Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-10-03
The World in a Nutshell
For the Week Endine Sept. SO.

The Pillsbury flour Nails In Minneapolis
have not been sold
The Eiffel tower has earned 81 coo, 900
and win undoubtedly show profit over
Ice cost
A boiler exploded on Saturday In a quarry
at Wrightsvilie, Pa, killing Lemuel Barnes
and his wife
While intoxicated on Friday John Ayers,
farmer living near Elrfore, o.. fatally
shot his wife
Ephriam HazIett, rich farmer OF Allen
vile, Pa, was killed Friday at railway
crossing near Huntington.
Judge John T. Nixon of the United States
District Court of New Jersey, died on Sat-
urday at Stockbridge, Mass.
Hon. b. b. Stiles one of the first settlers
Of Denver and twice mayor OF the city, died
suddenly at Denver Sunday of apoplexy
The Cold Springs Presbyterian church.
the Oldest in New Jersey, celebrated its
i75th anniversary Friday. 1t was founded
in TIA
Emmons Wright, farmer living near
Indianapolis, shot aud killed tramp
WHO had csmped on his farm Saturday
morning.
The 50th birthday OF Miss Frances L. Will
lard, the famous temperance advocate, was
celebrated at her home in Evanston, H.,
on Saturday
In Paris on Friday the grand cross OF
commander Of the Legion OF Honor was be-
slowed upon Thomas A. Edison, the Ameri-
can inventor
John H. Quinn, who murdered his wife
recently at Alton Pa, committed SUICIDE
in the Smithport Jail on Friday by hanging
himself with a sheet
Canadian and American capitalists havo
applied to the Canadian Parliament for
charter for a railway from the Canadian
800" to Hudson Bay.
There is every indication that German
Baptist Theological Seminary and Acade.
my, TO cost in the neighborhood OF 100000,
will be located In Milwaukee
"Frenchy'' yozon, 90 years old, . journey
man shoemaker, laid down to sleep On the
Vandalia tracks at Frankfort, Ind, Satur-
day and was killed by train.
Two colonies of Swedish families are to
be established in Vermont Each Of the
twenty-five families will take up about 100
acres OF hitherto unoccupied land.
At Terre Haute. Ind, Saturday MIS-, Will
lam J. Catell poured coal oil over her hus-
band and set him on ire. He was badly
burned The woman had been In the in
sane asylum.
Anthony Walker, river pilot, ON Sup.
DAY successfully made the dangerous tgip
down the rapids from Grass Island TO Goat
Island, above Niagara falls Ii was peril
Gus undertaking
While the prize animals were being led
from the fair grounds at Aberdeen, %. T.
Friday Oscar Lundstrum was kicked over
the hcart by stallion. He dropped dead
Without word.
Thomas Dayis, an engineer in an elevator
in Jeraeyville, Ill, while hunting Sunday
was accidentally killed by the discharge dS
gun 10 his own hands He leaves wife
AID four children.
John wettenstrom, n section hand on the
CpfcngO Il Northwestern railroad filed up
with whisky at Hermansvile Mich, Fri
day, slept on the track and was cut TO
Pieces by passing train.
f. G. Bartlett better known in pioneer
days as "Wild Curly, who was famous
scout in the Union army and one OF the
survivors Of the Mountain Meadow mas
sacre, died on Saturday at Kearney, Neb.
Two tramps jumped from moving train
near Columbus, o., Saturday night and
fell through bridge thirty feet to the
rocks below. Both were fatally injured
Their names are Ell Matthews and Georges
Schneider.
At Louisville Friday Longdance, Out
bound and Metal started for the great
American stallion stake, one aud three
quarter miles Outbound won easily in
Sill, defeating tho favorite, Longdance by
three lengths.
Allen Chalkner, farmer and his two
daughters, while attempting to drive across
the railroad track at Garrettsyile, O., sat
urday were struck by train. Mr. Chalk
ner and one of the girls were killed, and
the other girl was badly hurt.