Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-03-13
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the Week Ending March

The village Of Liberty, Ky. was con-
aimed By fire on Friday.
Fifteen stores and dwellings at Read
az. Mass. were burned on Thursday.
The small village OF Jonesville, ;. C.,
fas nearly destroyed By fire on sunday.
Illinois Democrats will hold their
tate convention at Springfield June
ext
The funeral of the late George II.
'endleton took place at Cincinnati on
saturday.
Fire took place in the village Of Hodo-
ava, Japan, February ), destroying go
Fifty thousand Liverpool dockmen are
nut on strike, and the number in
reases daily.
The private banking firm OF Belloc
Freres, at San Francisco. Cal, failed on
Friday for 5000, 600
An assignment was m 3de at New York
IN Friday by the brewing firm Of Mon
Zoe Eckstein for Sl2S, 600
A vein Of soft coal of the camel vari-
rest of Chamberlain, 5. d.
Fire at Anderson, Ind, destroyed t.
|. Fishers cradle factory, causing loss
L $50, 600, less $40, 900 insurance.
The directors of the Nicaragua canal
| New York Thursday elected Warner
1iller president OF the company.
Expert accountants have reported
pat J. w Galloway, Little Rock
Ark. tax collector, is Sl2, 600 short.
James Fosset, a magistrate of Red
God, Miss, was shot and killed in sa-
ION at that place by Frank Kearney.
1t is said that De Lesseps is almost
token down over the unfavorable re-
prt of the Panama canal commission.
At Youngstown. o., John Loritz was
flled by a train which he saw coming,
nt made no effort to get ont of the way.
| I Dwight Holbrook, an aged and prom
hent citizen OF Evanston, H.. commit
I'D suicide by hanging Saturday after
Don.
The 3-year-old child OF Expressman
Johnson, of Terre Haute, Ind, swal-
bwed a nail sunday and choked to
ieath
| George II. Hill, young man living
lear Sandusky, O., was thrown from a
fagon by a runaway horse and dragged
> death.
Rev. L. Smith Hobart, founder of the
lhicago Theological Seminary, died al
lpringfeld. Mass, on Saturday. aged
8 years.
Freezing weather in Alabama has de
sroyed early vegetables, the loss tc
fobile County alone being placed a
HOO, OOO
The town Of Casey Hill, Pa, which
TODD over an abandoned mine, caved il
N Friday and many buildings were
krecked.
| H. c. Bedell, a well-known insur
Ince agent Of Cleveland, O., committed
uicide on Saturday by shooting himsel
n the head.
Many deaths from starvation have &C
cured among the Indians at Dunoegan
Man, and several cases OF cannibalisn
are reported. - -
The dwelling of Alexander Stokes
near Ridgely, Md, was destroyed b.
fire on Friday. and Mrs. Stokes perishe,
in The flames
J. P. Mitchell, OF Franklin, Pa, wa
blown to pieces on Saturday by the ex
pltsion Of can of nitro-gl ycerine whicl
hewas handling.
Thomas Todd was locked up a
Lima O., for drunkenness. He set fir
tothe bed-clothing in the cell and die,
from suffocation.
The kody of the robber Of the Vale
Falls Kan bank has been identified a
that of Charles Robinson, a farmer liv
ing near Ottawa.
| Atthe burning of the house of Nose
Fsldman. Boston peddler, on Friday
three of his children inhaled so niue
smoke that they could not live.
During the absence of Mrs. Eliz
Moore Thursday her residence at Colum
tus, Ind took fire, and two of her chill
dren were consumed in the flames,
Daniel d. Blake. a mill employee a
Pail River, Mass, was informed o
| Thursday that he was heir to 81, 600, 90
BY the death of an uncle in England.
The Cherokee strip is covered wit
| @prairie-s and hundreds c
men, under the pretense of huntin
game, are said to be selecting choic
| Claims.
A sculling match has been arrange
4 l.
aad Peter Kemp for the championshi
o. the world The race will take plac
on April 25
Two passenger trains we're completed
buried by a snow-slide at Wheeler, Col
| Thursday Fireman Culbertson wa
badly scalded by steam and Roadmaste
Robbins had knee sprained. .a.asI