Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-09-19
The World in a Nutshell
For tho Week Ending sept. 10.

eix business houses at Stoughton, Via
were destroyed by fire on Sunday.
Aunt Dinah Young, anegress, died Friday
az Louisville, Ky., at the age OF ilS,
An old lady named Wheeler. at Allison,
Ia, was thrown from buggy Friday and
Instantly killed
A pair Of three-card monte men swindled
Fred Fieim, farmer living near Ottawa,
I'LL, cut Of 5000 on Friday.
The condition of the miners in Spring
Valley, Ill, Is said to be deplorable The
miners families are in astate OF starvation.
AZ Homer, ILL.,, on Friday two men
named Penny and Kissinger were arrested
for making and passing counterfeit silver
dollars
1t was announced on Friday that an aver
age of two bodies a day continued to be
found in the debris and rivers at Johns
town, Pa
The 254th anniversary of the settlement
Of Concord, N H.. was celebrated on Thurs
day Wilton, ~ H., founded 80 years ago,
also celebrated
During war of words on Friday Willard
Jones, druggist of Clayton, Ind, fatally
stabbed Rev Smith, OF the Baptist church
of Danvilie, Ind
At the meeting of the National Associa-
ton OF Fire Engineers at Kansas City on
Friday George G. Hale, Of that city, was
elected president
Two ladies were licensed to preach by
the United Brethren conference at Arrow
smith, ILL., on Friday, the first in the his
tory of the church
Scranton, Pa, clerks have conspired with
peddlers to rob their employers stores OF
~ Alb h1ryn
charged with theft
DR. Griffin, wealthy physician Of Cleve-
land, Tenn, was oa Friday sentenced totem
years in the penitentiary for assaulting a
twelve-year- old child.
Timothy O'Brien was fatally stabbed by
his younger brother, Morris, at Jersey City
Saturday in quarrel over some real es-
tate left by their mother
The last Government report concerning
the wheat crop of France shows that the
yield will be Ill, l60,2lS hectoliters against
n, 740, IT'S hectoliters in 1883
william Neal, farmer, was instantly
killed near Frankfort, Ind, Friday while
blowing up stumps with dynamite. piece
OF one fell, breaking his skull
The corner stone Of the First Methodist
Church at Connersville, Ind, was laid Sat-
urdav The church will cost SN0, 600, and
will be one of the finest in the State.
Fire at Dandy, N y, Friday destroyed
nearly the entire business portion of the
town The logs is placed at 81, 600, on
which there is an insurance OF $4,000
In dispute over q game of cards on Sat
urday at Pittsburgh Pa, John Ffanchisksl-
10, stabbed and killed his brother Michael
Franchiskelio The murderer escaped.
Four head OF cattle were stolen from Mr..
LIQUIDS farm at Osceola, Mich, Friday,
driven to East Tawas and sold to Sam
Anker. The thieves are reported caught
cablegram from the European Union
of Astronomers announces the discovery
of changes in that crater OF the moon
known as Pliny by Prof. Thurg, of Geneva
A monument to the French soldiers and
sailors who fell in the Franco-P russian war,
built by national subscription, was un.
vailed in the Place de Fontsnoy, Paris,
Sunday.
band OF White Caps or regulators
burned negro church on Thursday at Post
Oak, Jasper County, Miss The negroes
we're charged with conspiracy against the
whites.
The conYicts of the Tennessee penitenti-
airy at Nashville were leased on Saturday
for term Of six years TO the Tennessee
Coal, Iron & Railroad Company for sl00,0G
per annum
The Central Pacific railroad bridge at
Upper Cascades, In the Sierra Nevada
Mountains was destroyed by forest fires on
Friday, and one mile of snow-sheds were
also destroyed.
Frank Werts, lad employed by the
Duplex Manufacturing Company at Bur-
lington, Ia, was seriously and possibly IA
tally injured Saturday by the fail of an eie.
yator from the third tory to the basement.
At a creamery near Gilbertsville, Ia, Fri
day John Harrig, IA years Of age, was
caught by the shaft Of the engine and
whirled around the pulley His skull was
fractured and an arm, leg and shoulder
were broken.
News has reached Huntington. W. Va, of
terrible encounter among negroes at
Bramwell, Mercer County Knives were
drawn and Dan Lampert and Tom Kadis
were literally cut to pieces Three Of their
companions were seriously II not fatally in
jured