Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-01-29

diocese asking that help be extended 70
Irish sufferers in ireland.
BEING told by medium that her hus-
band was faithless Mrs. Ludwig Ander-
son poisoned herself and three children
at Brocktoh Mass.
JOHN K. AYDELoTTE, editor of the
Daily Democrat at Hamilton. O., was
caught in the hy-wheel in the engine
room and instantly killed.
AT San Antonio, Tex, during low
ers' quarrel Bertha Gross shot and fatal
ly wounded James Hartley and then
committed suicide.
WHAT has long been known as the
oldest horse in the world died in Buff
falo, \. y, on . 22d. lie was owned
by Mr. Braun, - bought him when
he was years old and had him forty
years.
Miss GEORGIA MORTIMER. aged %
years, leading member of the Might
Owl" Company, fell dead at Kansas
City, Mo
JAMES O'NEIr, a Chicago & North
western conductor, was shot and in
stantly killed by burglar concealed in
a box-car.
ABOUT seventy letters belonging to
the Northwestern National Bank of
Chicago, and supposed TO contain over
500, 900 in drafts, etc, were delivered
to a stranger by clerk in the Chicago
post-ofiice and were missing
JEFFERSON BAILEY, a stock buyer
and farmer living near Washington,
Ind. was robbed Of 81, 400.
THE Pension Office at Washington
from January l To -, inclusive, issued
1887 pension certificates, the greater
portion of them being granted under
the dependent pension law. This was
the largest number ever issued during
a like period.
INTERNAL revenue collections for the
first six months Of the current fiscal
year were s75 ,697, l43. a comparative in
crease of S6,6i9, G63 over the previous
six months
ONE HUNDRED men went to the
Chinese quarters at Wilton, Ore, and
led the Cclestials out with ropes around
their necks and drove them from the
town.
THE funeral of King Kalakaua. of the
Hawaiian Islands, took place in San
Francisco on the 22d, and the remains
were placed on the steamer Charleston,
which sailed Immediately for Honolulu
WILLIAM G. DUNCAN, a city salesman
for the diamond house Of Lewesohn &
Co. in New York, disappeared with
$50, 900 worth of diamonds and pearls.
GENERAL MILES reviewed the troops
in the field at Pine Ridge, 5. D. There
were 3, 900 men and $40 horses in line.
BRIG ADIER-GENERAL 5. V BENET,
Chief Of Ordnance of the army, was on
the 22d placed on the retired list, hav-
ing reached the age Of 81 years
STEPHEN +. SHERMAN, a prominent
member of the Buffalo (N. " board
of trade who was convicted of grand
larceny. was sentenced TO five years in
prison at hard labor.
An Grays, KY, Eph Moore killed
himself just as he was about TO be
tried for killing two men without cause.
AN organization to be known as the
Confederation Of Industrial Organiza-
tions was perfected at Washington, and
Ben Terrell, Of Texas. was elected presi-
dent. The resolutions call for abolition
of National banks; Government loans
to the people at > per cent. interest; the
prohibition of alien ownership of land;
u graduated income tax: Government
ownership of the telegraph and rail
roads, and the election of President,
Vice President and United States SEN
ators by direct vote Of the people
NEAR Newport, Tenn. Captain f. c.
Dunn was shot and killed by w. A.
Moore, lr. Peyton Dunn. son of the
murdered man, then shot and killed
Moore
TuE village of Seayille, Ky, was al
most totally destroyed by an incendiary
fire.
THE tooth anniversary Of the admis-
sion Of Vermont into the Union was
celebrated by the Vermont Association
at Boston
ALL Chinese laundrymen and laborers
had been driven from the towns Of
Western Alhene and Adams, in Oregon,
by mobs
A STEADY increase in the volume of
trade throughout the country was re-
ported by a New York commercial
agency.
JAMES A. Woop, an attendant at the
Richmond lind hospital for the in
sane, was found guilty of the murder
Of Jay Blount, an inmate, and sentenced
to twenty-one years in the penitentiary.
MRs. CHARLES REIsrERER, wife of a
prominent resident of Upper SanduSky,
O., eloped with colored farm hand
named James Pond.
THE new building owned by Warner
Bros. at Buffalo, n. Y, was burned,
causing loss Of $500, 600 Three fire.
men were killed by falling wall.
JAMES +. OWENS. aged 70 years, and
his wife, aged "A years, were killed on
the Baltimore Il Ohio railway near
Washington.
THE flood in the Housatonic river in
Connecticut had subsidized The break
in the dam at Ansonia caused loss of
$500, 600
IL the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the Esd numbered $50, against Al the
preceding week and SIS the correspond
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