Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-04-18

er's farm house near Bramin HILL Kan, on
the 18th IL was thought to have been a
case OF murder and suicide
THREE children of Sebastian Meridian, a
Bavarian farmer at St Joseph, Mimi. were
poisoned on the 18th by eating wild parsnip
roots which their father bad plowed up,
and all died in few hours
THE stable OF Macarthur Bros. contractors
of Sault Ste Marie Mich, was destroyed by
fire on the 18th and seventeen mules burned
SAMUEL W, MYERS, business manager for
the Booth Packing Company at mdianapQ-
lis, was ON the 18th said to be $4,000 shoft
In his accounts He had fed
FOREST fires had ON the 18th destroyed
many acres of fine pine timber land be-
tween Pittston and Wilkesbarre, Pa
HENRY DAapIoN, aged twenty-five years
of 6cituate Mass died from hydrophobia
on the 18th
The cargo OF the steamer CHILEAN was
burned on the 18th at New Orleans causing
d loss OF 100000
A HEAVY thunder wind and hail storm
visited portions of Eastern Ohio and Mary
land on the 18TH, doing great damage. John
Wetzell and two horses were struck by
lightning and killed at Elk Garden, Md
MEREDITH STANLEY, an athlete, jumped
from the high bridge on the Cincinnati
Southern road into the Kentucky river on
the 18th, the distance being 10 feet When
taken from the water blood oozed from his
mouth, but he soon recovered The bridge,
with one exception, is the highest in the
world
THE Minneapolis Mimi street-car strike
extended TO st Paul on the 18TH all the
men in the latter city except those on the
cable line going out
TtfN tnfa nj Af Of haa ux.A
hog products from the United States for the
month of March was S. III, C6s, and for the
five months ended March 81, S4l, Still
THE British steamer Wylo, which arrived
at Hampton Roads Va, ON the 18th, ex-
perienced a very rough voyage, having
drifted several days at the mercy OF the
waves
A CENSUS completed on the 18th gave
Baltimore, Md, population of five hum
dred thousand
DURING the seven days ended on the 18th
there were 1856 business failures in the
United States, against Ia the previous seven
days. The total of failures in the United
States from January | to date was 3S73,
against 3, 1872 in 1883
PRINCE LAW, a negro living on planta-
ton near Savannah, Ga, killed his four
year-old child on the 18th as sacrifice TO
the devil
MRS. ROSE, of Wilkesbarre, Pa, attempted
to light a fire ON the 18th with kerosene
oil, and was burned TO death
MRS. BECKY KING, an invalid living near
Shelbyville, Ind, was burned to death in
her bed ON the 18TH
In Chicago on the 18th Augusta Schue
aged forty five years, and Axel Friedstrom
both committed suicide by shooting No
cause was assigned for either act
MRS GAILARY, OF Chicago, while trying
on the 18th to take revolver from the
hand of her eleven year-o old son, Edward
accidentally put her finger ON the trigger
and the gun was discharged, killing the boy
almost Immediately The mother was near
ly distracted
Mr.. BEDDINGER, prairie fire victim, died
in Valley township, d. T., ON the 18th, max
ing the sixth death in Hyde County from
prairie fires
The moonshiners' stronghold at Cars
creek, near Hindman, Ky, was taken by
United States officers ON the Itch, five IL
licit distilleries We're destroyed and five
men were captured
ADyIcEs of the 18th say that in recent
gale and rain-storm at Portsmouth, " O..
high water drowned many cattle sheep and
hogs. The water rose many feet in the
houses and there was great destruction of
property. The inhabitants took TO the house
tops for safety
RICH gold discoveries were made on the
18th near Georgetown, in Brown County.
Ind
THE United States grand jury at Port
Townsend, w. T., on the 18th found twenty
FIVE indictments against William Harmed.
ex-Special Deputy Collector; eleven against
Herbert F. Beeoher, ex-Treasury Agent,
and twelve against Quincy A. Brooks for
stealing from the Government Beecher is
a son Of the late Henry Ward Beecher
CYCLONE struck the mining town OF
Beidler, O., on the 18th, destroying six
houses and killing the twelve Year. old
daughter of William Lewis