Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-05-15
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the Week Endine NAV n.


$4,000 log boom al Bangor. Me.
Frosts on Thursday n the vicinity of
Wabash, Ind, did great damage TO veg
citation.
TIE Iron Car Company Of Hunting
don Pa, has failed, with liabilities of
$3.50, GOO
David Stokes tcoloredl died Thursday
in Rockingham County, \. G., from the
bite Of cat
The Iowa Supreme Court has decided
that the sale Of original liquor packages
in the State is legal
The town Of Greenville. Pa. was
flooded 70 inc depth Of two feet on sat
day by cloud-burst
Half the saloons of Baltimore have
been closed through the enforcing Of
the high-license law
George w. Crane q Co., Of Topeka,
Kan, printers and publishers. failed on
Saturday for s12O, 900
A fire on sunday at Ellicottville, n
Y, destroyed one-half of the business
portion Of the village
Two workmen we're killed at Cleve-
land Saturday by falling seventy feet
from scafiold to the ground.
The Montana Union depot at Butte
was destroyed by an incendiary fire on
Friday, the loss being 100000.
Ed Bennett (colored) was lynched on
Saturday BY mob at Hearne Tex, for
an assault upon white woman.
-Four Greek workmen were fatally in
jured at Braddock, Pa, Thursday by a
new smokestaek falling on them.
John D. Davis AID William Morgan
were killed by fire damp on Thursday
in coal mine near Mahanoy Plane,
Pa.
Flames on Saturday in a large Govern
ment warehouse at Willet's Point, l..
J., destroyed property valued at $1,000,
600
George Auidon, an engineer, was
killed at Alarshalltown. Ia. Saturday by
being caughtin the nywheel Of his en-
CINE.
Warden Berggren, Of the Joliet qll)
penitentiary- affirms that there has
been no plot TO liberate the Cronin con-
victs
During a thunderstorm in Paris on
Friday the Eifel tower was struck by
lightning six times, but no damage was
done
JEFF Williams. of Brazil Ind, who
squandered a fortune in coal lands left
him by his father, was killed by the
cars Friday.
The business failures for the week
number 200, as compared with oil last
week and 227 for the corresponding
week Of 1889
At Detroit Mich, the seventy-two
hour heel-andtoe walking match was
won on Saturday by Hoagland, he max
ing $50 miles.
0. IL Wilson. charged with fleeing
an Ashland TO- farmer named Culver
out OF $500, was arrested at Marion
Ind, Friday night
Mrs. Frost, of Portsmouth, n IL, in {
fit of insanity threw her child into the
river and jumped in herself. A tramp
who saw her rescued both.
Nathan Williams, of Stanton, Ind,
who in nine months spent in dissipation
500, 600 left him by his father, was taken
to the poor-house on Thursday
At Nincennes, Ind, Thursday night
John and Amos Lawson. twin brothers,
quarreled, and Amos plunged knife
into his brothers side, fatally wounding
him
At Charleston, $. C., on Thursday the
diocesan convention Of the Episcopal
church adopted an amendment exclud.
ing colored members from seats on the
floor
Colonel f. W. Davis, the absconding
deputy sheriff of Newark, n j.. has re-
turned home He will not be prose
cuted. as his shortage of 81, 500 has been
made good.
The question OF taking the control Of
charitable institutions from the priests
and placing it in the hands Of the civil
power is arousing bitter controversy in
the Italian Parliament