Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-04-09

Morris and Brakemen Moon and Con-
roy were killed.
The wife Of Rev. DIR. Atkins, Of Dem
ison, Tex, grieved herself 70 death
because her son Frank ran away from
home.
Miss HATTIE FORD. of Lake City,
Mo. was burned to death, her clothing
catching fire from a stove.
IL street fight at Ranger, Tex,
three Mexicans were killed
ADvICEs from Monroe county, W. Va,
say that the laboring people, principal
ly farm and timber workers, were suf-
fering for food.
IL the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the Sd numbered PAS against 256
the preceding week and 2OG for the cor
responding week last year.
The direct tax claims Of New Jersey,
s3S26l4, and Of Ohio, 81, 432, OPS, have
been paid by the treasury department.
AT bloomington, Ind, Ward Dem
aree, aged 22 cut his sick mothers
throat and then his own Both died in
stantly No cause was known.
THE superintendent of immigration
at New York ordered that twenty Ital-
ian immigrants be returned Pauper-
ism and loathsome diseases were given
as causes for the order.
MARTIN MAYBERRY was found hang
ing to a tree near Bryant station, Tenn.
A note was left by the lynchers, say
ing: This is done for the protection Of
our wives and daughters.
HENRY ). COCHRAN, prosperous
business man of st. Louis, preferring
death to continued sickness, sent a bull
let through his brain.
DURING the month of March AZ, 767
immigrants arrived at New York, or
10, 34S more than in March, 1850. Italy
leads the list with 1869.
IT was announced from Washington
that no law had ever been passed by
congress making the violation of
treaty a punishable offense.
OVER 100 miners in the Holmes mines
at Candelaria, New. have died of the
grip.
AT the grave of his daughter at
Savannah. Ga, Thomas Gadsden, a
prominent citizen, committed suicide.
The Columbia Iron * Steel Company
and the Pennsylvania Construction
Company of Uniontown. Pa, made as
signments, with total liabilities of
81, 900, coo
DETECTIVE O'MALLEY, who was
charged with packing the jury in the
Malta cases at New Orleans, has sur
rendered himself to the authorities.
SUPERNTENDENT PORTER has made
public the result of a special count by
races of the state OF California, as fol-
lows: White, l,llL55S; colored, 1l,4SS;
Chinese, II, 1851; Japanese, 1909; Indians,
II, 355; total, 1,20S, 1870.
MRS. NICELY, the mother Of the two
boys hanged at Somerset, Pa, for the
murder of Farmer Umberger, has be-
come a raving maniac.
ERNEST FORBES, a colored boy who
committed an assault on Bertha Phipps
in Anne Arundel county November
last, was hanged at Annapolis, Md
AT Wapakoneta, o., the west bank of
a reservoir was nearly washed away
and houses for miles around were flood
ed, causing loss Of over $3.50, 600.
THOMAS FrrcH, wealthy resident of
San Francisco. was swindled out of
50, 900 by the gold-bricll scheme.
The wholesale boot and shoe house
of Smith, bastard & Co, of st. Joseph,
Mo, has failed for 500. 600
Cora ROBERTS an actress, was taken
to Bellevue hospital in New York in a
demented condition caused by smoking
cigarettes.
THE international American none
tary commission which organized in
Washington last January has come to
an end 1t was decided that the fixing
of ratio between gold and silver and
the adoption Of common monetary
unit did not seem al present feasible