Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-05-23
The World ina Nutshell.

The New York Legislature adjourned sfns
die on Thursday.
Arthur L Thomas qualified on Friday as
Governor of Utah.
Linebargers elevator at Stanford, Ill,
burned Wednesday, causing loss OF Sle,-
COO
Mrs. Catherine Storey, aged 50 years, was
burned to death on Wednesday at Lynn,
Mass
The Amy Wooden Manufacturing Com
pany of Philadelphia failed on Friday for
$500 O0.
Colonel Frederick Gerker, internal rev.
enue collector at Philadelphia, died on
Thursday.
Five brigands were hanged in the court
yard of the prison at Sofia, Bulgaria, on
Wednesday.
Vienna advices state that the Turks are
massacring Christians on the frontier of
Montenegro
Nelson Colbert (colored) was hanged on
Friday for the murder of Philip Wentzell in
October last
The stables at the driving park at Column
bus, Ind, were destroyed by an incendiary
fire ON Friday.
Volney T. Mallott, of Indianapolis has
been appointed receiver of the Chicago &
Atlantic railway
Miss Mary Woodberry, Cincinnati artist
shot Henry Menke at Louisville because he
refused to marry her
The Teresa central sugar grinding fac
tory at Mozanillo, Cuba, was burned on
Friday. Loss, 100000.
In a fit of jealousy at Newark, N. j., John
o.,
then cut his own throat
The barns OF the Trenton a. J.) Horse
Car Company were burned on Sunday,
causing loss OF SOC, 000
Eleven dwellings and several business
houses at Howard City, Mich, were de-
stroyed by fire on Sunday.
Eight men were injured. three probably
fatally, in an accident to work train near
Pittsburgh, Pa, on Thursday.
Firmino Opepago, an Indian, was hanged
ON Friday at Tucson, A. T., for the murder
of Patrick Ford, prospector.
At Eldora, la, the livery barn Of B. F..
Deyo was struck by lightning and de-
stroyed, and ten horses were killed
An enormous landslide occurred in the
region of the Spiessback, Switzerland, de-
stroying villages, forests and cattle
The 10lst annual session Of the general
assembly of the Presbyterian church was
begun in New York City on Thursday.
The Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Com
pany's depot warehouse at Norfolk, Va,
was burned on Friday. Loss, 100000
1.-The country around indianapolis is being
visited by an unknown disease which is
fatal to horses, ffty-six having died within
week
Raney Teater, 8 years old, committed sui
eide on Saturday near Harrodsburg, Ky,
because his parents insisted upon his going
I to work.
Miss Jennie Engstrom, young lady of
Erie, Pa, was shot by her brother on Friday
with revolver that he ibid not know was
loaded"
A six day walk in San Francisco was
ended on Wednesday, James Albert, the
winner, making 533 miles, Gurrero, second,
525 miles
Citizens of Clay County, Ala, have or
dered flourishing colony of Mormons in
that county to leave, and they are seeking
new quarters,
A negro at Columbia, La, was arrested
for participation in burglary, and party
took the fellow from the sheriff and hanged
him to tree.
The Woman's Municipal Suffrage bill,
which had passed the Michigan House, was
defeated in the Senate on Thursday by a
vote of 16 to 10.
The death of Rear-Admiral Edward
Donaldson occurred on Wednesday at Balti-
more, Md, at the age OF 73 years He
entered the navy in 1885.
At Roxton Falls, Que, Saturday Cassits
tannery, the Roxton tannery, the Beaver
tannery and large quantity of tanbark
were burned. Loss, 100000
At Louisville, KY, Friday night, in a
quarrel over five cents Louis Jackson shot
John Bailey, infiicting wounds which
proved fatal Jackson is under arrest
A severe earthquake shock was felt at
San Francisco early on Sunday morning.
The shock was general, and in the joaquin
valley the chimneys were thrown down
Reports from East Tawas, Mich, Wednes-
day were to the effect that the forest fires
which had been raging near that village had
been nearly extinguished by heavy rains
Margaret Hendrick, colored woman in
Garrettsburg, Ky, gave birth on Tuesday
to twin girls, one being perfectly white
and the other an African of the deepest dye.
The Worcester Theater at Worcester,
Mass, was destroyed by fire on Thursday,
and the company filling an engagement at
the time lost $ll 900 in costumes, scenery,
etc.
General Volney 7. Howard, a prominent
lawyer, died at Santa Monica, Cal, on Wed
nesday. He was born in Maine In 1909, and
was elected to Congress several times from
Texas
Charles HUE, aged 70, of Marion, Ind.
after fierce family quarrel Wednesday
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loaded with bird-shot. She was badly
wounded
Martin Hartin, 90 years old, in jail at
Lincoln Ill, for hog stealing, jumped from
a corridor and was killed He had served
a term in the penitentiary and premedi.
tated suicide.
Another body, that of George NJ Bell,
was found Wednesday in the debris of the
building which was wrecked at Tacoma,
W. T., Tuesday. This makes the fifth vic
tim Of the disaster.
The total production of steel rails in this
country last year was 200, 1S4 tons, and the
largest production of any one mill was that
of the North Chicago rolling mill, which
turned out l6l, 945 tons.
The ''tapeworm" railroad at Gettysburg,
Pa, commenced by Thaddeus Stevens halt
a century ago, was finished Saturday, thus
connecting that place with Blue Ridge
Summit, ON the Western Maryland main
line.
Theodore Mclean, alias "Docie" Hunt
was on Saturday convicted at New Albany
Ind, of perjury and sentenced to three
years in the penitentiary. He swore that
Carrie Ashley, l3-year-old girl, was of age
in order that Joe Stultz might marry her
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