Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-11-05
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts
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MURDERER WILLIAMSON, under SEN
tence of death at Sedalia. Mo-, for kill
ing his wife, has confessed that in 1888
he butchered an entire family near
Centralia, Ill, and also killed an old
German named Koch.
THE farmhouse of William Elliott
near Shoals Ind. was destroyed by
fire, and Mr.. Elliott. who is 50 years
old, and his wife, were probably fatal
ly burned.
An explosion in the building of the
United States Mine supply Company
at Cleveland. o., caused the destruction
of the building and the deaths of three
young men.
THE works of the Clifton Distilling
Company at Cincinnati were complete
ly destroyed by fire, the loss being
SI50,OO0.
Four men were killed near Great
Falls. Mont, by the premature explo-
sion of powder and five others were
fatally injured
Ex-STATE AGENT WYNN, of the
Georgia Farmers Alliance. has settled
his $50, 600 shortage with the state al
lance exchanges.
DAVID CHAPMAN. an old resident of
Oshkosh, Wis, died at the age of o.
and his wife expired while sitting at
the side of her husbands body.
A FLY-wHEEL burst in Kimberly's
rolling mill at Greenville, Pa, injuring
five men, two fatally
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Fred Rem, Conrad Prince, Brazil Lyle
and John Coffin were killed in a COLI
sion on the 500" road and seven other
persons were injured.
WILLIAM +. MUNsoS, assistant secre
tary of the Fulton Building and Loan
association in Cincinnati, was said to be
short S14, 600.
THE grand jury of the United States
district court of the Boston district has
indicted the officers of the Louisiana
lottery for illegally using the nails.
THIRTY houses were destroyed at
Conneaut, o., by cyclone. No lives
were lost.
THE New York court of appeals has
rendered a decision against the valid
ity of the viii of Samuel ]. Tilden
The estate of 5000, 900 will be divided
among the seven legal heirs of the mil
lionaire
THEODORE STEVENSON, one of the
largest real estate and insurance men
at Cortland, N. Y, has failed for
$3.50, 600.
THE attempt of the Indiana tax com
missioners to compel banks to show a
list of their depositors has failed.
FOREST fires near Evansville, Ind,
burned over large tract of land, and
many farmers lost their houses and
other property.
A LIBRARY of $500 volumes has
been secured in Europe for the new
university of Chicago.
RUDYARD KIPLING, the author, has
come to America to prosecute several
publishers who have been reprinting
his stories in defiance of the new inter
national copyright law.
HERMAN LoPEz and Rafael CaveZ,
two sheep-growers were killed at Hol-
brook. Ark, in a saloon fight with
COW boys.
FIVE HUNDRED kegs of powder ex-
ploded in the glaze mill of the Ohio
Powder Company at Youngstown,
killing two men and wrecking the
building.
TEN head of horses and several
buildings were burned at Hamilton,
Kan.
JOSEPH HOWELL, a school-teacher of
Brookfield, Mo-, was sentenced to be
hanged for the murder of Mrs. Minnie
Hall and her four children January l9,
1882
AN incendiary fire destroyed two cot
ton warehouses at Newman, Ga, caus-
ing a loss of 500. 900.
EIGHTEEN houses at North Muske-
gon, Mich, were destroyed by fire.
THE new United States cruiser De-
troit, officially known as No. 10, was
launched at Baltimore.
THE two small children of Jerrard
Jensen, living near Austin, Mimi,
were torn to pieces by wolves.
JACOB DICK, of Boston, pleaded
guilty and was fined 500 and costs for
importing six musicians from Bavaria
AT a Farmers Alliance mass meeting
in Buckport, Ark, a riot occurred over
politics and five men were killed and
several others were injured
MANY business houses at Rice Lake,
Wis, were burned in a fire started by
tramps
w. ii. DILL, president of the First
national bank Of Clearfeld, Pa, was
said To be defaulter TO the extent of
500, 600
An unguarded express car on the
Central Branch at Leonora, Kan, was
robbed of the safe, which contained a
large sum of money.
BUSHNELL & BUSHNELL, real estate
dealers at St Paul, MINI, made an as
signment with liabilities of $780, 900
and assets the same.
THERE have been 1900 applications
for admission as students to the new
Leland Stanford, Jr., university in
California.
CORA STAFFORD, a 6-year -old colored
girl at Lincoln, Neb. was said to be
gradually turning white. The change
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