Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-11-06
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Neh, were burned on Saturday.
Thieves chloroformed the postmaster
at Suspension Bridge, y. ". and robbed
the safe
1t has been decided to construct a
number Of batteries around Boston at a
cost Of SIT, 600, 600.
Near Nolosta, Ca, a negro named
Palasco was lynched for an assault on
planters daughter.
Mississippi's constitutional conven-
ton has finished its labors and adopted
its NIX as a whole
Michael Erskin, of Lebanon, Ind,
celebrated his tooth birthday on Friday.
He was in good health.
The express companies have advanced
rates between Chicago and New York
fifty cents per 100 pounds.
An English syndicate has purchased
for S4,00o.OO0 the leading iron concerns
in the Mahoning (O.) valley.
A boiler exploded at the rolling mills
of the Portage Iron Company at Dun
cansville, Pa, killing four men.
Mrs General Grants eyesight is very
poor and her maid is writing her book
of "reminiscences from dictation.
Louis Wolf was arrested at Grand
Rapids, Mich, as common drunkard.
Six years ago he was worth 5000, 600.
Near Coolidge, n. NJ, in a quarrel
over the possession of household goods
Joe Hatch shot and killed Joe Lewis.
IA cargo of cotton on the steamer
Leona was destroyed by fire on Satur-
day in New York, the loss being 5000,
COO
Tunis Amack, Of Columbus, o.. MUIR
dered Mrs. Elizabeth Anderson and then
committed suicide Jealousy was tho
cause.
A party of Russians who intended to
emigrate to Brazil were fired upon by
the frontier guard at Slupca and nine OF
them killed.
The stallion Allerton lowered the
worlds record of 4-year-olds on Satur-
day at Independence, Ia, by trotting a
mile in 2l34.
A corn dealer named Bleer, his wife,
two children and a maid servant were
robbed and killed by brigands near
Pesth, Hungary.
Mrs. w. p Rowland was killed by a
train at Jefferson, o., Saturday night.
She tried to cross the track and was
run down by freight train.
BY the sudden death of Mr.. L. A.
Robinson in Brooklyn, N. Y, Judge
Strong, of Starucca, Pa, falls heir to
property valued at 1000, 600.
The Lake House at Starbuck, Mimi,
was destroyed by fire on Saturday. and
two childre n of the proprietor, E. p.
Byhee, were burned to death.
John Hamlet, of Valparaiso, Ind,
whose wife and three children were
burned to death by lamp explosion,
has been placed in an insane asylum.
Robert Washington, colored man
employed in the Edgar Thompson steel
works at Braddock, Pa, grasped an
electric wire and was instantly killed.
Frank Galloway, switchman EN-
ployed by the Cincinnati, Wabash &
Michigan railway, was fatally injured
by falling from car into the Wabash
river.
Messrs. Dillon, O'Brien, Sullivan and
Harrington, representatives. of the Irish
National League, arrived in New York
on Sunday on the steamer La Cham.
payne.
A convention of the retail clerks OF
America will be held in Detroit Mich.
December for the purpose of organic
ing under the American Federation OF
Labor.
Millet's painting, "L'Angelus," has
been sold by the American Art Associa-
ton in New York to a French pur.
chaser, whose name was net given, for
S155, 600.
In the recent battle of the English
and natives at Vitu eighty to ninety OF
the latter we're killed or wounded,
thirteen Of the British being slightly
wounded.
Charles Fischer, brother of the Chica-
go Anarchist who was hanged for the
Haymarket crime, strangled himself to
death on Sunday in his room in Pitts
burgh, Pa.
Mrs. President Harrison has accepted
the presidency of the Washington Cd.
c. committee to secure funds for the
endowment of medical school at the
John Hopkins University
A telegram from Juneau, Alaska, says
that the project of Ex-Governor Gilpin.
of Colorado, to build line of railway
through the wilds of Alaska to Cape
Prince Of Wales to connect with the
Russian railway system through Siberia
is feasible one, and the future will
see it accomplished.