Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-03-14
DOMESTIC.

Mr. Ingalls, election as President pro tenn,
and the senate thereupon adjourned until the
nth.
DOMESTIC.
A STATEMENT submitted TO the House of
Representatives before final adjournment
on the Ath showed that the appropriation
bills passed during the session amounted to
a total of 92sl, S7SG9j, divided as follows:
Agriculture, 81 500, 40; army, s2i, 800, il5;
diplomatic and consular, 81 ,9S9, 02l; District
of Columbia, $685. ,4Q6; fertilization, ~, 2O5,
594; Indian, sS,035, "a; legislative, etc, So,
$40, 535; military academy. s9l2, 166; navy,
s2i, Ga2, $40; pension ssl, 75s2Ms post-office,
500, GO5, 3i4; sundry civil So, III ,Sil miscel-
laneous acts tesdmated s5,5o0,000; de-
ficiency, SIC. 423, $50.
The number OF immigrants landed at New
York during the six months ended February
rs was as follows: September, 1883, 29023;
October, q, G69; November, 1909; Decem-
Der, 1888; January, 1889, 7,43l; February,
l0.G45 total, 107 $50; showing u decrease Of
u ,522 as compared with the corresponding
months year ago.
PRESIDENT HARRISON held his first rccep-
ton at the White House on the 9Th, and for
several hours streams of callers We're re-
ceived and shaken by the hand The scene
was a gay one, the crowd comprising civil
ians. soldiers bands etc.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER on the 9Th gave to
the American Baptist Education Society
100000 The sum was to be paid in monthly
installments of $4,000
PREPARATIONS are on foot for a grand dis
play Of American corn at the Paris Expo
sition corn palace will be included in
the display.
A COMMITTEE of the Rhode Island House
" Representatives on the 5th reported In
favor OF repeating the prohlbitory amend
ment.
CLARK GALLAGHER, prominent farmer
living near Waverly, Ind, committed sui
eide on the 5th He was insane.
T. E. ROBINSON, deputy postmaster OF
Daily Springs, Ark, was lynched by mob
On tho 5th for a criminal assault upon an
eght-year- girl
The Reading Iron Works Of Reading, Pa,
who operated blast furnaces FORCES and
machine shops and rolling, sheet, tube and
pipe mills suspended payments on the 9Th
with liabilities of about Il 900, 900. The con-
Germ employed over twenty-five hundred
hands
SETTLERS at Springfield, Col, who had
been for a year troubled by the 9epredattons
of 'rustlers captured and hanged three OF
the gang ON the 9th.
and twenty-three street-cars were de-
stroyed by q fire on the 9th in Kansas City
which ruined the stables of the Metropoh-
tan Street Railway Company.
HARLAN TURNER and j. w McYeigh, two
/ well-known and highly respected citizens of
1 Butler, Mo, fought duel on the 9Th with
pistols, the latter being fatally wounded
THE win of James Flood was fled on the
9th at the county seat of San Mateo County,
in California. The amount of his estate was
| SlT000,000.
The Farmers Union Mercantile Company
of Livermore, Cal assigned on the 9th with
/ liabilities estimated at sl45, 600; assets un-
known.
/ THE Michigan Legislature passed joint
resolution on the 9th amending the consti-
tuition to fix the Governors salary at $4,000,
! instead Of 81, 600 as it is at present
AUGUST ZIsKA, aged sixty years, killed
himself ON the 9th at Clinton, Ia, because
| his daughter had bought an expensive
aress.
THREE of the principal breweries OF Roch-
ester, n. Y, were sold on the 9th to AN En-
| glish syndicate for 5000, 000--five per cent.
of the purchase money being paid.
THREE farmers living near Knox, Ind,
were arrested on the 9th for Systematically
robbing freight cars Phey had been car
rying on their operations for some time.
