Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-01-31
Pa, and liaeharrcd IL eInployas ncarl :

"a, and discharged It's employees. nearly
Two hundred and nifty ia number
CHtFF-oF P0iIcE BEACRrTr OF Minneap-
oils, Mimi, formally announced on the oath
that there would be no more glove CON
tests or prize fights in that CITY during
his administration
CLARKr STANLEY, a young farDcr near
Shelbourne, Ind, was chasing COW on
the 9th when he fell on a stick which he
carried in his hand and was killed
Mrs. ELENoRE RICHTER, proprietress
of the Lenox, one of the most Fashionable.
apartment houses in Cleveland, o.. fell
down the elevator shaft on the 18th and
was killed
A FIRE ON the cath in the business por-
ton Of jackson, Miss, caused great dam
age.
WILLIAM C. SMITH, aged thirty-two
years, a teller in the office of the city
treasurer of Providence, X. l., committed
suicide on the oath by shooting himself
His cash shortage was 81, 500
GOVERNOR BEAVER, of Pennsylvania,
chief marshal of the coming inaugural
parade, had information on the oath that
more than 5000 men would participate in
the grand parade. There would be 10000
composing marching clubs, $1,000 civilians
and more than $4,000 troops.
THERE were 33I business failures In the
United States during the seven days end
ed on the 25th. against 35S the previous
seven days. The total failures in the
United States from January TO date was
], 1872, against Liz in 1855
WHILE fooling with pistol supposed to
be unloaded on the 25th Peter j. Campbell,
a prominent Baltimore (Md) politician,
shot and killed Edward Gordon, bar
tender
THE Park Place, Centralia, and all the
Lehigh and individual colleries around
Shenandoah, Pa, shut down on tho 25th,
owing to their markets being overstocked
with coal. About four thousand men were
idle.
EXECUTIONS took place as follows on
the 25th: Charles McGill, at Cameron,
Tex, for the murder of Willie Leonard;
Richard Smith, Choctaw Indian, at Fort
Smith, Ark, for the assassination Of
Thomas Prindle; John Yancey (colored),
at Yanceyville, N. c., for the murder of
Bob Oliver; James Seams (colored), at
Eutaw, Ala, for the murder of Deputy.
Sheriff Autroy Edward Fry, at Marietta,
Ga, for killing his wife.
CATTLE were dying all over the ranges
in South Florida on the 25th from starva-
tion, the fiat lands where they usually feed
being nearly all submerged by continuous
rains
By the explosion Of sawmil boiler on
the 18th at Tar Hollow, near Chillicothe,
o., George and James Dearth were killed
and John w. Arlidge ard Ebenezer Star
ling were fatally injured.
SEVEN street-car lines IN Brooklyn were
tied up by the men on tho 25th because the
company refused to comply with their de,
mand for two dollars day.
Mrs. b F. LATDIER wealthy widow
at jackson, Mich, was mysteriously muir
dered in her residence carly on the morn.
ing of the 25th, being shot twice. Nothing
was taken from the house. and the motive
of the murd erer was unknown.
EIeHT HUNDRED girls employed by the
feather manufacturers Of New York struck
or the 25th because the firms receded from
their agreement to pay the wages de-
manded by the Workingwomen's Union.
A LARGE quantity of counterfeit silver
dollars were afioat in Reading, Pa, on the
18th. They were well executed.
AN attempt was made on the 18th to
wreck passenger train on the Union Pa
eitic road near Wilson, Kan.
THE largest lump of coal ever taken
Company at Danville, III, was removed
on the 25th II weighed thirty seven hun
dred pounds.
Two FREIGHT trains coliided on the Bal
fimore & Ohio road on the 25th near Paw
Paw ". Va, causing a damage Of $780,
900, No lives were lost -