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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-11-14
TEMPEnANcE cmAMPIoNs.

CHICAGO, Nov. 9.-The sixteenth an
nual convention of the National Wom-
ems Christian Temperance Union
opened yesterday morning n this city,
Miss Frances +. Willard presiding.
There were about 500 delegates present
The morning session was taken up in
Bible-reading and prayer.
At the afternoon session the officers
made reports, and the venerable Neal
Dow delivered short address. Mrs. G.
d. Buell., of Connecticut. said there we're
now 7,405 unions in the United States
and lag, 1872 members. There are 3, 143 of
the Loyal Legions, with $780, 43 mem
bers. Altogether there are about
half million persons connected with
the W. c. T. U. at present. The report
of Miss Esther Pugh, the treasurer,
showed the total receipts from ali
sources to be s23, ss9.97; total expendi-
lures, $40, 667.57. The dues for 1889 re-
allied the sum of Sl4,3s6.59 The bal
ance in Miss Pughs hands is 50, 222.40
At the evening session addresses Of
welcome were made by Mrs. NJ. b. Carse,
Mrs. L. S. Rounds and Rev. Herrick
johnson, of Chicago. Mrs. Carse said
Chicago had more than 1000 saloons
open Sundays and spent $40, 900, 900 a
year on drink. Miss Willard in her
annual address said America had
become the dumping ground of
European cities, and protested against
the present wholesale exodus from the
European slums. In referring to the
Sunday-elosing movement in Chicago
she said the saloon-keeper and pot-honse
politician still held the business men
and, TO a great extent. the churches by
the throat, while red flag riots, dynamite
plots and Cronin murders were begotten
by alcoholized brains and Matched in
the high-license grog-shops of Chicago.
Miss Willard said that as a method Of
raising revenue from vice high license
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-11-14
The World in a Nut-she II
For the Week Ending Nov. II.

1t is denied that the railroads viii
form great trust, as has been reported
The Lyons Thomas Hardware Conn.,
pany of Paris, Tex, failed on Saturday
for 100000.
A fire in the Houston block at Column
bus, o., on Friday destroyed $1,000
worth of stock.
John Stokes, one of the oldest settlers
oil Cook County, H., died near Oakland
Saturday, aged 80 years.
A silver mine which assayed $4,000
per ton has been discovered in San
Gabriel canyon in California.
Smiths four-mill boiler at Blaine
town, o., exploded on Friday, killing
James Este and Charles Hughes.
Fierce snow, hail and sleet-storms
were reported in Texas, Kansas and Col
orado on Friday, seriously impeding rail-
way travel.
1t has been decided TO hold reunion
of the survivors of the Army of the Po-
tomac in the West at Monticello, ILL.,,
December 81.
Mrs. Sarah Campbell secured judg-
ment for $500 at Kalamazoo, Mich,
Saturday for injuries sustained on de-
fective sidewalk.
A fire on Thursday at Petersburg. Va,
destroyed property valued at S750,00O.
Lieutenant Crichton, of the police force,
was burned to death.
The strike of the coal miners at Spring
Valley, ILL.,, is still on. A hitch has oc-
Cured that it is feared will indefinitely
postpone a settlement.
The Chicago police on Saturday broke
up gang of counterfeiters, arresting
four of them. They made coins from the
value of nickel to dollar.
L. II. Vanhoesen, cashier of the Tole
do TO- National Bank, and j. M. Mckee,
teller of the bank, were arrested on
Thursday for embezzling 500, 900.
In Chicago, st. Louis and other cities
the second anniversary of the execution
of the Chicago Anarchists was commem-
Grated by their friends on Sunday.
A man named Page, rs years old, and
his aged wife were found murdered in
their house in Clinch County, Ca, on
Saturday. Robbery was the supposed
motive.
George Bell, alias Williams, one of
the most notorious forgers in America,
was released from the Maryland peni-
Tertiary Saturday, having completed
ten-year sentence.
At Chestertown, Md, Frank Harris
deliberately shot and killed A. L.
Trusty and Edwin Brown on Friday.
The parties were negroes and the ARRAY
happened at negro entertainment.
Miss Carrie Z. Barnes, a school-teach-
er at Providence, K. l., was awarded
$4,000 Thursday in her suit against the
New York & New England Railroad
Company for injuries received in 1886.
1t is stated that at least dozen
persons were killed in the Eiffel tower
elevator since the opening of the ex-
position, but that the managers sup
pressed the accounts of several death
LIE Caron, the informer, is said to be
living in high style in London and to
drive and walk out with seeming in
difference to the thousands of enemies
he made among the Irish by his treach-
cry.
Nearly half the population of the fish
ing communities of Terence bay and
Lower Prospect in West Halifax, N. s.,
are said to be on the brink of starvation
owing to the failure of the fishing this
season.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-11-14
The Naws Condensed.

