Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-05-28
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Pans.
DOMESTIC.


mercial interests
Four Newark u. j. mechanics
Harry aud James Gasser. brothers. 30
years old, Joseph Voss and Jacob
Hautenbecl1 were drowned by the up
setting Of a boat while fishing. All
leave families.
THE wife and little child Of William
Cleveland Of Arkansas City. Kan,
were killed by lightning.
THE people of Delaware defeated the
proposition 10 hold constitutional con-
vention
FERDINAND DELoNG died in Metz
town, Pa, from the effects Of eating 40
raw oysters in two minutes and three
seconds.
THE Conncllsville PA coke strikers
have received a blow in the detection
Of Polish leader, who win take hun
dreds of his countrymen back
THE village Of Amherst, Wis, was
destroyed by forest fire.
THE losses by fire in the Jersey pine
forests this spring are estimated at
$500, 900
THE marriages of many prominent
couples in Allegheny, Pa, have been
prevented by the carpenters strike,
suitable houses being unobtainable
SIXTEEN skeletons supposed to have
been those of mound builders were I'M
earthed at Springfield. 0.
COMPLAINT was made at the navy de-
partment that only twenty-six con
gressmen had nominated candidates for
the naval academy.
The Morgan steamer III Sol has
broken the record from New Orleans to
New York, making the run in four days,
twenty-three hours and fifteen minutes
SECRETARY RISK, of the department
of agriculture, has ordered that all
sheep and swine imported through Can
aGa from Europe should be subjected to
fifteen days quarantine.
ELEVEN Italians were buried by the
caying of a sewer at Providence, 4. l.,
and four were killed.
A CYCLONE did great damage TO grow
ing crops in Franklin county, Tex.
Several buildings were blown down in
Mount Vernon the county seat
a TRAIN Of ears loaded with dyna-
mite was blown up near Tarrytown,
NY, killing eighteen men and terribly
injuring fifteen others.
THE national conference of charities
and corrections in session at Indianap-
oils elected Myron W. Reed, of Denver,
president.
Mrs. DAVID LEMON, of Amboy, Ind.
was stricken suddenly blind on the
10th, after which She become a raving
maniac and at night died.
THE Davis shoe Company OF Boston,
one Of the most extensive manufactur-
ing concerns Of the kind in the state,
has failed for 81 900, 600
THE national conference of repre-
sentatives OF the various Farmers ALI
ances and industrial organizations met
in Cincinnati on the 10th twenty seven
states and three territories being repre-
scented by ,334 delegates
SMOKE from forest fires made the
streets of Williamsport, Pa, SO dark
that the electric lights had to be kept
going all day.
SEVERAL families at Heno, o., ate
poisoned cheese, and eight people were
lying seriously III from the effects
HENRY SIX, Of NobIesyille, Ind. was
said to be turning black, and had be-
come almost the color Of a negro.
L. T. PERRY, Of Utah, was elected
president of the Mississippi com
mercial congress in session at Denver
A CYCLONE swept through Audrain
county, $40, devastating a section IL
miles long and mile broad. A dozen
persons were killcd and over 100 in
jured.
BCEEELL PARRISH lcolored), A. years
old, was hanged at Nic1sburg. Miss,
for the murder Of l8-year-old negro
boy in December, 1890 in a quarrel over
twenty-five cents.
ArArENr suit at Springfield, o., has
unear1hed the son of an irish lord, who
goes by the name of Black1am. He
was disowncd for making misalliance
\ cLoUD-BrBsr destroyed the home of
Joseph sherman, some miles from Pro
lection, Kan, aud drowned three OF his
children.
THE Northern Pacific Express Com
paBy has been robbed of $40, 600 to
$4,000 on the line between Chippewa
Falls and Abbotsford. Wis
REV. j. II. HAMILTON. OF Homestead
Pa, delegate to the Baptist conven-
ton at Cincinnati, was killed by a stone
winch fell from a new building which
he was passing.
FIRE destroyed the mills of the Ma
tional LinSeed Oil Company at Sioux
City, Ia, causing loss Of $3.50, 900
joins Corr and his brother Edward
were killed 10y an explosion in coal
mime near New Philadelphia, O.
4 CYCLONE passed from west to east
about miles south of Creston. Ia. un-
roofing houses and barns and destroy
ing shade trees and fences.
THE Insurance firm of Satterlee,
Bostwicl1 x Martin, ot New York, has
failed for 500. 900
THE Chero}ces have decided TO put
5000 Of their own cattle the strip in
Indian territory and fight the govern
ment IN the supreme court. ~
4 CYCLONE one-half mile wide passed
a mile north Of Centralia, Mo, and
twenty dwellings were destroyed and