Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-02-28

y n SMirn negro VINO had heen indus-
ing hands TO leave the vicinity OF ArteSia.
Miss for Arkansas. Was hanged Oh The 2lSt
by unknown persons.
CATHOLIC pilgrims, numbering ono hun
dred, in charge of Father Nissaui sailed
from New York ON the 2lst on The steamer
Nieland for tour Of the Holy Land
A FURIOUS gale prevailed throughout
lArse portion of Dakota on the sist, the
Wind reaching a velocity Of sixty miles an
hour
The anthracite coal companies Of Penn
sylvania decided ON the Fist To restrict pro-
duction by closing the mines two days each
week
News was received at Boston on the 2lst
OF serious engagement in Hayti on Feb
ruary . in which from two hundred TO
three hundred of Hippolyte's soldiers were
killed and his army completely ronted
G. F. CLARK Chicago druggist, was
shot and Instantly killed in his store by UNI
known parties at eleven o'clock on the
night of the 2lst
NATURAL gas was discovered on the 2ist
on the farm of James Guild, three miles
west of Medaryville Ind
NEAR Romney, W. Va, on the 2lst Oscar
Evans, contractor killed Jacob Kirby and
mortally shot A. L. Hoke both men having
assaulted him
The Board of Police of Boston announced
ON the 2lst that it would grant only 80
liquor licenses for the year beginning May
next, as against 1900 granted last year.
Hotel licenses were placed at sl50o, and
bar-rooms at 81 900.
TIM and Peto Barrett, who killed the
street-car driver, Tollefson, in Minneapolis
year ago, were on the 2lst sentenced to
be hanged on March - at the Minneapolis
jail
The United States man of-war Mononga-
hela sailed from Mare Island, Cal, on the
2lst for Samoa
A SUMMARY on the 2ist of the results of
the recent Hartford Conn., hotel horror
gave the following figures: In building at
time of explosion, AZ; killed, %; injured
10; escaped, 10
GEORGE DUNAwAY. of rutherford County
Tenn, on the 21st murdered his uncle,
fatally shot his auI-s, and then cruelty beat
his cousin, whom he had been counting
The heaviest snow storm on record in
that region prevailed on the 2lst at Column
bia, S. c.
THE President on the ed arrloved the
bill to admit as States of the Union Wash
ington, Montana, North Dakota and South
Dakota
GEORGE DUNNAwAy had been paying at
tention to Miss Ne llssa Dunnaway, daughter
of his uncle and aunt at Lascassas, Tenn,
the parents d the girl objected to his ad-
vances, and on the 22d Dunnaway went TO
the house and shot both husband and wife,
killing them
FIRE on the ODD at Topeka. Kan, de
stroyed the G. W. Crane Publishing Com
pany's building, causing loss of $4,000.
EDWARD Brown, aged twenty eight
years, and Alfred Mailman, aged eighteen
years both residing at Coplay, Pa, were
killed by an engine ON the 29d while walk
ing on the railv ay track
MISS MINNIE MARsEALEs of Norwalk, o.,
died in a dentists chair ON the 22d She
had taken chloroform preparatory to hay
ing teeth drawn and it caused her heart to
cease beating.
Ten buildings at A legany, n, T.. were de-
stroyed by fire ON the Pea.
Rev. JAMES GIBSON, prominent Baptist
minister of York County, S. c., was drowned
on the ed while attempting to ford a
stream.
JAMES NJ LANE, treasurer OF Pickaway
County, o., was missing on the 22d, and an
examination of his books by his bOndsmen
showed an apparent shortage of $4,000 in
his accounts.
AT Indianapolis ON the 22d Governor
Hovey was chosen president of new vet
eran society to be known as The Society of
vicksburg," and which is composed OF vet
Grams of that campaign
The National Encampment of the Union
| Veteran Legion met on the 22d at Altoona,
Pa, and elected officers General A. L Pier
son, of Pittsburgh, was chosen National
/ Commander.
1 WAsHINGToN's birthday was generally OBJ
served throughout the country on the 22d.
FIVE men boarded passenger train on
! the 22d near Pixley, CAL robbed the ex-
press car, and made their escape after fatally
shooting two passengers.
/ The courthouse ut Corning, Ia, with part
of the records, was burned on the I'D
WESLEY THOMAS fcoloredl was lynched on
! the 22d at Port Gibson, Miss, for criminal
/ assault upon young white lady :
EXTREMELY cold weather prevailed
throughout the Northwest ON the ed the
thermometer ranging from degrees below
in Chicago to p degrees below in Minnesota,
Nebraska and Dasota
GEORGE y. BLANCHARD, a we'll known book
dealer, died on the 22d at Cincinnati from
the effect OF the amputation OF one OF his
arms.