Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-07-03
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the Week Ending June 80.


Three shocks OF earthquake were felt
lt Santa Rosa, Cal, on sunday. No
damage resulted
Grain merchants at Louisville stated
In Thursday that the oats crop Of Ken
lucky was q total failure
/ A. Ferguson a lumber operator at
susseX y T., has fed to the United
states. IL embezzled $50 600.
The Po.taWattomie Indians in Kan
sls received their land in seyeralty and
100000 ID money on Thursday
W. II. liammel and wife OF Hutchin-
son, Kan were burned 70 death Friday
BY the explosion Of a gasoline stove.
+ Much property was destroyed on Fri
day by i tornado in the vicinity Of
Loves. hy. and one person was killed
At WttEcs6arre, Pa. John Mosser.
his daugh,e- and his wife died a horri-
bic death saturday after eating sau-
sage.
In the lake al Jackson Park Chicago,
Michael shehan and his wife were
crowned On sunday by the upsetting of
boat
In drunken fury at Kansas City on
THURSDAY L r. Meyers fatally wounded
his uncle. i Van Horn, and the latter's
daughter
A tornado swept over Gallatin, Tenn,
pm Sunday, destroying several houses
Pnd church and injuring ten persons,
khree fatally
c. NJ. Holloway, agent for the Adams
Express Company at Salem, O., skipped
cut on Friday with s., 500 Of the com
lany's money
In an accident on the Chicago & Rock
Island railroad on Saturday, near Joliet,
H., two people were killed outright and
seven injured.
A dispatch from Massowah says that
the allies Of the Italians had defeated
al KERN a force Of 1000 dervishes, kill
iIg $50 Of them
At Morris m, Charles Decker, a
wealthy farmer, and his aged mother
were fatally beaten BY burglars on
THURSDAY night
At Naneeburg Ky, lightning killed
jerry Searles, his wife and his only
child on saturday, thus annihilating
the whole family
Harry Boughton Of Catlin, H., on
Thursday received notice that he had
fallen heir to $500 600 worth OF property
in New York City
The United States cruiser Philadel-
ptia arrived at her dock at Cramps ship.
yard, Philadelphia Friday morning
from a long cruise.
The Illinois Army and Navy Associa-
tion was organized at Springfield, Ill,
Thursday, with DIR. II. a. Johnson. OF
Chicago, as president
Judge Samuel B. Green, one OF the
most noted criminal lawyers in the
West, died at his residence in st 10
seoh, Mo, on Thursday
The fifty-second anniversary Of Queen
Vetoria's coronation was celebrated in
England on Saturday by various enter
taiaments and festivities,
At Jackson. Miss. on Thursday OK
State Treasurer Hemingway was found
guilty Of embezzlement and sentenced
to five years imprisonment
A. B. Johnson, until recently editor
of the Decatur qlI) Republican, died
Friday night He had been connected
with the Republican for sixteen years
Reports from all the wheat-growine
regions of Kansas are to the effect that
the berry is plump and full The yield
viii be Is per cent. above the average
for the last six years.
At Standing Rock, n, D., Rain-in-the-
Face. the noted Sioux chief, ranking
next to Sitting Ball in renown, was
fatally stabbed by his wife on Thursday.
Jealousy was the cause.
The Earl Of Carnarvon died in Lon.
don on Saturday. He was born July "a,
1881. In 1855 he was made Lord Lieu
tenant-General and Governor Of Ire
land, retiring from Office the following
year.
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