Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-11-28


"Kansas" Leo. colored woman 1O5
years old, died at st. Joseph, No, on
Friday.
Blinn's jcwelry store at Amigo, Wis,
was rihed of $1,000 worth of watches
Friday night.
A rabid dog was killed on Friday at
Marion, Ind, who i'll the past six days
had bitten ten persons.
Mrs. John Malone, of Lincoln, Neb.,
was fatally burned on Friday by the ex-
plosion Of a gasoline stove
The opposition organs at Montreal in
discussing the revolution in Brazil de-
clare for Canadian republic
The Tradcsmen's National Bank OF
Conshohocken, Pa, which failed recent
ly, resumed business on Friday.
The wine crop of Italy is said to be
far below last years standard, the fall
ing off being }G9. 000,00 gallons.
John b. Drake, of the Grand Pacific
Hotel, Chicago, gave his thirty-fourth
annual game dinner on Saturday.
d. w. Donald has been absent from
Norwich, Conn, so long that creditors to
the amount of $50 coo are anxious.
The first squad of disabled veterans,
forty in number. entered the soldiers
home at Marion, Ind, on Saturday.
Fifty-nine cotton dealers at New Or
leans estimate this years crop with an
average estimate of 100000 bales.
The Glasgow Iron Company of Potts
town, Pa, has voluntarily increased the
wages Of its puddlers twenty-five cents
ton.
Fairbanks S Co.'S general store and
stock at St. Johnsbury, Vt, we're dam
aged by fire on Friday to the extent of
100000.
Advices from Hiawatha, Kan, say
that the farmers of that vicinity are
burning corn for fuel, finding it cheaper
than coal.
Nearly all classes in Cuba asa said to
be ready for revolt against Spanish
tyranny, and bloody riots have already
taken place.
A revolution has occurred in Costa
RIGA, President Esquivel has been ousted
from power and has been succeeded by
Carlos Duran
William Bogh and Frank Burger were
killed on Friday by a premature explo-
sion of blast in a stone quarry near
Catasauqua, Pa.
In New York City on Friday Thomas
Morgan, Patrick McDermott, o. Katerba
and Ella Mcnamara committed suicide
for various causes.
The post-ofiice at Madeira, o., was
robbed Friday night of $50 worth of
stamps and $50 in cash by burglars who
blew oper the safe.
Walter F. Prey, a half-idiot, killed
the S-year old son of Philip Fisher on
Friday at Weymouth, Mass. by burying
him alive in yard.
In fit of jealousy Annie Williams
(coloredi cut the throat Of Minsie
Walker (also coloredl from ear to ear at
Kansas City yesterday
The will Of J. Warren Merrill, who
recently died at Cambridge, Mass, be-
queaths to Baptist missions, charities
and associations sir, 600.
Mrs. Mary Murphy, Of Brooklyn, N
Y, on Saturday believed She was swal-
lowing a Siedlitz powder. but it was
chloride OF potash, and now she is dead.
Connecticut wants her coasts protected
against smugglers, and will ask Con.
gress for revenue patrol of her shores,
like that on other New England coasts.
q The stud barn OF l. G. Webster & Co.,
at Orchard Hin Farm, Kan. was de-
stroyed by fire on sunday and four noted
stations were burned to death. Loss,
500, 600.
The north-bound passenger train on
the Missouri. Kansas & Texas railroad
was held up on Sunday at Pryor Creek,
l. T., and the express and mail cars
were robbed.
Krupp, the German gun-maker, has
written to a Richmond Wal friend that
he never intended to locate his gun
works in America, as reported recently
from Pittsburgh