Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-05-07

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on the mountains between Bellefonte
and Lewisburg, Pa, had been burned
by forest fires. and millions of feet of
valuable timber had been reduced to
ashes.
OVER S25,O0) worth of smuggled
opium was confiscated at San Francisco
by COVE rnment officials.
Ar the annual meeting of the Ma
tional Society of the Sons of American
Revolution in Hartford, Conn, DIR. w.
5. Ward. of New York was elected
president.
SIX FIGURING mills in Minneapolis
with a capacity Of 10000 barrels day
have united under the name Of the
Northwestern Consolidated Milling
Company.
Ten THOUSAND men employed in the
building trades at Pittsburgh, Pa, have
struck for an eight-hour day.
A. Il. BARNES, a young man, commit
ted suicide at Portland Ore, because
he could not stop drinking liquor
THOUSANDS Of acres Of forests were
swept over by fire in New Jersey and
several houses and outbuildings were
burned
l.. H. DIZZY, prominent physician
of Linton. Ind, was instantly killed by
his team running away.
A TERRIFIC rain, hail and wind storm
visited Bryan, o., and hardly house
escaped without some damage,
THOMAS CALLAHAN, aged 50 years, liv-
ing at Columbus, o., in a fit of insanity
fatally shot his wife.
THE jury in the trial at Sioux Falls,
S. D., of Plenty Horses, the Indian
charged with numbering Lieut.. Casey,
disagreed and were discharged.
An unknown negro who killed POI
liceman Davis at Franklin, Tenn, was
taken from Jail by mob and hanged
ALBERT SHOCKS, the bridegroom and
seventh victim of the poisoned eG1ing
feast at Louisville, Ky, is dead. His
wife was very low.
DIR. r. q MAUss. noted Washington
physician. killed himself while crazed
with la grippe.
THE first sod Of the tunnel to be built
between Detroit and Windsor, Ont,
has been turned.
A BAND of juvenile white caps at
Mitchell Ind gave Johnny Grubb a
sound whipping because he refused to
do anything for his widowed mother
THE little hamlet Of West Bloomfield,
n Y, was nearly wiped out by fire.
MAYOR MosBY, of Cincinnati, has an
nounced that Sunday theatricals will
not be allowed in that city next season.
By the explosion of a locomotive at
Johnston's station, o., the fireman was
killed and the engineer and head brake
man badly hurt
CHARLES HANNAH, a farmer who
lived near Beloit, Wis, blew his brains
out because he had been arrested for
drunkenness.
THE public debt statement issued on
the 1st showed the total debt to be ST.
54s, 67s, 451; cash in the treasury, $780,
1872, SOS; debt less cash in the treasury,
SS4S, SIS, sos. Decrease during April,
Sl,5l4,327 Decrease since June so, 1890,
$50, G22. 23s.
DR. X. c. GOODWIN an Englishman
who has long and successful record
as forger, was arrested in Cincinnati.
jim CRABrBEE and Jim Jackson got
into fight at Huntington, w. Va, and
both were killed.
In the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the lst numbered 255, against 2O5
the preceding week and 2ll for the cor
responding week last year.
DURING the month of April 90, 449 inn
migrants landed at the port of New
l., a..
since 15s2 At Baltimore 1l,7O0 per
sons were landed in the same period.
LABOR day was generally observed in
this country by parades and other
festivities.
MEMBERS of the Alaskan exploring
expedition sent out year ago from
New York under the guidance of
Hazard Wells have arrived at Port
Townsend, Wash, thus contradicting
the report that the party had persisted.
WILLIAM REEr, Of Waco. Tex, who
confessed to having slandered honest
men and women. was whipped. ridden
upon a rail, tarred and feathered and
ducked in pond by a posse of citizens.
MIscREANrs set fire to shaft of the
Consolidated Coal Company's works at
OskalooSa, Ia, and property valued at
Sl00. 900 was destroyed.
EARTHQUAKE shocks of greater or
less severity and duration were report
ed from Conocook, keene Concord,
Manchester and other New Hampshire
towns.
A coLoREp woman % years old was
arrested in Philadelphia for disorderly
conduct.
A STATE camp of the Patriotic Order
Sons of America was organized at In
dianapolis, Ind, with II. G. Ellis, of
ConnerSville. as president
Ir was stated by Secretary of the
Treasury Foster that the government
was amply able to meet all its obliga-
tionS.
REPORTS 10 the Nebraska state mil
lers' convention at Omaha showed that
the crops were the largest and the best
known in the history of the state.
WHILE in a drunken frenzy August
| Nikkili fatally shot his wife at Hough-