Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-02-14

Eamoan Islands, 70 resign. on Che GROUND
that his views are not in harmony with
those OF the Administration =
FIRE on the .th in the Northern Ohio
blanket mills at Cleveland caused damage
TO the extent Of si00,000
Is Western New York a heavy fall OF snow
occurred on the It'll. and all trains on the
Rome Watsrtown 4 ogdensburg road were
abandoned
CALEB NJ sTaIcoTT. dry goods merchant
OF Hartford, Conn. failed on The nh for
s2O0. 900
WALTER J. GIBSON a we'll known insur-
ance agent Of Buffalo, n. T., committed sui
eide on the nth He was q member of the
old Twenty first Regtment, New York volun-
teers, and served gallantly during the war
HRSRY 0oDES, a Laketon lind dry goods
merchant was robbed of 81 sol early on the
morning of the It'll He had the money un-
der his pillow. and the burglars dragged
him.
Eva B. BURROUGHS, aged fourteen years,
daughter of Mrs H. h. Burroughs, of
Easton, Md, was accidentally killed on the
It'll by the discharge Of pistol supposed to
be unloaded
WHILE In q state OF delirium from illness
on the 18th at Cincinnati, O., William J. Martin,
q druggist committed suicide by jumping
from a third story window.
The report that seventeen men were
drowned recently in Pine lake, Fulton
County, n. Y. proved on the 9TH to have
been entirely unfounded
JAMES E. WALLER, Governor Lees private
secretary, committed suicide on the 9TH at
Richmond, Va No cause was known.
BOILER In Redmonds saw-mill at OAR
lngton, Mo-, exploded on the 18th, killing
two men and wounding a third.
THERE were 28J business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended
on the Sth, against 294 the previous seven
days. The total of failures in the United
States January TO date is 1871 against
! ,6S8 In 1888
IT was discovered on the 9Th that A. S.
Gookin, cashier Of the Manhattan Elevated
Railway Company of New York, had gone to
Canada with between 50,000 and s75, 600 Of
the funds of the company.
JAMES Ross fcoloredJ was hanged on the
9Th at Rrandenburg, Ky, for the murder of
Benedict Rhodes, an old farmer, on April @
last.
TWENTY business houses and residences
at vidalia, La, were burned on the Sth.
FRED PALMER an employee in a paper mill
at Middleport, N. Y, fell into vat of boiling
liquor on the Sth and was so horribly
scalded that his flesh dropped from the
bones He died In three hours
Exclusives FRANCIS S. BoRHEMAN,
charged with embezzling $4,000 from the
United States sub treasury at San Fran
cisco, was acquitted on the Sth.
MAY Mills, a six-year-old colored girl,
was burned to death at Kansas City, Mo-, on
the 8th while lighting pipe for her mother
BILL which passed the Arkansas Leg1s-
lature on the Sth enables tho Governor to
offer 5000 reward for the assassin of
John NJ Clayton, at Plummerville.
BAND of men at Lafayette, La, calling
themselves vtgilantes, on the Sth ordered
all the unemployed negroes to leave the par
ish.
THE Pacific Guano Company, located at
Boston, failed on the sth for 81, 000,0O0
The annual report of the Indian Depart
ment of Canada, issued on the Sth, showed
the Indian population Of the Dominion to
be i24,5S9.
THE Pittsburgh tPa.l coke strike col
lapsed on the Sth, and oil the works but two
we're In operation.
WILLIAM RITTER, O German, fifty-two
years old, living at Terre Haute, Ind, was
released from jail on the Sth, where he had
been on complaint of HIS wife. He went
home, and finding it deserted, hanged him
self In q shed
ALEXANDER BELL, aged nineteen years.
was sentenced at Columbus, Ind ON the Sth
to fourteen years in the penitentiary for
burglary. Although q mere boy Ben is q
hardened criminal
The coroner's Jury In New York In the
case Of the striking street-car employee Nc
Gowan, who was killed by officer Snyder
during an attack by the strikers on a street
car, brought In a verdict on the Sth com
mending the officer, the conductor and
driver of the car for their heroic conduct in
rcpelling the mob In the attack On the car
and exhonerated them FROM all blame.
The Treasury experts who had been en-
gagged for some lime In making an estimate
CT the effect of the Senate Substitute for
the Mills Tariff bill upon the revenues of
the Government announced on the Sth that
the Senate bill would reduce duties nearly
e50, 600 900 yearly.
ALL the colored employees in the freight
yards of the Cincinnati Southern road at
Chattanooga Tenn, struck on the sth, and
their places were filed by white men. The
Yardmaster said no colored help would
hereafter BIO employed In the yards Of that
road.