Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-10-30
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.


The business portion Of Leavenworth,
Ind, was destroyed by fire on Thursday.
Large quantities of cigars are being
shipped from Mexico to the United
States.
Engineer Casey and brakeman Laird
we're killed in train wreck near Brad
ford, Pa. Sunday.
G. d. Baird walked half-mile in San
Francisco on Saturday in 2:54s4, break
ing the worlds record.
Mrs. Catherine O'Connor, the seventh
victim OF the Leland Hotel fire at SYRIA
cuse, \. y, died on Saturday.
In the city Of Berlin the Goth birth
day of Count Won Moltke was celebrated
with great pomp on Saturday.
John Fox, of Chicago, crazed with
jealousy, emptied a vial of vitriol on
the face and neck of his wife.
The l6-year-old daughter Of William
Mich was frozen to death in blizzard
on Thursday near Folsom, n. NJ.
The Democrats of the Seventh Ten
nessee district have nominated Colonel
N. N. Cox (Alliance) for Congress.
The steamship Elysia from Palermo
with LOSS Italian immigrants on board
arrived in New Orleans on Saturday.
The Census Office has announced the
population of Davenport. Ia (cor-
rectedl, to be rs, 500 an increase of G, 669.
Three inches of snow fell near Sara
toga, N. u, Saturday morning. There
was fall of six inches in the Adiron-
dacks.
Allerton, the stallion, broke the a
year-oId record on Thursday at In
dependence, la. He trotted the mile
in 2:l4
Albert ". Oxnard, treasurer of the
Johnstown pa. umber Company. was
on Friday said to be short $50, 900 in his
accounts.
A Santa Fe train was robbed near
| San Antonio by three disguised men,
who secured 81, 500 from passengers and
| trainmen.
George Dixon defeated Johnny Muir
| ply in thirty rounds at Providence,
Il. l., for the bantum- weight champion
ship of the world.
Thomas Callahan. Chicago, Burling-
ton e Quincy fireman, fell off his en-
CINE near Rio, Ill, and was run over
and instantly killed.
James Nelson and his wife were
| found unconscious in a Philadelphia
hotel on Sunday, having blown out the
gas Both would die.
Ex-Alderman William Whelan, OF
Chicago, was shot on Sunday by George
Hathaway, gambler, and died at the
| Michael Reese Hospital.
Joseph Wood and Carl Harg fought a
duel with crow-bars in blacksmith
shop in New York on Friday and frac-
tured each others skulls.
w. j. Birch, the Reading railroad EN-.
ploye who fled from Philadelphia with
$1,000 of the company's money, has beer
arrested at Montreal, Can.
Terrific storms ragged along the At
lantic coast on Thursday, doing great
damage to shipping, and incoming YES
sells were roughly handled.
band of $50 men burned the mill
property of l.. Il. Warn at McDonald's
Mills, Ga, the scene of the recent riots
in which two men were killed.
William Blaney has been convicted
at Baltimore, Md, of murder in the
first degree. He killed his grandmother
| and his aunt some months ago
w. d. Highers. who cut his wife's
throat near Lebanon, Tenn, killing
her, committed suicide Thursday by
hanging himself in the Lebanon Jail
The bronze statue of Major General
John Stark, the hero of the battle oil
Bennington. was unvailed on Thurs.
day in the State house yard at Concord.
n H.
Clarence Blessing, the 12-year-old son
of Deputy County Treasurer Blessing,
of Vinton, Ia, was crushed to death
while attempting to board q moving
/ train.
The Western wheel scraper works,
employing 400 men, will remove from
/ Mount Pleasant, Ia, to Aurora, Ill.
! The latter town gives eighteen acres
and $50, 600 cash.
Zina p King. late treasurer of the
| Williams fund of the Alumni Associa-
tion of the University of Michigan at
Ann Arbor, was on Friday said to be
/ $4,000 short in his accounts.
Thecountry around Vicksburg, Miss,
is flooded with excellent counterfeit
silver dollars. Many hundreds of dol
| lars worth have been worked off on col.
ored men on plantations, railroads and
rivers.
The Itale Americana, published in
New Orleans, La, prints a fiery article
in denunciation of the attitude of the
authorities of that city toward its Ital-
ian residents since the Hennessy assas-
sination.
Robert p. Porter, superintendent OF
the census, has arrived in New York
CITY, He said there was no legal OBJ
lection to granting New York re-
count but if it were done other cities
would be granted the same privilege.
Big Fire I'm Massach usetts.
EAST PEPPERELIs Mass. Oct. 25-
A big fire was discovered Friday morn