Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-10-29
The News Condensed.
ImpOhant InteIilgenee 90 III -.
DOMESTIC.

N. j.. were burned, tac loss being
500, 600
PRoF J. G. RUSSELL and his explor-
ing party arrived at Port Townsend,
Wash, from Alaska. The party was
absent five months. and in that time
lost six men.
JoHS Russ was lynched AZ Columbia,
La, for killing Miss Ilager Sterling.
ATTEMPTS were made 70 wreck three
different trains on the Iowa Central
near Marsha'ltown. Ia, ~ placing
timl.rs o. the track.
BRIG. CEN STANLEY, commanding
the department Of Texas. in his annual
report To the war department says
more troops are needed on the border
THE Uni-ed States supreme court has
advanced the ease of Boyd Us. Thayer.
which involves the eligibility of Boyd
to the goyeraorship of Nebraska, and
the arguments viii be heard on the
first Monday N November
~ his annual report to the secretary
of the interior Gov. H. Bradford Prince,
of the territory Of New Mexico insists
that New Mexico is entitled to state
hood.
Mr.. MUGpuY, the United States spe-
cial agent was meeting with considera-
bic success in his efforts to introduce
Indian corn into Germany
MARGARET and Bridget Breen, aged
sisters, died in Boston Of starvation.
Although offered food repeatedly by
their neighbors, they were SO proud
they always 10 fused 70 accept.
FIFTY eases Of diphthcria, with
eleven deaths, were reported NJ Mobiles
vile. Ind
SUNoI~ Bonncr's wonderful mare,
trotted mile in 2.osL, at stockton,
Cal, beating her own record Of 2:1O
made a week ago aud lowering the
worlds record of Maud 5. of 2.0S@l by
half a second
THE final session Of the Methodist
Ecumenical council was held n Wash
ingtou.
WOMAN about % years old commit
ted suiliae bv throwing herself from
the top Of the Washington monument
at Baltimore Nd
ALI but eighteen Of the forty four
states in the union have adopted the
Australian ballot system.
AN explosion Of natural gas in
building IN Allegheny, Pa, injured
five persons, two of them fatally.
MAYOR BERRY and the entire city
council Of Newport, Ky, were sent to
jail for six months for contempt OF
court.
THE warehouse of the Speer Wine
Company at Passaic, \ j., was burned, /
the loss being 100000
THE four children Of John Long, a
farmer near Lime Rock. Ala. were
burned to death by the house taking
fire during the absence of their parents. 4
A FIRE in the Wallabout market in
Brooklyn, \. y, caused a loss of $780,
600
Ross CoNGER, a farmer so years old,
was bunkoed out Of s., 900 near Lima, (
o., by a couple Of sharks who secured
his signature to a note for that amount.
As A result of the trouble between
the Associated Press and the Western
Union Telegraph Company new or
ganization to BE- known as the National
Press association was effected in New
York with Charles A. Dana at its head.
THE warehouse of Bardwell, Robin
son & Co., sash and door manufacturers
at Minneapolis, was burned, the loss
being 500, 600.
Two LABoREEs were killed by a
smash-up on the Wabash railway at
Forrest HILL III
FRANZ FL HooKER, of New Haven.
Conn, was elected president of the
National Carriage Makers association
in session at Cincinnati
MAJ. GEES. SCHoFIELp in his annual
report to the secretary OF war recon-
mends the reorganization of.the army
He also recommends that the enlist
ment of Indians be continued
FURTHER advices state that four per-
sons lost their lives and twenty three
were injured by the accident on the
burlington road at Monmouth III.
WOMEN OF lliawatha, Kan. tore the
posters and Autographs Of the London
Gaiety Girls from the bill boards and .
denounced those who attended the per-
farnance as social outcasts
NEAR St Johns, Md, baltimore &,
Ohio passenger train was wrecked 10y
the spreading of the rails and the en-
gineer and fireman were killed and
three other persons fatally injured.
Two CoLoEEp hostlers were asphyxi- /
ated hy natural gas in their beds at Al I
legheny City. Pa
THE compress of the Eastern Texas I
Express Company at Greenville, Tex, /
Wa nrned. together with 5000 bales 4
OF cotton, entailing loss OF $3.50, 600.
DIRECT defeated Hal Pointer at Nash I
vile, Tenn. in three straight heats.
pacing the second mile in 2:09l4, the /
best time ever made in a harness race. /
FLAMES in the building occupied bv !
the 0Xidized Acid Company at Cleve !
land, o., caused a loss of 500, GOO.
Dr.. FRANKLIN d. CLARK an old and /
wealthy resident of Chicago, committed /
suicide by asphyxation Family \
troubles were the supposed cause.
A MONUMENT To the late Henry w +
Grady was unveiled at Atlanta, Ga.
A MISPLACED switch on the Chicago. I
Milwaukee & St Paul railway near {
Boone. Ia, injured several persons.
IL special report on the operations /