Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-12-18
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the week Fndlnr me- ~

a. W" AtkAs A@A4tN bu EAUag
for $500, GOO.
The Druid Mills Manufacturing Com
pany at Baltimore. Md, failed on Fri
day for 5000, GOO.
A six-foot vein of silver ore, assaying
5000 per ton. was found on Saturday near
Saratoga. Wyo.
Ex-CongreSsman John A. Hiestand
died ON Saturday at Lancaster, Pa. He
was 90 years old.
The first carload of oranges of this
years crop from California was shipped
east on Saturday.
Three tramps set fire to barn by
smoking near Brimiield, H., and were
burned to death.
The Texas Land Company OF Colorado
has offered Chief Mayes $50. 100000 for
the Cherokee strip
DIR. Welt has been elected President
and NJ. Hauser Vice President of the
Swiss Republic for 1891.
The Iowa, Minnesota and Dakota
Elevator Company at Minneapolis failed
on Saturday for $3.50, 900.
Bell, Miller < Co., dry-goods dealers
at Cincinnati, failed on Saturday for
$780, 600; assets, $3.50. 900.
Mrs. f. l.. Sheldon, now in Kansas
City, intends to head an exploring eXpe-
dition into widest Africa.
Thomas f. Hastie, so years old, and
Miss Sarah Roulston, "A years of age,
were married at Galena, III.
A b1noly ,f a;,rl,4 l,,.g., ..t.,.., o,1
nineteen offices at Pottstown, Pa, was
destroyed by fire on Saturday.
The firm Of Collier, Robertson 81 Ham,
bleton, wholesale grocers at Keokuk.
Ia, failed on Friday for Sl75,0O
The Indianapolis, Decatur & Western
Railway Company has changed its name
to the Indianapolis, Decatur & Quincy.
b. +. Shaw, inventor of seamless
stockings and the machine to knit
them, died on Thursday in Lowell, Mass.
Hugh Peoples, the earliest settlerein
the Illinois lead mines, died on Friday
at his home in Galena, ILL.,. aged 30
years
AT Kanapolis, Kan, the Royal Salt
Company has struck salt in its shaft at
depth of $40 feet The vein is 240 feet
thick
A call was issued for conference TO
be held in Cincinnati February % for
the purpose of forming National union
party.
Miles 0gle, the notorious counterfeit
er, was sentenced on Saturday at Mem
phis, Tenn, to fifteen years in the PEN
itentiary.
At Kankal1ee John 0berto was found
guilty of numbering Lorenzo Ghirilli
and sentenced to fifteen years in the
penitentiary.
The Farmers Bank at Fontainelle,
Ia, closed its doors on Saturday with
liabilities of 5000 and assets amount
ing to SIS, 900.
In fit of jealousy Sherman Mcmahon
shot fatally the daughter of Mrs. Sarah
Cochran at Cherry Bend o., and then
killed himself.
William Wallace Blanchard was
hanged on Friday at Sherbrooke, Ont,
for the murder of Charles A. Calkins on
November Is, 1889.
G. w. Hanna, the first white man to
permanently settle in Black Hawk Coun-
ty, Ia, died on Friday at his home near
Waterloo. aged 70 years.
At Unadilla, n ", ex-senator Frank
b. Arnold committed suicide on Thurs
day owing to dependency over his de-
feat in the last election.
The lumber cut at Cheboygan Mich
fop 4bo caacop nIOcad q
over 100, 900, 900 feet an increase of II
OOO 600 feet over last year.
Joseph Marshall, his son Charles and
Herbert Cooner were drowned on Satur-
day near Harbor Springs. Mich, while
returning from a fishing cruise.
Joseph Bean and Josephine Marion
have been indicted by the grand jury
for the murder of the latter's husband,
near Charleston, Ia, September12.
An encounter took place on Saturday
between band of cowboys and a num-
Der of Indians at Days ranch in South
Dakota, and three Indians were killed
Nine. Kartzoff, wealthy and aristo-
cratic Russian lady, was found dead in
her home at Moscow. She was be-
lieved to have been murdered by Nihi-
lists.
In New York Venable & Heyman,
wholesale liquor dealers, failed on
Thursday for $500, 900, and Henry Sci
bert, a tobacco dealer, failed for $3.50.
000
Several carloads OF coal, feed and
grain reached Huron, S. D., on Thurs
day for distribution among the needy
settlers in the northern partsof the
State.
1t was reported at Zanzibar that the
Sultan of Vitu and his followers had
destroyed an English mission station on
the Tana river and killed several native
Christians
At Providence, r. L., the big clothing
establishment Of the s. Il. Barnaby
Company was Quilted by fire on Satur-
day causing loss of 5000, 600 One fire
man was killed.
The suffering among destitute farm
ers in Western Kansas was said to be
on the increase. All we're leaving that
could, and in Rawlins County but thirty
five families were left out of 200.