Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-11-07
The World in a NUTSHELL
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Thirteen buildings at Luther, Mich,
were burned on Sunday.
The corn crop of Kansas the past sea-
son was 276, 541, 1888 bushels.
The switchmen's strike at Memphis,
Tenn, was declared off on Thursday.
Maria de Ayala, now living in Flor
ence, A. r., is reported to be liz years
old.
Joseph II. Brown, wholesale grocer
at Fort Worth, Tex, failed on Saturday
for $4,000.
Hiram Chilson, soldier of the war of
1912, died at Niles, Mich, Saturday,
aged 90 years.
Joe Donovan, of Findlay, o., got drunk
on Saturday and wantonly shot dead
John McManus, his neighbor.
Jacob Carter and his wife were suf-
located by escaping gas on Saturday in
their home near Moor Park, Mich.
Ex-Governor John Manning died at
Camden, S. c., on Thursday, aged 70
years. He was Governor OF South Caro-
lima in 1852.
While hunting rabbits near Fulton,
Wis, Friday evening, John Lenbert ac-
cidentally shot James Sayer, inficting a
fatal wound.
Hiram A. Jones, who started the first
pony express route across the continent,
died at Newburgh. n. u, on Friday,
aged 20 years.
Dispatches from San Francisco re-
port the loss in the Arctic Ocean of the
whaling steamer Lucretia, Of New
Bedford, Mass.
NJ. Tschernischveski, the novelist and
the father of Nihilism, died in St. Peters
burg on Thursday. He was born at
Saratov in 1928.
Charles Dickens house at Gad's Hill,
London, is for sale. The cherished
home Of the great novelist can be pur-
chased for S33, 900.
Mamie Mcmillan, aged is years, was
bitten by mad dog at Marshall, Mo-,
two weeks ago, and died in terrible con-
vulsions on Friday.
In a drunken brawl between Hun
garian laborers on the Jersey Central
railroad near Wilkesbarre, Pa, four men
were fatally injured.
By the death of an aunt at Edinburgh,
Scotland, Alexander Simpson, reporter
on Kansas City paper, has fallen heir
to an estate of 100000.
The loss of the schooner Jennie Rosa
lin of Cape Hatteras is reported, and
the captain and his wife and the col
ofed steward were drowned.
Miss Emma Spiegenhalter, a popular
and well-known society lady of Jeffer-
sonville, Ind, dropped dead at the
breakfast table on Thursday.
Vice-President McMullin, of the Chi
cago & Alton railway, denied on
Wednesday the reported consolidation of
his road with the Union Pacific.
A 6-year-old daughter of Mrs. Sulli-
van, at Cincinnati, swallowed toy bal
loon Thursday, and before surgical aid
could be obtained choked to death.
Mayor Grant, of New York, signed
the ordinance Thursday prohibiting the
playing of street bands, organs or other
musical instruments in the streets.
At Guelph, Ont, Saturday, w. II.
Harvey, who in March last murdered
fenced to be hanged on the goth inst.
The dry-goods house of William Turn
bull & Co. at New York assigned Satur-
day. The liabilities exceed $3.50, 900,
but will, it is thought, be paid in full.
The Chicago. Santa Fe & California
train was derailed near Carrollton, Mo-,
early Thursday morning. Two persons
were fatally and Ave slightly injured.
Indignant women masked themselves
on Saturday and wrecked an obnoxious
clubhouse on the line of the Alton road
between Independence and Kansas City
The 4-year-old child of Joseph Barr,
at Plymouth. Ind. set her clothes on
fire at the stove Thursday, and was so
badly burned that she died in a few
hours.
The cotton crop of the territory tribu-
tary to Memphis. Tenn. which usually
produces one-ifth of the total crop OF
the South. is said to be short twenty
seven per cent
After three strikes at different times
w4thin three months by the hands of the
Muskegon (AIich.) Single & Lumber
company the mil WAS cloSeu doWn
Thursday for the season.
While insane from hunger in a tene-
ment house at New York on Thursday
Mrs. Mary Baron attempted to kill her
mother and her children. but was pre-
vented by the arrival of friends
Four shipwrecked captains arrived in
New York on Thursday on the steam
ship Niagara. They were all wrecked
within one hundred miles of each other,
and all during the hurricane of Septem-
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