been sold to a
| syndicate of English capitalists
The well-known stallion Munoir, owned
by j. Il Story. OF Hanover, 10 Daviess
| County, ILL.,, and valued at ~ 900, died Fri
| day of Inflammation of the lungs
william Jones, for twenty years trusted
employee of l. II. Butler Il Co, publishers
| Philadelphia, has disappeared. He is said
to be $40. 900 short in his accounts.
Charles Weploy and Eddie Stuart, aged
| IA and 16 years respectively while bathing
| in the Ohio river five miles below Evans
| vile, Ind, were drowned Saturday.
Early Friday morning a freight train was
| wrecked near Columbus O. James Mears,
| a stock-dealer Of Steubenyille, o.. who was
| in the caboose, had his neck broken.
| Articles incorporating the Omaha Union
| Depot Company were filed in the office Of
the Nebraska Secretary OF State at Lincoln
| Thursday The capital stock is 5000 600
| Since 1900 the population OF Europe has
| lust doubled itself Then the population
| was III, 900 600, ID 1880, 2i6,000V00; in 1860,
2S9 0o0, 900; In 1850, 81 900 900; in 1883, $780,
100000
| Edward G. Leverage, assistant manager
| Of the Associated Elevators, at Buffalo,
| who was arrested for completely in the
1 sherman grain shortage case, was on Fri
/ day admitted to bail in g., 800
| contract has been awarded Mcintosh
| Bros for the construction Of the Oconto &
| Southwestern railroad, which will extend
| from Oconto Wis, TO Abrams, on the line
! of the Milwaukee Northern The new
| road will be fourteen miles in length.