Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-01-24

bus Territorial bill was passed as q substitute
for the Senate measure by party vote OF
yeas, i39; nays, 120. The bill admits North and
South Dakota, Washington and Montana Ter
ritories. Thirty private PENSION bills were
passed at the evening session.
DOMESTIC.
Tar National Dairy Fair Association Of
America was organized on the 18th at
Springfield, Ill. The purpose of the incor-
porators is TO give exhibitions OF dairy
products.
GrLA BENITA, cowboy in Montana, while
dressed as an Apache Indian on the 18th
attacked a party of Mexican herders, kill
ing five and wounding one.
AT Marietta o., William Weitzel aged
sixteen years. shot George Farnsworth on
the 18th, killing him instantly.
GEORGE MEADOWS, the negro who re-
Gently assaulted Mrs. Kellam near Pratt
Mines, Ala, was hanged by mob on the
18th.
MRS. EMMA THOMPSON brought suit in
Cincinnati on the 18th for divorce, charg'
ing that her husband, John |. Thompson,
had wives living in six different cities.
j. ]. CLARK and Mrs. NJ. j. Wright, clair
voyants, were arrested in New Haven,
Conn, on the 18th under an old blue law
which provides for the punishment Of
fortune-tellers.
WILLIAM VENTED shot and killed
Frank Farnsworth on the 18th at Marietta,
o., while the two were playing White
Gaps.
A FIRE on the 18th burned cigar-box
factory in New York, and three girls lost
their lives in the flames.
WILLIAM HODGES, young boy living
near Atlanta, Ga, committed suicide on
the 18th because he was told to sleep in
the kitchen.
Mrs. ARTHUR RoDDEY was burned TO
death and her child seriously injured in a
fire in small dwelling at Pittsburgh, Pa,
on the 10th.
HARRISON DAwLEY, of Rochester, ILL.,,
who was bitten by q rabin dog December
8, died on the 10th of hydrophobia.
Mrs COURTNEY, living near Hale's
Springs, Tenn, went to church on the 10th,
first locking up her two children in the
house Upon her return she found both
her little ones dead, their clothes having
ignited from the fire. place.
In Pittsburgh on the 10th T. V. Powder
" denounced Barry as an Anarchist, and
said it was for that reason he was ex-
PEELED from the Knights Of Labor.
Mrs. john GREER, wife Of lumber
man at Sunshine, Pa, killed her babe and
then committed suicide on the 10th, using
revolver. No cause was known for the
deed
1T was reported on the 10th that the
grand jury at Indianapolis, Ind, had
found indictments against thirty five per-
sons for violation of the election law
NICHOLAS SEIDEL died on the 10th in
Aisace township, Pa, aged eighty years.
When twenty-five years old deceased be-
came violently insane, and for period of
ffty-fve years he was chained fast ia his
room, his friends refusing to send him to
an asylum.
AN old man, rudely clad and with un-
kept hair and beard, who gave his name
as A. Squires, went into the Philadelphia
mint on the 10Th and proved his claim to
81, 200 in gold that was deposited there il
1855.
A MAN about sixty years of age was
captured while running wild near James
town, KY, on the 10Th He lived on roots,
nuts and berries and could not tell his
name.
AN unknown man, assisted by little
girl, tricked the teller of the Villepnarie
Bank at Hull, Que, on the 10th and got
away with $500.
II was announced on the 10th that the
arrival Of a Chinese lauudryman at Al
bany, Ga, from San Francisco had pre-
cipitated a genuine war of races, with the
negro women on the one side and the ter
ritied Chinaman on tho other.
HUTTON PARK, at West Orange, N j., was
sold on the 10th for S121,0O0 The property
was originally purchased from tho Indi-
ans March H. 1877, for two guns, three
coats and thirteen cans of rum.
WILLIAM JAMES, a farmer living four
miles east OF Somerset, KY, struck a
stream of pure petroleum on the 10th.
SEVERAL citizens Of Wabash Ind, re
ceived notices on the 18th from White
Caps stating that unless they mended
their ways they would be whipped.
THE dealers in washboards clothespins
and similar articles of domestic use
formed trust in New York on the nth
A BOY named Chandler was caught in
the machinery of cigarette factory at
Lynchburg, Va, on the nth and crushed
10 DEATH
ALL the miners at Bromwell, w. Va,
and in the immediate section, over four
thousand in number, went out on strike
on the 18th. The trouble was over loading
cars.
MooSsnrxERs were causing much trouble
on the 18th in the vicinity of Charlotte,
n. c.
AT Sioux City, Ia, Mrs. C. A Ralph, an
English woman, rose from the dinner
table on the 18th and shot herself dead.
IL F. VoIGHT, former cashier of the
Farmers and Mechanics Bank of Pitts
burgh, Pa, which failed in September
with liabilities of s250000, was arrested
on the nth on the charge of embezzling
5000, 600
GEORGE HACKER, an Indianapolis An
archist who stabbed his employer, James
Bruce, because the latter expressed graft
ficstion at the election of General Har-
rison, was sentenced on the 18th to four
teen years in the penitentiary
AT the death on the nth Of William
Keane, st. Louis newsboy, it was dis
covered that he had amassed fortune Of
SIS, $50, the largest portion of which was
invested in bonds aud securities.
The one hundred and eighty-th.rd ami
versary Of Benjamin Franklin's natal day
was httingly observed In various places
on the 18th by Typographical societies.
ADAM BERKELs of Hillsboro, o., brought
suit on the 18th for $40 900 damages against
sixteen citizens of Brown County for an
assault committed upon him in their capac-
ity as "White Capsn
JAMES p. NEARY, cashier Of the Mutual
Union Telegraph Company Of Boston, was
arrested on the 18th, charged with embez-
zllng g, VUU OF the company money.
GEORGE MEADOWS, the negro who was
recently lynched at Pratt Mines, Ala, as
the assailant of Mrs. Kellmer, was on the
18th found to have been innocent of the
crime for which he died. The real culprit
was confined in Jail.
A MAN named Beecher, living near the
Buck Shoals silver mines in Indiana, was
carelessIy handling q can of blasting
powder on the nth when it exploded,
blowing away half his head and one hand
A VALUABLE vein of lead was struck on
the nth half mile north of Mineral
Point, Wis.
AT Poteau, 1. T., two men named Webb
and Harris shot each other TO death on the
nth, and a bystander who witnessed the
fight was fatally wounded
THE Department of State at Washington
was informed on the 18th that the jap
anese Government had abolished the ex-
port duty on drugs, woven goods, timber,
cereals. spirits, beasts, fuel, etc.
CAPTAIN ROBERT MILLS, one of the
| oyster pirates at Baltimore, Md, was SEN
fenced on the 18th to one years imprison-
ment and 500 fine.
The British bark Sibel. which left New
| York June 15sfor Bangor with a cargo Of
oil, was on the 18th given up for lost She
carried . crew Of twenty men.
TIE thermometer in Dakota and Mime.