Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-09-10

1 Higgins, a bystander, while attempting
/ to save the boy, was also drowned.
The Central Market Company Of
\ Chicago made an assignment with liza
I bilities Of SlGO, 600
THE monuments erected by the state
/ of Illinois on the battlefield of Gettys-
burg to the Eighth and Twelfth Illinois
cavalry were formally dedicated with
( solemn services.
4 NEGRO who assaulted the wife of
/ planter at oxford, Miss. was captured
+ by mob and hanged
The first 100 pounds Of sugar made
under the sugar bounty clause Of the
Mckinley Iaw were shipped from
Chino, Cal, August - It was esti-
mated that the bounty on sugar this
year would amount to so, 800 900.
HEAVY frosts killed corn and all
other vegetation in some sections of
Iowa on the night of the Sd and did
much damage in other parts Of the
state.
OFFICIAL notice was given that the
order prohibiting the importation of
hog products into Germany had been
removed,
"WATERMELON DAY" the festival of
the Arkansas valley, was celebrated at
Rocky Ford, Col, by 10 people from
all prominent points.
5. r. Coon, a prominent business
man at Rantoul Ill, was killed by be-
ing thrown from wagon by run
away team Of horses.
A BULLETIN from the census bureau
Il. a. al.
confined in the penitentiaries Of this
country.
CHARLES RIEDELL was found dead in
bed at ST. Paul by a deputy sheriff who
had gone in his house to serve a writ
of ejectment. lie had committed sui
eide by taking carbolic acid
THE barns Of DR.. y. T. Valerius &
Co, at Watertown, Wis, were burned,
together with thirty-two head of regis
tered stations
THE Erie Beach hotel, on the Cana
dian side near Buffalo, was destroyed
by FIRE; loss. $780, 600
REV. J. H. NEWTON, was struck on
the head by falling tent pole at the
Free Methodist camp meeting at Sodus,
n. -, and instantly killed.
FoUB persons were killed by light /
ming during d storm which struck the
house OF John Couch near Magno-
LA Ark
TREASURER HuTY, of Richland town /
ship, near Lima, O., was reported de- |
faulter in the sum of $4,000
JoHy and Wade Fielder were sem
fenced to be hanged Friday, October 9, I
at Rusk, Tex, for the murder of
Younce Thompson, the father-in-law of /
John Fielder.
THE total valuation of real estate of I
Indiana was placed at Sl,O96, 900, 900, /
against $500, 900, 600 last year.
y the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the 18th numbered 217. against 226
the preceding week and 2O3 for the
corresponding week last year
THE Youngstown fridge works at
Youngstown. O.. were totally destroyed /
by fire, including several bridges near
ly ready for shipment, throwing $50
men out of employment.
JoHN CotniAS. superintendent of the
Ruby mine near Forest City, Cal. was
shot and killed by John St Pierre, the
night Waterman.
II W as said that heavy frosts on the
night of the Sd destroyed the corn
crop in Wisconsin ana Minnesota.
FRANK DASFoRrH. negro wife muir
derer, was hanged at Augusta Ga, and
William BulIing, another wife murder
err, paid the penalty Of his crime at
Savannah. Mo shortly before his ex-
ecution Billing attempted ssf-destruc-
ton by shooting himself twice in the
breast with revolver which had been
given him by his spiritual adviser.
EXPERTS who examined the books of
Martin Mower president of the st.
Croix boom corporation at saltwater,
Mimi. who died some time since,
found that he waS short S26. 1017s in /
his accounts.
O. O. lYoN, assistant principal Of the
Englewood high school at Chicago was
killed by Chicago x Western Indiana
train while crossing its tracks