Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-02-05
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the week Ending Feb. 2.

A United States signal service sta
ton has been established at GAINESVILLE,
1 Wis.
Two large new gold fields were dis
| covered on the Turner river in Aus
tralia.
A shortage of s94, 500 was discovered
in the Office of the State Treasurer of
Arkansas.
In quarrel over a calf near Mara
thon, Tex, f. Giuiand and T. T. Cook
were killed
Three hundred building and loan as
sociations in New Jersey formed
State league.
In a siX-day walking match at Min
neapolis Mimi, Cartwright won, MAX
ing 524 miles.
Nellie Bertrand Berthet. the French
novelist, died in London on Saturday.
aged &c years
Samuel Butler, 63 years Of age, State
Treasurer Of Pennsylvania in 1879, died
at Westchester, Pa.
Colonel George 5. Mann, a veteran of
the Mexican war, died on Friday at
San Francisco, aged 90 years.
John Clifford, aged s. years, father of
Congressman Clifford, of South Dakota,
died at his home near Beloit. Wis.
James n. Henry, charged with rob
btng the Bank of Montreal of 81, 500, 900,
was arrested in the City of Mexico.
Theodore Braun, of Toronto, Ont.
president of the German Liederkrans,
has disappeared. He owes about $40, 900
The six-story building of the West
ern Refrigerating Company in Chicago
was burned, causing a loss of $500, 900.
John Aroken, stockman who was
passenger on a train wrecked by an
| open switch near Kansas City, died of
fright.
A case of leprosy was reported to the
| Wisconsin Board of Health from Buffalo
County. The patient is a Norwegian
woman
The Union Compress Company's
building in Argenta, Ark, was, with
its contents, destroyed by fire. Loss,
/ S1s5, 600.
Wilson Howard, a notorious desper-
ado and outlaw, charged with killing
over twenty persons, was placed in jail
at st. Louis
The Friars Point Miss calaboose in
which We're three negro prisoners was
destroyed by fire and the negroes
burned to death.
The revolutionists of Chill were said
to have carried every thing before them
and President Balmaceda was suing for
peace with the rebels
Mrs. Henry Wysong, living near
/ Horton, Kan, took the lives of her two
] little children and then killed herself
| Poverty was the cause.
At Drexel, Wis, two children of
William Reinert-a boy OF 3 years and a
| girl of months-were burned todeath
while alone in the house.
Three counterfeiters were arrested
on Thursday at Kallzasl1a, Mich, and a
! quantity of dies, casts and spurious nick
| els were found in their possession.
Four men were sitting in McConnell's
| grocery store in San Francisco Thursday
night when two masked men entered,
covered them with revolvers and stole
| $500 from the till.
Flames destroyed the four-mill of
Everett, Aughenbugh & Co. and the
two store-houses of the company at
! Wauseca, Mimi, causing a loss of $780,
900; insurance, $1,000
| A large ladle of molten steel in the
| Duquesne pa steel works was acct
| dentally upset on Thursday and the
contents poured out upon four men,
/ burning them to death.
The National executive silver COM
mittee, General A. j. Warner chair
man, has issued an address to Congress
and the people urging the free and I'M
limited coinage of silver.
Ten tr;mps attempted to take posses
sion of passenger train at Tppecanoe,
o., but the train crew finally drove
| the tramps out of the car after shooting
three of them, two mortally.
Owners of twenty-one furnaces and
rolling mills in the Mahoning and
Shenandoah valleys, representing a
capital of So 100000 and employing
| 10000 men, formed Il combination Fri
day.
The Bellefonte (Pa.) Furnace Com
pany's furnace, ore banks and quarries
/ Sllub OONn LOT hu iUOtUI . period
! Friday owing to an increase in freight
tariffs throwing GO men out of en-
| ployment.
Sebastian Peters. saloonist of Lima,
/ O., hacked his wife to death with a
butcher-knife Friday night. He had
been on a several weeks drunk, had be-
come crazed from the effects Il his
spree, and is now raving maniac.
Alaska colliery, the Reading Coal &
Iron Company's largest mine, has sus-
pended operations indefinitely, throw
ing out of employment roo hands Bell
more and Morris Ridge mines have also
been compelled to suspend owing to a
scarcity of cars