Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-12-24
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DOMESTIC.
Snow was said 10 be IS feet deep in
parts of New Mexico.
FIVE men held up a mail wagon in
Chicago and secured s., 900 in cash and
100000 OF non-negotiable paper from
the stock yards banks
AN Indian at Cham berlain, s D., was
granted divorce, the first case of the
kind on record
EDWARD NJ, ! EID, senior partner in
the firm of Field. Lindley, Weichers &
Co, brokers at New York, who failed
recently, was indicted for grand lar
cenY and was admitted TO bail in the
the sum of So, 600
A loss Of $3.50, 600 was caused by fire
at Florence. Ala
THE Hadfeld Company. owners of
stone quarry and railway interests in
Waukesha county, Wis, assigned, with
assets and liabilities of about $500, 600
each
THE superior court of New York de-
cided that Lillian Russell would have
to pay So, 225.ss for breaking theatre
cal contract because She could not wear
tights in winter
MIcHrGAN's output of salt this year
is 8, $50 600 barrels.
THREE beet sugar factories in Cali
fornia, which have been shut down for
the season, produced s,070, 1856 pounds
of sugar during the season. The total
amount of bounty to be paid was
SI6l, 400.
THOUSANDS Of cattle were said to be
dying of cold and starvation on ranges
in Montana.
GEN. RUSSELL A. ALGER, of Michi-
gan, was elected president of the
American Shipping and Industrial
league at a meeting in Washington.
SEVEN persons died at Butte, Mont,
as the result of breathing the fumes
from roasting ores.
AN engineer and fireman were killed
and a conductor seriously injured in
rear-end collision on the Chicago, Bur-
lington Il Quincy railroad 10 miles
west of Ottumwa, la.
DANIEL MILLER made confession on
his death-bed at B!akesburg, Ia, that
he killed Chris McAllister ten years
ago at Ottumwa, for which crime Pleas
Anderson was lynched by a mob.
JUDGE HORACE CLARK, of Nation,
III, was shot three times by Frank w
Hornish Neither wound would prove
fatal
THE north-bound flyer on the New
York Central railroad collided with
switch engine mt Newburg, n. Y, kill
ing the engineer and fireman of the ex-
press. Many OF the passengers were
hurt, but none seriously.
DURING the first fifteen days of this
month the pension office at Washing
ton paid out 81, 600, 600 in pensions.
GEORGE SEtDI, a Bohemian farmer
living in Cherokee county, Kan, was
arrested for numbering his daughter,
aged 49, and his son, aged %.
HENRY NJ. KINGMAN, second vice
president OF the First national bank of
Chicago, committed suicide at Grand
Rapids, Mich, through dependency
on account of ill-health
Mrs. MANUEL FORD and her infant
child, of Columbia, s. c., were burned
10 death BY the explosion of a lamp,
and Mr. Ford was probably fatally in
jured
THIEvEs entered the jewelry store of
j. V. Zimmerson at Little Rock. Ark.
threw red pepper in the eyes Of clerk
and made off with diamonds valued at
s., COO
a sroNE-CUrFER at Roanoke Va,
named Shelor, received word that his
wife was heir to S., 900, 600 by the death
of an uncle in Scotland
SECRETARY OF STATE BLAINE an
nounced the conclusion of CONNER
cial reciprocity agreement between
the United states and all the British
West Indies islands and British Guiana.
/. q. DELoNE, Denton Duke and
Joseph Duke were killed at East Bar
nard, Tex, as a result of a quarrel.
DIR. BENTON STRANGE, of Savannah,
Ga, was logged by mob and given
coat of ink.
Two MEN were killed and seven in
5ured in a wreck on the Chesapeake &
Ohio railroad, near Anderson, w Va.
THE steamer Prince Soltykoff, from
Barry to ST. Naziare, was wrecked off
Brest and twenty persons were
drowned
A BROKEN rail threw an express train
on the Pittsburgh 4 Fort Wayne road
from the track near Lima o., and
three men were killed and twenty
other persons were injured, some
fatally
IT was stated that the ease of the
Adams Express Company against ex-
President Hoey would be compromised
by the return Of about $500. 600 to the
company 10y Mr.. Hoey.
w t. FITZGERALD was hanged at
Youngstown O., for the murder of of
fcer W. Freed on May Ii last