Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-08-20
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important Intelligence From All Parts.
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and causing other damage.
NINE Italian laborers were injured,
three fatally. in a railway accident
near Bradford. Conn.
THE new two dollar silver certificates
soon to be issued viii bear vignette
of the late Secretary Window.
The two children Of David Schwenk,
living near Detroit, Mich. were burned
TO death while trying to start a fire
with kerosene during the absence Of
their parents.
a CLoUDBUBsT at Redlands, Cal,
flooded all the business houses and
washed away many small buildings.
TIE total assessed value of Illinois
property for 1891 is $751;, 8iG, 4O5, against
S727, 425, 701 in 1890.
A YACHT was struck by a squat off
Pressure Isle, Mich, and capsized, and
three young ladies were drowned
THERE were 100 eases Of prostration
in New York city on The 18th from the
intense heat
THE Chippewa Indian village near
Sawyer, Mimi. was destroyed by
hurricane
IT was reported that 1000 negroes
were to colonize in California with the
assistance Of Senator. Stanford
AN attachment for Sl0l,774 closed
the ozal Lumber Company Of Little
Rock. Ark
ALL the property, rights and fran
chises of the Chicago. Kansas & Ne
braska Railway Company have been
decided to the Chicago. Rock Island Il
Pacific Railway Company for So, 222.-
900.
JEALOUSY caused woman to at
tempt with dynamite the destruction
of the family and residence of DR. r.
M. Juvenal in Kansas City, Kan. No
serious damage WAS done
A YAcur capsized Ia the bay at
Toledo, D.. and Miss sullivan, Mr.
ober'y and MIR. Fitzgerald were
drowned
An express train on the Grand Rapids
& Indiana railway ram into a freight
at Briant, Ind. and Engineer Dick and
Fireman Brown were killed
A. q. MoFFErr, a prominent Cleve-
land co. physician. was drowned at
Chautauqua \. y.
r. Il. GUgLEY. Of the san Francisco
Examiner, dropped dead in a Mime
apolis street.
FLAMES in the wool houses Of George
Oberne and foscll ( Go. in Chicago
caused a loss Of 5000. 600
AN effort to produce rain by the fir
ing of dynamite in balloons sent up for
that purpose was successful at Mid
land, Tex
BOYS while smoking cigarettes set
fire to the barn o. Sanford Moss at
Anderson Ind and three horses and
a large amount o. hay, grain and farm
ing implements were destroyed.
A BoAI containing party of seven
persons eapsized ON Rice lake near
Bowmanville Ont, and Mr. and Mrs
Hawkins and Miss May Bee were
drowned
THIRTY persons died ia New York
city from the effects Of the heat and
eight met like fate in Philadelphia
Gov. PAGE, Of Vermont, has called
special session Of the legislature to con-
vene August %.
The total value Of the exports of
breadstuffs from the United states for
the month of July was $50, 379, pol
INDIANAPOLIS has been decided upon
as the location OF the national Farm |
ers' Alliance convention, to be held No 7
vember L.
MRs. JAMES f. Robertson and her
daughter Miss Belle Robertson were
found murdered in their house at St /
Martinsyille La
THE two children of L. l.. Horton,
living near Ohio Pyle Pa, were fatal
ly burned by the explosion of an oil
can.
w L. ScHuEErz, boot and shoe dealer
at Pittsburgh, Pa, has failed for $780,,
600
INvEsrIG ALTON Of the National Cap
ital Savings, Building and Loan asso-
ciation5 books in Chicago shows that
over 3, 100 victims were swiudled ont of
sums aggregating $4,000
WILLIAM a. LEyERING. lumber
merchant Of Philadelphia, has failed
for Sl50 600
TUE census office has issued bull
letin showing the population of West
Virginia 10 be s62. ~. an increase of
144.337 over 1890
A HURRICANE at Landenburg Del.
demolished several buildings, killed
two persons and many cattle and ruined
crops
A HAILsroRN near Melrose, "Minn.,
leveled thousands of acres of wheat,
many farmers losing all their crops,
even corn and potatoes
SIXrEEN persons were killed and
twenty others injured at Cold Spring.
L. l., by the deck Of an excursion
barge falling upon them
IL answer to inquiries made by for
eign consuls the state officers of Iowa
deny the presence of any contagious
disease among the cattle Of the state
THOMAS H. DAVIS. farmer near
Crothersville, Ind. in boring for water
struck heavy flow of petroleum.
WofFGANG BAILFsrRoNL a German
tramp staying at Santa Cruz Cal. has
inherited a fortune of $500, goo and the
title Of count hv the death Of his father
near Berlin.
THE village 81 Ellsworth Mimi, was
almost entirely Swent away bv "a tors