Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-04-04
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as Minister to Berlin was discussed. but ne ac-
ton was taken.
DOMESTIC.
WILLIAM CLINcHMAN, aged fifteen years
believing revolver to be empty, shot and
fatally wounded Birdie Lucas at ST. Paul on
the 25th
Ex-MAYoR HEWITT, of New York CITY, as
ISOLATED with number of capitalists, on the
25th purchased controlling interest In the
Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railway Company
near Nashville, Tenn.
OWING to domestic troubles Melvin G.
Garlitz shot his wife dead ON the Goth at
Cumberland, Md
A LARGE satisfactory in Brooklyn, N T.,
was destroyed by fire on the 10Th, causing q
loss of 100000 Many OF the one hundred
employees were obliged to jump from the
windows, and twenty-three were badly in
jured
The Michigan House on the Goth, by 3
unanimous standing vote, passed aresoltl-
ton increasing the Governors salary to
81, 900 year.
L. CUMMINGS L Co., leather dealers Of
Boston. failed on the 26th for sS0o, 600.
CHARLES J. BEATTIE. Chicago lawyer.
was on the 10Th fined $500 and sentenced to
one years imprisonment by Judge Jamie
son for contempt Of court In giving q client
q IrauuuIenJ decree Oh uufOTco.
The great warehouse In Chicago owned
by William r. Manierre was destroyed BY
fire early ON the morning Of the 95th. Loss,
500, 600; insurance, about $500, 600.
PASSENGER train on the Lake Shore road
when near Goshen, Ind, on the Goth struck
buggy containing Robert McCaffery, aged
twenty years, of Goshen, and Miss Della
Love, aged eighteen years, OF Elkhaft.
When the train was stopped both We're
found on the pilot of the engine dead.
RICHARD u. RICHARD, railroad clerk ct
Cincinnati, O., shot and fatally wounded his
wife on the 18th as she was walking ON the
street No canse for the deed was assigned.
Four men employed In O Pittsburgh mill
were splashed ON the 26th with molten
metal which they We're pouring into mold
and terribly scalded
THE Governor OF Tennessee on the 26th
signed the bill making women eligible to
the Office of county superintendent Of edu-
cation.
AT Columbus Grove. o.. on the Goth Miss
Laura Michael shot and fatally wounded
Miss Lou Getterman Jealousy was the
cause of the shooting
JOHN RosENBAEGER, farmer, shot dead
Andrew Castaline In q row over trivial
matter near Creighton, Neb., ON the 26th,
then burned his own house TO the ground
and shot himself dead
IL All-Saints' Cathedral at Milwaukee,
Wis, on the Goth Rev. DR.. Cyrus F. Knight
was consecrated Episcopal Bishop Of Wis
consin to succeed the late Bishop Welies.
AT New York on the Goth Alderman
Charles Goet2, Charles NJ Jackson, Morris
Isaacs, Edward Butler and Charles Smith
were arrested on indictments charging them
with violating the election laws.
AT railroad crossing at La Crosse, Wis,
on the 9th Mrs. William Drake was instant
ly killed by switch engine and her hus-
band was fatally injured.
PRAIRIE fires were raging on the 9th in
Stearns County, MINI. The high wind had
carried the flames into the woods and much
damage was being done.
A THREE-YEAR-oLD daughter OF Barney
Huffman, of Circleyille, O., was burned 70
death on the 9th, her clothes catching fire
from bonfire in the street
EIGHT business houses at Havana, ILL.,.
were burned on the 9th
NICHOLAS MEAD, waiter in the Revere
House at Boston, shot Mrs. Samuel Tuck and
her boy on the eth and then killed himself
THE United States Consul at Colon re-
ported on the 9th that work along the Pan
anna canal had entirely ceased.
A FIRE ON the 21th at Scranton, Pa, de-
stroted the dry-goods stock of Cleliand,
Simpson & Taylor, valued at 500, 600.
HARRY PAINE a ten-year-Old boy OF
Roanoke, Va, was killed on the 27th by u
ball bat in the hands of young colOred
companion.
A CHURCH and five business buildings
We're destroyed by fire at West Haven,
Conn, ON the 21th.
PRESIDENT HARRISON on the 9th issued a
proclamation opening the Oklahoma lands
TO settlement on April 81.
The foundry and machine shops of Nc
IntOsh 4 Henphill, at Pittsburgh, Pa, were
burned on the 27th Loss, 100000
THE House Committee on Education of
the Missouri Legislature reported adversely
on the 27th all bills providing for compul-
sorry education
SPERRY & Co, of San Francisco, donated
fifty tons of -four TO the sufferers In China
from famine, and 1t formed part of the cargo
of the City of Pekin which sailed from the
Golden gate on the eth
The strike of the ten thousand weayers
at Fall River, Mass. came to an end on the
27th, the strikers returning to work at the
old wages.
ANNOUNCEMENT was made ON the 9th ia
Philadelphia that Kelley had secured the
missing link to his motor" and that II
private exhibition would be given IN few
days
MRS. DAVID MoARTHUR blew out her
brains on the 9Th near Whitefern, Tenn,
with shotgun. She placed the muzxla OF
the gun at the back Of her head held the
barrel with her hand, and pulled the trigger
wi.h her toe
JAMES TURNER and Mack Francis wsrs
hanged on the eth at Lebanon, Tenn, for
the murder Of Lew Martin. They con-
fessed their guilt on the scaffold
AN order was issued at Washington on the
27th by the Postmaster General placing the
railway mail service under the supervision
of First Assistant Postmaster General
Clarkson.
EXPERIMENTS were being made on the eth
at the Homestead steel works OF Carnegie,
Phipps & Co., with the Redmsn- Tiford in
vention for manufacturing steel, which, as
alleged, was likely TO revolutionize the
process in the near future
OVER thirty seven acres OF land were Sc
cured on the 2Sth at Kansas City at 8 cost of
81, 1905 900, upon which IL was proposed to
erect a magnificent union depot, TO he util-
lied by five roads
CONSTABLE MONTAGUE, Of Elmore, Col
was killed ON the 2sth by three cowboys
whom he tried to arrest for disturbing the
/ quiet of the town.
y TWO-1EAN-OLD uaugnlrE OF simon
/ Floyd, living near Catlin, Ill was burned
4 to death on the 9Sth, her clothing catching
ire from cooking stove.
/ HEBREW orphans home was dedicated
on the 2Sth at Atlanta. Ga
The livery stables OF Thomson & Swiger,
in Jacksonville, Ill, were burned TO the
/ ground on the 18th, and fifty head of horses
! aud mules persisted in the flames.
A NUMBER of counterfeit silver dollars
and the dies used for making them were
discovered buried near Winamac Ind on
/ the 9Sth The counterfetts had been cireu-
lated extensively in that section lately.
AT East Pembroke " T., nine deaths had
occurred on tho 2Sth in the families of Rev.
Samuel Call<ins his son Bradley aud Dea-
con Smith. caused by poisonous gases aris-
ing from mass OF decaying vegetable mat
Ter in the cellar of the Calkins house.
THE house of Elder Z. s Greene at Spring
field, Mass was burned TO the ground on
the 2Sth, and Ida Greene, aged fourteen
! years. a granddaughter OF Mr.. Greene was
burned to death.
FoUE Americans left Ell Paso, Tex, on the
2sth, went 10 Juarez, Mex. became drunk
and disorderly, and, resisting arrest, shot
and killed two policemen. They escaped "a
the American side.
MASKED men took three accused cattle
thieves, Gannow, Babcock and Rcmus, from
their homes at Ainsworth. Neb., on the 2sth
across the line into the reservation and de-
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