Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-08-06


600 from Marshall tMich.) bank, was
arrested at Sedalia. Mo.
PORTIONS of the town of Williams
port, Pa, were flooded by heavy rain
fall, and The wind carried thirty-five
houses off their foundations
AN unusually sharp shock of earth
quake, lasting several seconds, was felt
throughout San Diego, Cal.
DURING the year ended June 30 last
over 114.O entries for public lands
were made in the United States.
THE Suffolk Suspenders Manufacture
ing Company of Boston has failed for
$3.50, 900.
DR.. WILLIAM II. HARPER, president
of the Chicago university, has accepted
the principalship of the Chautauqua
system of study.
IN the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the 3lst ult. numbered BAT, against 254
the preceding week and 1s9 for the
corresponding week last year
ROBERT TAERERsLEY, aged 70 years,
who was bitten by mad dog about
two months ago, died in horrible agony
at Wichita, Kan.
IsoM WHITE (colored) was hanged at
Helena, Ark, for the murder of Prince
Malloy.
THE Continental Land and Security
Company, with capital stock of ST.,
0OO, 900, and whose Offices are located at
Boston, New York and Denver, made
an assignment for the benefit of its
creditors.
STATISTICS covering the export lum-
Der trade of the Pacific coast for the
six months of the present year show a
shortage of 5000, O9O feet as compared
with the same period last year, but an
excess of II, 900, 900 feet when compared
with the same period in 1889.
AT birmingham, Ala, fifty kegs of
powder exploded in the Alabama Great
Southern depot, wrecking the building
and injuring several people.
AN organization was completed at a
mass meeting in Johnstown, Pa, to sue
the South Fork club for losses sus-
tanned by flood.
AT Seattle, Wash, George Williams,
a butcher, was cremated and negro
cook and his wife sustained fatal inju-
ries in fire.
WILLIAM KEPKE, a farmer residing at
Melke, Mich. confessed that seventeen
years ago he. with other citizens of
Presque Isle county formed an oath
bound compact to assassinate Albert
Moliter, who was murdered at that
time His clerk, named Sullivan, was
also slain.
A FIGHT at Pyle, Tex, over an at
tempt to evict tenants, resulted in the
killing of VIII Holman and the fatal
wounding of Eli Gilcrearc, Holman's
landlord.
A PASS ENGER train on the Bellaire,
GAINESVILLE & Cincinnati Narrow-guage
railroad left the track near Bellaire,
o., and two cars filed with passengers
overturned and dragged some distance,
injuring fourteen persons, one fatally.
REPORTS from Hillsboro, ILL.,, are to
the effect that cattle in that vicinity
are suffering from fatal disease. The
mouth gets sore, the legs become swol-
len and stiff, and the animals die of
starvation.
THE 5-year-old son of Mrs George
Whitner, living at Creston, O., caught
his foot in a cattle-guard while walk
ing on the track. and his mother,
while attempting to rescue him, was
run down by an express train and in
stantly killed.
Ir was said that John L. Baall,
rea.-estate expert, testified before the
Rock Creek Park commissioners at
Washington that ex-President Cleve-
lnad bought his Red Top" property
for $50, 900 ana sold it for Sl40, 600, re-
alizing STA 900 profit.
FRANK l.. PRATT. a somnambulist of
Fort smith Ark, sat down on the rail
way track while asleep and was killed
by freight train.
WILLIAM CALDWELL (coloredl was
hanged at Houston, Tex, for the muir
der of DR. j. NJ Shambleu.
BuT 322 miles OF railroad have been
built since January /. heavy de-
crease from the figures of last year.
HEAVY rains throughout Arkansas
have swollen the streams to such an
extent that thousands of acres of corn
and cotton land were inundated.
THE president has issued his procla-
nation announcing the completion of
reciprocity treaty with Spain as to
certain products of Cuba and Porto
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