Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-04-02
EpitOme of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC.

acted in self-defense.
THE surplus in the national treasury
on the 23d was about sl3. 600, 600.
The director of the Pasteur institute
at New York reports that of the SIS
persons treated for dog and eat bites
last year not one died of hydrophobia.
GOVERNMENT agents sent to investi-
gate the state of feeling among the In
dams concerned in the recent troubles
reported that sense of wrong still
pervaded the camps, and that great
care and promptness in performing its
promises was necessary on the part of
the government to prevent further out
breaks.
AT Portland Ore, Sandy Olds, on the
fourth trial for murder, was sentenced
to only one year in the penitentiary.
lie had twice been under sentence Of
death.
ANDERSON GREEN & Co, wholesale
dry goods dealers at Nashville, Tenn,
failed for s175 900.
Miss KATE DETwILER, a handsome
young lady of "a years. hanged herself
at Canton, O., while suffering from the
grip.
MORE than half the business portion
of Russellville, the county seat of
Franklin county, Ala, was burned by
an incendiarY fire.
J. c. ADAMS. Of Wichita, Kan, was
convicted of the murder Of Capt. w. l..
Couch, of Oklahoma fame
DURING twenty-four days 728 deaths
occurred in Allegheny and Pittsburgh,
Pa, from the grip.
Gov. NICHOLS, of Louisiana, has
replied to the dispatch of Secretary
Blaine regarding the Italian subjects
killed by the New Orleans mob. The
governor fails to express any regret of
the lynching.
JOHN DANCES, a negro, was lynched
at Columbia Ala. for eriminally as
saulting Mrs. b. Petts.
HALF a dozen persons were more or
less seriously injured in a wreck on the
Louisville & Nashville near Louisville,
Ky
The states of Indiana and Missouri
have been paid their share Of the direct
tax refund, the former receiving S769,-
IA and the latter S646, 05s
PART Of Des Moines, Ia, was flooded
by high water from the river and
many families had to be removed from
their homes in boats.
AT meeting of the Grant monument
committee in New York arrangements
were perfected for breaking ground for
the monument on Gen. Grants birth
day, April 81.
THE treasurer of the Gen. Sherman
statue fund in New York was instructed
to announce that S54, 1856, or enough To
complete the statue, had been received.
AT DeKalb, Tex, Mrs. William Watts
killed her husband in self-defense.
THE total number of hogs packed in
the west during the year ended March
! was l7,7l3,0O0, against iS,74500Q the
preceding year
METHODIST churches of the Aberdeen
q. % district propose to liquidate
their debts by having each member sow
an acre of land to wheat and turn the
proceeds over TO the church
DR. KNTcKERBoCKER govern ment
physician at the Kaw Indian agency.
l. r., was drowned while fording the
Arkansas river. He lived at Udall. Kan.
DISPATCHES from New Mexico report
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sheep and other live stock IN that ter
ritory.
AT Buffalo, n Y, Mrs Frederick
Bartz and her two children died while
under the care of faith-curists.
A GAMBLER named Doc" Middleton,
who claimed to be the noted outlaw,
and Mayor Peyson fatally shot each
other during fight in a gambling
house at Covington, Neb.
Roy CRANpALL, aged IL years. Of
Benton Harbor. Ind, aud Nixon Rush,
Of Paramount Ind, were killed by the
ears,
T. b. PONDER, farmer Of Green
vile county. 5. c., found a rich vein of
gold on his farm.
THE man who recently committed
suicide at Niagara Falls was said to
have been j. L. EIalilk, of Chicago
j. NJ. CONsrABLE's summer residence
at Orienta, n. y, with its contents, was
burned, the loss being Sl25. 900.
Four miners Thomas Beach. Nelson
Van Brocklin, Thomas McCandless and
Fred Miller-fell down shaft distance
of 500 feet and were killed at Lyons,
Kan.
STEPS have been taken at lndianapo-
lis by the planingmill employees to start
cooperative mill, with 500, 600 capital
EVA BRANNoCK, faith curer Of Pitts.
burgh. Pa, is said to have just finished
a fast of forty days, having during that
time consumed nothing but water
SNOW fell in Nebraska on the 25th to
the depth of twenty inches on the level
and railroad traffic was greatly inn
peded. Severe snowstorms were also
reported from Kansas.
THE British steamship Straithairly
was wrecked on the coast Of North
Carolina and nineteen of the crew were
drowned.
The Warren Lumber Company, oper-
ating one of the largest sawmills in
eastern Texas, failed for 100000
A WEALTHY Kentuckian named Cole
was robbed Of SIS, 500 in cash on the Can
adian river in the Cherokee strip The
robbers escaped