Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-04-25


MRS. JOSIE GURLEY was found guilty bya
jury in Chicago on the 10th Of kidnapping
little Annie Redmond, and the jury fixed
her punishment at FIVE years in the peni-
Tertiary.
FIRE ON the 10th at Muir, Mich, de-
stroyed twenty buildings,
CENTERvILLE, r. l., was almost entirely
destroyed by fire ON the 10th.
WHILE excavating at Duluth, Mimi, ON
the 10th for a new Masonic temple blast
fired revealed vein of copper ore of great
richness.
WITH capital of 5000 600, the Beet
Sugar Company was incorporated on the
10th at San Francisco
Two MEN entered the State Bank at Min
neapolis at noon on the 10th, covered the
two employees who were present with re-
volvers, filed valise with money and fed
After brief chase the robbers were capt
ured and lodged in Jail
EMANCIPATION DAY was celebrated ON the
10th by the colored people of the District of
Columbia by parade of military and civic
associations
A FIRE on the 10th at Lynchburg, Va, de
stroyed the tobacco warehouse of J. W.
Childs, together with q large quantity of
leaf and manufactured tobacco stored
therein.
AT Buffalo, n. Y, on the 18th Thomas
Dominquez, a Spaniard killed his wife and
himself with razor Jealousy was the
cause.
The great Jewish festival of the Passover
began on the 10th and would be celebrated
by Hebrews all over the world for seven
days
FRANK LusBY a painter, fell from a scat
fold four stories high on the 10th at Lima, o.,
alighting on his head and breaking nearly
every bone in his body.
The loss of the schooner Eva, with her
captain, Henry Parks, and five men, was
reported at Baltimore Md, on the 18th.
The factory of the Buffalo IN. ~ Door,
Sash 4 Blind Company, was destroyed by
fire ON the 18th Loss, 100000.
GEORGE KRAMER and Charles Heidke, two
Oklahoma boomers. quarreled at Kiowa,
Kan, on the It'll over the right to certain
claim, and during the fracas both were
killed A fight also occurred between cat
tlemen and boomers west OF Oklahoma
CITY, aud four men lost their lives.
WHILE Perry Wine, of Brockton County.
W. Va, was telling tree on the 18th it
broke across the stump and fell, demOlish-
ing his house and killing his wife and three
children
THOMAS f. ScANLoN, a piano manufact-
urer with offices at Boston and New York
and factory at Roxbury, Mass, failed on
the 18th with liabilities of 100000.
Al Butler Pa, Mrs. James Field shot and
killed her husband on the 18th The shoot
ing was in self-defense.
The eighteenth annual meeting OF the
Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society
of the West was opened on the 18th at
Cleveland o. Delegates were present from
eight States and Territories.
DR. ABE ROBERTSON, OF Patrick County,
Va, while fighting the forest fires In that
county ON the 18th was overcome by smoke
and burned to death. Over fifty farmers
were burned out by the flames.
A FIERCE rain and wind-stOrm passed over
Sumner County, Kan, on the 18th, doing
great damage TO crops and property.
Several houses at Wellington we're I'M
rooted and others were blown down, and a
Mr. Hacker was killed
AT Jersey City, n j., on the 18th Patrick
McAtamney switchman, jumped before
an engine and saved the life OF a ten-year-
old boy, but he was run over and killed
FIVE men were drowned on the 18th near
cambridge, Ga, by the capsizing OF boat.
The acting Comptroller of the Currency
on the nth authorized the First National
Bank OF Hannibal, Mo-, to commence bust
ness.
FIRE ON the 18th at Tarentum Pa de
stroyed the opera house and several other
buildings
FELIcE yIARr aged seventy-two years,
professional beggar. died in New Orleans
ON the 18th OF debility and neglect in an old
shanty where she had lived twenty years.
She was supposed to be very poor, but the
coroner in inspecting the circumstances OF
her death discovered hidden around her
shanty s3S, 800.
REV. DIR. BROWN president of Wesleyan
Female College at Cincinnati, and sixty
years of age, settled dispute on the 18th
with his music teacher. an Italian aged thir-
ty-five years by giving the latter gentle
man thrashing.
EDGAR KING, son OF Joseph King, a
wealthy farmer near Montgomery, Mass,
murdered his father on the 18TH set fire to
the house and then killed himself. He was
supposed TO have been insane.
The steamer Everett raft-boat belong
ing to the Burlington (Ia) Lumber Com
pany, was sunk at the head OF Otter island
on the 18th, and five OF the sixteen persons
ON board were drowned
In was stated on the 18th that floods natl
ruined the potato, pea aud bean crops IN
portions of Virginia.
The business part of Cheney W. T., was
almost DESTROYED by an incendiary lire on
the 18th
FREDERICK BRoDERIcK and Chester Col
Inns were arrested on the 18th at Kondout,
n y, for making and circulating counter
felt coin A bag containing about seventy
five dollars in bogus nickels. together with
dimes etc, was captured.
I A wIND-sToRM on the 18th at Isabel, Kan,
1astaavad Eve lo,IgpS and ruinpn cTOnS.
4 BAG containing $4,000 in gold dis
( appeared on the 18th from the Northern
I Pacific Express Office at Brainerd, Mimi,
and officials and clerks were completely IN
I the dark rs to IT'S whereabouts.
A MAIL-poUCH containing valuable reg
I fstered letters for the Cleveland office was
/ stolen from Michigan Southern train in
Chicago on the 18th
REPORTS OF the 18th from all parts OF the
country indicated that the peach crop thi.
+ season would be the largest ever known
that the crop OF fruit generally would be
good, and that the weld of vegetables would
be enormous.
IHE Steuhenville (O1 iron and stee
works. which started about one week ago
were stopped ON the 18th by a strike. Five
hundred men were out.
The ladies' of the Chicago Free Kinder
CURTIN AShuNAdtfNik EdfO ah AbANAhtoA ASN~E
tion at st PauIs Universalst Church OF
the 18th, it being the one hundred AM
seventh anniversary of the birth of tn
founder Of the kindergarten system
Frederick W A. Froebel
VESSEL went ashore ON the 18th nea
life-saying station No q, near Norfolk, Va
and all on board were drowned before an,
assistance could reach them
JOHN HosTETTER, wealthy farmer, age
seventy years residing near Campbells
town, Pa. committed suicide on the 18th b
hanging himself in his barn
AT Jacksonville, Fla. ON the 18th lsGa
Jones teoioredD broke nearly every bone i
the body of his four-year-old child with a
iron bar and then beat his wife TO deatl
He claimed TO be subject to fits, and that b
had one at the time
CHARLES RICE living near Franklin, Pa
sought relief from asthma on the 18th
rubbing kerosene ON his breast Will
thus engaged the can exploded, burning th
house and fatally injuring Rice.
Mas HENRY BESNEHoFF, seventy -hy
years old. was assaulted by 3 tramp on n
18th near Thin o, and 50 badly iniars