Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-11-13
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
Dor the W. Endinc Nnr. -

For the Week Ending Nov. 10.
John Usher died on Friday, at Water
town, Wis, aged 100 years.
One-half Of the mining town Of Ire
mont Pa, was destroyed by fire.
A. A. Anderson while hunting with
his wife near Bangor, Me-. accidentally
shot and killed her.
While playing with a gun William
Charlton, years old, killed his sister
Calisa, years old, in ST. Louis.
All the prisoners in the Mercer Coun-
ty CIV. Va Jail, ten in number. includ-
ing three murderers, have escaped.
Ward Clouston, circuit court clerk at
at Charleston, w. Va, was found to be
q defaulter to the extent Of 100000.
Fl. s Mills, OF Kansas City, Mo-, q
millionaire banker. died at the Ire
mont House, Chicago. of spinal disease.
General f. A. O'Neal, who was Gov
ernor of Alabama from 1889 to 1885. died
on Friday in Florence, Ala, aged 20
years
The third anniversary of the execution
of the five Anarchists in Chicago was
observed by their friends in that city on
Sunday.
Every house in Winslow. Pike Coun-
ty, Ind. was burned on Friday, and
there would be much suffering among
the inhabitants.
Frank Keller of Linton, Ind, was
cleaning a pistol supposed to be un-
loaded when the weapon was discharged,
killing Mrs. Keller
An assignment was made on Friday
by the Mutual Fire Insurance Company
OF Chicago Poor business was given as
the cause of the failure.
Lord Londonderry, speaking at West
Hartlepool, Eng, declared that Messrs
Dillon and o Brien deliberately organ
lied the Tipperary riot.
Harvey Fisk, one of the best-known
bankers in this country, died of heart
failure at his residence in Wilbartha, N.
j.. at the age of 81 years.
The influenza is again spreading In
Berlin, forty cases having been re.
ported, Of which seven were pronounced
hopeless by the physicians.
Andrew Stroudelrs 5-year-old daugh.
ter was burned to death at her home in
Sioux Valley, Mimi, Saturday. Her
clothes caught fire from stove
Mrs. j. p. Patrick was attacked by q
tramp in her store at Linn, o., Saturday
night. He fractured her skull and then
robbed the drawer Of S100. He escaped.
At Corsicana, Tex. William ]. vallie,
q railway conductor, shot and killed his
wife and then committed suicide. II
was thought that jealousy was the cause
of the shooting
A coal-oil barrel exploded at Demo
cratic jubilee in Huntington, Pa, Sat
urday night, and John and Henry Win
tiers were so badly burned that they will
lose their eyesight.
A. c. Evans, president OF the A. Z
Evans Company at Springfield, o., and
one of the city's twelve millionaires
died from the effects of opium, taken
with suicidal intent
While temporarily insane, Mrs. 10
seph Lamprecht of Philadelphia
killed her infant child fatally cut IN,
throat of her 6-year-old daughter Mar,
and then fatally stabbed herself.
Train wreckers ditched a passenge
train on Friday on the Missouri Pacif
road near Otterville, Mo-. and the en-
gineer and four postal clerks were badl,
injured. Robbery was the object
A motion was presented in the Mex
leo Chamber of Deputies asking that al
persons who we're not Mexican citizens
be expelled from the country as being
pernicious to the welfare of Mexico.
Thursday at New York Henry
Humphrey died from an epileptic Fl
caused by hard drinking. Ten years
ago he inherited fortune of 500, 0OI
and he had scarcely drawn sober
breath since.
A fire on Thursday at greensboro
KY, destroyed many business buildings
including the Messenger newspaper of
fee. Will II. Hahn jumped from tbs
third-story window of the Rudd House
and was killed.
Noverto Griego, a Mexican, wa,
hanged on Friday at Canyon City, Col.
for the murder Of w. l.. Underwood or
June last, and viii Bethea (colored
was hanged at Wrightsville Ga. fol
killing Lumber Inspector Raiford or
March II last.