Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-16

FIRE which started in Mitchell
Bros. lum her yard at Jennings, Mich,
destroyed 5000, $50 feet Of lumber, a
planning mill, engine house and four
dwellings. Total loss, $3.50. 900.
JIM BAILEY, negro who assaulted
Mrs. Folsom at Beebe, Ark, was taken
from Jail and lynched by mob.
NEAE Edmonton, KY, Special United
States Bailif Cutliff was shot from am
bush and fatally wounded by violators
of the revenue law.
Mrs RAYMOND and her 4-year-old
son were struck by passenger train on
the Ohio & Mississippi road near Olney,
III exc. i..s.,...:ly killed.
JOHN COLLIER. living near Monrovia
Ind, found a piece Of gold ore on his
farm weighing about ten pounds
THE house of s. r. Anderson. Is
miles west of Clifton, Tex, was struck
by lightning, and his wife and three
/ daughters were killed.
ELIZA RYAN, of Lamar, Ark, aged
80 years, was restored to sight after be-
ing blind thirty years by having a tooth
extracted.
THE tenth international convention
of the Young Peoples Society of Chris
tian Endeavor opened at Minneapolis
on the 9th with 10000 delega ties in at
tendance. The secretary's report
showed that there were in the country
j 16, PA societies with a total member
ship Of 1,00s, $50. Among the denomi-
nations the Presbyterians have 4O19
societies, Congregationalists S,745, Bap-
| fists 2,3S1, Methodists 2. 06S, Christians
| SOL During the year 81. 500 members
! of the societies became church mem
| bers.
PHILIP STEPHENS, 81 years old and
hard of hearing, was run over by
train on the Pennsylvania road at Fort
Wayne, Ind, and instantly killed.
JAMES FENNELL was killed near
| Wichita, Kan, by horse suffering from
| hydrophobia The animal seized him
with its teeth and shook him and
trampled him to death.
A FREIGHT train was wrecked near
Columbus, Ind, and thirteen box cars
We're smashed to pieces and several per-
sons were injured.
THE Chesapeake & Ohio railroad has
closed five-year contracts for three
steamer lines between Newport News,
Va, and Liverpool
THE board Of visitors to the Annapo-
lis naval academy in its report to the
secretary o. the navy comments severe
" on the odious, brutalizing and un-
American habit OF hazing,
Mrs. GRIsLEY, of Lancaster, Wis,
confessed upon her dying bed that she
| had murdered her sons wife in 1882,
whose dead body was found in a field
perforated with bullets the second day
after the murder.
TIE dead bodies of J. H. Puterbaugh,
a prosperous farmer living near Ellis,
Neb, and his wife and four children
were found dead in their home with
bullet holes in their heads 1t was sup
posed the horrible deed was committed
by the father, who was temporarily in
sane.
IN the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the 10th numbered 81. against 237
the preceding week an, 197 tor the cor
responding week last year.
BELLE HENDERSON, Ella Henderson,
Mile Chenowyth and Rev. John
Spachmann were drowned in Lake
Erie near Oak Point, O., by the upset
ting of boat
J. r. DHwoRrH, president of the Dill
worth Cattle Company of Billings,
Mont, was shot and killed in a quarrel
over land claim by young French
man
The immense company stores CT the
Cambria Iron Company at Johnstown,
Pa, at which thousands Of their work.
men traded has been sold to a party Of
capitalists for nearly $1,000, 600. The
law against company stores in that
state goes into effect August /.
~ immense downpour of rain for
three hours at Sioux City, Ia. flooded
the city, causing an aggregate loss of
100000
FiFry families charged with being
intruders were arrested by the Chick
asaw militia and sent across the Red
river into Texas.
THE entire wooded portion Of CHIP
pewa county Mich, aud the Canadian
territory north of it were on fire on the
l0ta settlers were being burned out
and everybody was lighting the flames.
TON RoCaE wealthy railroad con-
tractor, committed suicide at Fort
Worth, Tex, by shooting himself in
the month
e Q. POTTER, a wealthy New York
man, was found dead N the woods near
Seattle Wash. IT is believed that he
was murdered
INvEsrIGArloS has resulted in the
discovery that the State of North Car
Dina is entitled to s2G us more than
was originally allowed it on account Of
the direct tax net,
\ CENSUS bulletin gives the total pop
ulation of Wisconsin al 1855, $50 an in
crease OF 31l.&s over the population in
| 1850
! TON FrnuNe's livery stable and
twenty-five head 81 valuable horses
i were burned at Emporia Kan.
GoNsIoERtRLE damage to property
was done at Helena, Mont. 10y severe
wind and electric storm. Houses were