Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-04-23
EpitOme of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION
DOMESTIC.

mudhole and was suffOcated.
ARCHBISHOP RYAN, of Philadelphia,
has issued an order that in future Cath
olics will not be permitted to bury any
of their relatives or friends on Sundays.
A FREIGHT crashed into gravel train
near Worcester, n. y, and five Italians
who were in box car were killed,
three of them being burned TO death in
the wreck.
a SINGULAR disease. an abnormal
swelling of the tongue and throat was
attacking the horses in southern In
diana.
ScoGGAN Bios. chestnut colt Valera
won the Tennessee Derby at Memphis.
SilveraGo was second, Bonnie Bird
third
A DEAL whereby the strongest tack
and wire-nail concerns in the country
are combined was consummated at
Taunton. Mass.
A FIRE destroyed three acres of sheds
and l87 head Of cattle at the Pitts
burgh pa. stock yards.
RUMOEs Of much suffering among the
coke strikers of Scottdale Pa, were
current. and it was thought the long
fought struggle was nearing its end.
a CLoUDBURsT at Hawthorn juno
ton, Kan, washed away mile of the
railroad track.
Two DAUGHTERS Of farmer named
Holcomb living near Lacenter, Wash,
were killed and Holcomb and his wife
seriously hurt by an explosion Of giant
powder which he had put in a stove.
w. T. BAKER, president of the Chi
cago board Of trade, has been elected
president of the worlds fair directory.
Ar Geuda Springs, Kan, five farm
ers in imitation of cowboys, rode their
horses into "a schoolroom and broke up
an exhibition that was being given.
TwENrY-FouR states were repre-
sented by delegations at the opening
of the great western states congress in
Kansas City, Mo.
CORA MCRgAY and Emma Peterson,
both aged J. years, were thrown from
a buggy and killed in a runaway while
driving to school near Hartford City,
Ind
A NATIONAL convention of an honor
ably discharged soldiers and sailors Of
the regular army and navy has been
called for July next IN New York, at
which time the plan is to organize as q
national body of the union.
FIVE negro railroad laborers were
killed near Melrose, y. C., in a train
collision on the Spartanburg railway
THE first national congress- of whist
players of America convened at Mil
waukec
Miss EMMA LEErE, aged 35 years,
was trampled to death at Guilford.
Conn. by "A vicious horse.
THE country opposite New Orleans
was almost entirely under water owing
to break in the Ames crevasse, and
three persons had been drowned
WHITE settlers in the vicinity Of Rolla
and ST. John, N d.. sent a petition to
the Indian bureau for fort and de-
tail of soldiers at ST. John The set
tiers say their stock has been run off
and n general sense of insecurity
spread throughout that region by band
of 1000 Indians and haif breeds camped
in the Turtle mountains
NATURAL GAS has been discovered at
Pleasanton, Cal.
TIE twenty-sixth anniversary of the
death Of Abraham Lincoln and the
thirty-seventh anniversary of the for
nation and naming of the republican
party was observed in Boston on the
18th.
The legislature of Massachusetts, has
provided for a state worlds fair com
mission and appropriated S75, 900.
THE steamship Garricl1. from Santos,
arrived at New York with two cases Of
yellow fever
THE reply Of Secretary Blaine to the
Italian government on the subject OF
the New Orleans massacre on March Il
was made public Mr.. Blaine says
aliens can claim nothing from a govern
ment which it does not afford 10 lis
own citizens, but says that, under Ger
tain conditions, congress may be asked
TO help the widows of the men killed.
The secretary quotes Daniel Webster
to sustain the position taken by the
United States
IN shooting encounter in the Big
Horn basin in Wyoming a four-year-old
child was used as a shield by the father
The child was killed and the father re-
ceived a fatal wound
4. hAhllNA eN-prcStdeHI OF the Dover
N. Ii.) Shoe Company has been arrest
ed for embezzling stock to the extent Of
$4,000
EXPORTS of breadstuffs during March
were SIP, $50, 1870, against SIS, rs. 229 the
same month last year. Exports Of beef,
hog and dairy products were SD,
1853, against $40, 500 COS during the same
month of 1890
FREIGHT train went through a
bridge near Mount Sterling, o, and
four men were fatally hurt and several
fine blooded horses were killed
MANY fatal eases of spotted fever
have occurred at Mesquite, Tex, and
vicinity.
RELATIVE of Page Mcpherson, the
missing broker of St Louis, Mo, adj
mitted that Mcpherson had sold Sc
curities worth $500 belonging to
other persons and lost the money spec
ulating in wheat
The steamer Gura from Naples, with