Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-10-15

I ton at Bethlehem, Pa. The expert
mental gun Is to be 81 feet long and
will throw projectile p feet in length,
containing 400 pounds Of nitro-gly-
cerine, 1000 feet through the water.
PARKER, WEBB S, Co. 5 packing house
in Detroit was damaged by fire to the
extent of 100000. One man was
burned TO death and about a dozen
others were more or less seriously
burned.
A RECENT invention introduced in
eastern factories enables any person
in any part OF the factory to stop the
main engine simply by pushing an cleo
trio button.
FROM January l to September 30 p
SIS miles of new railway track have
been laid in this country.
JONI WILLIAMS and Peter Cusick. in
mates of the Soldiers home at Leaven-
worth, Kan, were killed by the ears.
IN freight wreck near Binghamton,
n. Y, Engineer James Patterson was
killed and ffty-fve cars were de-
strOyed. The damage was over $3.50, 600.
AT Mayfield, Ky, six acres of ground
were burned over. The loss was placed
at 500, 600, with but little insurance.
WILLIAM KIssER, an aeronaut, of
Louisville, Ky. was killed by falling
$50 feet at Greenup, H., while making
an ascent
THE United States government will
reserve, under the act of congress
passed at the last session, 1900, 600
acres of land on the headwaters of the
White river in Colorado
GEN. G. NJ. DoDGE, of Iowa, was
elected president of the Society of the
Army of the Tennessee, in session in
Chicago.
In the stallion trot at Grand Rapids,
Mich for a purse of $4,000 Allerton
defeated Nelson. taking the second,
third and fourth heats.
The case against Private Detective
d. c. O'Malley, who was charged with
bribing the Hennessy jury, was dis
missed at New Orleans
AUGUsT BELMoNT's five-story brown
stone house on Fifth avenue, New
York, was burned, causing a loss of
$500 600
FIRE at Montgomery, Ala, destroyed
Hunter & Co S compress and 2, 500 bales
of cotton, causing a loss of Sl95, 900.
ANsoN II. HAMILTON, proprietor of
the Cape House, Shoreham hotel and
other property at Cape May, n. j., has
failed for 800, 600
THE National Association Of Funeral
Directors in session at Richmond, Va,
elected Joseph W. Laube, of that city,
as president
The Olympic theater at St Paul was
burned, the loss being 100000.
AT Topeka, Kan, Judge Johnson, in
the circuit court, decided that an arrest
made on letter or telegram was not
due process of law.
In the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the 9th numbered 24O. against $50
corresponding week last year
JOE Coz, negro, was taken from the
Jail at Omaha and lynched by mob
for assaulting Lizzie Yates, years of
age.
THE National bank at Enterprise,
Ore, was robbed by three men in broad
daylight of So, 500
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY recruits
for Mormondom arrived in New York +
from Europe.
AT the leading clearing houses in the /
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the Sth aggregated
81, 226, 473, 057, against 81, 1898, OS6, IA the
previous week.
A. 5. MANN & Co, dry goods mer-
chants of Rochester, y. Y, failed for
S10O, 600
THE storage warehouse of Hunter &
Co. 5 compress was burned at Mont
gomery, Ala, with 1900 bales of cot
ton. Loss. Sl25,oOo.
Ed. NEAL was hanged at Omaha,
Neb,, for the murder Of Allan and Dor
othy Jones. He confessed his crime On
the scatfold
john and Wade Fielder were executed
at Rusk, Tex, for numbering Vance
Thompson, August T. 1920.
FOREIGN exports of cotton thus far
for the season have been 4l1,3S4, as
against 5s4 IS bales last year.
FORTY men were discharged from the
employ of the Wagner Palace Car Com
pany at East Buffalo, \. Y, because
they were members of an organization
of anarchists
IT was said that William Evans Sec
rotary Of the Morse Wool Securing
Company Of st, Louis was short S25,-
600 in his accounts
J. w TARIEroN, of Martinsville,
Ind. while fishing in white river found
pearl worth $500 in clam she'll.
DURING the last month over eco
Cinnamon have entered the United
States from Kingston, Ont
AN oil well which flows at the rate
Of 10000 barrels a day was opened in
the Mcdonald field near Pitts burgh,
Pa.
IN collision on the Erie road near
Ridgewood, ~ J., three trainmen were
fatally hurt,
THE census bureau has issued an ex-
ira bulletin on education which shows
that the total school enrolment of the
United States reported July /. 1891,