Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-02-28
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DOMESTIC.
HATTIE i. STEVENSON, clerk in the post
office at Wellsville, O., was arrested on the
18th for robbing the mails of $500, and con-
fessed her guilt
JOHN SHANNON, a Frenchman living mt
Bradenville, Pa, was so badly frightened
by threats made by White Caps that he
made his viii and shot himself dead on tho
18TH
CLEVELAND vessel-owners met on tie 18th
and decided not to fit out their essels for
navigation before the first Of ldaY claiming
that the saving In insurance compensated
for the loss of time.
II. w. VAN DYKE proprietor of the Minnie
Douglass Opera Company, now travelling
through Iowa. fell heir ON the 18th to Sl40,-
600 by the death of his uncle.
JAMES ROBBINS, OF franklin, Ind, was
sentenced on the 18th to Two years in the
penitentiary for stealing two chickens val
ued at thirty cents.
HENRY BAKER, aged seventy-six years,
and Joe Snyder. aged eighty years, walked
four mile race at Ithaca, n. Y, on the 10Th.
Snyder won, making the distance in 43i9
minutes
EXCITEMENT prevailed on the 10Th at Cler-
mont Mills Md, over the discovery that last
September Miss Hannah Colder, aged thirty
five years and Miss Catherine Bcall a pretty
girl were married by a Catholic priest who
mistook the Colder woman, from Ler male
attire and masculine appearance, j be a
man
NEAR Hodgensyille, Ky, Joseph Houston,
farmer, was killed and robbed on the 10th
of So 600
FIRE on the 10Th among business houses
in Philadelphia caused a loss OF S500,0O0.
I'll
the 18th one hundred and thirty seven
graduates received diplomas
The Greenwich Hotel, which had for
eighty years been ono of the landmarks Of
the village of Greenwich, Mass, was burned
to the ground ON the 18th.
FURTHER advices of the 18th say that
twelve persons We're killed by the recent
cyclone in Banks County Ga and dozens of
houses were destroyed
Ir was announced on the 10Th that Just
eighteen men were affected by the act re-
Gently passed by Congress and approved by
the President increasing the pensions OF
those who have lost both hands to 500 per
month
THE extensive locomotive and car works
of the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, st Louis d
Chicago t"Big Four railroad at Cincinnati
were destroyed By tire on the 18th Loss,
$4,000
HoN, JESSE CALHOUN, prominent planter
Of Pike County Ark, committed suicide on
the 18th The cause was shame over the
arrest of his son III Texas for murder.
THREE business blocks were burned ut
Youngstown, o.. on the 10Th destroying the
stock Of several merchants and manufact-
urers
A CONFERENCE Of the American Tariff Re-
form League commenced in Chicago ON the
10Th A letter was read from President
Cleveland heartily Endorsing the object OF
the meeting
ALBERT JOHNSON and David Fleming,
aged nine and ten years respectively,
jumped from a rapidly moving train ON the
10th at Maiden, Mass aud both we're in
stantly killed
The forty eighth death from diphtheretic
Group within few days occurred ON the
10th at Wabash Ind Every case had proved
fatal and the physicians were unable to ar
rest the progress Of the disease.
Al the seventh annual session in Boston
on the 18th of the Citizens Law and Order
League of the United States C. G. Bonney,
Of Chicago, was elected president
JOHN BOOKER, a farmer living near Frank
lin, Ind, was arrested on the 10Th for sell
ing diseased dressed beef to the butchers of
the town. Great indignation was felt by
the residents.
Four earthquake shocks were felt on the
10Th in Attala Ala
The town of Guorneyille, Cal, was almost
entirely destroyed by fire on tho 10Th, the
entire business portion and large section
of the residence property being swept away,
Az acid tank at the American glucose
works in Kansas City exploded on the 2tth,
and On employee named Rosenthal had his
eyes burned out
Mrs. MAX SCHWARTZ and her baby were
burned to death in fire at Philadelphia on
the 10Th. Mr. Schwartz escaped BY jumping
from a window
W J. SMITH and Asa Brown citizens Of
San Sabo County Tex. were Oh the 2Jth
taken out and hanged by unknown persons
The cause of the lynching was unknown.
JOHN PUcKElT and wife were hanged by
mob ON the 10Th in the Indian Territory.
They We're charged with stealing.
AT Austin, Tex. OF the 20th Ed Reeves,
the noted train-rcbber, was sentenced to
the penitentiary for life.
The Supreme Court of Michigan on the
10Th decided that the so-called social clubs
OF the State, where liquor Is dispensed to the
members, must take out licenses as retail
liquor dealers or disband
GoTTHoLD MERKERT, of Mount Healthy.
o., suieided on the Goth by jumping into a
spring and freezing TO death The well was
so marrow and the water so shallow that it
was impossible for him to drown, so he re-
manned and froze to death.
THE centennial celebration of George
town University was held on the 2tlth at
Washington.
The special report ON the 10Th of the Com
missioner of Labor relating to marriages
and divorces in the United States for the
twenty years from 1861 to 1856, inclusive,
showed that the number of divorces granted,
as reported from ninety-siX per cent of the
counties in tile United States, was 32s. III.
OF this number PIG. e3S were granted to
wives and Ill SIS to husbands
Ar Epson, Wis, on the Goth Joseph Bro
gan. a drunken laborer, cut the throats of
his wife and two little boys, aged five and
seven years. respectively, with razor, and
then slew himself with the same weapon
NATURAL gas was struck at Lewfsport Ky.
on the 20th at a depth of AS feet 1t burned
with bright flame and had a steady flow.
A vein of very strong salt water was also
tapped
MILE Harry Brown, John Williams and
third man, whose name was unknown, were
crossing the Kanawha river at Rush Run,
W. Va, on the Goth the boat was overturned
and all were drowned
TIE American Consul at Seoul photographed
ON the 2Dth that famine prevailed IN the
southern portion of Corea and that many
people were starving.
WILLIAM AUSTIN, who was sentenced at
La Porte, Ind, ON the Goth to FIVE years in
the penitentiary for asssulting little girl,
sold his wife recently to a Michigan City
man for five dollars
IT was reported on the 2lst that near
Aitbin, MINI, timber wolves attacked two
white children while returning from school
and killed and devoured them
THE Wagon and Carriage Manufacturers
Association OF the United States at a meet
ing in Pittsburgh on the 2Ist unanimously
decided to advance prices