Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-06-25

was on deposit with national banks
and $50 30, 900 was in fractional silver,
deductiug which items the net cash
balance was but 81, 255. 900, which was
the lowest figure yet reached.
GEORGE THOMPSON and Miss Lou
Bell both colored, We're struck by a
train near Dayton, o., and both were
killed.
JosErm WAsRA and his son Albert
were crushed 10 death in the Christv
coal mine near Des Moine>, Ia.
ON the 18th 8. l33 immigrants arrived
in New York. l4j Of them being Nor
mons bound for tab.
ar OaSdale. Pa. a jealous negro
named Saunders shot and killed his
rival, named Harris, and accidentally
killed Mrs. Harris.
A FREIGHT train was ditched at Dis
lxo. Ind. by broken rail, and sixteen
cars were wrecked and twenty head OF
imported cattle killed.
IN the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the 18th numbered 25S. against pa
the preceding week and 1919 for the cor
responding week last year.
THE Capital Insurance Company of
Topeka Kan. has been placed in the
hands Of a receiver.
A COUNTRY schoolhouse near Nor
folk, Neb., was washed away during a
storm and Charles Miles, Cora Ilamlin
and Anna Cox were drowned.
A wINDsroRM at Napanee, Ind, did
great damage to the crops and fruit
trees, blew down barns and out
houses, and blew houses from their
foundations, some of which were total
" wrecked.
A CYCLONE at Arkansas City, Kan,
wrecked several buildings and de-
stroyed shade trees
THOUSANDS Of immigrants were said
to be crossing at Sault Ste. Marie,
Mich, monthly. They were not ex-
amined as to their means of support,
as the government has no immigrant
Inspector at that point.
RAIN flooded the streets at Fort
scott Kan, and Buck run, ravine
which traverseS the city from south to
north, was transformed into a raging
torrent Several persons were drowned
ALICE JONES and Mary Davis were
killed by the ears near Union Springs
Ala. while crossing trestle.
A FIRE in the Nestor block at Mar
quette, Mich, caused loss Of 500, 600
A RAINsroRM at Altoona, Pa, flooded
the streets, and Mrs. Barbara Reichl,
aged 30 years, and Katie Brady, aged
years, were killed by lightning Small
bridges throughout the county were
swept away by the overlooked streams
AT Fan River, Wis, Amelia Heine-
mann was fatally shot by her jealous
lover, Seymour Turner Turner then
shot himself, probably fatally
JoHS Mosr, the anarchist, was re.
sentenced at New York to one years
imprisonment.
The temperature in New York on
the 10th was 81 degrees-the coolest
June day in that city on record
A THOROUGHLY organized band of
boomers and home-seekers was plan
ming to take forcible possession of the
homesteads on the Cherokee strip
JENNIE WILLIAMSON. 10 years old
was in Jail at Newburg y Y, charged
with burning down her aged husbands
house and barn, roasting his feeble
minded son to death and running away
with liyeryman's team.
THE jury in the test suit of Meyer &
Dickinson, Of Philadelphia. against the
government to recover excess of duties
levied on materials used as hat trim
mings. returned verdict in favor of
plaintiffs. This verdict involves about
$50, 900, 600
THE fast express train on the Illinois
Central road was wrecked near Ken.
ner's station, La, snd six persons were
reported killed and twenty injured.
A CLoUDBURsT few miles north OF
Belvidere H., caused great damage
THE news of the drowning of Lieut.
Robinson, W. C. Moore and four other
men of the United States cutter Bear
at ley bay, Alaska, has been confirmed
II was reported that the National
Cordage Company of New York had
bought all the cordage works in Cana
da for $1,000, 600.
OPPOSITE Golconda, III VIII H.
Hockwisher and Willie Kreipke, both
under 80 and two colored men were
drowned by the overtuining of their
skitf in a sudden windstorm.
G. L. GILBERT, with his wife and
child and Mrs. Livingstone and a Mrs.
Diclerson, were drowned in the river
at Derby Conn, by the upsetting of a
boat
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