Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-05-21

/ III. ScOncet lvIng near salem, Ore,
were buried side by side, all having
died OF la grippe within few hours of
each other.
JOHN d. ADAMS. a financier at Little
/ Rock. Ark, failed for $500 900.
THE National Order Of United Labor
and Professions was organized at Jack
/ son. Tenn, with y. P. McChesney,
/ of GAINESVILLE Tenn, as president. The
/ object Of the order is to bring about
great reforms in legislation
/ The losses by forest fires in FIVE conn
ties of Michigan were estimated at So
/ 900. 900. Hundreds of families in the
state were destitute and many persons
| were suffering from severe burns.
/ TIM home Of Robert Duke, a Mont
morency county Mich farmer, was
! burned by forest fires and two of his
/ children persisted.
a FOREST fire go miles in length was
1 carrying devastation to the country on
/ the Pennsylvania & Northwestern rail
way.
AT Stanford, H., J. A. Riley, Samuel
1 Riley and Berry Fowler drank aconite,
which they mistook for whisky, and
were fatally poisoned.
The report of the statistician of the
department OF agriculture shows an in
crease since April of last year of more
than 100 per cent. in the price of corn
and oats, and 50 per cent. and more in
| wheat
A PRIVATE bank known as the Peo-
pies at Knoxville, Tenn, has closed
its doors.
CAMp SHERIDAN in the Yellowstone
national park viii hereafter be known
as Fort Yellowstone.
THE switchmen on all the divisions
of the Chicago 4 Northwestern railway
were discharged and new men put in
their places The company said the
men were constantly making trouble.
/ The brakemen and conductors stood by
the company
A FtRE ut Hardy Neb., destroyed
nine business buildings.
TINS supreme council Of Catholic
knights Of America in session at Phil
adelphia favored exclusion from mem
bership of persons addicted to ardent
/ spirits.
THE Evening Critic, OF Washington
has suspended after twenty years
Of life
THE chief of the government bureau
of statistics reports that the total value
/ of the exports Of domestic mineral oils
| from the United States during the
month Of April was S3sgs, $50. The
value Of beef and hog exports for April
was 80, 100, ISL.
A RUSSIAN exile, Maurice Lopatecki,
a resident Of Tacoma, Wash, has fallen
heir to 5000 900 by the death Of an
uncle in Russia.
THE department of state at Washing
ton has been officially informed of the
acceptance by the government of China
OF the invitation to participate in the
Worlds Colum bian exposition
A COMMITTEE of fifty citizens Of New
nrIssar,ez H. @se - ss,-1
Ggs,ssst3 7tppuinoaG - investigate the
matter of the existence of secret soeie-
ties or bands of oath-bound assassins
reported ninetv-four assassinations by
Italians and Sicilians IN the past few
years. and recommended as the only
remedy the entire prohibition Of i'm
migration from Sicily and lower Italy
to this country.
IN the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the 18th numbered 237 against 242
the preceding week and 2l2 for the cor
responding week last year.
JUSTICE BRI YER, of the [ nited States
supreme court, has issued a writ Of
error in the Nebraska contested gov
ernorShip ease.
TnE tonr 81 President Harrison and
his party, which began April IA, ended
at $50 D. III. ON the 18th, when the pres
idential train reached Washington. The
party travelled over 10000 miles and the
president delivered 40 speeches during
the tour
NEAR oak Grove, Mo. the house of
Daniel Morgan, quiet and reputable
citizen, was demolished by an explosion
of dynamite. aud Mr. Morgan and his
wife were badly injured. 1t was not
known who perpetrated the outrage
WALTER CLARKE. the l3-year old son
of Robert Clarke, Of Glen Garden, n. j.,
died from cigarette smoking,
HENRY FLEsuER pleaded guilty at
Columbus Ind, 10 stealing three beef /
hides and was sentenced to four years /
in the penitentiary
TINS well-lnown wholesale drug firm |
Of Mackoown, Bower. Ellis 4 Co. in
Philadelphia. has failed The house |
was established in 174o.
SECRETARY FOSTER has approved the
design for the new two-dollar eertiti-
Gates prepared 10 prevent repetition
in counterfeiting the old. The Wig
nette Of the late Secretary Window
adorns the center Of the note.
SIN men were probably fatally burned
by an explosion Of gas in sewer in
street ia New York
WARREN II. FRAME, Of Raleigh coun-
ty. W Va, was convicted Of violating
the lottery law 10y sending a letter
through the tinted states mails to the
Louisiana lottery and was fined So and
costs,
Tur internal revenue department es-
Inmates that the amount Of whisky
manufactured in the United States dur
ing the present wear viii be 120. 000, 900