Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-12-05
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For ,he week Endlna Dec. :


For the Week Ending Dec. 2.
Pollard & Moss, of New York, publish.
ers, have failed for 100000.
The president of Hayti has granted
complete amnesty to all political of
tenders.
Martin Farquhar Upper, the English
author, died in London ON Friday, aged
10 years.
Andrew Banks, prominent citizen
of Baltimore County, Md, has failed,
owing Sl5O,O0O.
The firm of Stern 4 Stern, of New
York, Wholesale jewellers, failed on Fri
day for $500, 900.
While boring for gas near Wadsworth,
o., bed of pure salt was struck at a
depth of 1900 feet.
Thirty Mexican herders and five
American cowboys persisted in the re-
cent Colorado blizzard
The Crown roller mill at Rochester,
Ind, was burned Friday morning. Loss,
$4,000; insurance, $4,000.
w. IL. Harvey. who shot his wife and
two daughters last March, was hanged
1t is announced that Brazil has re-
adopted the old flag, and that France
has recognized the republic.
Near Celina, o., recently, John Tugar
killed his 15-year-old son and burned
the body and then killed himself.
The wife of poor clerk in a London
suburb killed herself and three children,
having been made crazy by poverty
One of the mills of the Hartford Car
rage Company at Thompsonville, Conn,
was burned on Friday. Loss, $lS0,0O0.
A big strike among the cigarmakers
in Havana is now on and all the large
factories except two have closed down.
Captain Joseph Moffet, well-known
lake man, was killed by falling into the
hold of his vessel at Cleveland Satur-
day.
Two miners who attempted to pick
out an unexploded blast at the North
Star mine in Colorado Friday were blown
to pieces.
BY an explosion of nitro-gl ycerine at
Oil City, Pa, James and Charles Fisher
(brothers) and Ed Hoffman were blown
j. W. Brainard, messenger of the
Commercial National Bank at Cleye-
land, was robbed of 81, 900 of the bank s
funds Saturday,
Secretary Kremer, of the Johnstown
pa Flood Relief Commission, finished
on Saturday distribution OF 81 900, 600
among the sufferers.
Three hundred miners have struck in
Boulder County, Col, and fifteen of the
seventeen mines have closed down. The
trouble is about overtime.
Governor Hovey, of Indiana, has is
sued an address to the American people
in which he demands pension for
sixty-day veterans of the war.
Mrs Eve Shannon, until recently
matron Of the home for the aged and in
firm Hebrews in New York, died on Fri
day, aged 100 years and 6 months.
Two men, Frank Gallagher and Joseph
Mayes, were crushed to death by fall
of slate in the Morris limestone quarry
at Beilefonte, Pa, Friday morning,
A skeleton. with the skull crushed in,
found near Fort Wayne, Ind, Friday
is believed to be that of Annie Parker,
who disappeared sixteen years ago.
The Washington House in St. Paul,
MINI, was partially burned on Sunday,
and two men, Lorenzo Rimalde and
Christopher Putt, persisted in the flames,
At st. Joseph, Mo-, Charles Bertors,
aged IA years, shot himself dead on
Sunday in the presence of his mother
because she refused to give him money.
QWhile suffering from delirium tre-
mems George Seitz jumped over the
bank into the river at Suspension Bridge,
N. Y, distance of $50 feet, and was
killed.
United States officers have arrested
q. w. Vorheis at Madison, Wis, upon a
charge of defrauding farmers under the
pretense that he was special pension
examiner.
The internal revenue collections at
Peoria, Ill, for November were 81, 420,-
1872. Fridays collections were the larg-
est in the history of the district for a
single day,
White Caps near New Amsterdam.
Ind, severely beat young man on Fri
day who was found with dissolute
woman, and the woman was warned to
mend her ways.
Arrangements have been made by all
the coal operators of the Monongahela
valley to close down their mines indef-
nitely, as the demands of the miners can
not be conceded,
The 'Campbellite" church has chosen
Independence, Mo-, as the point for
founding a National university. Citi-
zens of independence have donated
$500, 900 to the institution.
Henry Hall, life prisoner, who es-
capped from the Nebraska penitentiary
in January, 1885, was captured in Utah
Thursday. Halls parents, who live at
ST. Joseph, Mo-, are very wealthy.
At Osgood, Ind, j. Dobson was MUIR
dered on Thursday by A. Bishop, his
father-in-law, for mistreating his wife
and following her to her fathers house,
where she had been induced to return.
Near Lebanon, o., on Saturday Mrs.
c. Halsted was drowned while trying to
save her little boy and girl named
Mabel Brown, who had broken through
the ice on pond. The children also
persisted.
A fire broke out in the seven-story
building at Fifth avenue and Quincy
streets, Chicago, Saturday night, and a
great fire was prevented only by the
most desperate exertions of the firemen.
The loss was 500. 1000.
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Victory for Edison.