Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-12-10
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

THE issue of standard silver dollars
from the minis during the week ended
on the 3Oth ult. was S454, $50. The issue
during the corresponding period of last
year was s563, 200.
THE public debt statement issued on
the lst showed the total debt to be 81,
$40. 961, 695; cash in the treasury, S745,-
356, $50; debt less cash in the treasury,
SOS, Cos, 945 Decrease during NOvem-
Der, s., $40, 139
CHARLES BIssO was sentenced at In
dianapolis 10 twenty-one years in the
state prison for a criminal assault upon
Blanche Station, aged Q years. An in
effectual attempt to lynch Bisso was
made
THE New York court Of appeals has
decided that person riding upon a
railway pass can recover damages in
case Of an injury.
A. b. SPIES wagon factory at Ster-
ling. Ill, was burned Loss, S12O, 600.
insurance, sS5, 900.
THE report of Prof T. Mendenhall,
chief Of the United States geodetic and
coast survey, concerning the Indiana
Ohio boundary line, shows that it is
one mile east Of its proper place, thus
giving Ohio nearly 100 square miles OF
Indiana territory
THE issue Of the Window two-dollaI
certificates was begun at Washington.
No. / was allotted to Mrs. Window
THREE workmen were thawing out
dynamite at Corunna, Mich, when il
exploded, killing one and fatally
wounding the others.
THE Grand hotel at Leadville. Col,
was burned, sick guest named
Mathews perishing in the flames
Two OF a gang Of firebugs were cap
tured in St Paul, Mimi, while in the
act of starting fire one Of them con.
fesscd that he had burned many houses
for percentage of the insurance.
THE postmaster general has issued
an order directing that all promotions
Of clerks in the fifty pos. offices now
under the civil service law and rules be
made only after a competitive exami-
nation.
Two FREIGHT trains on the L., n. A
& c. collided near Lafayette, Ind, and
one engineer was fatally injured The
damage to property amounted to
$50. 600
GEORGE E. BARR proprietor of the
Hotel Warwick at Springfield, Mass,
shot his wife and then committed sui
eide because she refused to give him
money
THE annual report of the first assist
ant postmaster general shows that at
the close of the last fiscal year there
were 2,9s4 presidential post Offices in
the United States. The gross receipts
amounted to $50, sos, O57, being an in
crease of i,S12, COG over the previous
year The aggregate expenditure for
compensation to postmasters amounted
to Sls, $40. 999
FoUR women lost their lives in fires
in New Orleans
The boiler in a planning mill at Lodi, |
Tex, exploded, killing Jack Bickham
and w. 5 Warner
WHAT appeared to be huge ball of I
fire was observed to shoot across the /
heavens in the vicinity of Valparaiso, !
Ind.
THE treasury Of the state of Arkan-
sas was for the first time in its history
without dollar.
Four persons were killed and two
were wounded by the derailing of a
car at a switch in New York city.
A PRAIRIE fire swept over the north
ern part of Lyons county, Kan, and |
many haystaclzs granaries and orchards |
were destroyed. The loss would amount |
to thousands of dollars.
In his annual report to Secretary
Foster on the operations and condition
of the treasury Treasurer Nebeker
says the net ordinary revenues of the !
government for the past fiscal year
We're 1892, 612, 447.3l, or $40, 46S, 535. 80
less than those of the year before.
The net ordinary expenditures, ex-
elusive of the amounts paid in premium
on bonds purchased, were 1855, 372.
6S4. "A. The postal revenues amounted
to SOS, 762, 90s 30 and the expenditures
to S72, 067, $50 65 The reduction eff
fected during the year in the principal
of the bonded debt was SIG, 500, 273.
The amount of money in circulation
was S1,676, 07S, l02. The disbursements
during the year were S7S1 l26, $40 %,
leaving balance of S726, 232, 1872. so.
JoHN g. HER, aged 50, was shot and
fatally wounded by his jealous wife at
East Buffalo n y.
GEORGE J. REFS, a Detroit (Mich.1
groceryman, his wife and three sons
We're smothered TO death by the de-
struction of their store and dwelling
by fire
THE new cruiser New York was sue
cessfully launched at Cramps ship
yard in Philadelphia in the presence of
Secretary Tracy and other distin-
guished persons.
SAMUEL PoLLAK, aged 81, shot his
wife in Philadelphia and then killed
himself. Jealousy was the cause.
AT Haverstraw, n. u, the Clinton
dynamite works were blown up and
five men were killed
THREE children were burned to death
in Capt Maxwel's store at Little Rock,
Ark
AT Cleveland, O., the steambarge
Edward 5. Pease was nearly destroyed
by fire, and Philip Stutsman and Gus
Ringer. engineer and fireman respect