Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-04-24
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
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- -e-V9V Eases OF IA grippe are re-
ported IN Valparaiso.
An incendiary fire destroyed 1S0
houses at Neu-Iandec. in Austria.
Louis FRANKIE * Co, silk merchants
of New Nork, failed on Thursday for
100000.
The forest fresnea Pleasantville. n.
j., had on Wednesday caused a loss of
S400, 600
Ex-Presiient Hayes and his daugh-
ter Fannie sailed Thursday from New
York for Bermuda.
The u5th anniversary Of the battle
OF Lexington was celebrated at LeVing-
ton, Mass. Saturday.
Steve Jacobs (colored) was lynched
by a mob sunday near Fayetteville.
Tenn. for incendiarism.
David Whurry, aged about 20, we'll
known farmer, was killed by train Sat
urday near Marion, Ind.
oThe season Of the National Base Ball
League and the Players Baseball
League opened on Saturday.
The Dutch village three miles south
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stroyed by ire on Thursday.
The public debt of France is esti-
mated at 6,2Oo, 600, 600, making it the
heaviest of any country in Europe.
A coal vessel bound from Shields for
London foundered at sea on Saturday
and eleven Of the crew were drowned.
About 100000 bushels Of seed wheat
have been purchased and sent to the
districts in need of it in North Dakota
Reports on Friday from the flooded
districts in the South were that the
Mississippi was slowly but steadily fall
ing
The Western baseball league season
and the season Of the American base
ball association commenced on Thurs
day.
Two children Of Andrew Young.
farmer living near Peensyille, Pa, were
burned to death in their home Friday
night.
The barn Of David Vanest, near New
Sharon, Ia, was burned on Thursday
and sixteen valuable horses were Gre
mated.
The worlds fair directors at Chicago
have unanimously decided to increase
the capital stock of the corporation to
$40. 600, 600.
The Dahomeyan army, with the King
at its head, has arrived near Porto Novo.
On the march the Dahomeyans burned
eight villages.
James II. Johnson, OF Lansing, Mich,
committed suicide Saturday by shooting
himself. He was engaged to be married
next Wednesday.
1t was decided Thursday at Cedar
Rapids by the Amateur Rowing Asso-
citation to hold their regatta at Spirit
Lake July Is and 16.
Charles MCGOWAN and wife were fatal
ly burned on Friday at Elbridge, N. Y,
by the dropping of lamp, which set
fire to their clothing.
The Oregon Democrats in State con-
vention on Friday at independence
nominated for Congressman N. L. But
Ter and George Myers.
CBertha Davidson, a little girl, was
playing by bonfire at Lenox, Ia, Fri
day, when her clothing caught fire and
she was fatally burned.
In a shaft near La Sale, ILL.,, Jacob
Williamson, John Justice and Nelson
Akerson, three coal miners, were suffo-
Gated on Sunday by gas.
At Vandalia. H., a family named
Grupp ate poisoned sweetness on Friday,
and the father, mother and one son
were not expected to live.
Mrs. Kempfer, OF Mishawaka, Ind,
while embracing her sister on Friday,
who had inst arrived from Germany,
fell dead from heart failure
At Thursdays meeting at Des Moines
of the Iowa Medical Society DR. Will
lam ID. Middleton. of Davenport, was
elected president for the ensuing year
Mrs. John Clark and her daughter
Ida, aged Is years we're poisoned on
Friday at Canton O.. ~ eating raw
greens which they were gathering for
dinner
Thirty-one young preachers were
graduated Thursday at the fwenty-third
annual commencement Of the Baptist
Union Theological Seminary at Morgan
Park, HI
Francis Murphy, the temperance
evangelist salI al Creston, Ia, on
Thursday that since he commenced his
In Iowa last winter over 20.
600 persons mad igned the pledge
The eleventh ANIMAL encampment Of
the Department q Colorado and Wy