Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-10-22
The News Condensed.
ImpOtant InteIIIgenoe FL0m AI &c.
DOMESTIC.

known farmer Of FOuntaintOwn, Ind,
ended his troubles by hanging himself
with clothes line. This was the tenth
suicide in Shelby county this year
THE statistics complied by Treasurer
Manning Of the barge Office at New
York show that 20, 1I3 Storage passen-
gers were landed during September.
OF these 6.5g1 were immigrants and
2,522 were citizens of the United States.
FARMERS have boycotted the town of
Ladonia, Tex, because the town coun-
Gil passed an ordinance prohibiting the
running at large OF stock in the cor
porate limits.
AT Lima, o., Ray T. Burke shot his
aunt, Mrs Frank Burke, killing her in
stantly, and then shot himself. Trouble
over money matters was the cause.
FLAMES destroyed several business
houses at Shawneetown, Ill, the loss
being $780, 600
THREE colored men were killed and
two white men fatally injured by the
falling of a cage in the tunnel shaft at
Niagara Falls.
BY the explosion Of a cask of giant
powder near Ensley City Ala, six
negroes were fatally nufL.
THE Guion line steamer Alaska ar
rived in New York thirty-six hours
overdue She encountered a terrible
storm on her passage.
SYLVESTER ELLIS, of Wabash Ind,
died of starvation, resulting from a
partial paralysis of the muscles of the
throat
The grand council of the American
Sons of Colum bus, new secret order
composed of Catholics, met at Fort
Wayne, md.
For the moatl ended September 80
breadstuffs exports from the United
States were valued at Sl45, OPS, 1919,
against sl1O 693 $40 for the nine months
ended Sept. 50, 1890.
IT was reported that at least twenty
lives were lost off the Rockaway IN.
j. beach during the recent storm.
THREE of Andrew Lup's children
living near Martinsville, ~ j., built a
bonfire near a barrel of benzine and all
were burned fatally
DIR. JosEPH BENSON, who had been
army SURGEON at Fort Robinson for
years, was burned to death in the l.n
at Casper, Nyo., where he was con-
fined for drunkenness.
A STATEMENT from the pension Office
shows that the total number of pen
sions granted during the week ended
October 3 was :, 100, on hich the ag-
gregate first payment amounted to
81, OO9,0l
The customs receipts at New York
during the first ten days of October
were 81, sS4, $50, being S4,5sS, 1856 less
than they were during the correspond
ing period last year.
THE total value of the exports of beef.
hog and dairy products from the United
States for the month OF September was
$40, s31, $50.
JAMES ii. LAvELLE county auditor,
and ]. b. Hawes well-l1nown citizen
of Daviess county. Ind. we've charged
with setting the courthouse on fire to
destroy the county records and prevent
the uncovering Of their dishonesty.
GEORGE CUPPs shot and instantly
killed George and James Howard,
brothers, who lived in Bath county,
Ky. A woman was the cause of the (
crime.
IT has been established that c. c. I
Washburn post, of Madison, is the old /
est G. A. r. post in Wisconsin.
The Ecumenical Methodist confer
ence at Washington passed a resolu-
tion asking the authorities of the
worlds fair TO close the exposition on
Sunday.
THE dies in use at the New Orleans
mint for making silver dimes are so
imperfect that work has been ordered
stopped.
DR. W. PEPPER, of Philadelphia, was
elected president Of the American Med
ical association.
Ar the meeting in Philadelphia of
the Loyal Legion of the United States
Rutherford Is. Hayes was reelected
commander in chief
REV DIR. Phillips BROOKS was con-
secrated bishop of Massachusetts, at
Trinity church in Boston
THE Michigan crop report for Octo-
Der gives the total wheat crop as 30
4ll,730 bushels.
THE Sabbatarian society has decided
to inaugurate a war on Sunday news
papers in Pittsburgh and viii arrest all
editors, reporters, compositors and
pressmen found working after mid
night Saturday night.
ANOTHER earthquake shock was felt
in San Francisco and Petaluma, Cal
THE boiler of a railway engine ex-
ploded near 81. Paul injuring eleven
men, three fatally.
FouR coaches Of train on the Balti-
more 4 Ohio road were thrown from
the track at Hieksyille, o., by the rails
spreading, and two men were killed
and fifty other persons were injured,
ten probably fatally.
SIXTEEN men have thus far been ar
rested at Omaha, charged with murder
in the lynching of the negro Coo
VETERANS celebrated the Tooth an
niversary of Gen. st. Clair's battle
with the Indians at Portland, Ind.
AT Frankfort. Ky, the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad Company was fined
for repairing its tracks on Sunday.
A STORY telegraphed from Baltimore
to the effect that Albert Ordway was