Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-09-26
The World in a Nutshell
For tho Week Ending sept. 80.

For tho Week Ending Sept. 23.
The Eastern fruit crop has been greatly
injured by the late storms
Mabel Adams, years old, was burned to
death Saturday at Findlay, O., by an explod-
Ing can OF gasoline.
Heavy frosts are general in the north of
Germany. The Riesen Gebirge is covered
with two feet of snow
The discovery of gold in a rocky ledge
near Irvington, N. j., caused sensation in
that village on Friday.
The business portion of Kensington,
Prince Edwards Island. was totally de-
stroyed by fire on Saturday.
Reports from the Rhine wine-growing
districts indicate that this years vintage
will be the best of the century.
Advices from China state that the boiler
of launch burst in the river at Shanghai
and twenty persons were killed
Nathan Hudson while digging a ditch
at Kokomo, Ind, Thursday was buried
alive eight feet below the surface.
sam" King and Mary Weiner, two OF the
most notorious shoplifters in the country,
we're arrested in New York on Friday.
Tho negroes of Cobb County, Ga, held a
meeting on Friday TO advocate colonial
ton in some OF the Northwestern States.
The Association of American Physicians
tp session at Washington on Friday elected
s O. Busey, of Washington. as president
Tho new Government dry dock at Ports
mouth, Va, tho largest on the Atlantic
coast, was formally opened on Thursday.
The heaviest shock Of earthquake ex-
perienced at Healdsburg, Cal, for years oc-
CURED Saturday. No damage Is reported
done
A waterspout burst over the Mexican city
of Cerro Gordo on Thursday, drowning sew
eral persons and sweeping away horses and
cattle.
Martin Kellogg, the Oldest resident OF
Huron County and probably of Northern
Ohio, celebrated his l03d birthday on Sat-
urday at Norfolk.
The editors and publishers Of Southern
Indiana newspapers are to meet et Sey-
mour October 10 to form non-parttsan
press association.
Elijah Gum, Of Elkhart, Ind, refused to
consult q regular physician, but betook
himself to q Christian science healer. Mr..
Gum died Thursday.
Sol Felch, al prominent business map OF
Iron Mountain, Mich, was murdered on
Saturday near Florence, Wis, by Charles
Stelit1, his farm hand
Emil Schneider, farmer neaE Faripa,
Ill, was caught in the belt Of thrashing
machine Thursday and killed. His body
was horribly mangled
Near wareham, Mass, on Thursday
Jobeph de Barron, an 6year-old hey,
stabbed and killed Herrick Lopez, aged i8
years, during quarrel.
An assignment was made on Friday by j.
g. Mattingly Sons, distillers at Louisville,
Ky Their assets were $685. 900 and their
Wbilinss about $500. 600.
Fecer Abbott, aged 10 years, apd bis
bxptHef Arthur, years of age, were Dr.
rested at Concord N. IL on Thursday tor
Attempting to wreck train.
p0liQeman j. W. n. Gordon was shot dead
at New Orleans Sunday bt David shGehAp,
aN engineer, whom Gordon dubbed rev
days &go while arresting him.
While attempting to board moving traip
at Princeton, IND, Friday night, FEed
Koch, Of Terre Haute, fell under The
wheels and was ground to pieces
The young daughter Of Henry Smith, Of
Beioft Wis, died of strangulatIon e&flN-
d4y. week ago she swallowed 7Rw
bean, which lodged in her &indpipe
JEFF Davis is growing very ipfrm and had
to decline attending the injecting of tho
Confederate yeteEsns Association, which
win take place IL Mississippi October 10
Eight cotton mills In Preston and four
teen IN Blackburn, Eng, shut down on
Thursday owing to pooh business, and as a
result 10000 looms and 10000, 600 spindles
were idle
Six more custom houses are to be estab :
liehed on the Canadian side of the inter
national boundary line between the west
ern boundary OF Manitoba and the Rocky
Mountains
At the meeting OF the National Evan
gelicai Woman's Missionary Society at
Reading, Pa, on Saturday Mrs C. +. Rass-
weller, of Napierville, ILL.,, was elected
president.
1t was reported on Saturday that j. p
Williams, receiving teller OF the First Ma
tional Bank of Denver, Col, Mis a default
er to the extent of 5000, and that he had
gone to Mexico
The New York Legislative committee of
the Worlds Fair met Thursday and elected
Chauncey NJ Depew chairman, ex-Secre-
tary Whitney ice-chairlnan, and r.. d.
Stokes secretary.
Mrs. Elizabeth Zopf a wealthy widow of
Freeport, ILL.,, committed suicide Thursday
noon by cutting tho arteries in her arms
with carving knife and then hanging her
self with clothesline.
The largest tore<t fires ever seen on
Prince Edward Island ragged west of Sum
mer Side on Saturday Three saw mills
and large number Of dwellings, and out
buildings were destroyed.
]. $ CotterelI, a Chicagoan, eloped from
Minneapolis Thursday with a Samoan
woman who had been exhibiting at dime
museum The woman claims to be a rela
| two of King Maietoa, is - years OF age
and goOd-looking.