Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-10-31
The w orld in a Nutshell


The population of Berlin has reached
million and half.
Comber, Ont, was visited by a de-
structive fire Friday, the loss being $685.
000
The business portion of the village Of
Findlay's Lake, N. Y, was burned on
Sunday.
Another body, that of a man. was dis
covered on Friday in the river at Johns
town, Pa.
The farmers near Lincoln, Neb., have
decided to establish beef-packing house
at that point.
A United States Marshal on Saturday
discovered cave full of whisky near
Guthrie, /. t.
Hon. jeremiah MCGUIRE, ex-Speaker
of the New York Assembly, died Friday
at Elmira, N. Y.
Fire Friday destroyed for the third
time in year the greater part of the
town of Downs, III.
The greater part of the village of Com
Der, Ont, was destroyed by an incen-
diary fire on Friday.
A block of business buildings in Sa-
lem, Ala, was burned on Sunday, caus-
ing loss of 100000.
Burglars at Valparaiso, Ind, Friday
night looted Henry Thun's saloon of
$500 and gold watch.
Guy A. Brown, State Librarian of
Nebraska and reporter of the Supreme
Court, died Sunday at Lincoln.
Earthquake shocks were felt over
large part of Mexico on Friday, but no
damage or loss of life was reported.
The Duke of Sparta, Crown Prince Of
Greece, and Princess Sophie, of Germany,
were married on Sunday at Athens.
At Fort Worth, Tex, fire on Friday
destroyed thirty frame houses, render
ing number of poor people homeless.
John jackson, chief of the st. Paul
fire department, was fatally injured
while running to fire Saturday night.
The Portuguese schooner Forest Fairy,
from Boston, recently reported as lost
with all on board, has arrived at Fayal
The local switchmen on the ten rail-
roads entering Memphis, Tenn, went
on strike on Saturday for higher wages.
Miss Baldwin, in bicycle tourna-
ment at San Francisco, completed 7s1
miles in forty-eight hours, beating the
record.
Joe Harold (colored) was lynched near
Columbus, Miss, on Friday. He had
confessed that he assaulted a white
woman.
East Tennessee was on Saturday
flooded with spurious coin, the counter
felt being of dollars, half dollars and
quarters.
Hibbard 81 Co., owning a saw-mill and
store at Rapid River, Mich, assigned
Friday. Liabilities about $4,000; as
sets not known.
Charles Roberts was sentenced at
Cleveland Friday to fifteen years in the
girl last July.
Two men were killed and two serious
ly injured by the explosion of thrash
ing machine boiler near Salt Coats, N.
w. T., Friday.
The new cruiser San Francisco was
launched on Saturday at the city of San
Francisco in the presence of a large
gathering of people.
The defalcations of Major Burke, the
Louisiana ex-State treasurer, were fixed
by the grand jury of New Orleans on
Saturday at S373, 900.
Patrick Walsh, of Kansas City, was
knocked down and robbed of 5000 by
three men at midnight Friday night.
Walsh was badly hurt.
The long-continued drought in Michi
gan was effectually broken Friday by a
steady rain. Wheat is in poor condition,
but this rain will save it.
At Fostoria, o., the private bank of j.
w. Powell closed its doors on Friday.
The assets were S24D00 with liabilities
of about the same amount.
Typhoid fever is epidemic at Craw-
louisville, Ind, there being dozen
cases in one neighborhood, all the re-
suit of drinking foul well water.
Jacob w. Odenwelder, ex-register of
wills of Northampton County, Pa, was
arrested Saturday charged with ernbez-
cling 81, 900 of the States funds.
The switchmen's strike in the Louis
Vile & Nashville railroad yards at
Evansville, Ind, ended on Saturday in a
victory for the railroad company.
w. f. Newman, ST. Paul attorney,
died at the city hospital Friday from in
iuries received by falling through a
plate-glass window in the new court
house.
All the interior workings of the White
Oak colliery near Archibald. Pa, caved
in on Friday. The disturbed area COW
cred 100 acres aud the mine was prac-
tically ruined.
The roof of the hot blast of the
Girard (O.) furnace collapsed on Friday,
fatally burning William Anderson and
his two sons and bally wounding four
other persons.
Joseph S. Bonney, for thirty years
resident of Lawrence, Mass, committed
suicide Friday morning by shooting
himself through the head. He was a
well-known inventor.
Rube Burrows, the outlaw, and one of
his gang killed two and wounded six
others of sheritFs posse of forty men
which had surrounded them on Saturday
near Brookville. Ala
Sir John Lawless. the highest author
ity in England on agricultural matters,
says that country must receive 10000 900
quarters of what in order to meet the
deficiency of that cersal for the year.
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