Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-05-22
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
FOr pc Week EndIng aIay Ie.

Inc dominion Parliament adjourned
Friday
At Salt Lake City Henry Dinwoody's
furniture store was burned on Sunday
Loss, sl25.0Oo
Three Italians were smothered TO
death on Friday at olyphant. Pa, by a
cavern OF dirt.
Thomas McCheane, United States
Consular agent at Portsmouth, Eng.
committed suicide.
John Mcguire, a wealthy farmer OF
Lima, o., was on Friday buncoed out of
S.. 600 by swindlers
An extensive scheme of graveyard
insurance was brought to light on Fri
day Al Oswego. y Y.
The village Of Columbus, Tex, was
inundated on Thursday by an overflow
Of the Colorado river.
Fer the first time in five years intoxi-
eating liquors were sold openly in To-
peka, Kan. on Saturday.
Alaska's big volcano, Bogosloy, is re-
ported to be in eruption, filling the sur
rounding country with ashes
The Tooth anniversary of the organi-
cation Of St Clair County was celebrated
in Belleville, ILL.,, on Saturday
The funeral Of David Catham, who
died at Hamburg Germany, at the age
of 10l years, took place on Thursday.
The boiler-house and breaker Of the
Nelson shaft at Shamokin, Pa, we're
burned Friday night The loss is S175,-
600.
Business failures for the week num-
Der 212, compared with 2O9 last week,
and 242 in the corresponding week of
1889.
A fire on Thursday at Spokane Falls,
Wash, destroyed half a block of frame
buildings and burned two persons to
death.
II. IL. Kohlsaat, of Chicago. will pre-
sent the city OF Galena. H., with a
splendid bronze statue Of General
Grant.
Alpheus Bull well-known Califor-
MIA capitalists, fell from a breakwater
at San Francisco Friday and was
drowned
The Christian socialists Of Ohio eff
fected State organization on Friday
with Rev H. NJ Bacon Of Toledo, as
president.
Ed Bridgman and John Stafford. two
boys, were drowned in the river at Keo
kux, Ia, Thursday by the capsizing of
their skiff
Martin Maydeld, Of Ligonier, Ind.
killed himself Thursday because his
sweetheart Ida Maggert, had rejected
his addresses.
An English syndicate is negotiating
for the purchase Of the granite business
of Quincy, Mass 1t is said that 81, O00,-
600 is involved.
The immense spipning-mills at LODI,
near Warsaw, in Russian Poland were
burned on Thursday, causing loss Of a
million roubles
The American Board Of Foreign Com
missioners will send steam-launch to
Rev. f. L. Rand for work among the
Caroline islands.
Friday the remains of Ann Rutledge,
famous in history as Abraham Lincoln's
early love, were removed from Concord
to Petersburg, III.
Queen Victoria suggests the refusal
Of marriage license in eases where it
can not be shown that family can be
properly supported
An attempt will be made in the
autumn to cultivate American and other
cotton in the Crimea anu other places
on the Black sea coast
The people of Belleville, H.. cele-
brated Saturday the Tooth year OF the
organization Of ST. Clair County, of
which it is the county seat
At the annual meeting in Topeka on
Friday of the Kansas State Temper
ance Union James A. Troutman, Of To-
peka, was elected president
A great mass-meeting Of citizens at
New Orleans Saturday night declared
that the Louisiana lottery steal must
terminate with the present charter.
While playing with loaded revolver
Saturday afternoon at New London Ia,
William Watkins, aged ~. shot and
killed Earle Wilson. companion of
about the same age.
The barn of Wendell Goetz near Ely,
Ia, was burned with seven horses and
large quantity of grain Thursday night
Loss, 81, 900; insurance S. 200 The
fire was of incendiarv origin