lodge of Good TemplarS has been
organized at Shawano.
The mail route between Muscoda and
Excelsior has been increased to six times
week.
The pulp-grinder in the mill of Kim
berly Il Clarke, at Kimberly, burst re-
Gently, killing Frank Clarke, the FORE
man, and injuring five other men.
The people of Kaukauna decided in
favor of establishing a State free high
school at special election held recently.
s. Fairbanks, a farmer residing two
miles from Appleton, was fatally injured
by an enraged bull recently.
Michael Owens, a pioneer who settled
at Waterfowl in ls45, died at Eau
Claire suddenly the other day, aged
seventy-one years.
L. Newald, who absconded from Chip
pewa Falls several months ago with
about 100000, has been located IN
Brazil.
e. W. Taylor, Butternut farmer, was
arrested at Ashland recently and held in
Sc, 900 bail, charged with criminal as
sault on Mrs. Kate Haase.
The stock of dry goods of j. NJ. Car
penter, of Beloit, mortgaged to J. V.
Farwell & Co., of Chicago, was sold at
auction recently.
Edwin Cooper, town treasurer of Green
field, was recently placed in jail for the
murder of his oldest brother, Peter
Cooper, at the breakfast table. The af-
fray was the result of a quarrel.
Fl. Stubbings, of Chicago, made sale
in Wausau the other day of ten million
feet of standing pine located on the
Presque Isle River; consideration, $751;
500. This was the last of the many tracts
of pine lands formerly owned by Mr..
Stubbings in that section.
Jesse Miller, wealthy farmer living
near Lancaster, committed suicide re-
Gently by shooting. He was Respondent
over the death of his wife and daughter.
Genuine pearls are reported to have
been found in Lake Winneconne.
The young men who broke up recent
wedding party at Hartland paid 500 in
fines and costs.
Gus Holmeson was seriously injured
the other day near Bruce by party of
hunters He was going through the
woods unaware of the hunters, and they
installing him for deer fired at him.
The high school building at Unity
was burned the other day. Loss, $4,000;
insurance, $4,000.
Ex-Mayor George Smith was buried
at Oconto the other day. He was
Oconto's first mayor, and held the office
several times. He was sixty-fye years
old.
A large vein of dry-bone, or zinc ore,
was recently discovered on Morris Cav
anaugh's place, along the Platte river,
four miles from Potosi. 1t was ten
feet wide, seven feet thick and three
quarters of mile long.
While hunting rabbits near Fulton
the other evening John Lenbert acct
dentally shot James Sayer, inficting a
fatal wound.
A recent fire at Embarrass destroyed
Palmer & Barkow's store and post-office,
their loss being 81, 600, with insurance
of $4,000, and A. Petersons hardware
store, his loss being $1,000, with no in
surance.
The champion fishing story is from
Chippewa County. A resident of Weyer-
hauser claims to have caught thirty-flve
hundred brook trout in four days. In
addition he killed two bears, four deer
and twenty-nine cartridges.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-11-14

A BRUTAL DEED.
Young Lad Shot and Dangerously
wounded by a Human Fiend

Young Lad Shot and Dangerously
Wounded by Human Fiend.
John Schwarz, aged thirteen years,
was shot and dangerously wounded at
his home in Florence recently by a
boarder named Mike CARRIER, who es-
capped to the woods. Johnny, boy-lilse,
had picked up rifle belonging to the
boarder and began examining the
weapon. What are yon doing with my
gun?' CARRIER angrily exclaimed. The
boy made some laughing reply, when
the man sprang out of bed, seized the
rifle, stepped back couple OF PAGES and
fired, the ball striking young Schwarz
on the right cheek. The would-be MUIR
derer then grabbed the bleeding boy
tightly about the neck and nearly
choked him to death, and probably would
have done so had not the older members
OF the family come to his rescue.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-11-14
ranm FREMONT. NEBRASKA.

