Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-06-04
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tress and then himself He used a
stiletto.
The bark extract works at StauntOn,
Va, We're burned, causing a loss Of
500. 900
THREE boys. James Hogan and two
brothers named Sherrard, were drowned
at Saltwater, Mimi. by falling into the
river from a raft
A TRAIN dashed into a caAiage near
Latrobe, Pa, killing Miss Mollie Me-
Nally and Richard tox and fatally in
juring Miss Bertha McCreary.
THE firm of Potter, White 4 Bailey,
shoe manufacturers at Boston, has
failed for 81 900, 600.
FARMERS in Mineral county, w. Va,
were greatly alarmed at the appear
ance Of millions of grasshoppers, which
were destroying everything before
them.
The United States supreme court
upholds the constitutionality of the
original package law passed by con-
gress. and also holds that il was not
necessary for thu states of Kansas and
Iowa to reenact their prohibitory laws,
after the passage of the congressional
act, in order to shut out liquors in origi-
nal packages.
A FIRE at Jacksonville, Fla, de-
stroyed all the records Of the United
States court for the northern district of
Florida Some Of the papers dated
back to 1910
A MAN crazed by drink at Knoxville,
Tenn, shot three men, one of them
fatally, and escaped into the woods.
THE Mary Livermore Tent, No. /, de-
partment Of Wisconsin, Daughters of
Veterans, has been organized at Eau
Claire. II is the first organization of
its kind effected in the state
ITALIAN laborcrs at Lima, O., riddled
the American dag with bullets and
slashed IL To pieces with >tilcttos.
THE No. 4 separator owned by the
Chautauqua Iron Company at Lyon
Mountain, n Y. was burned, causing
a loss of 100000
Two MEN bound and gagged an en-
ploye and robbed the American Ex-
press Office at Carroll, Ia, Of IS. 600
Mrs CHRISTIAN HENDERSON, of Har-
Ian, Ia, murdered her four children
and then committed suicide The five
bodies were found hanging in the cellar
T.. l.. TuNIs & Co, railway supply
dealers at baltimore, have failed for
500. 600.
IT was announced that a cargo OF
100000 pounds of opium, brought from
China on the yacht Halcyon, had been
Struggled into this country.
Rosa JARRETT, Is years old, of Ath-
ems, Ga, poisoned her father because
he whipped her.
AN appeal has been made for aid for
$50 families in the Connellsville pa
coke regions who were said To be home
less and without a penny and com
PEELED TO live in coal sheds, barns and
stables
THE Standard Jewelry Company Of
st. Louis has failed for 500. 600
MINISTER RYAN in dispatch to the
state department at Washington re.
ports that over one-half of the Mexican
imports now come from the United
States
THE ioo5ery of the American ex-
press office at Carroll Ia, Of S. 900 was
traced to the agent, Matthews, who
confessed the crime
NE ooales oil Mrs blanche Maekey
anu her 10 months ola shlid were found
hanging 10 trees near Galena. Kan.
William Alvord was arrested on the
eharge OF committing the crime.
HAROLD T.. SrAULutNG, the default
ing cashier of the Aver national bank
of Massachusetts. pleaded guilty to
chafge 81 elnoezzlement and was sen
fenced % hye years Imprisonment.
BURNS Ferry aad bobson three
ldoorefs' were overcome ny foul air IN
wen at Oehtratla wash, and before
assistance reached them they we're dead.
VENGN -" Fills teetofedf. Who shot
ana hillea 'ohh y ~ ut tolum bia,
enh'' was captured aud lynehed at
ioIN St"t'oh' Tenn.
DURING hts term Just closed the
united states supreme court has dis
Posed OF Oh cases. This breaks the
record. The largest number of cases
ever disposed OF by the court heretofore