Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-01-08
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
20 the VOL EndIng Dan. 5.

on Sunday at Elwood, Ind
one-haf the town of Columbus Grove,
o., was destroyed by fire on Saturday.
Fire destroyed n. J. Hamburger's
tannery al OSwego Fails. y. y. causing
a loss Of 100000.
Two men, a woman and boy were
burned to death by fire in the Avenue
Hotel at Corsicana. Tex.
James Riggs. sole survivor of the
Mcclure expedition for the rescue of
Sir John Franklin, died at London
John Clark became insane at Lima,
o., and wounded his wife with an axe
and cat his throat, Both would die
A heavy fall of slate in the Diamond
mine at Coal Bluff, Ind, killed Henry
and Joseph Mcmahon, father and son.
The report Of the building depart
ment shows that $50, 600, 600 were invest
ed in new buildings in Chicago in 1890.
A barn on L. NJ. Patriclx's farm near
Marengo, H., was burned. and ninety
nine head Of cows persisted in the
flames.
Deputy Marshal Tom Lily had a des-
perate battle with three whisky ped
oilers in the Chiclasaw nation and killed
them all
During 1890 S.lo7 carloads Of oranges
were shipped from California. The
wine product Of the State was 1s.2O0,-
600 gallons
During the year 1890 the deaths were
reported Of as members and ex-mem-
bers Of Congress, 10 journalists and 96
centenarians
The large manufacturing establish
ment Of the Ohio Buggy Company at
Columbus, O., was burned on Friday.
Loss, $4,000.
Several PROMINENT residents of Glades-
vile, W. Va, while intoxicated became
involved in a fight and four were in
stantly killed
The number Of deaths reported in
New York City during the year 1890 ag-
gregated 4O,2S0, against 39,5s3 in 1889
and 40, l75 in 1855
Another revolutionary effort was
made in Lima on behalf of ex-Dictator
Pierola and twenty-six of the revolu-
tionists were killed
During 1890 Colorado mines produced
500, ISL 1874, divided as follows: Silver,
$50, 259, 9O6; gold 81, 512, 1856; lead, 81, 749,
s52; copper, $3.50, 44O.
Chief Justice Blecl1ley decided at At
lanta, Ca, that religious denominations
must sell their churches, if necessary,
to pay their pastors.
William Carey b'ew his brains out
Saturday night at Grand Rapids, Mich.
He had been on a long spree and had
quarrels with his wife.
Rev. 7. O. Lucas, a young Methodist
minister, was killed Saturday near
Brownsville, Tenn, by accidentally
falling into an old well.
At Elmira, N. Y, j. Frank Warren,
who has been on trial for the murder OF
his father, whom he claimed to have
killed in defense of his mother, was ac
quilted.
Charles Beale, negro, was lyncheC
at Chiffon, Tex, for numbering WON.
an, and negro and white man were
lynched in Neshoba County, Miss, fol-
robbery.
In the town of Ciney, Belgium. the
wife, brother-in-law and three children
of a game-keeper who was recently
killed by accident were asphyxiated in
their beds
A terrible explosion of fire-damp took
place on Saturday in the Trinity PHI
near the Polish town of ostran. Fiji
teen bodies were recovered and twenty.
four miners were missing.
Alexander William Kinglake, the
celebrated English historian, particular.
ly famous as the author of the History
of the Crimean War died in London
on Sunday, aged so years.
Beverly and Nelly O'Neal and Alex
ander Terrill, convicted at Baton
Rouge, La, of manslaughter in bull
doing negroes, were each sentenced to
twenty years imprisonment,
The house of Scott Thompson (col-
ored) near Bayboro, y. c., was burned
during the absence of himself and wife,
and their five children and two grand
children persisted in the flames.
Mrs. Stephen Bumgart, the wife of a
German farmer living near Mount Car
mel, H., was found dead in cistern
Saturday, where she had evidently
thrown herself with s%cidal intent.
Daniel II. Clarke, judge of the United
States District Court for New Hamp-
shire, and one of the most prominent
characters in State politics for over half
a century, died at Manchester on Fri
day, aged 81 years.