Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-08-06
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Paris.
DOMESTIC.

AT Jonesville. Ind, white caps took
a young man by the name of Mark
Perry from a saloon, bound him to a
telegraph pole and admonished twenty
five lashes because he would not stop
drinking and go to work.
FROM a statement by the treasury de-
partment it appears that the commerce
of the United States has increased dur
ing this fiscal year $50, 191. SOB. The
total commerce of the past fiscal year
aggregates 81, 729. $50, s96. The total
value of imports for the year was Ss44,-
900, 491, and of imports, 1854, 425, 4O5.
A CIRCULAR has been issued by Off
GERS Of the Knights of Labor urging
political action in the future as an aid
in the accomplishment of the purposes
of the order
Ar Columbus, O.. w. J. Elliott,
former editor of the Sunday Capital,
was found guilty of murder in the sec
ond degree for the killing of Albert c.
Osborn and w Hughes.
A MOB broke into the Jail at Dixon.
KY, and took out Jim King and Bill
Woods, wife heaters, with the inten-
ton of lynching them, but the men es-
capped and were not to be found.
THE republican editors of Wisconsin
held meeting at Madison and formed
a state organization with w f. Street,
of the Superior Inter Ocean, as presi-
dent.
THE crops in twenty counties of Ohio
along the Indiana line were being
eaten by grasshoppers.
IT was reported that S75. 900 had been
stolen from the express Office at
Kountze, Tex.
FOREST fires were doing great dam
age in the vicinity of Sonora, Cal
FLAMES at Taberg n. Y, destroyed
many business houses.
THE republican editors of Illinois met
with the republican state central com
mittee in Chicago and formed the Re-
publican Editorial association of Illi-
nois. NJ w Matthews, of the Urbana
Herald, was elected president
A CLoUDBURsT at Council Bluffs, Ia,
flooded over 200 dwellings. doing great
damage
AT Austin, New, the city railway
was torn from its bed by cloudburst,
awnings were torn down, water mains
ground, and the majority Of the busi-
ness houses were filed with mud to
depth of 3 or feet
A STATEMENT from the bureau of sta
tisties of the treasury department shows
that the total number of immigrants
arriving in this country during the last
fiscal year was sos, 466, against 45l, 2t9
IN 1890, showing an increase during the
last fiscal year of l04.2 The increase
was largely from the following coun-
tries: Italy, % 354; Austria Hungary,
IA, 1861; Germany, 81, liz; Russia, includ-
ing Poland, 2s,245
ED CALDWELL and John Tumason
took refuge under tree during a rain
storm at Warren, o., when lightning
struck the tree and killed both men
THE exports of gold and silver from
the United States during the last fiscal
year were SlOs, 129, 2sS, and the imports
were $50, 212, 354, an excess of exports
of S72, SIG, 954. The exports of gold were
$50, sos, 622 and the imports SIS III, Ito, /
the largest excess Of exports OF gold in
any year of our commerce.
WHILE preaching to large audience
at Houston, Tex, some people on the |
outside turned out the lights and rot
ten-egged Rev Sam Jones and his |
audience, most of whom were ladies'
The fields adjoining the Indiana and |
Ohio boundary line were alive with |
grasshoppers. which were doing an in
estimable amount of damage to the |
crops.
JAMES GoRDoy BENNETT, proprietor
of the New York Herald. was indicted
for publishing an account of the Sing
Sing electrocutions.
A MINER named wilkins, living near
Phillipsburg. Pa, fatally injured Mrs.
Joseph Wilson with basehgll bat and
then shot himself
WHITE CAPS near Raleigh, y. c., took
Mrs. Mary Green Allen from her cot
tage and beat her numerically. No
cause was assigned for the action.
The refusal of a workman to instruct
a boy in the boot and shoe factory of
John f. Drake at Quincy, Mass, re-
suited in the closing of that establish
ment and the throwing out of employ
ment Of 1000 hands
MICHAEL MANNING. Il. Corkhill and
George Lemon were killed at Pitts
burgh, Pa, by the collapse of the new
pudding mill of the Pittsburgh Oil
Wen supply Company.
AT Cleveland Hal Pointer paced the
three fastest heats in race on record
--2:1024, 210a4, 2:1Ol4
THE Baltimore Consolidated Oil Com
pany lost IS 600 barrels of oil from the
two tanks at Canton, Md, by fire.
Loss, S242 goo
The census bureau estimates that
., 250. 600 families in the United States
occupy and own incumbered farms and
homes.
a RECIPROCITY treaty between the
United States and San Domingo has
been signed
AT the fourteenth annual meeting in
Saratoga, ~ y, of the American Paper
Manufacturers association, w A. Rus
sell, of Lawrence. Mass, was elected
president