Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-03-21
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Grange. Ind, were burned on the 18th
CAPTAIN f. W. DAWSON, editor of the
Charleston Is CO. News and Courier, was
shot dead on the 18th by DR.. T. B. Mellow,
whom the editor had chided for immoral
practices.
Tom KELLY, of 0wasso, Mich, shot and
instantly killed his brother-in-law Stanley
Graham, on the 18th, as the result OF stand
ing feud.
ERoycoTg the saloons" was the advice
given by tho leaders to the striking weayers
at big mass meeting in Fall River, Mass,
on the 18th
The Postal Telegraph Company was on
the 18th placing poles for two new copper
telegraph wires from Chicago to St Joseph,
mo, along the line Of the Stickney road.
THE village OF MeClellandtown, Pa. was
terrorized on the night of TIE 18th by .
part of armed masked robbers, who en-
tered number of houses and aft II tortur-
.pg the inmates until they gave up what
ever money was IN their possession ran
sacked the houses and in SOFAS cases burned
them.
AT the meeting on the 18th Of the Ropes
Gold and Silver Mining Company at rshs
peming, Mich, the directors reported Q
good production and @ surplus In the
treasury.
LIZZIE johns, of Lima, o., took strych-
nine on the 18th because George Elsten, to
whom she was engaged, married another
girl
THE Pittsburgh & Western Express, OPP
Grated over the lines Of the Pittsburgh &
Western road, was sold on the 18th to the
Wells Fargo Express Company.
NEARLY the entire village of North Branch
Mimi, was destroyed by nre on the 18th
PHILIP PAUL, the chief of police Of Re-
nova Pa, was shot dead on the 18th while
conveying prisoner to Jail His assassin
escaped
MOVES & FISH, boot and shoe jobbers in
New York, failed on the 18th for $4,000.
JOHN CUSHING was blown out of sight on
the 18th at Lima, o., by the explosion OF an
underground trap at the Standard oil re-
finery.
NEARLY two hundred saloon-keepers n
Washington were arrested on the 18th for
selling liquor on Sunday, and were fined
twenty dollars each
"CURLY BILLY" the terror of the pine re-.
gions of Minnesota, was shot and killed on
the 18th at Rum River camp by Charles E.
Hayden The shooting was in self-defense
BILL passed the Nebraska Legislature
on the 18th authorizing the Governor to
pardon two ten-year convicts on each Fourth
of July.
THE tew.boat Kangaroo capsized on the
18th at Spottsville, KY, and George In
gram, the owner, and Ed simmons, the
cook, were drowned.
A GANG of nine freight train robbers wal
captured on the 18th near Phillipsburg, Pa
FIRE on the 18th at Denver, Col, de-
stroyed the King block, causing loss of
$4,000
The annual encampment of the Indiana
department of the @. A. r. opened at In
dianapolis on the 18th. Reports showed
the organization In a fiourishing condition,
over SO, COO having been expended for relief
during the year
MRS HENRY BuRKET, a wealthy and
prominent society lady of Martinsburg, Pa,
committed suicide on the 18th by shooting
herself through the heart Brooding over
| tlLhealth was the cause.
HOWARD JENNINGS a wealthy farmer,
aged sixty years, committed suicide on the
18th by hanging himself in his barn near
Lexington, Ind Cause unknown.
The ice In the Mississippi at Davenport,
la, moved out on the 18TH and the ferry
boat was making regular trips.
NEST of boilers exploded in the st
| Nicholas colliery near Mahoney City, Pa,
on the 18th, severely injuring several par
sons and killing the child Of Mrs. Louisa
| Hoffman.
The Catholic Total Abstinence News, is
| sued ON the 18th at Philadelphia, came out
squarely against prohibition on the ground
that it would open the food gates Of Illegal
/ sale and take us back to the anti high Ii
cense period
! THE Paradise Club of Anglers OF New
! York decided on the 18th to purchase seven
hundred acres of forest and fifty trout
lakes in various parts of the countrv This
would make the largest fish and game pre-
| serve In the world
! COLONEL yosHAY, one Of the old Cali
/ tornia 49ers, having been over the newly
discovered gold folds in Lower California
| stated on the 18th that he thought the gold
/ found there was planted.
| J. T. ADAMS the forger and defauiter, OF
! Atlanta, Ga, died on the 4th of VOLUNTARY
starvation, having gone twenty-seven days
without food
| THE American bark Agnes Barton, bound
| from Nassau to Baltimore, was driven ashore
on the Virginia coast on the l4th, and six
| out of her crew of ten were drowned
! A BILL making the use of obscene, vulgar
o. profane language a misdemeanor, and
infiicting fine for each and every offense,
was introduced la the House at Springfield,
| Ill, on the 14th.
FIVE men were killed and eleven injured
on the l4th by the explosion of a boiler In
the West Point boiler works Of Monroe h
Sons at Pittsburgh, Pa
FIRE ON the 18th at Newman, Ga de-
stroyed the principal business square.
AT Marlboro, Mass, ON the 18th Walter
and William White, aged eight and sixteen
years, saturated a box of powder with kero-
sene and applied match to it, causing an
| explosion by which both we're fatally In
| jurod.
! IT was learned on the 18th that George O.
| Hayden, who died in apparently destitute
circumstances recently in St Louis, had
| 500, eco in a bank in that city.
! A FIRE ON the 18th in one of the smelters
of the Anaconda Mining Company at Butte,
NJ. T., caused loss of 81 ,000, 900, with no
insurance.
! THE total values of the exports of beef and
! hog products from the United States during
the month of February last were 81, l62, 422,
against ST. 523 SS7 in February, 1883. The
| values of dairy products were: February,
1889, s5SS, 49, February, 1888, 1874, sos
The youngest couple ever married in West
Virginia were made man and wife on the
/ i4th at Keyser. Their names are Chloe Po-
land, aged thirteen years, and Joe Snow,
| aged fourteen Yeas. They had been lovers
for four years, and received parental con-
sent to marry.
I MAYOR BBoATcH, Of Omaha, Neb, on the
! l4th issued an order for the strict enforce
ment of the Sunday saloon-closing law.
The law had never been enforced
MAGRUDRR FLEFcHga tcolored). who GRIM
inally assaulted Mrs Obadiah MseCready,
was taken from the Jail at Tasley, Va, on
the 18th by q mob and lynched
VIRGIL JACKSON was hanged on the 14th
q. Utica, n. T., for the murder OF Norton
Metcalf on the 10Th of January. 1sSs
WHILE burning leaves on the l4th in q
yard at Paris, Tenn, Miss Matte Hobbs &C
cidentally set IRE to her dress and was
burned TO death
In hotel ct Atlanta Ga, on the 18th G.
E. Hamilton, railway man, cut his wtfe's
throat. alleging that she had been untrue to
him
KELLY Bios warehouse at Greenville, s
c., with twelve thousand bales Of cotton,
was burned on the 18th