Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-05-07
EpitOnlo Of the Week.
INTERESTING news coMPlLhTIoN.
DOMESTIC.

DURING wind ana ram storm AT
West Superior Wis, several buildings
were wrecked and Robert Biggerstaff
was fatally injured.
NEGROES who were deluded into GO
ing to Oklahoma in large numbers last
fall were said to be starving Many
were trying 10 beg their way back TO
their former homes.
FLAMES destroyed Harrisville, n. Y,
a village In the Adirondack region.
GROUND was broken in New York
city on the 9th for Gen. Grants monu-
ment.
THE receipts Of the American Tract
society for the year. as shown by the
treasurer's report at the annual meet
ing in Washington, were sos, 900.
SENIOR GALvAS, representing the
government of san Domingo, has be-
gun negotiations with Secretary Blaine
for treaty or reciprocity
AT Hot Springs, Ark, a man named
Weldon murdered Mrs. Mary Kinzie,
his mistress. and then killed himself
REV. Il. 4. RICKs, prominent minis
ter while preaching in the Methodist
church in burlington, n. C., fell dead
in his pulpit.
AN express train on the Baltimore a.
Ohio road collided with freight train
near Gaithersburg, Md, and Engineer
Curtis Elliott of the express, Engineer
Henry Croft, Fireman Murphy of the
freight, and Postal Clerk S. c. Burdett
were killed.
JACK HAYNES. aged lO3 years, joined
the Frank =. Blair post, G.. A. r., at
St Louis.
FRANK DRAAiNI, aged 80 years, started
from New York to walk to San Fran
cisco in four months.
ONE of the consumptive patients
treated at the Montefore home in New
York with koch's lymph has entirely
recovered, and the physicians think the
cure due to the use Of the lymph.
ISRAEL A. MARSHALL, treasurer of
Blue Creek township, o., was robbed
Of $40 by highwaymen.
IN Philadelphia two endowment So
cieties, the Benevolent Order of Active
Workers and the Bi-Monthly Benefit
association, collapsed the former owing
$4,000
AT West Brimdeld, Mass, 400 acres
of brush and timber were burned over,
the result Of fire set by school chill
dren.
IT was reported at Butte, Mont, that
the Rothschilds had purchased the An
aconda mines for So, 900, 900
FIRE in the Center block at Frank
lin, Pa, destroyed 500, 600 worth of
property.
FLAMES in a forest near Millville, N.
j., mhde a swarth through the timber 8
miles long and miles wide.
AN examination Of the Ninth national
bank of New York showed defalca-
ton Of $500, 600, chargeable to its former
president, john I Hin, who died last
March
THE wife of Jonas johnson and his
youngest son were fatally injured by
the burning of their home near Wheat
on, Mimi.
Ar White Pigeon Ind, j. l.. Buck
knocked his wife down and was about
to choke her when she shot him dead
ALI. the cotton-oil mills in Arkansas
with one exception. are said to have
formed a pool, with a capital of 81, 0O0,-
600.
Il. II. GuLsRlE, Of Columbus, O., was
drugged and robbed OF $4,000 by
woman on a train at Aurora, III
ALABAsrEB, the 4-year-old stallion
owned by Myers 4 Warner and valued
at $4,000, died Mt springfield, Q.
Nick FIoop and Charles T. Rose,
two gamblers, Quarreled at Roanoke,
.l.ta1 s., N 4
fatally hurt.
FIRES were raging fercely in the
woods of Gladwin and Glare counties.
Mich, and much property had been de
stroved,
WHILE temporarily insane james R.
Dawson, of Green Point, n, y. shot
his wife and then cut his throat with a
razor. Both were aged people
H. T. HUrGHisoN, the well-l<nown
Chicago Spectator, left uneeremouious-
ly for Florida. leaving his affairs in a
chaotic state
Two BARNS were burned by an incen-
diary ON James Malones farm, near
Boonegrove, Ind, aud forty-fiye COWS,
fifteen calves and ten horses persisted
in the flames.
THE Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska
railroad was sold at Topeka to the
United States Trust Company of New
York for $50, 2S2, 600
MAYOR MosBY declares that no more
professional baseball games shall be
played in Cincinnati on sunday
A STOCK train was wrecked by strik-
ing COW at Greentown, Ind, and the
engineer and fireman were killed.
a FIRE which began in Campbell &
Co furniture factory at Chattanooga,
Tenn, burned over $3.50, 900 worth OF
property.
GEN. john w. FOSTER who had been
in Madrid as special envoy to negoti-
ate reciprocity treaty with Spain, has
arrived home.
john JOHNSON has been sentenced to
one year in the penitentiary at Peru,
Ind, for stealing bushel of potatoes
and selling them for ninety-tive cents
A FIRE in the Thresher Company
paint shop at the S llwater mimi.