Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-10-01
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

fatally shot by FRANK klchart, a dis
carded lover
THREE masked men held up the
clerk and several guests in the Pacific
hotel at St Jos eph Mo, and robbed
the safe ofSl. OOl and escaped.
ABOUT twenty Cinnamon sneaked
across the river at Detroit from Wind
sor, Ont
MICHAEL KARoFA shot and killed
Kate Bohaly at Cleveland. o., because
she refused TO marry him and then
took his own life in the same manner
M8s. DELL RArHBUN. wealthy
widow of Buffalo, y. Y. drowned her
self at Cedar island, on the Canadian
side, near Niagara falls She was re-
turning from visit to friends in Chi
cago
FOREST fires were doing immense
damage in Minnesota, Wisconsin and
South Dakota. In the first-named
stat the village of Finlayson was
burned, and in Wisconsin the village
of Comstock was nearly wiped out
RIcHAED EGERToN. one of the oldest
citizens of Independence, la, was given
carboiic acid by mistake by his wife
and died in ten minutes.
Two HmpRES of D. b. Snow. Of OF
tawa, IL, died within few hours of
each 9th Of diphtheria
AT Alb enc Tex, W. II. Frizzell was
sentence. to be hanged November
for the nj rder Of his wife last March.
THE hea in Minnesota has been al
most unbt arabic for seven days the
thermom. Ter ranging from ~ to los in
the shade In ST. Paul all the public
schools were closed until cooler
weather
MRS. ISAAC WIHErrg. of Salisbury,
Vt, and her l2-year-old boy were car
ried into the river by frightened
horse attached to their carriage and
drowned
The sac and Fox and Iowa reserva-
tons in oklahoma were thrown open
TO settlement There were three home
seekers 70 every quarter section of
land, and two persons were killed in
the rush for the lands.
OSCAR GRUNDMAS. Of Chicago. shot
and killed his wife while She was sit
ting at the breakfast table and then
shot himself through the temple Do
mestic trouble was the cause
+. NJ. RoRERTs, a well-known plant
er, was shot from ambush and killed
by unknown parties near Roberts, Ark.
w. H. DAVIS, who murdered his
mother and her alleged paramour,
James Arnold at Pueblo. January Z,
was executed in the prison ward at
Canon City, Col
GREEN BAY forfeited game to Mar
quette, giving the latter club the PEN
nant Of the Wisconsin league for 1891
5. Y. WHTE & Co. one Of the most
widely known Of Wall street firms in
New York, have failed for s., 900, 600
JahEs H. MEAD, well-lnown
banker Of Sheboygan Wis, fell dead
from heart disease while walking on
Seventh street
SEVERAL persons were killed or hurt
in wreck on the Western & Atlantic
railroad at smyrna, Ga
ID. Cool. "A Saunders county tNeb)
farmer received at The Omaha post
office a letter written by former
sweetheart May 5, 1875 The letter
was sixteen years, four months and
thirteen days in reaching its destina-
ton
JAMES HALEY the lightweight
pugilist, died at New orll from blood
poisoning, the result Of striking a
mans teeth in fight
THE entire business portion of Brad
ley, 5. d.. was swept away by fire.
a NAN named William Lewis shot
and killed Molly Sells and John Moore
in Chicago. They were all colored.
REf T~srs l,;a. f,,.f.t,I IN rr,t,,or
to a cireus "Ioke" Adams, OF Eliza
beth Md, a wealthy farmer, commit
ted suicide by taking poison.
THREE boys Peter Foster, George
Brocken and Ernest Garlo-who were
stealing ride ON a freight car loaded
with lumber, were crushed to death in
Chicago by lumber sliding upon them.
DANIEL. SULLIVAN and his brother
and Thomas Johnson persisted in the
prairie fires at llinckley, MINI.
ALBERT T. MoREHousE, aged - years,
who was governor Of Missouri in 1887,
committed suicide at his home in Marys-
vile Ill health was the cause
THE wheat crop of North Dakota was
estimated at 80, Qo0, 900 bushels,
THE towns of Perley aud Comstock,
in Wisconsin, were destroyed by prairie
fires
TuoNAs Il. CHAPMAN, OF Hartford
Conn. was elected national councillor
of the United Order of American Me
chanics at the national convention at
Troy n. y.
A PETITION signed by Mrs Harrison
and the wives of all the cabinet min
listers for the pardon of Mrs May brick
who is serving life sentence in Eng
land for poisoning her husband, has
been forwarded to Minister Lincoln to
present to Qneen Victoria
PRESIDENT HARRISON has issued a
full pardon for Robert Nigel son of
Gen. Sigel, convicted Of forgery
a vERY severe aud long-continued
shock Of earthquake was felt at Halds-
burg, Cal
THE report of the department Of ag-
ricu ure at Washington on the condi-
ton Of the corn cropof Wisconsin, Iowa