Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-07-18
The World in aNut-sheN
FOR the Week Ending July 10.

For the Week Ending July 10.
The wheat crop Of Iowa is reported to be
scarcely so per cent OF the average yield
Wooden mills at Bennington. Vt, which
cost $4,000, were sold last week for $780,
600
Seven cases Of sun-stroke, two being
fatal occurred on Saturday at Wichita,
Kan.
A Conservative Ministry has been formed
in Norway, with Herr Stang as Minister OF
State
The total value of breadstuffs exported
from the United States during June was
s9,165,5S9
Frank Patton, boy, was burned to death
Saturday by an explosion OF a gasoline stove
at Lima, O.
One man was killed and two men We're
seriously injured in railway accident near
OIL City, Pa
Mr.. Gladstone's golden wedding, which
win take place July 20, will be duly COM
memorated-
Boulanger is said to be working to have
the French republic base itself upon the
American plan.
The great sheep-raiser, Mr.. Mitchell, of
Exc, New, will have wool-clip OF 10000
pounds this season.
Thomas Lowry, business associate of SEN
ator Washburn denies that the latter is
in any financial strait
While running to catch a street-car
Thursday at Bloomington John Hayes,
aged %, dropped dead.
The Otis Iron & steel Company of Clevc-
land have sold their works to an English
syndicate for S4,5O0,OO0
The stables of f. NJ. Slutz at Kansas City,
No, were burned on Friday, and five horses
and ten mules were cremated
New York on Thursday transferred s25o,
600 and Philadelphia $500, 900 to the Cone
mapgh pa Flood Commission.
". 3. Walls prominent lawyer of In
dianapolis, has been held in $1,000 bonds
on the charge of embezzling 81, 200
1t Is reported that the Russian Govern
ment has totally suppressed the Lutheran
chutch within the Cars dominions
Ore, which is believed to be rich in silver,
has been discovered near the county house
in Warren County, n. y, by Mr. John Nut
ting.
Felix Keyes (colored) was taken from
Jail at Lafayette, La. on Thursday by a
mob and lynched for the murder of his
wife.
Edward Cotton is under arrest at Provi-
dence, r. l., for embezzling $4,000 from
Green, Anthony & Co, wholesalers of foot
wear.
Swan Bures, a negro charged with the
murder of young white man named
Whiteburst was lynched at luka, Miss, ON
Sunday.
Prof D. NJ Shelton, of the Kansas Agri-
cultural College, has produced variety of
wheat which yields forty seven bushels to
the acre.
Wiley Matthews, the escaped Ozark MOI
Bald Knobber, shot and killed two men IN
Arkansas on Friday who attempted to capt
ure him
Jacob Garlitch, an old farmer living near
Shelbyville Ind, blow his brains out on
Thursday on account of quarreling with
his son.
George Law, wealthy young man of
New York, was swindled out of $50 600 on
Thursday at Long Branch N. j., by
gamblers.
At Moline, ILL.,, Thursday, Henry Hagger
was killed and several others were injured
by the falling Of building which they
were raising
A British syndicate is reported to have
bought the H. IL Warner Safe Remedy
business at Rochester, N Y, and elsewhere
for g, 100000
At the convention of the National Con-
Petitioners Association in New York ON
Thursday Jacob Buss, of Cincinnati, was
elected president
Some POO persons of Seeleys Bay, Can,
were poisoned on Friday by eating ice
cream at picnic, and it was thought that
several would die
W. b. Leppere, of Green Bay, Wis, SEN
fenced in 1885 to fifteen years imprison-
ment for murder, was pardoned by Gov
error Hoard Tuesday.
The steamer Crystal City struck a snag at
tho mouth of the Saline river, sixty miles
below st Louis, on Thursday and sank
The passengers were saved
1New York advices state that the straw
board trust" one of the most powerful
manufacturing combinations ever estab-
lished, is about to break up.
Miss Lillian Behringer, am indianapolis
Gnd.) school-teacher, was dismissed on Fri
day for declaring that Lincoln was a hire
ling and JEFF Davis martyr
In London on Thursday william Henry
Smith, First Lord of the Treasury, gave
dinner IN honor oil Mr.. Lincoln the Amer
lean Minister and Mrs Lincoln.
The yield of gold in Queensland during
ounces This is an increase of 166, 900
ounces over the preceding half year
Mrs Jane Rutledge, of Marble Ark, be-
came so excited on Saturday while witness
ing fight between two men that she
tainted away and soon afterward died.
William Wellington (colored), who muir
dered Policeman John Price, was hanged
Thursday at Charlotte, N. C. Among the
witnesses Of the hanging was the Swear
old son of Price
William Meyer, prominent farmer near
Fort Wayne, Ind, was engaged in cutting
wheat on Friday when he fell under the
reaper and was almost instantly killed He
leaves a large family.
The huge cantalevet bridge over the
Firth OF Forth has been completed, all but
the bridging OF the 350-foot gap between
the sections The connecting girder will
be fifty feet in depth and viii weigh 500
tons
Charles Writ, colored, was hanged Satur-
day at Somerville, Tenn, for the murder of
Evaline Hester the oath of December last
Writ was Jealous of the woman, and, meet
ing her in the company of a rival, shot her
dead
The Washington weather crop bulletin
for the week ended July Is says the weather
during the week has been generally favor
able to ali growing crops throughout the
corn and wheat region, and that the re-
ports show improvement in the corn crop.