Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-10-10
The World in a Nutshell

Robert Mcclure, OF Buffalo, n u, was
killed Friday at Nation, H., by a train.
A scaffolding fell on Friday at Alten-
bruch, Germany, and seven men were
killed
Colonel Peter Roberta veteran of the
Mexican and Black Hawk wars. died on
Friday at jacksonville, I'LL
Seven thousand colliers in Lancashire.
Eng, have gone out on strike for an adj
vance OF per cent. In wages.
Two miners were instantly killed and one
fatally injured on Thursday by fall OF
earth In colliery at Hazieton, Pa,
Fire at Madison. Wis, Friday. caused by
clerk stepping On an explosive match,
destroyed property valued at $4,000
T. Tandy, general freight agent Of the
Grand Trunk railroad, dropped dead at
Montreal Friday night of heart disease.
Mrs. William Alspach, an aged widow,
was struck by q freight engine ON Thurs
day near Lima, O., and instantly killed
John Connor, OF Emmetsburg, la, i'm
bibed whisky freely slept on the railroad
track and was cut to pieces by passing
train
The Hastings Brewery Company's build
ings were burned at Hastings. Neb., on
Friday. and 600 barrels of beer were de-
stroyed
Ex-President Robinson, of Brown Uni
verpity, will make good the ST, 600 shortage
Of his son, Registrar Robinson, of that in
stitution
William b. Flanders, of Kandiyohi, Mimi.
and Edward Percy Gilchrist Of Fort Mad
ison, Ia, have been appointed cadets at
West Point
ID. G. Davidson, OF Iowa. was appointed
by Governor Larrabee Thursday as. a del
egate to the American Forestry Association
at Philadelphia
mass Of coal fell in colliery at Auden-
ried, Pa, Thursday Martin Jaskovitz and
John Slinsky were killed and Tamazo
was fatally injured.
Hubbard Vail, D. D., LID, Bishop OF the
diocese Of Kansas, died ON Sunday, after .
sickpess OF two weeks.
gang OF negr boy burglars has hsep
unesrthed at Macon, Mo, and four Of theib
sentenced to prison. one, Matthew Brown,
aged Ia, for forty years
Joseph Beckner, farmer living near
Pekin, ILL.,, fell from his wagon and broke
his neck Thursday evening Drink was
the cause of the accident
way crossing near Coldwater, Mich, THUS
day, a train running his buggy down and
mangling his body fcarfully
John f. Lawrence, sentenced to the pen
itentiary for life for numbering his mis-
trees, Miss Elmira Atwood, at Bangor, Ne. i,
In 1870, was pardoned Friday.
At Brazil, Ind, Friday Viola Miller, 10
years old, was struck by block OF terra
- F.I l..,sl -.
OF erection and instantly killed
Bepjamin Hart committed suicide at
Galssburg, Ill, Thursday morning by
drowning himself in a cistern containing
only twenty-five inches of water.
The first snow-storm of the season at
Lockport. N Y. occurred ON Sunday.
causing the destruction OF trees, particu-
larry apple trees, and vegetables
An attempt was made at st Johns, N. B.,
to poison the families of three Protestant
ministers by candy sont through the mails.
The wife Of one OF the ministers has died
Destructive prairie fires are raging east
Of St Cloud, Mimi, in Coates and Free
mans meadows MEX Streitz, a farmer, 8
reported to have had seventy tons of hay
destroyed
A traction engine went through bridge
Sparks and Henry Wright were pinioned
beneath the boiler and scabded to death by
escaping steam
passenger and freight train collided
ON Friday at Lasswitz, Germany, and four
railway officials who were on the passen-
ger train, were killed, and many of the pas
sengers were injured
Iowa's corn-palace festival was visited
do dali nraa hn md
Boston and the Industrial and civic parade
was the greatest public demonstration ever
witnessed in Sioux City.
Charles Davis, aged only 10 years, but
one OF the boldest desperadoes in the In
dian Territory, and the leader OF a noted
band of horse and cattle thieves, was shot
and killed on Saturday near Fleetwood
For the first time in the history of the
Yale Law School an Italian is among the
students His name is Signor Paul Russo,
and he has been employed as court inter
prefer in New Haven for several years.
Mrs Burk Myers, who lives near Charles
ton, W. Va, pursued her husband and Mrs
Oscar Sitsbey, who were clipping and In
the chase shot her husbands paramour
seriously Mrs. Myers was not arrested
The wife OF J. Sands, sheriff OF Little
Falls, Mimi, who liberated convict named
John Mitchell and eloped with him, was
captured Friday evening at Casseston.
Mitchell has so far succeeded in evading
the officers
Signs of life in the supposed extinct vol
cano Aiusco, near the City of Mexico, have
recently been discovered Subterranean
thunderings have been heard and they
were accompanied BY a jarling of the
earth The volcano in the State of Colima
is also active.