Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-04-18
The World in a Nutshell.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION
DOMESTIC.

HE OlttbS Oh WISCONSIN was on the SIN Dy
direction of President Harrison transferred
from the Military Department of the East
to the Department of Dakota.
AT Port Jefferson, l. l., ON the 9th Lewis
Conklin (coloredl, aged forty-five years,
Was murdered by his wife during quarrel
FIRE destroyed ArkwTight's cotton fac
tofy at Savannah, Ca, on the 9th Loss,
100000
FIRE-Buas at Columbus, Ind. ON the 9th
destroyed seven barns and stables with
their contents
MEMORIAL. exercises in honor OF the late
General p IL Sheridan were held by the
New York Legislature on the 9TH at Albany.
AFTER shut down of weeks duration,
the Monongahela river coal works near
Pittsburgh, Pa, resumed work on the 9th,
giving employment to six thousand men.
r. i. ScHoR, book keeper OF the First Ma
tiopal Bank OF Evansville, Ind, committed
suicide ON the 9th by hanging. Unsuccess-
full speculation was said to have been the
cause.
Loss OF sl0O, 900 was caused at Louis
vile, Ky, on the 9th by the destruction of
the Louisville Bridge 4 Iron Company's
shops.
MISS MAGGIE MAY, a prominent society
lady of Cannellton, Ind. was found dead in
bed on the 9th
CAPTAIN Couch, the Oklahoma leader.
stated at Winfield, Kan, on the 9th that
about everybody without authority to re-
main had been driven out by the troops.
Two MEN employed in calking vat at
the mineral bath house at Port Huron.
Mich, were overcome by gas on the 9th and
killed
The report on the 9th of the State Board
OF Agriculture of Massachusetts, noted the
great growth of the butter business in the
State, and spoke particularly of the devel-
opment of the cooperative system, twenty
six such institutions having made during
the year two million pounds
ADvIcEs of the 9th say that the recent
storm which ragged in Baltimore swept over
the lower Chesapeake bay, causing great
disaster to shipping Over dozen seamen
lost their lives and thirty or forty vessels
were wrecked
Two STRANGERS visited Daniel Keller's
residence near Shamokin, Pa, on the 9th.
and robbed him of "a, 200
THE infant daughter of George W. Sheck-
els, a farmer near Shelbyville, Ind, set her
clothes on fire ON the 9th and was burned
to death. Her mother was fatally burned
while trying to extinguish the flames.
THOMAS ANGUS, seventy years old, shoe
maker of Norwalk, o., was convicted on
the 9th of hiring boys TO commit burglaries
Several other indictments were hanging
over him.
CONSTABLE ALBERT REIMKR, who was
taken to jail in Chicago on the 9th on
charge of embeZzlement, was found dead
in his cell an hour after his incarceration.
He poisoned himself
THREE masked men on the 9th entered the
house Of Lewis Patterson, a wealthy farmer
living near CenterYille, Pa, and demanded
his gold. On being told that he had none
they tortured him by holding his feet and
his face to the stove, and after securing s43
and gold watch they left
TREASURER GEORGE r. EREwoLF, OF Hoyt
L Thomas, partners in various plays, disap-
peared from Boston on the 81 leaving q
shortage of S., 1000.
The Missouri River, North Platte 4 Den
yer Railroad Company was Incorporated at
Lincoln, Neb., on the 9th Buffalo Bill''
was one of the incorporators.
A PRIVATE car containing party of seven
Boston people returning from a tour of
California was wrecked in collision on the
Santa Fe road near Joliet, Ill, on the 10th,
and Miss Winslow, Henry Hartt Harry, the
porter, and Smith, the cook, were instantly
killed, and the others were dangerously
wounded
II was announced ON the 10Th that when
Miss Bessie Rockefeller was married a shor.
time ago to Charles A. Strong, son OF Rev.
DR.. A. H. Strong, president of the Rochester
Theological Seminary, her father, John d.
Rockefeller, made her a present of 81 900
600
ST. PETERS Catholic Church III Mansfield,
o., was destroyed by fire on the 9th Loss,
900
WILLIAM j. IRVING. Jr, twenty years old
and married was arrested on the 10th at
Hartford, Conn, charged with the embezzle-
ment Of $50, GOO from the Hammond Dressed
Beef Company, for which he was local men
Rger
JERRY SULLIVAN, aged seventeen years,
was steamed to death on the 10th in a large
kerr at the print works at Dover, n. H.
MOUNTAIN fires were raging on the 10th
near Edgemont, Md, and great damage had
been done
The National convention OF the Sons OF
Veterans held in Albany, y. Y, on the 10th,
decided to consolidate the post" and
camp" systems.
THE police Judge and sheriff at Leaven-
worth, Kan, received letters ON the 10th
signed White Caps warning them to ex-
tend no leniency to persons accused Of vic,
lating the prohbitory laws.
IT was reported ON the 10th from ths
lumber woods of Upper Michigan that over
One billion logs were banked and ready to
be floated to the mills, but could not be
moved owing to the lack of water in the
streams.
The propeller Oswego left Buffalo on the
10th for Chicago This was the first de-
parture of the season from that port
FARMER MCCLAUGHREY, one OF the
from the penitentiary on the 10th, his sem
tence of two years having been reduced one
month by the Governor He went direct to
his home at PalOs
ALMOST the entire business portion of
Camden, q small town in Jay County, Ind,
was destroyed by fire on the 10th.
CAPTAIN STUBS, OF the American schooner
Eucknam, which arrived in New York ON
the 10th, reported that he was chased and
fred upon by Dominican man-of- war on
NarcA2l. The American flag was flying at
the schooner's peak at the time. The Buck
hap soon distanced the steamer and the
latter gave up the chase
A CALL was issued on the 10th for q Ma
tiolal convention of BARRIERS to be held at
Pittsburgh, Pa, the first Tuesday in Sep
tefnber to forW National trades union.
ANagreement was on the 10th said to have
been reached between the United States,
England and Germany by the terms OF
WHICH each of the three countries named
would keep but one war-ship in Samoan
waters, pending the results OF the forth
coming conference at Berlin.
TwENTY-THREE horses and cows were
bu&ped on the 18th in fire which destroyed
th9 barn OF W. II. Emmons at Eden Ill
The fire was of incendisry origin.
A TERRIFIC gale struck Tama City, Ia, on
the 18th, unroofng and raising many build
ings No one was injured
The United States Consul General at Rio
de Janeiro reported to the Secretary of
State ON the 18th that yellow fever was
prevalent there to an alarming extent
HENRY Roam a farmer living near Mount
Vernon. Ind, was called to the door of his
house on the 18th and fatally shot by Joseph
Maynard, a neighbor with whom lie was at
variance.
ABEL LODGE, the village and township
treasurer OF New Lisbon. o. was on the
II tn discovered to he 1900 short in his ac-
counts
THE New York Yacht Club on the 18th ac-
cepted the Earl of Dunraven's challenge to
race next fail for the Americas cup
A MAN named Hurlbut, charged with NAL
treating his Invalid wife, was whipped
nearly to death on the llth by a crowd of
women at Allegan, Mich.
BILLINGS 4 EAroN. wholesale leather
dealers at Boston failed on the llth for
S7O0,O00
The storehouse and contents OF the Chel-
sea Cordage Company at Boston was burned
on a. ram "a nf n