Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-08-08
The World in a Nutshell.
For tha ,yeek Endinp Aug. 3.

FOR the week Ending aug. o.
Smallpox is officially reported TO be rag
Ing in lower Egypt
Two bodies were taken from the flood
debris at Johnstown Friday.
St. Louis has decided to ask that the
worlds fair be located there
Portland, Mich, has gone wild over the
discovery of oil near that place.
A hurricane swept over Troy. n. Y, Sat
urday afternoon, doing great damage.
Eleven business houses at Peruville,
Mich, were destroyed by fire ON Thursday.
The famous horse Johnston paced mile
on the Cleveland TO- track on Friday in
2:O6]<
Wheat reports are not promising on the
continent except in the northern part OF
France.
Provincial Secretary Robinson was on
Saturday sworn in as Premier of British
Columbia
Treasurer Coleman, of Warren County, o.,
was on Friday said TO be a defaulter TO the
extent of $4,000
The Republicans OF Massachusetts, will
hold their State convention in Boston on
the 18th of September
Miss Rose Andrews, of Milwaukee, was
drowned Thursday at Kirkland, Wis. while
bathing in DEVILS lake.
Tourists Just returned from the Yellow
stone Park state that there is no danger
from forest fires there.
Commodore W. f. Fitzhugh, of the United
States navy, died saturday at Philadelphia
of cancerous difficulty.
The Adjutant's reports from Dayton, o.,
show Is, 70s veteran inmates in the six In
teruational soldiers homes
Nd0xy
night by heavy rainfall, two inches OF
water falling in fifty minutes.
Charles Coleman, colored Jockey, was
thrown from horse and killed While prac-
ticing at Dayton, O., Saturday
Ten timber smugglers have been arrested
in the Turtle Mountain region and taken
to Grand Forks, D. T., for trial.
A trust has been formed at Mobile, Ala,
to control the manufacture and sale OF arti'
fetal ice in the Southern States.
Lightning struck the residence of Ed
ward Brownell, at Cambridge, n. Y, Sat-
urday, killing his l0-year- old daughter
Johnstown people are afraid to erect per-
manent dwellings until the rivers shall
have been cleared of the debris in theIu
Nathaniel Chase, better known as ia
Their Chase, the Millerite, died at bis home
in Andoyer, Mass, on Friday, aged 50 years
The second flowing well was struck near
Terry Haute, Ind, Thursday, giving prom
Use of great petroleum and natural gas
field
A Te Deum, cOmmemorating the 250th
anniversary of the founding of the Ursuline
order in Canada, was begun on Thursday in
Quebec.
Reports from Milwaukee show that thou
sands of veterans will attend the encamp-
ment in defiance OF the orders of their
commanders.
At Carthage, n. Y, on Thursday Fred
Parr, an engineer, shot his wife and him
self, both dying instantly. Domestic trouble
was the cause
The street railway stables at Richmond,
Va, were struck by lightning and destroyed
on Thursday and sixty mules and horses
were burned up.
Advices from Gunnison, Col, state that
the Ute Indians have left their reservation
and are intimidatng ranchmen and
Strengthening game
BY an explosion of fireworks ON a car of
the Grand Trunk railway Saturday, Just
east of st, Lambert, Can, an express mes
senger was burned to crisp
Indications of gold i'll paying quantities
have been discovered on the farm OF W. H.
Dickson, near Arrow Rock. Mo The gold
is deposited in bed of rock.
A stick of dynamite was fed in to thresh-
ing machine near Anderson, Ind, and the
machine was blown to pieces and three
men and four horses were killed.
The Prohibition party of Maryland held
it's State convention at Glyndon on Thurs
day and nominated Dr. D. i Stone, OF
Frederick County, for Comptroller
Mrs Fred Pheineking, wife of a farmer
near Woonsocket, S. d., committed suicide
by taking paris green She thought her
4-day old babe was dead and was over
come by grief.
Henry L. Royce ex-treasurer OF the
Willimantic Savings Bank at Willimantic
Conn, was arrested Thursday on a charge
of stealing 5000 from the institution and
making false entries
Real estate above One Hundred and Tenth
street in New York City continues to rise
in value. One man bought sl75, 900 worth
of lots on One Hundred and Twenty-fourth
street last week, to hold until 1892.