have had scrofula until it maze my
life a burden. / was inexpressible
miserable, sick, weak, sleepless, and
unhappy; desiring that the short time
which seemed to have been allotted to
me on this earth would hasten to an end.
| tried doctors treatmen and medicine,
and travel. but none of these did any
GOOD, for the scrofula gradually grew
worse. One physician WHO | Travelled
far to see. and to whom | paid 500,
gave up the case as hopeless after three
weeks If treatment. and other as prom
inent physicians tried hard to cure it,
but were equally as unsuccessful |
then gave up all other medicines, and
took only Swift's Specific Is. S. So
Four bottles of that medicine cured me,
and for the past four years have had
as excellent health aud am as free
from disease as anybody living. Words
are inadequate to express my gratitude
and favorable opinion of Swift's Specific
IS S. 81"
The above is IN extract from a letter
written under date of July Is, 1889, by
Mr.. f. 4. Nelson. prominent and
wealthy citizen Of Fremont, Nebraska.
HIS CHILD GOT WELL.
Swift's Specific Is. S. S. cured my
little Coy Of scrofula, from which he
had suffered long time. l had tried
physicians and great quantities OF other
medicines without avail. A few bottles
of S. S. S. did the work. He is now
enjoying the best OF health and has not
had any symptoms Of the disease tor
over a year. w. A. Clayton, Addle.
N. q.
Treatise on blood and skin disease
mailed free.
SWIFT SPECIFIC co. Drawer 8,
Atlanta, Ga.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-11-14
FROM WASHINGTON.
A Daily Record of Events Transpring AZ
the Nation,s CanitaI.

the Nations Capital.
WASHINGTON Nov. S.-Generai Gree
ly, Chief Signal Officer of the Army,
in his annual report, speaking of
weather forecasts. calls attention to the
fact that under present conditions the
forecast officer can devote barely half
particular state or district. The demand
for weather forecasts is continually
increasing, and they are approaching
in value in the estimation Of the
public. The percentages of successful
forecasts made by Prof Charles E. Mar
win are: For weather, 81. 4: temperature,
75.s. with a general average OF 81. Dur
ing the year l,O96 storm signals OF all
kinds were ordered, of which $50 were
wholly and "A partly justified as 10 We
locity and $50 justified as to direction.
On the Pacific coast territory. in charge
of Lieutenant J. E. Maxtield. the per
cent OF successful forecasts increased
from 1873 in 1857 10 S. in 1855.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.-The President
has signed the proclamation admitting
Montana as a State. The proclamation
is similar in form to those with relation
TO Dakota.
WASHINGTON, Nov. i'll. n. Huston,
Treasurer Of the United States. in his
annual report states that the total rev.
enues for the year ended June 80 last
were SSs7. O59,05s and the expenditures
S39a, 2SS.97s. The surplus revenues
were So, 76l goo, decrease Of So. $50, :
1913 as compared with the year
before. The gold in the Treasury
in excess Of certificates outstanding
was Sl9S,el0 III in lsss and Sls6,257, 400
in 1889. The changes that took place in
the currency were an increase of about
S34, 900, 900 in the stock of silver, a con
traction Of Sal, o0o.00 in the National.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-11-14
FOUND IN a SEWER.
DIR. Cronin's Clothes and Surgical 1
struments Discovered.


strnments Discovered.
CHICAGO, Nov. 9.--Dr. p. II. Cronin's
clothes, box OF metallic spiints and case
of surgical instruments were found about
2 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the bot
tom of manhole on Evanston avenue,
Lake View. A gang of workmen who had
been sent to clean out the sewer made
the find within less than block
of the point where the bloody
trunk was picked up May 5. Mrs.
T. T. Conklin, with whom Dr. Cronin
boarded, identified the articles positive
~. No Identification was needed of the
case of instruments, as on its back was
inscribed the dead physicians name.
After a partial examination of the
clothing and instruments at Chief Hub
bard's office the outfit ives taken to
States Attorney Longenecker's Office.
Most of the garments, especially the
trousers, are cut open, showing that they
were hurriedly cut from the bleeding
body Of the slain doctor.
The finding Of DR. Cronin's clothes
and surgical instruments was an acct
dent, and not the result of deliberate
HGAibAs 4tAS Ntto blit AttoS ia Nl4G iltluilA
of the body. Later in the day Joseph
Turner, another workman for the city.
found DR.. Cronin's socks and tin box
of plasters further down the sewer near
the lake. 1t is believed that the shoes
have been flooded out into the lake.
CHICAGO, Nov. 1.-THE police on Sat-
urday fished out Of Lake View sewer
piece of carpet about eighteen inches
square and believed to be part of the
ingram article that covered the floor of
the Carlson cottage the night DIR.
Cronin was murdered. There was no
signs of blood on it so far as could be de-
termined States Attorney Longeneck-
err and his assistants considered the dis
covery an important one. DIR. Cronin's
shoes and watch are still missing.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-11-14
EIFnIRIn RlrTERs

This remedy is becoming so well
known and so popular as TO need 10
special mention. All who have used
Electric Bittcrs sing the same song of
praise. A purer medicine does not ex-
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81 90 per bottle at JOS. I. Benefits
Drugstore.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-11-14
NEBRASKA.

