Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-02-26
DOMESTIC

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DOMESTIC.
THE committee on the revision Of the
Presbyterian confession of faith com
pleted its work al Washington after an
eleven days session and adjourned
ANTHONY DEwsrER was killed near
Pine Ridge, s. d., by band of row
ing hostile Indians and his three chill
dren were scalpcd. His wife escaped.
IT was said that a large mob Of Al
lance members took forciblc possession
of the Advocate printing establishment
at Coldwater, Kan, and tore the Office
to pieces, after which they carried the
type away and scattered it over the
prairie.
IsApoR MEYER and f. W. Leeeh were
killed at Bald Knob, Ark, by an in
sane man named John w Greater
JOHN TROUT, a single man, was
burned to death in the calaboose at Ne
Vada, Mo.
FRED WELLS made five men get down
On their knees in a saloon at st. Louis
and repeat the Lords Prayer at the
muzzle of a revolver. Judge Cady fined
him S75.
HENRY DRYER. aged 81 years, was
found hanging dead in his barn near
San Pierre, Ind.
HENRY SHAVE. an engineer at Terre
Haute, Ind, as shot and killed by an
unknown assassin.
Tow DOUGLAS tcoloredl charged with
various crimes, was lynched by mob
at Douglas Tex
SEVEN members of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter Gay Saints
pleaded guilt, at Salt Lake City to liv-
ing in polygalny and were fined in sums
ranging from 500 and upwards.
THREE trainmen were fatally injured
in a collision of trains at Railway, n. j.
A. HARrUNG, his wife and three chill
dren were poisoned at Denver, Col, by
eating raw pork. Lizzie, 10 years old,
died, and all the others were in
dangerous condition.
The Allegheny and Monongahela
rivers were both near the high-watcr
mark on the 18th at Pittsburgh and
still rising. Reports from different
points in Western Pennsylvania showed
very high water and much damage from
Allegheny alone was placed at $3.50. 900.
Thousands Of persons had been driven
from their homes
WHLE Mrs. NJ. Trolinger, of Lees
vile, Mo. was wStching her son cut
down il tree it fell IN her, killing her
instantly.
The new power-house of the Du-
quesne Traction Company at Pitts
burgh, Pa, was burned Loss. 500, 900;
no Insurance..
THE First National Bank of Aver,
Mass. which had been closed pending
IAN investigation into Cashier Spauld-
ing's misdoings. was reopencd for bust
ness.
THE ammonia-tank in the ice factory
in Suffolk, Va, exploded killing Thorn
as b. Baldwin and fatally injuring two
colored men.
THE steamer Thomas Sherlock struck
pier of the Chesapeake & Ohio bridge
at Cincinnati and went to the bottom
Two persons were known to have been
drowned and others were missing
THE peculiar feature of snow-storm
at Salt Lake City was large quantity
of salt which fell with it, The snow
melted and left the salt on the ground
at least one-fourth of an inch in thick
ness.
Al san Francisco Mr. and Mrs Claus
Grove, of Salinas, were asphyxiated.
FIRE at Akron, o., destroyed the
paper mill of the Thomas Phillips Com
pany, causing loss of $500, 900. and the
works of the Enterprise Manufacturing
Company, loss, $4,000 Nettie Cruza
was burned to death
THE Htna Coal Company made an
assignment mt Jasper, Tenn, with liza
bilities of 500, 600 and assets of $500, 600
DAMAGE by the late flood at Pitts
burgh and vicinity was placed at s., 900,
900
IT was reported that copper ore had
been discovered in Hendricks County,
Ind
BILLY KoHLER, Tom Kendall and
William kerns were killed by snow
slide at the Old Lout mine in Colorado
THE Missouri Pacific round-house at
Kansas City, Kan, with eighteen en-
gines was burned, causing a loss of
S175,o
AT Charlottesville, Ind, Michael