Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-03-28
DOMESTIC.


HOUSE, near Days Mills, Mass, wal
burned on the 10th, and Mrs. Russell, aged
seventy-nine years, and two daughters Of /
neighbor named Truehart, aged i've ane
nineteen years, persisted In the flames.
JOSEPH RHODES and his mother, while at
tempting TO cross the Ohio river In boa
on the 18th at Pomeroy, O., were carriet
under fleet OF barges and drowned
SMITH Bros. mill, salt block and dock
near Bay City Mich, with two million feet
of lumber, were burned on the 18th. Loss
$4,000
THE collections ofinternRl revenue for the
first eight months OF the fiscal year ending
june 80, 1889, were SIS, 354, Ell, an increase
of S., Cos, IA over the collections for the cor
responding period OF the last fiscal year
FIERCE fires We're raging on the 10th on
the Blue mountains in the vicinity OF Beth
lehem, Pa and hundreds OF acres of wood
land and valuable crops had been destroyed
THE Woonsocket Rubber Company on the
10th purchased the entire Buffums island es
tate of eighty acres in Woonsocket, r. L, on
which 70 erect the largest rubber boot and
shoe factory in the world
RUMoRs from Oklahoma ON the 10th were
TO the effect that the soldiers were firing
upon the boomers, and that serious trouble
was feared
4 BILL was passed by the Michigan House
on the 18th prohibiting the sale of liquor in
any place of amusement or any adjacent
room by vote of r. to IS
IN a special order from army he adquar.
lers Major General Sohofield announced on
the 18th that he would be marshal OF the
military parade at New York on April 80, in
honor of the centennial OF the inaugura ton
of President Washington
THE annual report on the 18th of the Chi
cago Burlington { Quincy road showed q
deficit Of 81, $3i 425 in the finances of the
company, The directors charged il mainly
10 the late strike,
THIEVES broke into the Carondolet South
St Louis post office early on the morning
of the 2nth and stole $4,000.
II was announced on the 10th that Abram
S, Hewitt and Edward Cooper, proprietors
OF the New Jersey Steel and Iron works at
Trenton n j., would move their works 70
Chattanooga Tenn. They employ thirteen
hundred men paving them 81 600 600 yearly
In wages
Hess BROTHERS furniture factory at To-
ronto, the largest in the Dominion, was de-
stroyed by fire on the 10Th. Loss, sl25, 900.
THE eleven collieries operated by the Lee
barre, Pa, which had been idle since Feb
ruary 2s, resumed work ON the goth, giving
employment to nearly six thousand men
and boys
Is a quarrel about rent on the 2Oth at To-
peka Kan, Gust Werner, a merchant tailor,
shot and killed John Spendloye and then
killed himself
The United States Consul General at
Shanghai informed the State Department at
Washington on the goth, at the request Of
the Shanghai Committee OF the North China
Relief Fund, OF the distress existing over a
large area of China Thousands wero
starving and dying from exposure in North
ern China. and aid was requested
WILLIAM TURNER, OF Chicago. lost his
wife and child from diphtheria on the 18th,
and ON the 10Th he committed suicide by
swallowing carbolic acid.
A NEW counterfeit dollar, made OF brass
with a thin coating Of silver electro plate,
made its appearance IN Chicago on the 10th,
and very inferior counterfeit half and quar-
ter dollars were also discovered In circuiR-
ton
McGARIGLE GIDDESs, a boy OF sixteen
years. shot and killed his father, John Gid
dens, at Greenville, Tex on the 10Th, in u
quarrel about q pistol
THOMAS MCCORMICK, Of Dayton, o., arose
on the morning of the Goth, built fire, and
az his wife did not respond to his cali he in
Sestigared and discovered that she had
been lying at his side dead for several
hours from heart failure.
FOURTEEN men at kempton, Ind, were
badly burned on the goth by the explosion
of gas from n gas-well which they were
drilling.
n l. .l.f.
O. who had q severe attack OF hydrophobia,
was recovering on the Goth. Physicians and
scientists were writing 10 know what treat
ment the boy received
BUYER for one of The largest Kansas
City Mo- dressed beef houses said on ths
Goth that any hostile legislation to that in
dustry would be resented by boycotting the
State enactng such law
join HANBACK,, a sailor, testified al Bslti-
more on the Goth that Captain Beauchamp.
master OF an oyster vessel, offered him two
dollals per week extra il he would throw
worthless hands overheard
GoRpox & WARSER's livery stable at New
port. Neb. was burned on the 2lSt, and !.
b. Gordon, who was asleep in the Office,
was burned 70 death az were also eight
horses.
LAM EsllE " a. pptn ApA ahibH VA hhe
gist
Al National City, Cal, on the 2lst thu
aged widow of Cyrus W. Field fell and
broke a shoulder-blade. and was not ex-
pected to survive
AT meeting of farmers held on the 2lsi
at Anderson, Ind, ii was decided TO boycott
the binding trust Irvine.
THREE women and two boys were -ar-
rested on the 2lst at York, Pa, charged
with the responsibility of recent series OF
fires in That locality
FoUE houses at Atlantic City n j., were
wrecked on the !lst by high water, and
other damage 10 property was done.
ROBERT CRAVEN, Of Philadelphia, treasurer
of the Philadelphia Wilmington& Baltimore
Railroad Compass, was on the 2lst said ia
be loen short in his accounts
ROBERT SIGEL, son OF General Franz
Sigel who pleaded guilty to forging pen
sion checks, was sentenced by Judge Ben
edict in New York ON the 2lst TO six years
imprisonment at hard labor In the Erie
County pcnitentiary
APAssESeEE train on the Atlantic 4 Pa
citic railroad was robbed on the 2lst at
Canon Diablo, A T.. by four masked men.
The Wells-Fargo express car was rified but
the amount secured was not known
PoHLMAN BROTHERS stable in st Louis
was destroyed by lire ON the 2lst and fifty
horses were burned to death. The stable OF
J. II Manor was also burned with ten
horses
THOMAS HAGGERrY and William Nicholas
were kilIed,on the 2lst by an explosion IN
the mining room OF the United States by
Mantle Company near Lakewood, n J,
The shock Of the explosion was felt foI
twenty miles
A WEEK ago Charles Nier, Of scranton
Pa, ran needle into his foot. Surgeons
sought in vain Tor it On the 2lst Nier wa,
taken to the plant Of an electric railway. hli
foot held near one OF the dynamos. and In
fifteen minutes the needle was drawn out
LIVE stock and meat inspection bin Wa
signed by the Governor of Colorado on IL
2ist 1t practically prohibits the importj
ton Of meats from Chicago and other Eel
ern packing houses
SIX more dealers in Pittsburgh, Pa, wer.
on the 2lst fined 500 each for selling oleo
margarine shipped from Chicago.
NEARLY three hundred boomers were
driven out OF Oklahoma on the 2lst b,
United States troops
AaDL making II mlsdensaaQr n nj