OMAHA, Neb., Nov. Returns from
this State show that the Republicans
have elected Laws to Congress in the
Second district by from 1000 to 5000
majority and that the Republican candi-
dates for Supreme Judge and the Re-
gents of the University have from TO-
coo to 20, 900 majority
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-11-14
SAccHARlNE

Berlin Letter: This substance, which,
rs knoan, is 500 times sweeter than
sugar, is beginning to be felt by the
beet sugar manufacturers ~ very
dangerous enemy. 1t is stated that in
Germany already SO much saccharine
las been made Us TO render 5000 tons
Of beet sugar supcriluous. 1t is primer
pally employed in the preparations of
fluids and the production Of sweet
liquors. Ii is not a food stun Indeed,
il has been condemned by eminent med
zeal authorities as directly prcjldicial to
health. Tho sugar manufacturers are
81 tho opinion that saGcharine should
only he sold by chemists. Ftancc. Italy
sud Portugal arc already contemplating
imposing a tax on it,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-11-14

was success, and it was equally so as a
life-insuranee policy on the saloon. 1t
arrayed the expert and the non-expert
temperance forces against each other
and made mans own household his
worst foes. II had set back the tenn
perance cause ten years, if not genera
ton; IL had blinded mems consc fences
10 moral distinctions, deadened the
churches, muzzled the clergy, chloro-
formed the religious editor and reioiced
the devil and his hosts. On the labor
question she said il was being proved
that intemperance was most prevalent
whore the hours of toll we're long, be-
cause oyerwork drove men to drinking.
The speaker touched on the multiple
ity of subjects in whnh the w. c. T. u.
is deeply interested, including the
marriage relation, social evil, protec-
tion TO minors of both sexes, especial
ly girls, purity in literature and
art, physical culture and dress reform.
In conclusion she recommended petit
tions against impure literature, asking
an amendment to the Interstate Com
merce law prohibiting the bringing of
of the Blair Educational bill and the
Blair amendment, forbidding the manu-
factsre Of cigarettes and prohibiting
smoking in waiting-room and post
offices, and for various other purposes.
CHICAGO, Nov. IA breeze was start
ed in the w. c. T. U. convention Satur-
day by a telegram from IL. Il. Moulton,
OF Washington, saying a bar had been
licensed in Vice President Morton's ho-
tel building in Washington. Mrs. j.
Ellen Foster, of Iowa, expressed her re-
greet at the announe ement rejecting on
Vice-P President Morton, and protested
against its injustice. She read tele-
gram from A. r. Nettleton. of Washing
ton, saying that the accusation against
the Nice-President was without the
shadow of foundation, and that Mr.. Nor
ton personally denounced the canard
through the newspapers last week.
Reports from the National organizers
were heard. A congratulatory telegram
from Wyoming stated that the proposed
constitution. containing woman-suf-
frage plank, had been ratified by vote
Of eight to one.
Rev. John Barrows, ID. d., spoke on
behalf of the Society of Christian En-
deavor, which, he said, has 500. 900 mem
bers. 1t aims to develop the activities
of young peopie in connection with the
different churches.
At the evening session a number of
delegates delivered addresses on various
topics
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-11-14
is CONSUMPTION INcURAHLE7

Read the following: Mr.. G. II.
Morris, Newark, Ark. says; WAS
down with Abscess Of Lungs, and friends
and physicians pronounced me an In
durable Consumptive. Began taking
DR. Kings New Discovery for Consump-
ton. I'm now on my third bottle, and
able to oversee the work on my farm.
1t is the finest medicine every made. -
Jesse Middlewart, Decatur Ohio, says:
''Had it not been for DIR. Kings New
Discovery for Consumption | would
have died of Lung Troubles. Was
given up by doctors. Am now in best
of health" Try it. Sample bottles free
at JOS. +. Bennet's Drugstore.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-11-14

Ii you suffer with asthma. bronchitis,
OF any other disease of the throat or
lungs. nothing can surprise you more
than the rapid improvement that will
follow the use Of SANTA Able If you
are troubled with catarrh, and have
tried other medicines, you will be unable
to express your amazemeut at the mar
Vicious and instantaneous curative
powers OF CALIFORNIA CAr-R CURE.
These remedies are not secret com
pounds, but natural productions of Cal
ifornia. Sold at 81 90 package; three
for g 80. and enaranteed by Stone
Bros d Hassell.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-11-14

