Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-04-25
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The old Carroll homestead at Knoxville,
Md, was burned ON the 18th. The tract
upon which the old mansion house stood
was taken up in 1877 by the father of
Charles Carroll, of Carroliton, and EN-
braced fifteen thousand acres
ABRAM w. MARSHALL, one OF the most
prominent citizens of Petersburg, Va, shot
himself dead ON the 18th in the presence OF
his wife. Financial trouble caused the deed
LARGE barn ON the farm of Richard Da-
wilson, near Charlottesville, Ind, was
burned on the 18th with its contents includ-
ing six horses and number of cattle
JOHN H. SWIFT was hanged on the 18th at
Hartford, Conn, for the murder of his wife
on July :, 1851 He shot her because she
refused TO live with him.
Two OF the men engaged in the tearing
down of telegraph wires in New York were
pulled from the window Of a building on
the 18th by the sudden falling OF pole and
killed
DURING the seven days ended on the 10th
there were all business failures in the
United States, against a3a the previous seven
days.
FIVE Mormon missionaries were whipped,
tarred and feathered and driven out of Dale
County Ala, on the 18th
NEW eonmandery of the Union Vet
Grams Union at Washington was on the 10th
named for Philip H. Sheridan.
AFTER an absence of six months ON tour
around the world A. G. Spalding and his
band of baseball players arrived in Chica-
go on the 10th and were given a hearty
welcome
THE entire plant OF the Canastota glass
works ct Bowling Green o.. was destroyed
by fire on the 10th.
THE Calendar Insulating 4 Waterproofing
Company of New York failed on the 10th for
$500 600
In Pittsburgh Pa, on the 10Th il was so
warm that two men were. overcome by the
heat and would probably die.
MALACHI ALLEN, "a armed negro and
James, Mills a half Indian and half negro,
were hanged on the 10Th at Fort Smith,
Ark, for murder
SYLVESTER GRuBB was hanged on the 10th
at Vincennes. Ind, for the murder of his
sweetheart, Gertrude Downey, at Prince
ton, Ind, September IL, 1888
A FIRE on the 18th among elevators and
warehouses in New York City did damage
to the extent of So, 100000 The east bank
of the North river was swept clear from
Fifty ninth TO Sixty-fifth street Fise men
probably lost their lives in the flames, and
several others were injured
CHARLES BARKER, OF Boston, checker
champion Of the world, and James Reed, OF
Pittsburgh, Pa, agreed on the 10Th TO play
a series of fifty games at Chicago, com
mencing June 3. for the championship and
$3.50 side.
A HEAVY snow storm prevailed through
out Southern Colorado on the 10th
ONE hundred and fourteen years ago the
battle of Lexington was fought, and at
Lexington and Boston on the 10th anniver-
sary exercises were held.
A DYNAMITE cartridge was exploded
under a frame building at Middletown, o. i,
on the 9th by some one unknown, demol-
ishing half the building and breaking all
the windows in the United States Hotel
AT Huron, d. T. John flaherty, aged
twenty two years, was ON the 10th sentenced
to life imprisonment for the murder of Hat.
tie Wilson.
A PASSENGER train on the Short Line was
run into by freight train on the 10th near
Glencoe, Ky, and eight persons were in
jured
A CYCLONE struck the town of Hinckley,
| Ill, on the 10th, blowing a path one hun
| bred feet wide through the village, unroof
! ing or blowing down every building in its
! course. No one was killed
| Ii was reported at st Paul on the 18th
| that thirteen warrants had been issued for
! the arrest of members of the State Legisla-
ture and others on charges of bribery and
l corruption