Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-06-25
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

500. O0O
JAMES b. COLGATE gave $1,000, 600 to
the university at Hamilton. y. y, that
bears his name.
Brown CUSDIFF aud a man named
Turner and two horses they were driY-
ing were struck by an engine at East
Hnlsboro. ID, and all were killed.
THERE We're nine deaths from sun
stroLe in New York city on the 10Th
and thirty otherswere Frustrated.
A TRAIN on the Milwaukee line from
Omaha to Chicago jumped the track
near Cedar RAPIDS, Ia and rolled down
an embankment, killing three passen-
gers and injuring thirty others
IN accordance with an act Of con-
gress new United States courts of APP
peals were organized at ST Louis, Chi
cagO, Cincinnati and San Francisco,
tho object being to remove an immense
weight from the already crowded SUI
preme court at Washington
j +. HANLoN, Of Cincinnati, was ar
rested on the charge of having five Ev-
ing wives lie is an ex-police officer.
CURRENT reports that the Anaconda
and adjacent copper mines in Montana
had been sold to a foreign syndicate
were denied.
AT Bonham. Tex, there was a light
snowfall on the 10Th while the tenn
perature was - degrees.
A CLoUDBURsr at Newmanville,
Tenn, swept away many houses and
ruined crops on the bottom lands.
THE census office has made public
the tobacco statistics Of Indiana. The
number Of planters in the state during
the census year was 4, 4j7; the area de-
voted to tobacco, 9.375 acres: the prod
net, 7,710,295 pounds, and the value of
the crop, S3s4 $40
PRINCETON college has received dur
ing the last year over S4OO,0OO in gifts.
A mGHwAYMAN held up stage near
Ellensburg, Wash, and compelled the
only passenger to rip open the mail
bags and hand him the registered pack
ages.
+. r. HALL, of Ohio, has been APP
pointed chief clerk of the immigration
bureau in the treasury department at
Washington
GESEBEzI DEslDEmo, an old Italian
living in New York. sold his handsome
young wife TO Alessandro Vanegi for
$50 spot cash.
THE business portion Of Mondovi,
Wis, was destroyed by fire
FLAMES swept away the city of Sea
bright, n J. No lives were lost, but
$50 families were rendered homeless.
WIZ Ross and Henry Emmett were
drowned at Kansas City, Mo, by the
upsetting Of boat.
The town of Casey, Ia, was mum
dated by a heavy rain and two girls
were drowned
The 10th anniversary of the battle
of Bunker Hill was celebrated at Bos-
ton on the nth
SURVIVORS Of the BlacLhawk war
held a reunion at Galena, Ill Only
twenty-three Of the pioneers who
fought the Indians in 1882 are still
alive
THE long strike Of the Iowa coal
miners has came to an end, the men re-
turning to work at the old prices and
hours.
WHILE crazed BY whisky man
named Bixby, of Royersford Pa, seized
a little girl named Knerr and jumped
into the canal and both were drowned.
JoHN DrrY living near Benton. III.
shot and killed his mother-in-Iaw. Mrs.
Allen, on the street and attempted to
kin his wife, but failed Domestic
trouble was the cause.
THREE HUNDRED acres Of celery were
destroyed at Kalamazoo. Mich. by the
bursting Of mill-race. involving loss
of $4,000
CHARLIE FRANCE and his cousin,
Myron Gardner were drowned while
bathing in pond near Grant city Mo
EVERY state and territory in the
union has been given space at Jackson
park. Chicago for a building at the
worlds fair
THE heavi st rain known for years
fell on the l1th all over Nebraska The
town of Battle Creek was Hooded and
several houses wrecked At Hum
phrey Bartholomew Bogus was killed
10y lightning and at Palmer the wife
and grandmother of V Lauton met a
like fate
WILLIAM FARLEY and Riley Smith
killed each other at Little Rock, Ark,
in "a quarrel over women.
a LITTLE germ worm was damaging
the growing wheat in western Kansas
The United States treasurer paid ont
s., 600,o coo ON the 18th on account of
pensions.
THE body Of colored man was
found near Fort White, Fla. bound
hand and foot to a tree and riddled with
bullets Nothing was known about
him in the vicinity.
THE treasury department at Wash
ington has decided that wedding pres
ents from abroad must pay duty unless
they were manufactured IN the United
States,
JACoB SCHEELE was hanged at
Bridgeport Conn for the murder Of
Louis pruckcr ON January -, 1855
II boiler explosion At Akron, O.,
Henry Golden was killed and seven
Others were injured three fatally
WILLIAM X. DUAL of Baltimore,
has been sentenced 10 nine years in the
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