Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-07-04
The World in a Nutshell.
For The Week Ending .rnlx /.

An Engllsn Bynulcate Is salO 10 DC buying
Massachusetts, shoe factories
The Big -Four system has absorbed the
Cairo, yincennes q Chicago railroad.
The Burton block in Chicago was partly
destroyed by fire on Friday. Loss, $780, 200.
The Methodists of Elkhart Ind. Satur-
day laid the corner stone Of their $4,000
church
Gold to the amount of s., $50, 600 has been
engaged at New York for shipment to
Europe.
The United States has concluded par
cels-post convention with the republic OF
Salvador
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
estimates its loss in the Johnstown flood at
81, 10000.
fire at Nuremberg. Germany, destroyed
thirty-six buildings, causing q loss OF 49,
000,000 marks
Iowa Democrats have decided to hold
their annual state convention at Sioux City
on September Is
DR.. Mellow, who murdered Editor Daw-
son at Charleston, G., was acquitted by q
jury on Saturday.
The firm of s Robbins & Son. iron and
steel manufacturers of Philadelphia, has
failed for 100000
All sections Of Germany and Austria re-
port the prospects for large hop crop ex-
tremely favorable.
Twelve steers strung along wire fence
at Baxter Springs. Kan, were struck by
lightning and killed
The Academy of Music, the eldest place
of amusement in Cleveland, O., was de-
stroyed by fire on Sunday.
The Union-Labor party of Ohio viii hold
a convention at Lima July IA, and will put
State ticket in nomination
The National convention of plumbers in
session at Pittsburgh elected Edward j. Han
non, OF Washington, president
Fever and cutaneous diseases prevail in
indianapolis in consequence of the con-
termination of wells by sewage.
William Henry Woods, a mining president
and railway expert. died suddenly on
Thursday in hts office at New York.
H. D. Farquharson, State Game Warden
for Southern Wisconsin, died at his home In
Boscobel Friday of Brights disease.
Mrs Morris Rubens and her infant were
found dead in bed on Sunday at Albany, N
Y. The cause of death was a mystery.
In trial against time at Cedar Rapids
Ia, on Thursday AXtell trotted mile in
9:2lM, thus reducing the 3-year-old record
Yeijero Ono, Japanese, took the highest
honors in n class of 43S students who gIad-
uated at Michigan University on Thursday.
Hot winds, which began blowing in the
Missouri river slope In Dakota Thursday,
are said to be proving very hurtful to crops
The reports to the Illinois State Board of
Agriculture show heavy damage to the
corn plant throughout the State by excess
of rain.
The steamer Sovia which sailed for
Europe for New York on Saturday carried
$50 school-teachers bound for the Paris ex-
position
The Cincinnati Police Commissioners adj
ministered public reprimand to the chief
of police for his failure to close the saloons
on Sunday.
Eugene Thayer, doctor of music, an emil
nent New York organist, committed suicide
on Thursday at Burlington, vt No cause
was known
The boat race at New London ON Thurs
day between the freshmen crews of Har-
ward and Columbia was won by Harvard by
two lengths
The Common Council of the city of Joliet,
H., has passed an ordinance that all own
ers of public billiard halls must pay Ii
cense OF 81, 600
The name Of the German United Evan
gelical Synod Of the Northwest has been
changed to the German Evangelical Synod
of North America
Ed Reed, the notorious son of the famous
Belle Starr, was captured Thursday at Fort
Smith. Ark, where he was trying TO sell
pack of stolen horses.
Advices from all parts Of the Northwest
indicate that there will be considerably
less of an average yield of wheat this sea-
SOB, owing to dry weather
A negro who criminally attacked Mrs.
Powell at Irwinville, Ga, and afterward es-
capped, was caught and lynche1 on Thursday
by a mob of enraged citizens
An Indian name unknown) who crimi-
naliy assaulted Mrs Frank Glassman at
Bedford, 10, was taken from the Jail by a
mob on Saturday and hanged.
Near Corydon, Ind, White Caps ON
Wednesday, logged man namcd Coldgrist
and his wife, who were charged with many
misdemeanors, and tore their house down.
8. C. Morgan, cashier of the State Bank at
Sydney, Neb, committed suicide on Thurs
day by blowing the top of his head off with
q revolver. Financial losses caused the
decd
William O'Connor, the famous Canadian
oarsman, sailed for England on Wednesday,
and In September will row Searle, the Aus
tralian, for 5000 and the worlds cham
pionship.
The Neversink the thirty-foot boat
which sailed from Boston ABOUT the middle
OF May, arrived at Havre ON Friday
Captain Lawlor and his two companions
were well.
After delay of twenty eight years the
trial at Mount Vernon, Ky, of J. Logan
Sigman for marder committed at the be-
ginning of the war ended on Saturday in
an acquittal
An unusually severe rain-storm prevailed
In several parts of Jefferson County and
Northern New York on Thursday. Several
points reported cloud bursts, and much
damage was done.
at Plains, Pa, the yard and part of the
cellar of Conrad Skaters house suddenly
sank on Thursday Investigation showed
that worked out chamber of tho Henry
colliery had caved In.
The Illinois Division, Sons of Veterans,
have decided 60 erect a monument at Pc
tersburg, Ill, over the grave OF DR.. b. f.
Stephenson, the founder of the q. A. r.
Association In the United States
Through defective title million dollars
worth of property in the heart of Mime
apolis is being sued for by young attor-
ney of that city who has bought up the
quitclaim deeds of parties originally inter-
ested.
The directory OF the Cleveland. Cincin-
natl, Chicago i St Louis railroad, the New
Big Four met Thursday and elected NJ L.
Ingalls,, PRESIDENT ]. d. Lang, yice-Presi-
dent, r. r. Osborn Secretary, and George
S. Russell, Treasurer
John Brown, of Troy, n Y, II years old
witnessed the murder of Irwin f. Taylor by
Joseph Chaplain recently. st the inquest
he denied all knowledge OF the affair, but
on Saturday confessed that he saw 1t and
directly afterward committed suicide by
hanging.
Population OF the Twin Cities
ST PAUL, Mimi, June - According to
the figures of the Just completed di-
rectolies the population of the Twin Cities
is now close TO half q million
OHIO REPUBLICANS.
In Convention Eovaruor Ia TIA.