Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-09-24
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.


and three women with hickory
switches, in the belief that the victims
had been pilfering from farmers
NEBRASKA CITY, Neb.. was flooded
with spurious s. gold pieces and silver
dollars.
DURING the month of August the
United States exported S2s. s53, $40
worth of breadstuffs and s., G02, $50
worth Of beef and hog products.
PRAIRIE fires have devastated large
tracts in Texas and North Dakota.
AT Bay City, Mich, Alexander Ne
ware. aged -. shot and killed his wife.
aged Il, and then took his own life.
jealousy was the cause.
THE president and cashier Of the
wrecked Philadelphia Spring Garden
bank have been sentenced TO ten years
imprisonment
ROBBERS went through two Pullman
coaches near the Nevada line, securing
over s.. 800 from the passengers.
A FIRE ut the corner of Fulton and
Nassau streets in New York caused a
loss of $500 coo.
THE two Gilliland brothers, in Jail at
Somerset. Ky, on the charge of assas-
sinating Sheriff McCargue, were
lynched by mob The boys declared
to the last that they were innocent
THE post office at Summerton, Tenn,
was blown up with dynamite by I'M
known persons
A NEW three-story building in the
course of erection at Barberton, o.,
suddenly collapsed, killing three men.
AT Meridian, Miss, the new South
ern hotel, costing $3.50 600 and just
nearing completion, was ruined by fire,
and two tiremen were killed
THE Morrell coal mines near Dunbar,
Pa, cayed in, and several men were
killed.
Tine Ohio tobacco crop viii this year
be the largest ever raised in the state
THE Tennessee legislature killed the
bill to abolish the convict lease system
Az examination of the books Of Mai.
J. ). O'Brien, of Chattanooga, Tenn,
embezzling treasurer of the Catholic
Knights Of America, develops the fact
that he is short S64, 900.
The nineteenth annual inter state
industrial exposition opened in Chicago
on the 10th, and in all the departments
the displays were the most complete
for years
WEATHER reports from all parts of
Minnesota and the Dakotas indicated
that the 10Th was the hottest Septem-
Der day in the history of the signal
service, the thermometer registering
100 degrees in the shade at some places
HARRY WuITBEcK, the 7-year-old son
of millionaire Whitbeck, of Portland
Ore, was found at Homestead, Pa,
by Government Detective w t. Negus,
having been stolen from his parents
when IA months old.
FIRE destroyed the business portion
of Camargo, Ill
lT was reported that Thomas L.
Shields, secretary and treasurer of the
Allegheny Heating Company at Pitts
burgh, Pa, was short over 500, 600 in
his accounts.
AT a depth Of $50 feet at Eddy, n. NJ,
a stratum Of salt has been struck which
is 40 feet thick.
SEVERAL shocks of earthquake were
felt at Portland and other places in
Oregon
w. f. SLINGLUFF, treasurer of the
Montgomery Trust Company of Nor
ristown, Pa, was charged with embez-
cling SlS0,000.
MRs. CHARLES BELLEN of Birming-
ham, Ala, gave birth to four children.
three girls and one boy. The mother
is 20 years old.
RoBBERs held up train on the Mis-
souri,, Kansas & Texas road near Mus
llogee. l. r., and secured -, 500 from the
express ear
AGENTS of the coal producing com
panies met at New York and ordered
prices advances 10 to - cents per ton
October l.
A CENSUS ONCE bulletin says the in
crease in the consumption of malt
liquors which require hops in their
manufacture in the United States was
from 44,6O5, 4s5 gallons in 1879 to 719,-
s97, f26 gallons in 1854
DURING the first sixteen days Of Sep
TENDER the United states paid s., 555.-
900 to old soldiers for pensions.
AN application for a receiver for the
James Wick Company, dealers in seeds
at Rochester, ~ y, was made The
liabilities were said to be between
Sl75,0 600 aud S2O0, 600.
Ar Woodland, Cal, J w Montgom-
cry killed Miss May Adams because
She refused to marry him and then took
his own life.
CHARLES j. kEEscuNER, of Toledo,
O.. has been elected supreme treasurer
of the Catholic Knights of America
AT Hastings, Mimi. two elevators
and the electric light works were
burned Loss. sl00 400
THE Western association baseball
pennant has been awarded 10 the Sioux
City la club
AT Big Rapids Mich. S.00O,o0O feet
OF lumber belonging to the Rodney
Lumber Company were burned.
FIRE destroyed the buildings and
stocks in G. Baker < Co.'S lumber yarG
in Worcester. Mass Loss, 500, 600
4 cAVE-IN occurred at the Alta mine
at Virginia CITY. New, and FIVE rnen