Terre Haute Express: A poetoss-
one of the pink. envelope, seented-paper
kind-has sent in a few modest stanzas,
in which she states that she
"-gazed through the bllrring win
dow pane,
And through a mist of tear. like rain
Saw the happy summer die"
Every body will be glad to know that
the summer died happy. Another not
generally known fact, which the poetess
unfortunately forgot to mention, is that
the late lamented came to its end by a
fall
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-11-14

Detroit Free Press: He rang the door
ben Of house on Second avenue and
then sat down. In \ minute he rose
up and rang it again. Then he waited
spell aud rang for the third time.
Soon thereafter the lady of the house,
betlaying dozen proofs OF sick head
ache, opened the d or and demanded;
Are you trying to pull the house
DOWN.
mo, ma am, he answered. Have
You tie Lives of PlutarchP
$40. sir, but if | was a man I'd have
yolrs in about 81 minute.
"Eh-ahl see. madam. | guess
I'd better 60
And ha took the Lives of Plutarch'
under his arm. and his own in his hand,
and backed down the step and out OF
the gate and went of with the air of a
man who wished he hadn't.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-11-14
AbyssInia,s Capitol Burned.

ROME, Nov. 9.-It is officially an
nounced that deryishes recently at
tackled Gondar, the capital of Abyssinia,
and burned the city subsequently
force of Abyssinians attacked the der
wishes and defeated them, killing three
of the chiefs.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-11-14
Texas Fever Near st. Louis.

ST. LOUIS, Nov. "a report comes
from East St. Louis that some eighty
head of cattle have died at Hunters
station. six miles east of the National
Stock Yards, within the last three weeks
of Texas fever. 1t is also said that
some of the diseased cattle have been
sent to the National Stock Yards and
there is apprehension that the disease
=, c,Nroad
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-11-14
ENDED IN MURDER.

An Old Feud Causes the Death of Two
Noted Kentucky Men. HEeEr
LEXINGTON, KY, Nov. 9.-Owing to an
old feud Colonel Armstead Nj. Swope
was killed at the post-office in this city
yesterday afternoon by Colonel William
Cassius Goodloe, and Goodloe was badly
wounded. Both were prominent Repub-
lican politicians.
LEXINGTON, KY, Nov. 11.-Colonel
Goodloe, who shot and killed Colonel
Swope, died of his injuries on Sunday.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-11-14
CONSUMPTION suRrlY euREp

To THE EDITOR Please inform your
readers that have positive remedy
for the above named disease. BY its
timely use thousands of hopeless cases
aave been permanently cured. ! shall be
clad 10 send two bottles Of my remedy
FRkE to any of your readers VINO have
consumption if they will send me their
express and postoflice address.
Respectfully,
r. a. SLOCUM, NJ. g.,
~. -. VII
Nov 10 Isl Pear ST. ne" Ao'A
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-11-14

Puck: Mr. Starboarder Gust return
ed from his vacation)-But say. Hash
leigh, you've changed my bed since I've
been gone. can't sleep in that thing.
It's six inches too short for me-
Mr. hashleigh with a conciliatory
smile-0ur only intent was to please
you, Mr.. Starboarder. 1t is little
small, but it's more on the elegant order
than your old one sir; an seem as it's
brass, we thought you might be willin'
to scrOoge some.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-11-14
Arrested a Riotous Family.

Sheriff Stackland went to the town of
Seneca the other day and arrested Mr..
Lee and his nine sons for riot. The
night previous they went INTO the viii
lage of Ferryville la Jesse James, fir
ing into every house they passed. They
heard that the sheriff and his posse were
coming and took to the woods
When captured they were in a deep
ravine, ready for battle, but were ar
rested without a shot being fred
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-11-14
Hundreds for a Pearl.

William Loofbourow, a pearl-flsher,
sold pearl at Monroe the other night
for $500 which ne had taken from a
clam she'll in the Pecatonica. 1t weighed
2l16 grains. 1t is of wine color, SPHERE
cal in shape and depressed on the
bottom little. Loofbourow has one
more of lozenger-shape, wine color,
which weighs "A or as grains. 1t is
probably worth $500.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-11-14
AN ABsnLrTE CURE.

Tic ORIGINAL ABIETINE
OINTMENT is only put up in large
twocunce tin boxes, and is an absolute
eure for old sores, burns, wounds.
eiapped badds, and all skin eruptions,
viii positively cure all kinds of piles
Ask for the Original Abictine Oint-
ment. Sold by Stone Bros. y Hassell
II % cents Der box. 400