Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-06-11
salary Of $. 900 per anndm.

! in New York city.
THE grip was making great havoc
among the natives of Alaska, hundro ds
having died.
/ ITALIAN immigrants 10 the number
| Of 4. 1876 arrived in New York on the 4th.
/ DURISG a hurricane in East St Louis,
/ H., three dwelling houses, a factory
and a number Of sheds were blown TO
+ splinters, several buildings unroofed
and trees blown down.
THE celebrated $4,000 trotting stall
lion Tom Roger was burned to death
at the Woodiawn stock farm near Gin
cinnati
THE whisky trust has succeeded in
gobbling up every distillery in the
United States, thus creating one of the
most absolute and complete monopo-
lies the commercial world has ever
heard Of
TwENTY-THREE pauper immigrants
were returned to Europe by the federal
authorities at New York.
The wholesale dry goods house of
Connell, Hall McLaster & Co, of
! Nashville, Tenn. has failed, with LA
bilities of nearly $500, 900.
A TORNADO swept over Martinsville.
Ind. and vicinity, and every tree and
house in its course was hattened and
the damage TO stock, grain, fruit and
wheat was very great
PRESIDENT HARRISON has reduced the
six years sentence of Robert Siegel.
son Of Gen. Siegel, to two years and
nine months. aud directs that pardon
be issued to young Siegel then.
A MONUMENT to Leonard Calvert, the
first governor Of Maryland, erected on
the site Of the old mulberry tree at St.
Mary's City. was unveiled on the 4th.
GEORGE HAcKDUFFER, a farmer living
near Vandata, Ill, and his little boy
were killed by lightning.
1oHN YoU, an inmate Of the county
hospital at Reading, Mass, deliberate
" starved himself to death. He went
without food for twenty-seven days.
a HEAVY storm destroyed the Metho-
dist church At Port William, O.. blew
down timber, fences wheat and barns,
and killed horses in several sections.
Az English syndicate has purchased
the sock yards at Omaha, Neb, for
So 900 ono
THE lIuntingburg Ind. bank closed
its doors. the result of the cashiers per-
hitting depositors to overdraw their
accounts 10 the extent of about $40, 600
ALBERT DILLON and Harvey White
hall were drowned in the reservoir at
Bellefontaine, o.
In the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the 9th numbered 224. against 254
the preceding week and 205 for the cor
responding week last year.
THE dwelling of Samuel z. Myers, a
prominent farmer living near Myers
dale, Pa, was burned, and his two
girls, aged and Il years, persisted in
the flames.
john TURNER, aged IS years, and
jacob Hoot. aged ~, were killed by
the ears near Republic, o.
TwESrY-NTNE prominent Harvard
men were fined S6a each in court at
Cambridge Mass. for having liquor ia
their club house.
EX-MAYoR J. T. JOHNSON, J. r.
Faulkner ana "Ed" Waller, the most
prominent citizens of Waldo, Ark, /
were arrested ON the charge of rob /
Ding the mails.
THE directors Of Union Theological
seminary at New York have decided
that Charles A Briggs shall continue
his professorsnp in the seminary not
withstand ng the decision Of the gen
eral assembly Of the Presbyterian
church
CHARLES SHEPHERD and William
Furst. who murdered Carl Pulsifer
December 10, lss9. and then robbed the
body Of so, were hanged ut Fremont, +
Neh.
CHARLES GRAY leoloredl shot his wife
and then killed himself at St Joseph, t
Mo,
FEosrs in Michigan did ereatdamage
To whortIeberry vines
A STORM 1T Burns City, ind, de-
stroyed much property, killed Alb
salon Sharpless and fatally injured
Miss Dora Fortner and killed large
number OF cattle.
THr wife and little child Of G. NJ.
Miller. Vi Minneapolis. were suffocated
by escaping gas.
GEORGE kCssArK, Michael Saboland,
Andrew Todt the Hungarian rioters of
Braddoclx, Pa will hang, the supreme
court refusing to interfere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
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