Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-04-02
bilitjes were $500. 600.

! AT the second Lflal OF Ddnlel Drew, OF
Lafayette, Ind, for the murder of John
Mackessy, the prisoner was acquitted.
4 AT Wilkes barre. Pa, George w.
Moss was hanged for numbering his
wife: and at Mauch Chunk, Pa. Oliver
w. Stangley was executed for killing
his landlady, Mrs. Sybilla Walbert.
/ A BILL to pension confederate dis
abled soldiers and the INDECENT widows
of confederate veterans has passed the
Arkansas legislature.
A LONE highwayman held up the
/ stage between Comfort and Fredericks-
burg, Tex, but secured less than four
4 dollars.
/ w. p. D0wELL, state treasurer of the
4 Arkansas Farmers Alliance. was
/ bunkoed out Of So. 600 at Fayetteville
/ by three sharpers
AT Hazleton, Pa. Mile Capece, q
16-year-old girl, shot herself through
the heart with a revolver rather than
marry an old man, the choice OF her
parents.
REPORTS that Italians employed on
the Pittsburgh, Ohio Valley & Cinein-
natl railroad were drilling under arms
were fully verified.
FIRE on the lumber docks of Hovey
g. McCracken at Muskegon, Mich, con-
sumed 1900, 600 feet of white-pine lum-
Der.
A KEe of powder exploded in Ruley's
grocery store at jacksonville, Ky, and
J. d. Stewart, a clerk, and ID. A. Bon
durant were fatally injured.
THE Maine legislature passed bill
providing for $500 fine or two years i'm
prisonment for preventing by intimida-
ton or force any person from entering
or remaining in any mans employ.
THE St Louis Stamping Company
has begun the erection Of the first tin
plate works in this country The
capacity viii be between 400 and 500
boxes a day.
Miss SOPHIA C. HAYDEN and Miss
Louisia Howe, both of Boston, were
awarded first and second prizes for de-
signs for the woman's building at the
worlds fair
ABOUT one-half of the $4,000 people
in Wallace county, Kan, were said to
be in d destitute condition.
Gov. PATTIsoN, of Pennsylvania, has
designated Friday, April TO- and Friday,
May /, to be observed as Arbor days
In the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the 27th numbered $50, against 275
the preceding week and 243 for the cor
responding week last year.
THE treasury department has paid
Kansas share Of the direct tax fund,
amounting to 500, 9S2
PRESIDENT GAGE and the worlds fair
board of directors in Chicago have COM
pleted the term of Office for which they
were elected. In his valedictory adj
dress President Gage reviewed the
work accomplished by the board, gave
a synopsis Of he financial status of the
exposition and drew a picture of the
future strong with assurance of success.
CHARLES ELLIOTT, who was occupy
ing box in theater at Spokane Falls,
Wash, drew revolver and fired
several shots at the performers. killing
Mabel Debabian and Carrie Smith, and
then shot himself Jealousy was the
cause,
A PASSENGER train on the Chesapeake
& Ohio road was consumed by fire re-
sulting from wreck at Charleston,
W. Va Several persons were slightly
injured.
The first anniversary of the great cy-
clone in Louisville, Ky, by which sew
enty-six lives were lost and property
valued at S. l5O 600 was destroyed, was
observed in that city on the 27th
Hill HUDGINs, aged - years, arrested
at Paris, Tex. was charged with four
murders committed during the last
year.
OVER foot Of snow fell on the 27th
in portions Of Maryland and Virginia
A WRECK occurred on the Reading
road near Ashland, Pa, and three men
We're killed and three injured
Mrs. EDGAR w. HAssLER. of Pitts
bnrgh, Pa, has inherited $50, coo by the
death of her father Her husband de-
serted her ten months ago and went to
New York
Two MEN and woman were burned
to death in hotel at Austin. Pa,
THE Norwegian bark Dictator was
wrecked off the coast of Virginia and
eight lives were lost.
THEODORE THOMAS has been selected
as musical director and William L. Tom
Inns as choral director of the worlds
fair
Miss ZoE GAYToN, the actress, who
on August 81 last left San Francisco to
reach New York afoot inside of 226
days on wager Of 50, 600, walked into
the Grand Central depot on the 9th.
She had accomplished the distance in
2lS days
The National Editorial association
will meet in ST. Paul July IA to Is
SEVERAL large saw mills at Breams-
vile, Ind. were burned, causing a
loss of 500, 600.
GEORGE HARRIS of Newburn, Mo-,
who tasted thirty-three days, has been
adjudged insane
THE California Legislature has ad-
journed sine die. Before adjournment
sos bills were passed by both branches
and sent to the governor.
JACK KENNEDY, milkman at Eliza
beth, n. j., devoured fifty fried eggs in