The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-05-29
OVER THE WORLD IN A WEEK.

"A typesetter at Lacrosse, Wis.,, has
fallen heir to 100000.
"A Montreal judge has decided that
hotel cook is not domestic servant.
"A Missouri newspaper recently pub
lished an editorial on "The Bedbug in
Politics"
Fifteen persons were hurt in an at
tack by a mob in Pittsburg on ten cent
circus there.
The Standard Oil company has Sc
cured leases on 10000 acres of land in
West Virginia.
AT a church trial near Attala, Ala,
Sam Atwood was shot and wounded NOR
tally by L. F. Burgess.
"A resident at Parker's Ford, Pa, is
said to have ring dove which is 81 years
old, and has been in one cage all its life.
Secretary Foster intends to make
the fractional silver coins of correspond
weight and fineness with the silver dol
lar.
Hay thirty-two years old has been
found in Westmoreland county, Penn,
and is said to be bright and well pre-
served.
Two little children died in awful
agony at st. Louis from eating roach
poison which had been carelessly left
exposed.
Henry Boyle, life convict in the
Michigan City Qnd.) penitentiary, sud.
denly regained his reason, after being a
raving maniac for many years.
Five hundred veterinary surgeons in
Great Britain have signed a paper con-
demning overhead check reins as painful
to horses and productive of disease.
The soldier who shed the first blood
in the cause of the Confederacy, PeytOn
Anderson, is still living in Rappahannock
county, Va. He was wounded while on
picket duty.
Within a radius of fifteen miles from
New York City Hall now live nearly as
many people as there were in the entire
nation 100 years ago, when the first CEN
sus was taken.
The jury trying ex-State Treasurer
Nolan, of Missouri, for embezzlement of
$4,000, was unable to agree and has
been discharged. 1t was evenly divided
for conviction and acquittal.
-Estella Morris, aged IS, of Indian.
apolis, seasoned the entire family dinner
with arsenic in order to cut short the
earthly career of old man Rector who
boarded there. She is arrested and the
poisoned people will recover.
Michigan has passed new law for
choosing Presidential electors that in
sures a part of the State vote to the Dem
ocratic ticket in 1892. The electors are
to be hereafter elected by Congressional
districts instead of from the State at
large.
"A farmer near Atchison, Kas., want
ed to dig a well, so he plowed lot of
land and planted it in oats. Every day
he watched the oats, observing the spots
which showed the greatest moisture. FL
nally he selected a spot and sank well.
At twcnty-four feet he had fine stream
of water. 1t is said to be the best well
in the county.
There has been quarried in Maine
solid shaft of granite that will be much
larger than the Obelisk in Central Park
and will be the mOnolith in the world.
1t is without crack or flaw, and is 1l5
feet long and ten feet square at the base.
The largest Egyptian obelisk, which is
now at Rome, is l05 feet high, so that
the Maine stone exceeds it by ten feet.
1t is computed to weigh not far from $50
tons.
During the first three months of this
year $4,000 immigrants landed in the
United States. That is more than the
total population of the State of Idaho,
or Wyoming, or Nevada, or Arizona.
But on the other hand that rate, If con-
tinued through the year, would give US
only $4,000 immigrants for the year,
which is III 900 lass than the immigra-
tion last year, and less than half the Inn
migration of 1882, when the highest
mark (7sS,992) was made.