Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-06-27
The World in a Nutshell.

The Connecticut Legislature adjourned
stne die Saturday.
The village of Quijotoa, a. T., wasalmost
entirely wiped out by fire on Friday.
State Treasurer Isaac S Bamberg
dropped dead at his home in Columbia, =,
c., on Saturday
The first new wheat of the season arrived
at Baltimore yesterday from Virginia ana
sold at 81. so bushel
H.H Root, of Fort Wayne. Ind, has been
elected president of the National Travellers
Protective Association,
The Ohio Democratic State Committee has
changed the date for holding the state con-
vention to August 20 and p.
W. H. Hawn, of Woodstock Va, COM
mitted suicide Saturday after an unsuc-
cessful attempt TO murder his wife
A decision by the Ohio Supreme Court
forbids the social club scheme adopted by
many to evadc the local-option law.
Ezra Meredith, of Madison, Wis, has been
sentenced to fifteen years in the peniten-
tiary for the murder of John Gigour
The superintendent of police of Indian
apolis has resolved to prosecute saloon
Keepers who sell or give beer to children.
The city treasurer's office at Omaha, Neb.,
was robbed of $500 by sneak thief Satur-
day while she Office was filled with people.
John Collins, wealthy farmer living in
Oswego township, Ill, was coniidenced out
of s., 600 on Saturday by three-card monte
men.
William yerder, negro desperate, set
fire to the fail at Archie. Mo, where he was
q prisoner and his body was burned to a
crisp.
Charles Randolph Uncles, the first negro
TO be ordained in the Catholic church, was
ordained by Cardinal Gibbons at Baltimore
on Friday.
At Santa Barbara, Cal, on Friday, J. b.
Henderson, while drunk, shot his landlady
and then suicided by shooting himself in
the mouth.
1t is reported that eight OF the eleven
members of the Wessen family living in
Van Riren County, Ark, lost their lives in a
recent flood
The Supreme Lodge A. 0 U. W. in ses-
sion on Friday at Omaha elected William r.
Graham, of Cedar Falls, Ia, Supreme Mas
tor Workman.
Frank Miller, an ll-year old boy Of Long
Island City, N Y, died on Friday OF hydro
phobia. He was bitten nine weeks ago by
q rabid dog.
Emma Imbasche, Is years old committed
suicide on Saturday near Berry Village, Ill /,
by hanging herself TO bedpost with her
mothers apron.
Mrs. Phoebe Vennum died on Thursday
at Morrison, Ill, aged l04 years II months
and &c days. She retained her mental fac
IIties to the last.
The Comptroller of the Currency has au-
thorized the Schuester National Bank of
St Joseph, Mo, to begin business with a
capital of 100000
On Thursday 345 Mormon proselytes, under
the guidance of Elders Ellis and Anderson,
arrived In New York from Europe and left
Immediately for Utah
NJ H. Harold, a well-to-do merchant of
Valparaiso, Ind. committed suicide on
Sunday. Long continued i'll health had
made him respondent.
NICK FOLEY, who recently shot and i'm
stantly killed Mrs Clark, the sister of his
sweetheart, near Elgin, Neb.. was iynched
by mob on Saturday.
Harry D. Flamm, an employee of the Ma
rine National Bank at Pittsburgh, Pa, was
lodged in Jail Saturday night on the charge
OF having embezzled $4,000.
The widow of Edward Payson Roe, the
novelist, has erected a granite monument
over his grave in the Cornwall village GEM
etery, near Newburg, ON the Hudson.
Twenty two cases of insanity have been
brought before the Judge at Tacoma, W.
T.. sfrres-...st Marc and one-half of the
cases are OF persons who came from the
East
Alvin Park, q middle-aged widowor Of
New London, Conn, shot and killed E14-
year-old girl named Littlefeld, with whom
no was in love and by whom he had been
Tilted
Andy Caldwell (colored), an escaped luna
tic, was taken from the charge of an asy-
Ium guard by q mob on Friday near Rock
ton, s. G., and shot He had assaulted white
woman.
The coin and slot device has been applied
to children's savings banks When once set
for action a regulated number OF coins must
be dropped in the bank before it can be
opened.
Robert Howick and Benjamin Klinger,
two of the wealthiest and most prominent
farmers In Mercer County, o. were in
etantly killed by lightning on Thursday
near Hopowell
The remains of John Sewer, the first Gov
ernor of Tennessee, have been eXhumed
from near Montgomery, Ala, and inferred
at Knoxville, Tenn They had been buried
seventy-four years
William II. Meyer, salesman in a dry
goods store, was arrested at Cincinnati, o.,
on charge of having embezzled 600 OF
the estate of minors OF whom he was guar
dian several years ago.
The total Indian population is less than
100000 OF these q 232 live in houses and
9,6l2 families are engaged in agriculture.
And among these so-callod savaGes there
are Is, 633 church members
Two Choctaw Indians named Tuba and
Jumping Frog, who had several hundred
dollars in their possession, were found muir
dered on Wednesday in the woods OF Sugar
Loaf Mountain in Indian Territory.
The French steamship La Bourgogne,
which arrived at New York Sunday, ON June
20, In latitude 49, longitude IS q, passed the
largest iceberg ever reported 1t was esti-
mated 20 be 100 feet high by 975 feet long.
San Francisco firm has built the largest
wine cellar in the world It is capable OF
holding 5000, 600 gallons of wine. Its cost
was G250,00O. This is one indication of the
rapid growth of wine production on the
Pacific coast