Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-03-20
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the Week RndlnR March N.

day by Governor Hoard, OF Wisconsin
Robert Rains was hanged in Morgan
County, Ala, Friday for the murder Of
his brother
An extensive gang Of timber thieves
has stripped considerable tracts of land
near Albion, Ia.
The women Of Atchison, Kan, have
placed in nomination a full ticket for
the school board.
Thirty thousand of the King of Da-
homey's troops have surrounded the
French at kotonau.
Tippecanoe, the oldest elephant in
the Forepaugh herd, died suddenly
Wednesday morning.
A blizzard which ragged in the vicinity
OF St Joseph, Mich. Saturday did much
damage 20 the peach trees.
Fire at Regina. n. w. T.. destroyed
two hotels and other property, The total
value of which was $500, 600.
Seven brick business houses in Kinks
vile, Mo, were totally destroyed by fire
on Saturday. Loss, 5000, 900.
Three persons were killed and four
were severely injured near Cumberland,
Md, on Friday by landslide.
The Boston league and brotherhood
baseball clubs have forty-fve conflict
ing dates on the home grounds.
The International Labor congress as
sembled at Berlin Saturday. Baron Won
Berlepsch was chosen president
Snow sixty feet deep was reported on
Thursday on the Denver & Rio Grande
road in the san Juan mountains.
Business failures for the week number
252, against 300 last week, and 261 in
the corresponding period of 1889.
A National convention of colored
Catholics has been called to meet at
Cincinnati on the sth of July next.
Two boilers at the Northwest colliery
near Scranton, Pa, exploded on Satur-
day, killing George Ross and Peter
Titson.
The Central Investment Building &
Loan Association was organized at Lam
sing, Mich. Thursday with capital of
$50, 900, OOO
President Harrison has purchased
two pieces OF improved indianapolis
business property from Cyrus c. Hines
for $4,000.
Four members of a gang OF counter
feiters were captured on Saturday at
Wheeling, W. Va, with nearly s., 900 in
bogus coin.
Advices from the lower Rio Grande
country in Texas say that live stock of
all kinds is suffering severely from
lack of water.
NJ. A. Cotton, an old soldier of Par
kersburg, Va, was drugged on Thursday
and then robbed of his pension money,
amounting to $500.
]. H. Burchfeld, a desperate of
Ocala, Fla, was shot and instantly
killed by his 15-year-old son on Satur-
day in self-defense.
Governor Humphrey issued a procla-
nation at Topeka on Friday naming
April 10 as the one to be observed in
Kansas as Arbor day.
AT Fort Wayne, Ind, Saturday after
noon a circular saw revolving very rap
idly burst and killed George Schmidt,
who was running the saw.
The new iron bridge in course OF con-
struction across Pearl river at Month
cello, Miss, at a cost of Sl5, 900, was
washed away by the freshet.
The new Presbyterian church at st.
Fla, built by II. NJ. Flager,
of the Standard Oil Company, at a cost
of 5000, 0OO was dedicated on Friday.
James S. Cross, formerly superintend-
emit of the Southern railroad at st. Louis,
was fined 500 on Thursday for va
grancy Whisky caused his downfall.
A house occupied by Robert William
Livingston. farmer living near Bourg
Louis, Can, was burned on Saturday,
and two Of his children persisted in the
flames.
William Davis and John Hiles, of Lo-
Ind, are under arrest charged
with causing the death of Lucinda
Brooks, to whom they gave poisoned
whisky.
The strike of the 5000 miners in the
Norrie and Ashland mines at Ironwood,
Mich, came to an end on Thursday, the
men and bosses having come to an
agreement
A child, 8 years of age, daughter OF
George l.. Nadon, Of Bay City, Mich,
was burned to death in his house on
and Mrs. Solomon Lozon was
fatally injured
Charles Shafer and Ida Conrod were
found in the snow at Weston, w. Va.
night, the woman so badly
frozen that she has since died. Shafer
may recover.
Two children of John Cline, OF
Pa, aged 10 and IL years,
respectively, we're poisoned by eating
wild parsnip. One is dead and the other
can not recover.