Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-12-24

colliery near ShamOkin. Pa. fatally
injured two Italians and four Hungari-
ans.
A PASSENGER train on the Southern
| Kansas railroad was wrecked by de-
fective ties near Cherryvale. Kan, and
twenty-six persons were injured, three
fatally.
AT a meeting Of the Sabbath Union.
in Des Moines, Ia, Col. Eli, tt f. Shep-
ard OF New York. was reelected pres
ident tor the ensuing year
EDWARD MULDooN and Hugh Reilly
were killed at the ManviIIe Pa coal
mine By a fall Of coal.
| JoHN +. FEKGUs0y, bookkeeper in
/ the National bank Of Kansas City. No,
was arrested for embezzling so, o0O
THE explosion of a sawmill boiler at
/ Ridgeyille, Ind, killed William Wise,
William Collett and James Clawson,
and fatally injured Isaac Nicholson
and Oscar Jones.
THE baseball war has ended by the
formation Of twelve-club league. The
twelve cities Of the new com bination
are: Boston, New York Brooklyn,
/ Philadelphia, Baltimore. Washington,
Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati,
Louisville St. Louis and Chicago.
THE newD rexel institute Of industry
was formally dedicated at Philadel-
phia. Anthony J. Drexel has given
81, 800. 900 for the establishment Of the
! institution.
THE Union Mercantile Company of
Pennsylvania, doing business at Easton
and other places, failed for over
$3.50, 600
AT the leading clearing houses in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 18th aggregated ST.
23S, 46s, 9Sl. against Sl,213,G70, S72 the
previous week. The increase as com
pared with the corresponding week of
1890 was 1913.
FouR alleged leaders of a gang that
had been flooding Philadelphia with
counterfeit money were arrested.
The dead bodies OF William L. Spreg-
gins and George Holiday, brothers-in-
law, were found buried in brush heap
near Brier Creek, Tenn.
FREiGHr trains collidcd in a tunnel
near Catawissa, Pa, and Engineer
Fisher and Fireman Smith were killed
IN the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the 18th numbered $50, against $50 the
preceding week and 4O4 for the CORE
spending week last year.
A FIRE in the wholesale millinery
house of Porter, Donaldson & Co, in
Pitts burgh, Pa, entailed a loss of
$50. 900.
IT was reported at Omaha, Neb., that
the Chicago Il Northwestern road had
issued orders to discharge all their EN-
ployes who were members of the Order
of Railway photographers and refused
TO withdraw from that body.
The editors of the national prohi-
bition party press met in Chicago and
organized a National Prohibition Press
association, with James Lamont, of
Rockford, Ill, as president
MICHAEL HARVEY, a maniac, shot
and killed John Connerton and wound.
ed two other persons in Brooklyn, N.
". and then took his own life.
By an explosion at the Busk tunnel
near Leadville, Col, three men were
killed, two seriously injured and a
AnHlbGE VI OUTFITS IluIb.
A GANG of silver coin counterfeiters
who had been operating in Texas for
many months past were nearly all
captured
AT Roaring Springs, Ky, Ben Davis
shot James Dunn dead and fatally
wounded John Dunn, his brother The
killing was the outcome of an ancient
feud
NEW YORK tobacco importers, it was
claimed, had swindled the government
out of over $4,000, 900 in duties within
the last few months.
WRIGHT POLAND and his wife were
murdered in their home at Buckhorne,
La, by Jack Smith, with whom Pc
land had quarreled.
MRS. SOPHIE RoMPT, who was serv-
ing her fiftieth term in the Paterson
IN. j. Jail for drunkenness, has been
left fortune by the death of her
father in Germany.
AN unknown tramp was lynched in
Emmett county, Ark, for assaulting
Miss Bette MeGough, school-teacher
Two NEGROES suspected of the muir
der of young Parramore in the streets
of Branford, Fla, were lynched by
mob.
THE Federation of Labor in conven-
ton at Birmingham, Ala, passed res
olution favoring a womans suffrage
amendment to the constitution. Sam
mel Gompers was reelected president
GERTRUDE KUNKLE. aged IS years,
was burned to death and her father
fatally injured by the explosion of a
lamp at Knoxville, Pa.
GEORGE W. CHups has presented al
most his entire collection Of rare prints,
manuscripts, autographs, etc, valued
at $780, Geo, to the library of the Drexel
institute in Philadelphia.
RAY RICHARDS and John johnson,
two boys, were drowned while skating
at Deer Isle, Me.
AN ancient Indian burying ground
was discovered ON the Pike farm at
East Saugus, Mass.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
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