Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-16
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence FTom All Parts.
poMEsTIC.


The Empire print works in New
York were destroyed BY fire, causi ~ a
loss of 5000. 600
AT GAINESVILLE, Tenn, the Banner
tobacco warehouse, owned by Merri-
wethcr Il Co, with $50 hogsheads of
tobacco. and Draper Bros stable and
twenty-five mules were d. stroyed by
fire. Total loss. Sis5 coo.
THE cyclone which did great damage
at Baton Rouge, La, took an air line
north through the state. and three ne
grocs and several animals were killed.
Hundreds Of houses and barns were de-
molished and acres of cotton and corn
destroyed
Robert Brown (colored) was taken
from Jail at Blackshear. Ga, by
mounted men, tied to tree and riddled
with bullets for assaulting Mrs
O'Berry
Two MINERS were suffocated by fire
in the shaft Of the Homest1lSe mine at
White Oaks, \. NJ
THE schooner Silver Cloud capsized
in Lake Michigan off Port Washington,
Wis. and Capt. Johnson, his wife and
child We're drowned
AT PASSPORT. Ind Carl ~ Rolf was
killed by lightning. His wife and child
beside him in bed were unframed.
The noted trotter, Abe Downing,
with record of 2:203i died at Waiver
", la. The animal was valued at Sl0,
600.
IT has been decided to hold the
Gillian steamer Itata on three charges,
viz; Violating neutrality laws, con-
tempt in leaving while under arrest,
and violation of navigation laws.
MYRADs Of grasshoppers were de-
vastating the country about Cheyenne,
Wyo A strip about 10 mile, wide and
40 long was completely hidden from
view 10y the pests.
john DowD. Of Aurora, H., while
drunk fatally wounded his wife with a
Ratchet aud then stabbed himself to
the heart.
BANK EXAMINER DREW, of Phila-
delphia, on account of his connection
with the keystone bank affair was in
formed that his services were no longer
required by the government
AT San joss, Cal. Manuel Soto killed
dead by the police
THE Bank of Commerce Of Sheffield,
Ala, closed its doors
A CENSUS bulletin shows that the
mem bership of the Catholic church in
the United States numbers 6. $50. 600
communicates over Is years of age.
OVER 1000 delegates from the young
peoples societies Of the baptist
churches in all the states Of the union
met in Chicago and organized the Bap-
fist Young Peoples union
J. II. PHLIIPsroN and his son were
killed by passenger train while cross
ing the tracks of the Big Four road at
Newport, H.
HEAVY rain and windstorm near
Boone, Ia, lodged much of the grain
which was ready to harvest and many
fields of oats were completely ruined
AN express package containing s.. 900
mysteriously disappeared while en-
route from New Orleans to st. Louis.
THE store of A. L, Burlxhardt & Co,
in Cincinnati largest fur dealers in the
country, was burned, causing a loss Of
$3.50. 000 and the clothing firm OF
Geiershofer 4 Co lost $50, 900 by the
same fire
DURING the past three months under
The amended Immigration law, sixty
seven paupcrs who reached New York
from foreign shores were returned to
the country from whence they came.
A CENSUS bulletin just issued gives
the extent of uavigable water Of the
su3f no.
miles, excluding 300 miles from Cincin-
natl TO the mouth of the Ohio river
ADoLrH PLEAsANrs, the mail rider,
and William Lacoae (coloredl were
drowned while attempting to cross the
river in aatboat at Natchitoches, La
ROBERT FRANKoytcH, Frank Milto-
yich, Pete Straug!e and J Speech were
drowned in d gale at Galveston, Tex.
THE wheat crop III western Washing
ton was being greatly damaged by
gophers and squirrels.
HENRY kEK, a saloon keeper at San
duslIy, O., and Joseph Braunich, of
Cleveland, were drowned in Lake Erie
by the upsetting Of boat.
FREIGHr trains coilided at New burg,
O.. and five men were hurt, two fatal
~. The accident was the result of an
operators blander
IN fit Of jealousy Edward McThery,
of indianapolis, fatally shot his wife
and then shot himself dead.
TUE directors Of the Chicago, Bur
liugton 4 Quincy railway announce
that the great fight Of that corporation
against the Brotherhood Of Locomotive
gss