Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-02
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/ has handed down an opinion in the suit
/ of Gov Bulkeley's secretary, recogniz-
ing Bulkeley as governor, and that his
acts stand.
AT New London, Conn, Cornell won
the eight-oared 8-mile race IN 14.27x,
+ Pennsylvania second by four lengths
/ and Columbia a bad third. Cornells
/ time beats the record.
i EDWARD MCMILLAN, of Wilkes barre,
I Pa, who murdered his wife last Feb
ruary by boring holes in her flesh with
/ a red-hot poker, has been convicted Of
murder in the first degree.
A COMPANY was organized at Dam
vile, H., to dig for gold in that vicin-
/ ity.
/ A FREIGHT train plunged Into q
/ swollen creek near York. Neb., ard
/ Engineer Delaney, Fireman Bean and a
brakeman were killed.
THE discovery has been made that
thousands OF feet of pine have been cut
on the public lands of Wisconsin.
Prominent lumber companies were said
10 be involved.
AT Middletown. n. Y, Herman Horn
lein and Josie Gibbons took poison
with fatal result because of a lovers
quarrel.
UNITED STATES officers captured
, dangerous gang of counterfeiters in
Bollinger county, Mo.
HARVEY MULLENs and Riley Cooper,
two notorious West Virginia moon
sinners, were captured by government
officers in buchanan county.
JULIA ADAMS, of Readfeld, Me, had
on the 25th taken no food whatsoever
and only one swallow of water for
twenty days and suffered no incon-
venience.
Az old family feud resulted in fight
2 miles from Lewisville. Tenn, and
James Taylor John Taylor, Bine Tay-
Tor, Mrs. Annie Nj. and Miss Nora AL
exander were fatally wounded
G.. w. STETsoN & Co, iron dealers in
New York, have failed for 500, 900.
REPORTS from the interior of Ne
braska indicate great damage TO the
wheat crop from q heavy storm. The
Platte basin suffered the greatest dam
age.
IN the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the 10Th numbered 234 against 253
the preceding week and 2O7 for tie cor
responding week last year.
THE Patterson Coal Company's
breaker at Natalie, Pa, was destroyed
by cyclone and six men were killed
Ar meeting of the cabinet in Wash
ington it was decided to discontinue for |
the present the coinage of silver dollars
owing to the great demand for small
coins, principally dimes, which the
minis had not been able to supply.
Hen water flooded the streets in the /
lower portion of the city of Omaha,
Neb., to depth of five feet Heavy
rains had done great damage and en-
tirely suspended railway traffic in the |
state.
Tue gold shipments from this coun-
try to Europe during the six days ended /
on the 26th reached total of IS, $50, 600. /
THE firm of Kimban Bros, manu-
facturers and dealers in carriages at
Boston, has failed for $780, 600
A SLEEPING car was derailed near
Rosebud, Mont, sixteen, persons being
injured, among the number being /
Francis Murphy, the temperance
lecturer, whose nose was broken
ZINC works are TO be established at
Dubuque, Ia, by a company with
81 600, 600 capital
An excursion train was wrecked ~
Van Buren,, Ark, and a child was killed /
and twenty persons injured.
Mrs. G. 4. HANEY and Mrs A. NJ. /
Tatro while crossing trestle at Graf
ton, Ncb., were struck by a train and I
killed.
THE floods in Iowa left many people
destitute, and at Cherokee, where over
fifty houses were destroyed 300 persons |
were being fed by the relief committee. /
From Storm Lake to Cherokee the /
country had the appearance of one vast /
lake, and not a bridge on any of the /
country roads could be seen. The I
counties which suffered the worst by
the flood are Clay, O'Brien, Buena /
Vista Cherokee, Plymouth, Woodbury., /
Ida and Monona.
Mrs. SYLVIA HARrNETT, aged t0s
years, started from Chicago to walk to
her old home in Cumberland Md, but |.
was found sitting on curhstone by
the police and taken to the home of her
son.
JAMES FERGUSON, the famous steepls
climber, known all over the country
for his daring aSeents, was killed by
falling - feet at Albany, \. y.
THOMAS HARRIS (colored) was hanged
at Shreveport, La, for the murder of
Ella Franklin on May IL last
Mrs PHuo. who was arrested in Chi
cago for forgery committed in Denver,
Jumped from a rapidly moving train
near Ashton H., and escaped.
STEPHEN srAkENBERG, student at
Normal college at Marion. Ind. dropped
dead while playing football.
:. NJ DEAN and L. L. Grutger We're
killed iii collision between freight
trains at Jefferson. Tex.
FLAMES in the Nelson lumber yards
at Cloquet, Mimi, burned over 10, 0Oo,-
900 feet Of lumber, the loss being $780,
600
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