Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-08-29
The World in a Nutshell

Columbus. o.. il ga l1.,0i ire saturday
night
Iowa's corr, yle.d tais ss.r viii be the
greatest on record
The Joseph Homer -ash tact ~ burned
at st Louis SUNDAY gll Loss, $4,000
A building containing supplies for the
miners at Streator w.s burned Saturday
hight
The Massachusetts, Democrats win hold
their State convention at Worcester 0c-
tober 2
Charles L. Fiel Was on Friday elected
president OF the American Society of
Microscopists
Swift Co. S packing house at Kansas
City, Kan, was dest Dyed by ire on Sum
DAY. Loss, sl50,00o
James Dickey stabbed John Smith at VAL
paraiso, Ind, Saturday because the latter
would not treat him
The j. H. Mailer Company, OF St Paul.
MINI, carriage manufacturers, failed on
Saturday for $4,000
A company has been organized at Daven-
port. Ia, for the object of building 81 0OO,
600 union passenger depot
Jacob Phillips, aged 10, prominent
citizen of Mier. Ind, was thrown from a
Carriage and killed Sunday.
During the month OF July Just passed
Is, 7l6 immigrants arrived at Castle Garden.
Id July, 1888, 5000 arrived.
DEing a race on Friday at Sasina, o.
Elf King, with record OF 2:25 and valued
at So, 900, fell dead on the track
Charles SwerangcrS jockey, was thrown
and instantly killed during the running
races at the HoIper Ill fair Friday.
Henry Shaw, of St Louis, a noted philan-
thropist, died on Sunday, aged 81 years.
He left an estate valued at s., 800, 900
Samuel Ayers, an Adventist living in
Worcester, Mass. predicts the end OF the
world on the night of October :, 1850
Fire destroyed the boiler shops of the
Bigelow Company at New Haven, Conn,
Friday. Loss, sT5, 900; partially insured
L. G. Schiller, Wholesale fish dealer at
Green Bay, Wis, made an assignment Fri
day. Liabilities, $l2,O0 assets not known
Several people and many animals near
Columbus, Ind, have been bitten by a
mad dog, and an outbreak of rabies Is
feared
The Spring Lake reservoir near Fiskville.
H. l. gave way on Sunday, and three per
sons were drowned and some property de-
stroyed
John Robinsons circus was wrecked by a
cyclone while exhibiting at Toledo, o., on
Saturday, and many persons were badly
injured
II was stated on Friday that Messrs
Gooderham 4 Worts had sold their distillery
in Toronto, Ont, to an English syndicate
for o., 600, 600.
Elmer Foster 1-year-old boy, wandered
alone for nine days In large forest near
Wausau, Wis. subsisting on berries for the
entire period
Cotton goods manufacturers OF the City
OF Mexico formed a combination Friday,
and propose 10 purchase cotton only in the
United States
The Union furniture works in Rockford,
Ill, were burned on Saturday, causing a
loss of Sl25, 900. fireman named Emer-
son lost his life.
Three young ladies ut Wichita, Kan, met
William Prince on the street ON Friday and
whipped him with rawhides for traducing
their characters.
The forests In the neighborhood OF Sierra
City, Cal, were on fire on Sunday, and the
scene by night was awful entire mountains
being mass OF flames.
In wreck ut the Lake Shore yard at
Erie, Pa, Thursday an oil-tank exploded
Property valued at $4,000 was destroyed
ana two men badly burned
Captain Sam Whitworth was shot and
killed on Friday while riding along the road
near Rising Sun, La, by an unknown as
sassin who was lying In ambush
Garrett s. Frische, aged - years and
Louisa Krupp, is years old, both very
wealthy and with large families, were mar
ried on Friday at Seymour, Ind
The bridge building and mill-owning
firm of Simmons Burpu, at Frederick
town, n b.. failed on Thursday, with liabil-
tiles aggregating over 81 100000
Jacob G. Walker, a prominent resident of
Madison township, Ind. while blowing up
stumps with powder Thursday was killed
by fragment OF an exploding stump.
Twenty eight vagrant Arabs were denied
the privilege Of landing in New York on
Friday and the steamship which brought
them over wns ordered to take them back.
Miss Libbie Walker, of Benton Harbor
Mich, attended a dance, after which she
died suddenly, as the physicians declare,
from poison, as was believed, self-admin-
istered
Three Mormon elders named Engel
Taylor and Laird were severely whipped
by White Caps in Marion County, Ala, on
Saturday and then warned to leave the
country
The Lyons paper mill at Clinton, La, was
purchased Friday by stock company,
which filed articles of incorporation for
s25, 900 The mill will be crowded to its
utmost capacity.
new and strange disease is killing off
the hogs IN the southern part of Clay
County, Ind Great sores develop over the
body, and the animals, after two or three
days, die in spasms.
RThe schooner Sapphire arrived at Vic
toria, Il G., on Saturday from Behring sea
having on board 9, $50 sealskins She was
chased by the United States cutter Bear,
but sailed away from her