Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-12-10

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POSTMASTER GENERAL WANAMAKER
in his annual report viii recommend
enlarging the free delivery service, and
viii ask CONGRESS- to pass a bill to en-
title towns Of a population between
| 1000 and 9. 999 to the free delivery.
Gov. MCKISNEY in his message to
the Virginia legislature urged that the
railroads be forced to provide separate
coaches for negroes.
FIRE destroyed the Western normal
college at Shenandoah, la, causing a
loss Of $50. coo.
RoBBEEs held up a train on the East
Tennessee, Virginia Il Georgia road
near Rome Ca. and secured about
$1,000 from the express car.
Mrs. GEORGE MARTIN and her son,
aged ~ years, were burned to death
at Denver, Col. The accident was
caused by the child upsetting a lamp.
The five mercantile appraisers Of
Philadelphia II Patton, Houseman,
Crawford, Bell and Hunter-indicted
for fraud in Office. were sentenced to
dismissal from Office
COUNTY TREASURER lands, of Stat
ford county, Kan, was said to be $751;
100 short in his accounts.
FRANK PALMER soldier who muir
dered Tremaine, an Indian scout, near
Fort Sully. ;. d., in 1875 was captured
in Bonham, Tex.
GELS & Go. photographers at Buffalo,
n. y. were reported to be insolvent,
with S475. 600 nominal assets and S275,-
600 liabilities
THREE persons were killed and seven
badly injured in a collision on the Bal
timore & Ohio road near Pennington,
n. j.
Four negroes were drowned in the
river at Memphis, Tenn, by the cap
sising Of boat
JASPER MANS, his wife and their two
children were fatally burned by a gaso-
line explosion in their house at Cres-
ton, Ia.
A NEW band OF holiness has been
organized in Kansas City, Kan, which
has fixed the end of the world to come
off Christmas day Of this year
THE first attempt in the history of
the country to afford relief to the
ADMINISTRATION peasantry of Russia
has originated in Minneapolis. The
scheme is to send a shipload of flour to
Russia by the middle of next January,
and the 5000 merchant millers of
America are to be asked to help.
john MCMANUs was hanged at Phil
adelphia for the murder of Eugene
Maginnis, February 81, 1890.
COMMODORE FoLGER, chief of the
bureau of ordnance, in his annual re-
port estimates the expense of the
bureau for the next fiscal year at
81 7s0, 29l, of which total the sum of
s., 1856 25O is to be applied toward arma-
ment OF new vessels authorized to be
built
A FIRE which started in a barn adj
joining the coal and lumber yard of the
ID. J. Boyce estate in Plainfeld, n. j.,
caused loss of Sl50,00O.
WHILE Mrs. Clement Kits of Lima,
o., was porarily absent the house
caught fire and her two little children
were burned to death.
IN his annual report Postmaster Cen
eral Wauamaker shows that in spite
of the fact that over 81, OO0 900 worth of
lottery revenue has been lost during
the last year, the postal deficit of &c.
600, 900 is surely disappearing. Mr..
Wanamaker favors postal telegraph,
telephones and postal savings system,
and thinks penny postage will be de-
manded in the near future, and shows
how newspapers may be transported
free from July /, 1893.
In the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the 4th numbered $50, against 295
the preceding week and Sl2 for the
corresponding week last year
Two PASSENGER and two freight
trains were wrecked on the New York
& New England railroad at East
Thompson, Conn, and three men were
killed and seven injured
PAYMAsTER GENERAL STEWART in his
annual report to the secretary of the
navy says that the growth of the navy
has called for expenditures of So, 5O0,-
600 at shore stations during the fiscal
year
DIR FELIx Roam, a prominent citizen
of Caswell county, n c., on his death
bed confessed that he killed Senator
John w. Stephen twenty years ago.
a SEVERE SHOCK OF earthquake was
felt at Cincinnati and windows were
broken in some instances.
NEAR Owosso, Mich, a small log
church was blown up with dynamite
by unknown persons.
NINE men were killed ANA six in
jured, three fatally by the collapse of
the wall OF the burned building recently
occupied by Farwell, Ozmun & CO., in
St Paul.
NEAR Liberty Center, la, Mr.. and
Mrs Levi Mills, an aged couple, were
cremated by the burning of their home
TWELVE barges loaded with brick
capsized in the Hudson river at Croton
point during a storm and twenty per-
sons We're drowned
CHARLES NJ. SEAToN was hanged at
Mount Vernon, Mo, for the murder of
Lewis Channel at Joplin, Mo, July
5, 1889.
THE residence Of S NJ. Fry, near
Spring Mo-, was burned, and Miss
Minola Payne. a young lady is years