Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-12-04
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For The wses BINDING Dec. 1.

Dubuque's total output of lumber for
the season just closed was 100 600, 600
feet.
The health officer in Chicago discov-
cred and closed a place where horses
were slaughtered for food.
The total loss of cattle shipped from
Montreal for England during the past
season amounted 10 l.l42 head.
Flames destroyed the Powers Dry
Goods Company's building at St Paul,
Mimi, causing a loss of SlSO, 900.
Harry 0'Day, OF Keeler. Mich, was
accidentally shot ana killed by COM
panion while oat hunting sunday
Parties at Santa Cruz. Cal. are en-
gagged in sailing and packing mackerel
for the first time in the history of the
town.
Mrs. Margaret Schmidt App has pre-
sented to the city of Cincinnati $50, 600
for Sunday afternoon concerts in Eden
Park.
During the recent heavy frosts in
Germany five homeless persons were
frozen to death in Berlin AMI the neigh
borhood.
The Ontario crop bulletin says the
fall wheat yield is below the average,
and that spring wheat is comparatively
a failure.
Mrs Sarah Knoop, the oldest person
in Wabash County, Ind, died on Satur-
day at her home near Liberty Mills,
aged 100 years.
There had been on Friday III bodies
of victims Of the English cruiser Ser.
pent disaster recovered, and the search
was still going on.
Near Washington, Ind, Elijah
Malott shot and killed his wife and
then killed himself No cause was
known for the deed.
At Anderson, Ind, William Il. Hill, a
widower, aged 60, was publicly whipped
by two young ladies whom he had an
noyed by his attentions
J. j. Kelleher has been awarded dam.
ages of $1,000 at Green Bay, Wis, in his
suit against the Milwaukee & Northern
railroad for killing his son.
DR.. Williamson, aged so years, prac-
ticing physician of Lebanon, Ind, for
thirty-fve years, was run over by bug
gy Friday and fatally injured.
The express-car on a Georgia Pacific
train was robbed at Indianola. Miss, by
lone highwayman, who only secured
$3.50. He was afterward arrested.
William Whittlesey, ex-superintend.
emit of the Hancock County (nl.) poor
70 hap
shortage Of $40, 600 in his accounts
The Bessemer plant of the Bethlehem
(Pa Iron Company shut down Satur-
day for an indefinite time. Twelve
hundred men are thrown out of employ.
ment
The report of Canadas trade shows
that its exports to the United States
for the fiscal year were $40, 522, $40 and
its imports from the same country, $50.
29l,9
Andrew Holsapple and wife, of JEFF
ferson township, Ind, we're taken from
their beds and terribly whipped by a
band of masked men. No cause was
known for the deed
At the meeting of the Union Pacific
Railway Company at Boston Charles
Francis Adams resigned the presidency
and also as director, and Sidney Dillon
was chosen as president
Canadian clergymen complain that
they are losing matrimonial business
through the high license fees exacted.
Wedding couples cross to the American
side and get reduced rates.
John G. Morse, travelling salesman
for dealer in musical instruments in
st. Louis. confessed he was short in his
accounts $4,000, and that he lost the
money betting on horse-races.
A series of shocks of earthq uake was
felt at Gaunersdorf, Lower Africa.
Houses oscillated on their foundations,
and the spires of the churches swung to
and fro. causing the bells to clash.
Judge Isaac Bergman, ex-probate
judge, who had been imprisoned for
contempt, shot himself at Cheyenne,
Wyo. If he recovered he would be
blind, the bullet having destroyed both
eyes.
The Pan-American Steamship line
plying between Galveston and South
American ports in the banana and gen.
eral fruit business was established at
Galveston, Tex. with capital of $50,
600, 900.
Morris Cochran, sanitary inspector
at Punto Gordo, Fla. boarded Spanish
schooner and demanded the vessels pa
pers. 1t proved to be smuggling craft
and the crew seized him and threw him
overheard.
Two men were fatally injured and a
dozen received less serious wounds in a
riot in the Baltimore & Ohio depot in
Warrington, w. Va. Two hundred per-
sons engaged in the fight and a score of
shots were fired.
Blew Out the Gas.