Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-07-31
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.


Jus A%-.a.s-.r-- IL Lar hcu QAeA a. cent
raj Falls r. On sunday. aged iOl
years.
All the clo5k-makers who had been on
strike in New York since June Is re-
sumed work on Friday.
1t is sad taat s250.00o will be re-
quired 70 ycplaea the recent wash0uts
on the Colorado Midland road
The town 81 Wallace. Idaho was de-
stfoYed b. the en- sunday. only tw5
buildings escaping the flames.
At New Portage. o.. this week a fac
tory viii commence the manufacture OF
lumber for bdi5sng purposes out OF
straw.
One ca hltdlne company in Penn
sylvania A4s 50 band orders for $4,000
freight cars TIE largest order is for
10, 600
A freigh. train on the Southern Pa
citic was wrecked al WillShurg Ore,
Saturday and q woman and two children
were killed
Thirty carloads of fat cattle have
been shipped direct from Springfield,
ILL.,, to Europe by Messrs Maxwell and
Montgomery
The Norwegian bark LLOYD, which
sailed from Cuoa june IA Tor New York
with crew Of fourteen men, has been
given up as lost
Peter Theobald, aged 10, was stabbed
and killed Saturday night at birthday
party in Hamilton, o., by John Haacke,
an invited guest
Joseph Il. Paine, acknowledged to be
at the head Of the expert penmen Of the
country, died in Brooklyn. \. y, on
Sunday, aged 70 years
Frederick Douglass, United States
Minister to Hayti, arrived in New York
on Friday from Port an Prince. He said
peace prevailed in Hayti
Rev. Robert Laird Collier the we'll
known Unitarian divine, died on sun
day at his country home near Salisbury,
n. j., OF paralysis, aged s. years
Judge Samuel 5. Marshall aged IS
years, died on Saturday al McLeansboro.
III. He was prominent Democrat. and
was member Of Congress from 1884 to
1855
At Pullman, III w j, Cartwright
anu MISS AfoAd " dA AAtA MtAG ht4AHA "
the cars on Thursday night The man
lost his life in trying to save the
woman.
The apple crop Of Nova Scotia will be
below the average this season. Great
ravages have been committed by cater
pillars, which have stripped whole
orchards
The Horse and Trumpeters, public
house in London which had been per-
mitted to sell ardent spirits for $50
years past has had the renewal of its
license refused.
Captain William Ellington and his
son. the former noted Union scout
during the war. were killed on Thurs
day at Magazine, Ark, by a detective
named McInturf
An explosion occurred in W j. Bal.
lard's clearinghouse at Savannah, Ca.
Thursday night that laid the building
in ruins killing three and injuring six
Of the occupants.
An English law enacted in 1878 in re-
gard to the deck loading Of cattle win
hereafter be strictly enforced and a
close watch kept on vessels bringing
cattle from the United States
President Fish, Of the Illinois Cen
trail road, says that the entire issue OF
5000, 600 of new stock viii be used in
laying double tracks building a mag
nifcent depot and buying coaches
Mrs John O'Meara. Of ST. Joseph,
Mo-, while asleep with her twin babies,
3 months old, lay upon them and
crushed them to death. When She found
what she had done She killed herself
Tramps assaulted the crew Of Lake
Shore freight train al Ligonier, Ind, on
| Thursday and a brakeman was fatally
shot and the conductor was badly
pounded. The tramps were repulsed.
In shooting ARRAY n an Asheville
| (N. c. saloon John Mister. bar
keeper. was instantly killed and Philip
| Mcintyre, a butcher received a shot in
the breast from which he died Saturday
morning.
Much counterfeit money is in circu-
lation in Hancock and adjoining coun-
ties in Illinois. The counterfeit silver
! dollar is the most numerous while a
! nun bci VI COAH tG4lEAb BOtu NlNNGH dEI
also discovered
Near Lincoln Lake, Mich. Thursday
the 1-year-old daughter OF Peter Olsen
while picking berries was bitten by a
snake and died after ten minutes Of
agony. Her mother, who was with her.
could afford no relief.
A waterspout formed on the bay of
Escanaba, Mich, Thursday. lasting ff-
teen minutes. It was 200 feet in diam
eter al its base, extended into the
clouds and made noise audible at a
| distance of two miles.
B. 3. Tillman, candidate for Governor
on the Alliance ticket in Louisiana, re-
fused to speak at the Democratic mass
meeting at New Orleans Thursday for
fear of assassination. He was guarded
by policemen at his hotel
Johnstown, Pa, which was 50 nearly
destroyed by food something over a
year ago, has not only been rebuilt, hut
is said TO have gained over is previous
population, Notwithstanding nearly