Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-03-21


the old home of President Andrew Jackson
at Nashville, to the Confederate Veterans
Association for twenty-five years.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
THE Indiana Legislature adjourned sine
die on the llth 1t was found after adjourn
ment that several bills passed over the Gov
ernor's veto were defective, and would
therefore fail to become laws.
THE Rhode Island Democrats in conven-
ton on the 18th at Providence nominated
John W. Davis for Governor
THE Massachusetts Legislature on the
18th defeated the Woman's Municipal SUI
frage bill
MICHAEL KRoEeER died on the 18th in
Manchester, Wis, at the home of one of his
sons, aged one hundred and fifteen years
In the Minnesota Legislature on the 18th
Q bin to abolish capital punishment was de-
feated
JOHN A. CAMPBELL, ex-Justice OF the Su-
preme Court Of the United States, and as
sistant Confederate secretary of war, died
at his home in Baltimore on the 18th, aged
seventy eight years
THE Michigan Legislature on the 18th
passed bill to allow women to vote for
and hold the office Of school inspector in
Detroit
CHARLES L. GIAT1oT, well known through
9ut the country as an inventor of milling
appliances, died at Plattsville, Wis, on the
18th.
ADMIRAL JOHN LEE DAVIS, retired officer
Of the United States navy, died in Washing
ton on the 18TH
D. R JERAu1D, proprietor of the Cataract
House at Niagara Falls, N Y, died on the
18th He had been q hotel-keeper at the
Falls fifty years and was widely known.
SAMUEL LUTz, residing near Circleville,
o., celebrated the one hundredth anniver-
sary of his birth on the 18th
SCHUYLER MOSES, the Oldest Freemason in
the State Of New York, died on the 18th at
Rochester, aged ninety years
RETURNS of the 18th from the recent
election In New Hampshire showed that the
prohibition amendment to the constitution
was defeated by about 5000 majority.
MOSES w. FIELD, the man who called the
Greenback movement into prominence in
the United States, died on the 14th at
Detroit
PRESIDENT HARRISON on the 18th ap-
pointed William Walter Phelps, of New Jer-
sey; John A. Kasson, Of Iowa, and George
H. Bates Of Delaware, to represent the
Samoan matters
PRESIDENT HARRISON formally received
tho members of the Diplomatic Corps on the
18th All the legations were represented,
and the distinguished guests were attired
in their resplendent court dresses.
MICHAEL Null, of Chill Ind, was mar
ried on the 18th to Catherine Wiley. The
bride was seventy-one years old and the
groom sixty nine years Of age.
PROP. A. s. WEIGH, for many years presi-
dent Of the State Agricultural College at
Ames Ia, died on the 18th at Pasadena,
Cal, where he had gone on account of fail
ing health. He was about seventy years OF
age, and during the reconstruction period
was United States Senator from Florida. /.
JupGE GRANT GOODRICH, a Chicago pio-
neer, who lived to see a hamlet OF eight
dwellings grow to the present city, died on
the 18th, aged seventy-eight years.
DONALD KENNEDY, of Boston, the famous
patent-medicine man, VINO made fortune
by the sale of DIR. Hennedy's Medical Dis
covery," died on the 18th.
8 G. WHEELoc8, of St Louis, a wealthy
produce dealer, aged seventy-one years,
was married on the 18th to Mary Hancock,
poor orphan girl, aged fifteen years.
FOREIGN.
PRIVATE letters received at Berlin on the
18th from Zanzibar said that Stanley, ac-
cording to native reports, was marching
rapidly toward the coast of Africa
THE loss of the steamer Remus, which had
Spanish military expedition on board, was
reported on the 18th. The vessel was
wrecked of the Philippine islands and
fcrty-two persons were drowned and one
hundred and twenty-seven were saved
ZANZIBAR advices of the 18th say that the
missionaries who were recently captured by
this insurgents had been released upon the
payment of $4,000 to their captors. In adj
dition to ransom money the Germans sur=
rendered twenty-five slaves who had fallen
into their hands
EIGHT estates in Cuba showed on the 18th
decrease Of fifty per cent in the sugar
crop.
SEVEN persons were killed on the 18th by
an explosion of gunpowder In q factory at
Rottwell, Germany.
AN explosion ON the 18th In the Bryn-
naliy colliery at Wrexham, Eng, resulted In
twenty deaths
TIE Governor of the Province of West
Prussia, In view of the scarcity of farm
hands suggested on the 18th the introduce
ton OF Chinese labor.
ADUcEs OF the 18th say that two trappers
named Finlayson were starved to death near
Deer Lake, Northwest Territory, having lost
their way while en- route to the Hudson
Bay Company's headquarters
AFTER the taking of some unimportant
testimony on the 18th before the Parnell
commission In London the counsel for the
Times announced that the case for that pa
per was closed, and the court adjourned till
April 2.
The American prima donna, Miss Eames,
made her debut in opera in Paris on the
evening of the l4th as Juliet and scored q
decided triumph
IT was reported on the 14th that the New
foundland Government would issue no IL
censes to American fishermen this season,
because Of alleged violations of the licenses
given them last season.
ApyIcgs of the l4th from Auckland, New
Zealand, state that no foundation existed
for the published report Of an engagement
between the American man of-war Nipsic
and the German corvette Olga The Ger
mans had abandoned their aggressive
policy in Samoa, but the English, American
and German fleets remained there ready for
apy emergency that might arise.
HENRI TANBERLIE, the celebrated Italian
tenor, died In Rome on the 18th He was
born In that city March 10, 1880
EXTENSIVE floods were reported on the
18th In Australia, many towns being mum
dated
A SOLDIER named Yertjoie was sentenced
to death on the 18th at QTan, Algeria, for
throwing quid OF tobacco into the face OF
Colonel Thierry.
AN explosion of fire damp on the 18th In
\ colliery near Mines, France, killed fifteen
minera
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