Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-02-21
DOMESTIC.

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DOMESTIC.
LUKE PALMER, a wealthy resident of Bur
lngton. Ia, was swindled out of S., 600 ON
the 18th by bunco steerers ON the old time
lottery scheme.
Two MORE counterfeiters were arrested
on the 18th in Butler County, Pa, making
sixteen members of the gang in custody.
A Two-YEAR-oLD child of L. NJ, Sanborn,
Of Hemlock Grove, o., got piece of apple
peel fast in its throat ON the 18th and choked
to death
GEORGE DIMoCK an engineer at Carbon
dale, Pa, was shot and mortally wounded
by his little son ON the 18th while the
family were rehearsing theatricals.
THE people of Nevada voted ON the 18th
on constitutional amendment giving the
Legislature power to establish lotteries in
the State, and those favOring the lottery
scheme carried the day by a large majority.
MRS Brown, ON trial at Mason City, Ia,
charged with poisoning several members of
her family was on the 18th decided not
guilty
S NJ HANCOCK, OF New Church, Va, ON the
18th paid $500 80 one T. J. Butler for sll 700
iu counterfeit money, and Butler palmed off
bag Of salt on him in place of the green
goods.
MEs. RICHARD WILLIS committed suicide at
st. Louis on the 18th by shooting herself
through the head The cause of the act
was her disappointment at not being able to
Succeed as writer of poetry.
The chemical laboratory of the Ohio State
University at Columbus was destroyed by
fire on the 18th
ORDERS were issued ON the 18th on the
Pennsylvania road that no freight trains ex-
cept those carrying perishable goods should
run on Sunday. The men would stop work
at ten o'clock saturday night and would not
return to their labor until seven o'clock
Sunday evening
FIVE men Implicated in the recent muir
der Of Bill Sizemore and Carr Smith in
Clay County, Ky, were arrested on the 18th.
JOHNNIE POWERS, eleven years old, was
taken to the county asy lum at Orange Farm,
near Middletown, n. u, ON the 18th, a raving
maniac from the effects OF cigarette smok-
ing
The eigthieth anniversary OF Abraham
Lincolns birthday was celebrated in vari-
Gus cities throughout the country on the
18th.
case of white-masked thieves visited
the residence of Rev James Smith, near
Arlington. O.. ON the 18th and robbed him of
four hundred dollars in currency.
IHE Autchner Higgins Company's Gle
Fator at Indianapolis, Ind, with thirty
thousand bushels OF grain, was destroyed
Ivy fire on the 18th
The third annual convention OF the Ma
tional Association OF Builders met at Phila-
delphia on the 18th.
SEVENTH SIX pictures. the private collec.
ton of James H. Stebbins. brought the sum
of slj9,i95 at auction i'll New York on the
18TH
THE National Association of Builders in
session on the 18th al Philadelphia passed
resolution that the members recommend to
the various State Legislatures the passage
of a law making it felony for any person
or association to prevent or hinder any
American youth from learning some trade
or handcraft
DIR. J.W.Cox, a prominent druggist of Pine
Bluff Ark. was found murdered near his
home on the 18th
THE National Prohibition Conference in
session on the 18th at Louisville KY, in
dorsed the Indianapolis platform, including
the tariff and woman suffrage sections
AFIRE on the 18th at Memphis Tenn, de-
stroyed the Nicely block and badly scorched
the Gayoso Hotel Loss, $4,000
The new courthouse at Donaldsyille, La,
just completed at cost of $50, 600. was
burned on the 18th and many valuable rec
ortls were destroyed
WILLIAM L. PORTER, the retiring treas
urer of Vermilion County, Ind, was on the
18th discovered to be $4,000 short in his ac-
counts.
A FIRE ON the 18th in a silk house in New
York destroyed property valued at sl0O, 600
IKE new Government building at Fort
Wayne, Ind, was occupied on the 18th The
structure was seven years building and cost
100000
An organized band of barn burners was on
the 18th operating in Maryland and Penn
sylvania
SUPERINTENDENT CHASE of the Indian school
located at Geneva, Neb., disappeared on the
l4th and it was discovered that he had
robbed the Government Of over $4,000.
ADvTcEs of the 18th show that the consti-
tutional amendment for State lottery was
defeated in Nevada at the recent election by
50O votes
Mr.. CHARLES G. WAsHBURN, of Worcester,
Mass, of the Washburn & Moen Manufact-
uring Company, stated on the 18th that the
alleged French patent of Louis Janin did
not void the Glidden barb wire patent
FATHER DoUGHERTY, of the ST Louis Cath
Ole diocese, renowned priesthood on the
l4th and said he would locate at Chicago as
a practicing physician.
MARY POWERS, a thirteen-year-old girl at
LapOrte, Ind, was on the 18th sentenced to
five years in the State reformatory for the
murder of her infant brother to whom she
administered arsenic.
TIE National Association of Builders
closed its third annual convention ut Phila-
delphia on the 18th Edward.E Scribner,
of st. Paul was elected president
IT was announced on the 18th that the big
brewery OF Frank Fehrs, at Louisville, had
been sold to IN English syndicate for
sl.0O0.000
TIE fifth annual assembly OF the Florida
Chautauqua opened on the l4th at Defunick
Springs The session win continue five
weeks
CHARLES " GABEL, of Reading, Pa, shot
his wife and afterward attempted suicide on
the 18th during a family quarrel
HALF-BREEDs at st. John, d. r., ON the
18th resisted the attempt to collect taxes
from them and the sheriff had called out
the mil tia. Bloodshed was feared
II T. BARRY, the labor agitator claimed
ON the 18th that his new brotherhood com
prised ninety-six assemblies, and more were
being organized
THE entire sopohmore class OF Lafayette
College, at Easton, Pa, was suspended on
the 18th by the faculty for hazing
At Cape Vincent, \. Y, the opera-housc
was destroyed and several other buildings
were badly damaged by fire on the 18th
THERE were 80 business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended
on the 18th, against 265 the previous seven
days 2f
The Grand Lake Coal Company at Pitts
burgh, Pa, failed ON the 18th for $3.50. 600.
TIE Union Stock Yards at Nashville, Tenn.
and part OF the Traders West End Hotel
We're destroyed by fire on the 18th
Two TRAIN men were killed by the ex-