Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-07-11
The World in a Nutshell
for lna week EndIne Jaly J.

The World in a Nutshell.
nor the Week Ending July 3.
A fire on the docks in London on Friday
caused a loss of $500, GOO
The world's coinage for lsSs was e5s, 800, :
80, against SO. -. 900 In 1871
An Eastern syndicate has purchased the
breweries at indianapolis, Ind
Theodore schmitt the Dutch Consul at
Hamburg, has failed for l, GOO, 600 marks.
Four young men were drowned on satur-
day near Butfalo, n y, by the upsetting of
boat
In a fight between rival crews OF the fer
ryboats at Cairo. Ill three negroes were
killed
General John c Fremont is one OF the
distinguished summer residents at Mount
Pleasant, n. J.
Miss Ida Phillips, lately missionary in
India was drowned on Friday at Winnie
bago City, Mimi
Los Angeles sent carload of fruit and
wines to Philadelphia TO be auctioped for
the Johnstown suffers
The towns Of Cushing and ireeport in
Maine celebrated tho Ger .ennial of thei
incorporation ON THURSDAY
The press of Next ) is waging war upon
the proposition 20 COLOMBO that country
with negroes from America.
H. A Iearsons aged IS years, Chicago
bachelor millionaire, was drowned in the
lake ON Sunday while bathing.
Claude Striker and Claude Wlite, both Of
Norfolk, Va We're drowned while bathing
at that city Thursday afternoon
One hundred Mormon disciples reached
New York from Europe on Friday and were
at once shipped 20 Salt Lake City.
Buffalo nlll has been engaged by the
Frencl government to teach 100 cavalry
officers to ride in the American style.
John Glass, Holland tAiichl youth,
stopped ON his way to Sunday school and
went in swimming and was drowned.
In the Matanzas district IN Cuba long and
deep assures have appeared in the earth
causing great alarm among the people.
Thomas Ewing sherman. son of General
Sherman, was ordained priest of the Cath
Ollie church on Sunday at Philadelphia
In the Worlds Sunday school convention
in London on Friday it was decided to hold
the next convention in America in 1893
AT Memphis, Tenn. Frank Bredish killed
his wife on Friday because she refused to
live with him, and then took his own life.
Harvesting was completed in Kentucky
with fair yield of wheat; corn was re-
ported as excellent and tobacco improved
The French War Office has adopted the
use OF bicycles Four velocipedists are to
DO attached to each regiment of infantry.
An unsuccessful attempt was made on
Friday to blow up with dynamite the
Evening Star newspaper office at Bradford,
Pa
Hiel D. Miller, cashier of the National
Bank of Malta, o., was on Saturday discov-
cred to be q defaulter to the extent of $685.
600
The raising of Kentucky hemp has been
introduced in the vicinity of Troy, n Y,
and promises to meet with marked sue
cess
w. T. Carter & Co store at No . Slope,
Colrain, near Hazleton Pa was ruined by
fire Saturday night Loss estimated at
$1,000
In Louisiana and Mississippi excessive
rains have caused the crops to become
grassy, and cotton is greatly in need of
cultivation.
In a conflict at Duluth. MINI, On Satur-
day between strikers and the police two of
the former we're shot dead and many others
were wounded
petrified turtle is said to have been
found near Brazil Ind, which weighs So
600 pounds A house mover is transporting
1t to the railroad.
The village of Ubendorf on the Wesse
river, in Germany, was destroyed by fire
on Saturday. The loss was enormous No
loss of life was reported.
Misses Mile Jones and Nettie Davidson.
aged fourteen and sixteen years, were
drowned in the Sacandaga river at Conk-
lingville, N Y on Sunday.
Algeria is suffering from plague of To-
Gusts, and the soldiers are employed to de-
stroy them At Lett nearly $40 soldiers
were lately engaged in this work
Noar Magador, O., David s Wise was
struck by lightning and instantly killed,
The sun was shining at the time, and the
bolt came from a very small cloud
Only five OF the British officers who
fought at Waterloo were alive when the
seventy fourth anniversary of the battle
came around on the 18th OF last June
A freight train on the Pennsylvania rail-
road was wrecked at Locust Grove, Pa,
Saturday by the rails spreading. Twelve
cars were derailed and thrown on their
sides
tribute to the memory OF the pioneers
of Miami County, O.. has been erected in a
monument set mp ON the Fourth at the
"Old Columbia Burying Ground near Gin
cinnati.
The oldest clothing house in Chicago. es-
tablished thirty two years ago by James M.
Harvey, and afterwald conducted by his
sons was closed up ON Saturday by the
sheriff
Mr. Ludwig, who had the key, the only
thing remaining Of the German Lutheran
Church at Johnstown, Pa, died on Sunday
OF grief at the loss OF his three sons and
one daughter
Representatives Of a.: 81 1n IN iabol organiza-
tions in Alabama hold meeting at Bir-
mingham on Friday to perfect the organi-
cation Oh IA Labor Council the object being
TO control the next Legislature.
The widow OF n. +. Willis. the poet, ia
living in Washington She is woman of
60 years and is occasionally seen in society
Her son, Bailey Willis, is member of the
corps OF the geological survey
Reports received from many sections of
California indicate that the coming almond
crop will be largo one. The trees are
loaded and bid fair to produce a yield
somewhat in excess of last season
Frank Webb, while intoxicated, rushed
into crowd at Rush Run, Fayette County,
W. Va, and began shooting right and left
Charles Weller was shot dead and his
brother seriously wounded before the
maniac was captured.
An anti slavery society, founded by the
Hungarian Major Charles de Dobner, has
Just been registered at Vienna Major de
Dobner proposes to raise an armed corps OF
1000 men for the suppression of the slave
trade in Africa