Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-08-20

GEORGE WIEMAS, a farmer of st.
Clair county, Ill, was held up by three
masked men and robbed Of $3.50.
BOILER Of a thrashing machine ex-
ploded at Hiawatha, Kan, killing the
engineer and injuring two other men
JOB HAss. a wealthy coal dealer at
Mount Airey, suburb of Philadelphia,
was found murdered in his office.
AT Harrisburg, Pa, Charles f. Wolf,
who had just been elected executive
officer of the worlds fair commission
from Pennsylvania, dropped dead on
his way to his home.
IT has been decided by Acting Post
master General Whitfield that postal
cards the edges Of which have been cut
and the shape Of the card materially
changed for advertising purposes can
not be sent through the mails.
INDIANA bankers have decided 10
fight the proposed effort of the state
board Of tax commissioners to compel
them TO expose the accounts Of the de-
positors.
Mr.. AND Mrs EUGENE BoNSIcK, of
Denver, Col, committed suicide by TAX
ing morphine Domestic infelicity was
the cause.
A wINDsToRM at Keokulz, Ia, blew
down over one-half of the shade trees
in the city and wrecked several build
ings.
The st. John & Marsh Lumber Com
pany Of Chicago failed for SAG, 600
JACOB FRANzREB, ex-secretary of the
Camp Washington Building association
of Cincinnati, was charged with embez-
cling $4,000
The National Association of Fire
Engineers in session at Springfield,
Mass, elected as president 4. =. Les
mere, of that city.
IL the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the 14th numbered 227. against 231
the preceding week and l97 for the
spending week last year.
AT Columbia, s c., David Jacobs and
Mrs. Mary Johnson, sentenced to be
hanged for murder, were placed on the
scaifold and the nooses adjusted about
their necks, when a respite arrived
from the governor.
ANpKEw Jennings died at Farley,
la. while drinking whisky on wager.
A NUMBER of representative farmers
of Indiana met at indianapolis and
established state farmers reading
circle
CoMMANDER-lN-Cm PALMER APP
pointed Col Frederick Phisterer, Of
New York, adjutant general OF the
Grand Army of the Republic
A sAwNuLL and yard containing l.,
100000 feet of lumber were burned at
Lindonville. Vt
AN express train on the Philadelphia
& Reading railroad collided with
freight at Egg Harbor, n. J., injuring
nine persons
OVER 1000 members of the New
York cloallmakers' union went on
strike to force a recognition of their
organization by employers.
THREE men were killed and seven in
jured by the explosion Of powder
mill near Huntington, w. Va.
THE village of Campo, Cal was de-
stroyed by a cloudburst. No lives were
lost.
Cor. JONI C0YLE, prominent citi-
zen OF Winston county. Ala. was tor
tured by burglars until he gave up
5000
TUE office Of the Daily Bulletin at
Anderson, Ind. was destroyed by fire |
AT Bowling Green, KY. Clyde Rag |
land, the l9-year-old daughter Of Squire /
J. r. Raglaud, fell from a horse she |
was riding and was dragged TO death |
CHRISTIAN REsEcKE, aged % years,
living near Fort Wayne, Ind, was
burned to death while trying to extin-
guish fire that was burning his fence. /
THE two daughters of g. King, of /
Nashville, Ind, were fatally hurt in a
runaway accident