Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-11-12
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From Al Parts.
DOMESTIC.


10 to urge upon congress the systematic
improvement Of the Missouri and lower
Mississippi rivers.
DURING quarrel between Alexander
Scott and his wife near indianapolis,
Ind, the latter shot and killed her hus-
band.
Two MEN named Smith and FELTON,
were lynched by a mob at Mer Rouge,
La, for the murder OF man named
Dyms.
JOHN LAMBS livery stable at Jack
sonville, H.. was burned, and thirteen
horses persisted in the flames
THE executive committee of the Ma
tional Education association has de-
cided to hold the next annual conven-
ton at Saratoga Springs, \. y, July
~ to Is, 1892.
THE long strike of the coal miners of
the Pittsburgh. Pa, district for an adj
vance of ten cents ton is over and the
$4,000 men who had been idle for three
months returned to work at the opera
tors terms.
WILLIAM Cox, aged 50, and his sou
William, 23 years old, who lived near
Wapella, Ill, were suffocated by gas
while cleaning out an old well.
LAWYER MCCURDY, of New York,
who won the case for the Tilden heirs,
received 500, 900 for his fee
STEPHEN BOND and his wife were
fatally injured 10y an explosion of nat
ural gas in their home at Anderson,
Ind.
FIRE in the lum Der yard of Burnham
& Davis at Lowell Mass, caused a
loss of 500, 600.
CRABrREE & PATCirErTs wooden mill
at Montgomery, n. u, was burned,
causing a loss of 800, 600
THE boiler OF a thrasher exploded
near Sanborn n d., killing Ed
Thompson the engineer. Albert
Thompson. the fireman, aud Ed. Swart-
won't
THE steamship Fulda made the trip
from Gibraltar to New York in eight
days and eight hours, the shortest trip
between the two ports on record.
A CAGE carrying eighteen men fell in
the Anaconda mine near Butte, Mont,
from the 400 to the 900 level and killed
seventeen men.
TELEGRAMs received by Gov. Bu-
chanan, of Tennessee, reported the
capture of about ninety of the convicts
liberated by miners.
THE secretary Of the interior has is
sued an order opening to entry under
the homestead law the surplus lands of
the diminished Fort Assiniboine mill
tary reservation in Montana, aggregat-
ing 81, 200 acres.
AN express ear on the Missouri Pa
cific road was held up by six masked
men near West Side, Neb., and robbed
of So, 500.
A STATEMENT prepared at the treas +!
ury department shows that the increase
in circulating medium for October was
S33, $40, t25 increase in bullion and
money in the treasury, 80, iS2, 40S.
A GREAT gold find was reported near
Llano, Tex
IN the New York prcsbytery Prof.
Briggs was acquitted of the charge of /
heresy.
JOHN KRAMER, aged Al. of New York,
shot and fatally wounded his wife and
then took his own life
ALBERT KoHLs, the l6-year-old Mil +.
waukee boy who killed Annie Kodatz,
aged Is years, has been sentenced to
life Imprisonment.
THE military academy at Dartmouth,
o., vas burned
THE Farmers mortgage and savings
bank of Summerville, Ore, was entered
by two masked men. who at the point
of pistol compelled the cashier to give
up 81, 500 in cash.
CHEROKEE Indians have fled a petit
tion at Muscogee asking partition of
$4,000, 900 acres of land in severalty.
SEGFRIED GosCH. German laborer
at San Francisco, murdered his wife
and son by splitting their skulls with
Ratchet and then hung himself
IT was said that no further demands
would be made upon the CHILEAN gov
eminent by the United States until aft
er the election of the new president on
the 10th inst
BURGLARS entered A. d. Sprague's
bank at Caledonia Mimi, and secured
Sc, 600.
TRAIN on the Mount Penn road
jumped the track near Reading, Pa,
and dashed into an embankment kill
ing the conductor and fatally wound
ing two and seriously wounding two
others
LOOKOUT Mountain Cottage house,
hotel, and seven cottages were burned
on Lookout Mountain, Tenn.
JUpGE TAINToR. of Hartford, Conn,
decided that liquor dealers in that state
must take out license in each county in
which liquor is sold.
IT was said that the boundary line
between Ohio and Indiana deprived
Ohio of a triangular-shaped strip of
land 200 miles long and II miles wide
at the north end Should this fact be
established Indiana will claim a cor
responding slice from Illinois, which
includes a por ton of Chicago.
DR. Morn SMITH, of Hawaii, who
was in Washington, announced that
the citizens of Hawaii desired the an
neXation of the island to the United
States
THE wholesale dry goods and notion
firm of Weiss Bros. at Galveston, Tex,