GEORGE W ROBINSON, of Norwalk o., sold
bis~Florida lamber interest or the 9th to
| European syndicate for s.50,0D,
>.J1sEPH McHENRY, Of Lima, o., was back
| OF q drift on the 9th setting a trap and
Joseph Lewis took his hat for a rat and shot
! him dead.
THREE iron mills id The vicinity Of Read
ing. Pa, shut down on tho 9Th because OF
the yEgept failure of the Reading Iron Com
PAM
| TIE Willets Manufacturing Company of
stQrenton, n. J., 9ynerg Of the largest pottery
in the country, failed on the 9Th tor $4,000
THE Mahoning National Life Association
of Columbus, o., doing an insurance bust
ness on the mutual assessment plan, failed
On the 9th, with assets of $4,000 cash and
s2l 600 in notes and accounts The risks
outstanding amounted to slO,000,0O0.
FIFTEEN cottages were burned on the 9Th
in New Orleans.
NEAR Delafeld, Wis, III the 9Th Mrs. Ann
Driscoll, aged ffty-fve years, while insane
decapitated her sleeping husband with an
axe.
DUKE McIIAcHLAN, a young blacksmith,
agea twenty-five years and Cora Carnahan,
the II irteen-year old daughter of che pro-
prietor of the Detamore House at Paw Paw
Ill, eloped ON the Sd, and at a farm house
in Em vile on the 9Th McLachlan shot the
giri do ID and then killed himself.
The display of fireworks at Washington,
deferred from the 18th until the evening Of
the 9Th. were said to have been the finest
ever seen in that city A set piece repre-
senting Harrison and Morton was so perfect
that the portraits could be recognized at the
distance Of mile.
CHARLES BINKLEY a farmer living near
- 4. -
on the 9th and tore out both his eyes with
shotgun which he didn't know was
loaded
J. Fl. BAKER, while making public exhi-
Dition on the 9th of a selk-acting fire escape
ri St Paul, Mimi, fell from a window Of
the Ryan Hotel and was fatally injured
A REMARKABLE rich vein of silver ore was
struck on the 9th near Aspen, Col
A NUMBER of farmers in Brule County,
South Dakota, had begun seeding on the
9Th.
IT was announced en- the 18th that all the
employees of the Metropolitan street car
stables at Kansas City escaped from the re-
cent fire and no lives were lost, as at first
reported
AARON LUDwIN, a milk peddler, and
Charles Warfield, colored barber, of Har-
risburg. Pa, committed suicide on the 18th.
WHITE CAfS MtlG Ou the III OpC1dIlilg at
Huntingburg, Ind One man had been Sc
tverely whipped and others had been
warned
j. p MACGABRAHAS a well-lSnown jour
nalist, dropped dead ON the eth of heart dis
ease In a New York restaurant, where he
had gone for breakfast He was forty three
years old
i JAMES SUTTON. of Lower Hayden, Pa,
4 committed suicide on the It'll because his
school-teacher, Annie Egan, refused his at
4 tsntions
i FARANTAs THEArER at New Orleans was
destroyed by fire on the It'll The Muldoon
+ Picnic Company lost its entire wardrobe
/ and the Forcpaugh Band lost all their uEi.
i forms and instruments
/ AT Rushville, Ind on the 9TH Perry Ben
nett, aged eighty years, fatally wounded
his wife, aged seventy years, with Ratchet,
and then attempted to kill his daughters
Bennett was a hard character
CARROLL COUNTY, Ga, was on the 7th In
the midst of religious revival under the
preaching of Jimmie Cook ten years old
lie claims 70 have been called TO preaching
/ in a vision
At Ireland, Ind, on the 18th Joseph Ser
! wersheim was taken from his house and
/ given thirty lashes by White Caps for refus-
/ ing warning to go TO work.
I JuDsoS BELL and Lee Watson, noted des-
/ peradoes, were mortally wounded on the
4 9TH while making an attack on the camp Of
some railroad contractors near Cumber-