Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-01-17
DOMESTIC.

AIIOiNE1 JOHN lAU iAfJUR, Ol 0UlNdgO,
who was convicted OF receiving illegal
fees for obtaining pensions, was sentenced
on the Sth by Judge Blodgett to one year
in the penitentiary.
The large stock barn owned by George
H. Rix, near Lawton, Mich, was destroyed
by fire on the Sth, and twelve head of fine
blooded cattle were among the property
burned.
The Norwich Comm National Bank,
incorporated in 1876, and having capital
OF $4,000 will go into voluntary liquida-
ton March Is.
CHARLES H. T. TAYLOR, colored law
yer, defended client in the criminal
court of Fulton County, Ga, on the Sth. IL
was tho first time in the history of tho
court that colorod lawyer had pleaded a
case
FIVE ships, ranging in value from $780,
900 to 800, 900 each, and having on board
fifty four persons, which have been miss
ing since the wild.storm OF November %
last in New York bay, were on the Sth
given up as lost.
w. W. HOLLIS Louisville boy who had
saved s2lO to attend commetG NJ college,
paid it to stranger on the Sth on a bogus
check for ST.
AN earthquake shock of sufficient VIC
lence to make crockery rattle was felt at
Shelbyvile Ill, on the Sth. Shocks were
also felt at Nation and Pana.
VoLK's bust of the late Judge David
Davis was presented to the State OF Illinois
at the capitol in Springfield on the 9th In
the presence of Governor Oglesby and
many distinguished citizens.
THE tailor shop of Thomas Hall, at New
Richmond, O., was almost entirely demol.
ished by dynamiter on the 9th No cause
for the deed was known.
DURING hurricane on the 9th at Pitts
burgh, Pa, c. l.. Willey's building was
blown down, partly wrecking dozen
surrounding buildings, and scores Of per
sons were caught in the debris and in
stantly killed or badly wounded. Eight
bodies had been taken out, and it was
stated that at least q dozen others re-
NAMED The financial loss was very heavy.
HARRY d. SCHALL, Of Chicago, assistant
cashier of the Chicago a. Northwestern
Railway Company, was on the 9th said to
have fed with over sll, 900 belonging to
the company.
IL quarrel on the 9th between Mr..
Schaffer and Mary Jane Valentine with
whom he had been living at Toledo, O.,
Schaffer shot the woman dead and then
killed himself
A CYCLONE swept through Reading, Pa,
on the 9th, wrecking a number Of build
ings, among them the Reading silkmill In
which one hundred and seventy five girls
were at work, and Of this number it was
reported that not more than one hundred
escaped. Many bodies had been taken
from its ruins, but it was feared that the
remains of from sixty to eighty persons
were still in the debris. TIE paint shops
of the Reading railway were also wrecked
and four men were killed. In the country
farm buildings were destroyed and de-
struction spread in every direction.
A CYCLONE which passed over Sunbury,
Pa, on the 9th blew over two stacks at
the rail-mill, killing three men and injur-
ing nine others. In Williamsport and
Harrisburg many buildings were dam
aged, and in the latter city William Fry,
aged eighty years, was killed.
JOHN PALMER, aged sixty-four years, one
Of the early settlers in Wabash County,
Ind, dropped dead on the 9th in Lafon,
taine.
AT Lima, o., on the 9th storm damaged
the courthouse and many private resi-
dences, and hundreds of derricks and
pumping-houses were blown down in the
oil field
The sum Of S25, 600 was Melted from the
Chicago, and on the 9th the managers ap-
portioned the amount among the various
charitable institutions in the city.
A CYCLONE swept over the city Of Brook
lyn, n. Y, on the 9th, doing damage to tho
extent Of 5000, 900 and fatally injuring two
men.
A wIND-sToRM on the 9th at Wheeling,
W. Va, did great damage, many buildings
being unroofed and several demolished.
In the immediate vicinity farm-houses,
barns and fences were wrecked.
A BLIzzAFD ragged violently over the en-
tire Northwest on the 9th, and heavy
fall of snow delayed railway trains.
IT was announced on the 9th at Altoona,
Pa, that the gang concerned in the Penn
sylvania railroad brass robberies mum
bered at least seventy FIVE boys. Thirty
six locomotives on the middle division of
the road had been entirely stripped by the
thieves, and the loss was estimated at
500, 600
IL Detroit early on the morning of the
10th Luther TallL4an, a Fairport IN. w
scotsman, was robbed on the street by
two men of S450) in cash and $1,000 in
drafts
AN amendment 10 the constitution Of
New Hampshire prohibiting the sale and
manufacture OF all Intoxicating LIQUORS
except cider was adopted by the con.
stitutional convention at Concord on the
10th.
Two GAS reservoirs at Brooklyn, n. Y,
exploded on the 10th, shattcring dwellings
in the vicinity and causing the greatest
terror among the people. Loss, $500 600.
The voice Of Gladstone was heard in the
Edison laboratory at Orange, N. j., on the
10th, and it was as clear and distinct as IL
he had becn present. II addressed Mr.
Edison from one Of the talking. machines
which he has invented. Mr.. Gladstone
talked into the photograph at the house Of
Colonel Gourand, Mr.. Edison's representa-
tive in London, December IS, and the cylin.
ders were shipped to this country.
TUE National Farmers' Alliance began
its annual session In Des Moines, la, on
the 10th, delegates being present from Da-
kota, Iowa, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Kansas
and Minnesota The objects Of the Ma
tional Alliance are to unite the farmers
for the promotion Of their interests So
cially, politically and financially The
Iowa report showed eight hundred and
sixty-fvc alliances in the State, sggre-
eating about twenty five thousand mem
bers.
Government training school for Indians at
Carlisle. Pa, and a number of other build
ings were unroofed by the recent cyclone,
and the loss would exceed 100000
TIE suspension bridge at Niagara Falls
situated nearest the fails, and owned by
the Niagara Falls and suspension Bridge
Company, was blown down by gale
carly on the morning of the 10th II was
composed entirely of iron and steel, and
the loss was estimated at $500, 600
FIRE on the 10th at Shreveport La, de-
stroyed ten buildings and caused a loss Of
$1,000
JonS W. WRIGHT, an aged citizen OF
Piper County. Ga, claimed on the 10th to
have been suddenly cured of blindness by
prayer.
THE Palace Hotel aud three business
blocks at Bradford, Pa, were burned on
the 10th.
Mas LOUISE HAScocK, Of Paris. Tex,
sged eighty years was fatally burned On