Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-09-03
The News Condensed
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

>. C., and two brothers named Howard
were killed and four others were fatal
~ wounded.
THE assessed valuation Of real and
personal property Of the United States
and territories, as shown by circular
issued from the census bureau, is S24,-
249. $50. sg4. This IS an increase Of ST.
SAG, 500. POI since 1890.
NEAR Nicholasville, Ky, Mrs. Mary
Richardson and her two girls, aged
and years, were knocked from rail-
road bridge TO the rocks 60 feet below
by an engine and instantly killed.
BANKERS MALoTT, Decker and
Dougherty, of indianapolis, Evansville
and Bluffton. Ind, respectively, were
fined $500 each and ordered committed
until the amounts were paid for refus-
ing to disclose the accounts of deposit
ors To the board of tax commissioners.
ANDY Ford, a noted criminal, was
lynched by mob at Gainesville, Ga
DANIEL SHEREKY, wealthy farmer
near Lincoln. H., was shot and killed
by a chicken thief whom he had over
taken
A NEW military post is to be estab-
lished at a point $50 miles northwest
of Duluth, Mimi, to prevent Canadian
thefts of American timber
JoHN FITZGERALD, president of the
Irish National League of America, has
issued call for a national convention
of Irishmen to meet in Chicago Octo-
Der /.
NEARLY one.half the village of
Charleston Ark, was swept away by
fire, including the courthouse and all
the records
EDWARD ALBERrsoN, secretary and
teller Of the Fidelity Trust Company
bank at Tacoma. Wash, took 50, 600
from the safe and fled
The national convention of the
Daughters of Liberty commenced at
Waterbury, Conn, on the 18th
IN an old trunk which belonged to
Edward Baker, who died recently near
St Louis, was found sl7 900 in money
Baker left a widow and three children, /
none of whom suspected his having the
money.
While handling a gun supposed to
be unloaded George Decker, OF Will
liamston, o., Shot 80 instantly killed |
his l5-year al sister
AT 1ullehoma, Tenn, VIII Lewis
(colored) aged IS years, was taken
from Jail by eight masked men and |
hanged. Lewis was drunken rowdy, /
but had been guilty Of no great crime. |
f. NJ. WooDLoCKE, Of Odell county, |
Neb,. was run over and killed by the /
cars. He was 92 years old and the old |
est resident of the county
FIRE destroyed the business portion /
of Grand Mound, la
A LARGE barn belonging TO Mrs Dr. \
RICHTER near Columbus, Ind, was /
burned, and nine valuable horses per-
ished in the flames
THE Morton Baclus Lumber Com /
pany Of Detroit failed for $780, 600
A LARGE section Of country around I
Bangor, Pa, was flooded by the burst I
ing of a mill dam and great damage +
was done
THE African fever has again broken
out in Atlanta, Ga. and hundreds of .
negroes We're talking of emigrating to
Liberia
Ar Marion, Ind, an old soldier
named Saltlgaber, while preparing pa
pers on which to secure a pension,
walked in front Of u moving train ON
the Clover Leaf railroad and was in
stantly killed
AFTER one Of the most sanguinary /
battles in the history of the Patriotic .
Order Sons of America the national /
camp in session at Philadelphia defeat
ed the proposition to admit colored /
members.
FAUsrINo won the IS. 900 stake for 3
year oIds at independence, Ia. max [
ing the last three heats in 2:lS4, 217 /
and 2:lst, the best three heats ever
trotted by a 3-year-old.
THREE HUNDRED san Francisco en-
ployers have formed an association to
fight trades unions
A. II. WHITNEY, of Toronto. Ont,
and A. H. Whitney, of Quincy. III, !
both died suddenly in the Russell
house at Detroit within few hours of
each other These brothers in death
were neither relatives nor known to
each other.
SMTY-oNE persons lost their lives in
the falling buildings in Park place,
New York
IT is estimated by the special agent
OF the government who has just re
turned from Alaska that the poaehers
have secured 10000 seals this year
TnE fourteenth annual meeting of
the American Bar association convened
in Boston
A PASSENGER train was wrecked near
Grantsburgh Mimi, and twenty per
sons were badly injured.
WALTER LoNAX and Al Morgan,
prominent business men and politicians
of North Arkansas, fought duel at
Little Rock with revolvers and both
were fatally wounded
BECAUSE of a refusal to do away with
sewerage nuisance the Altoona (Pa)
city school board had the entire city
council and mayor arrested.
Tue two daughters OF J. y Morrison
aged IL and Is respectively. were
drowned near birmingham, Ala, while
bathing
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