Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-05-30
The World in a Nutshell.

| f1re.
Kilrain is bound for home on the Adriatlc.
| Mitchell accompanies him.
| Several vessels were wrecked on Thurs
day at Lewes, Del, by gale
Forest fires were doing gre at damage on
| Thursday near Plaquemine, La
| Two young men lost their lives in Boston
harbor on Saturday by the capsizing OF
| boat
| Wife murderer Tunis-Iabee, at Paterson,
| N. j., has been sentenced TO be hanged on
| June ~.
| The Dunlap House at Jacksonville, Ill,
| was damaged by fire Saturday to the extent
| of $4,000.
The monument to the Confederate dead
| at Alexandra, Va, was unvailed on Friday
| by Governor Lee.
Mrs Caroline A. Brough widow of the
| famous war Governor OF Ohio died at Gin
| cinnati on Thursday.
Gold has been discovered near Gary, d.
| T., in the bed of Lac-qui-Parle and on the
| bluffs on either side.
| The coal-miners who were on a strike in
the Dortmund, Bochum and Essen districts
| in Germany have resumed work
| Mrs Frank Dodge, of Wellsville, n. Y,
killed herself with paris green because her
| husband refused to live with her
Colonel Samuel Shoch died on Friday at
his home in Columbia, Pa, aged " years.
| He was a pensioner of the war Of 1872,
number of Frenchmen have been
| arrested by the German authorities at
| Saltzmatt, Alsace, on charge OF treason.
At West Pittston, Pa, on Thursday Frank
| Compton, a gardener, cut his wtfe's throat
! and his own. Jealousy caused the crime
| Belle Bennett, student at Drake Uni
versity was drowned in the Des Moines
river Saturday by the capsizing of boat
The amount of 500 in gold was found at
| Pottstown, Pa, Saturday in the garnet of
Mark Linsengibler, who died there week
| ago.
John Humphreys, a miner at Plymouth,
| Pa, has been notified that he has faller
heir to $50, 0O0 by the death of his aunt in
| Australia
A cloud-burst occurred on Friday at
| Nashville, Ind, flooding the first floors Of
| business houses and residences and doing
much damage.
William White, an 1S-year- old colored boy
of Evansville, Ind, was sentenced on Fri
day to ten years in prison for killing Alex
ander Mcfarland
The twin cities OF the Northwest are
thinking it would be a graceful thing to
erect a monument to Longfellow at the
Falls of Minnehaha.
While Perry Jones, of Seymour, Ind. was
at the circus with his family his house was
entered by thieves who stole $500 worth of
money and jeweiry.
The dormitory attached to the Orphans
Home 40 Wabash, Ind, was burned on Fri
day. None of the children were in the
building at the time.
At Alliance, o., Daniel Collins, aged IS
years, made desperate by cruel acts of his
wife and her brother, hanged himself in an
orchard on Thursday
hot journal caused a wreck on the
Erie road near Binghalnton, N. Y, Satlw-
day. Fifteen fteight-cars We're smashed
and four tramps hurt.
Sheriff Lopez, of San Maguel County,
N. NJ, has arrested six horse thieves who
lately drove away 800 horses from the
ranches of that county.
At Rockville, Ind, on Thursday David S
Watson was sentenced to the penitentiary
for life for the murder OF John Hudson ut
Judson on September IS
The passenger station, freight-houses and
wharves of the Housatonic railroad at Will
sons Point Conn were burned on Thurs
day, causing Il loss of 100000
Adyices from China report that eleven
OF Hupel for numbering a man who was at
tempting TO arrest one of them
While working cut on the shawnee &
Muskingham Valley RAJ road near Zanes-
vile, o. a petrited human hand was found
| sixty feet below the surface
Three men. Anthony Zeensnhold, Henry
Wiltholder and James Dolan, were suffo-
Gated on Friday in Golliery at Branchdale,
| Pa by the sudden outburst OF gas.
| On the Chicago 4 Atlantic road near Ger
many station, Ind, a freight train ran into
drove of cattle punched on trestle, and
dozen of the animals were killed.
| Hortenz Leduc, of Montreal, has been
| informed that she has fallen heir to s., 400
| 900 through the death of NJ Hedell, an
acquaintance of her mother, in France
| W. H. Dorsey a negro farm band who
stole $50 worth of household goods from C.
| c. Howard at Janesville, Wis, Thursday,
has been sentenced TO four years at Wau-
| pun prison
Miss Carrie Nicklaus, of Madison, Ind
| aged 80 years, drowned herself in a els
! tern at the home of her sister in Indianapo-
| lis op Tuesday. She was respondent owing
| to poor health.
Mrs Garfield is said to enjoy an annual
income of SCI coo Her total wealth is esti
mated at $40, 900, the most of which came
from the Cyrus W, Field fund. 1t is invested
principally in real estate and Government
bonds.
! An old man. Walcott Alverd. of Appleton.
MINI, became engaged in a quarrel with
neighbor and they came to blows A few
minutes later Alverd walked away short
distance and dropped dead from the effects
| of the excitement