Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-12-11

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Germany has officially recognized the
United States of Brazil
The Dominion Parliament has been
proFogued until January 10
The city OF Sikeston. No, was nearly
destroyed by IRE on Sunday.
John Payne, aged so years, living at
Mount Auburn, Ind. committed suicide
on Saturday.
!. d. Whltbeck, wealthy dairymau,
was killed by the cars at Kalamazoo,
Mich, Saturday.
President Harrison entertained at
luncheon on Saturday Mr. and Mrs.
Henry NJ. Stanley.
A fire occurred IN the work house at
Internationally and six persons
were burned TO death.
Russell. Seybold & Co, wholesalers
of dry goods at Ottawa, Ont, failed on
Thursday for $3.50, 000
English capitalists have bought
100000 acres Of land in the Sequatchee
valley, Tenn. for S., OOO, 00O
William E. Woodruff. State Treasurer
OF Arkansas, was said on Saturday to be
S61, COO short in his accounts.
At Providence, r. l., fire in the re-
tail dry-goods store of Sheppard & Co.
caused damage to the extent of 5000, 0O0
Norman Calhoun, 81 years old, and
Martha Dickson. so years old, were
married on Saturday at Pennsboro, w.
Va.
Three counterfeiters and over $50, 600
in spurious money were captured on
Saturday BY officers near Newmarket,
Mo.
Fifteen inches Of snow fell on Thurs
day in the Lydonville (vt region, and
lumbermen would begin operations as
once.
The G. G. Carpenter nursery at Fair
bury, the largest in Nebraska, was sold
to an English syndicate Thursday for
s75. 600
1t was reported that gold in large
quantities had been discovered in a
gulch eighteen miles southwest of Co
lumbus, Ind.
A violent earthquake shock was felt
at Lockwood, Mo. Houses we're shaken
and the whole population fed into the
streets for safety.
A parcel containing 10000 francs
which was started by an English bank
for Amsterdam was stolen between Os-
tend and Antwerp.
The nine cotton mills in Canada were
purchased by the Dominion Cotton Mills
Company, composed of wealthy Montre-
alers, for So, 500, coo.
The jewelry store of j. c. Woodlief at
Waxahachie, Tex. was entered by bur-
glars, who secured from S12.00 to S15,-
900 worth Of jewelry.
A fire which broke out in Maginn's
cracker factory at Pittsburgh, Pa, de-
stroyed four large business blocks, caus-
ing loss of $500. 900.
Colonel Herbert, c. b, of the British
army, has been appointed to the COM
mand of the Canadian militia to sac
coed General Middleton.
Henry Johnson (colored) was lynched
| Thursday near Pickens, S. c., for a
criminal assault upon Mrs. Thomas
Walters, white woman.
A band of thieves, ten in number,
who for two years had robbed planters
and burned much property. was capt
ured near Memphis, Tenn.
The Boston Homeopathic Medical So
ciety has adopted resolution advo-
eating the use of chloroform in the ex-
ecution of condemned criminals
E. Dunbar Price, whose wealth and
extravaganza had made him we'll known
in this country and Europe, died in New
York on Thursday, aged 81 years.
The Spanish Government is accused
OF harassing the Protestant mission
aries in the Caroline Islands with a
view of driving them from that region.
Peter Held, of Honey Creek, Wis,
killed himself Thursday by taking a
dose of poison, stabbing himself and
then shooting himself through the
head.
Rev. j. C. White, the oldest Presby-
terrain minister in Cincinnati, died on
Saturday at the age of IS years. He
mad been stationed there nearly fifty
years.
Aaron Oakley, of Lockport, N. Y.
was found dead in his bed on Saturday,
having been aspbyxiated by coal gas,
and his wife would probably not re-
cover.
The city council of Shelbyville, Ind,
authorized the mayor to employ the
necessary force to suppress the sale of
liquors on Sunday and after II o'clock
at night
Rev. William Baird and wife, Of
Charlestown, Ind, left for Corea on
Thursday, where Mr. Baird will be EN-.
ployed as a missionary by the Presby-
terrain board.
While Augustus Randall, a teamster.
was driving across the railroad track at
Atwater, o., train struck the wagon,
totally demolishing it, Randall was in
stantly killed.
BY the caving in of coal bank near
Danville, Ill, Cneys Victorian, aged
81 years, was killed and Simon Bennett
sustained fracture of the leg and in
ternal injuries.
Mrs. Elizabeth McCadden, whose hus-
band was killed on the Wisconsin Cen
ro1 1aA at d.