Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-10-08

/ s7O2, 474.Of2. Decrease during Septem-
/ Der, SIS, PSI, SO
TIN THOUSAND railroad coal miners
+ in the Pittsburgh district struck for in
i creased wages
I THE Irish national league convention
met in Chicago with 800 delegates pres
ent from all portions Of the country.
WILLIAM DIXON and his wife were
burned to death in their home near
RoxbOro y. c.
THE Leland Stanford, Jr., university
at Palo Alto, Cal, which has an en-
dowment of 500, 600, 0OO was formally
opened with an enrolment of $40 stu
dents.
THERE was said to be great short
age in the tobacco crop this year, the
principal deficiency being in that grade
used for cigar wrappers
GEORGE j. BALDWIN and his son John
were murdered at Fontanelle, Neb., by
James Anderson, step son of Bald
win. The killing was the result of an
old feud
NINE negro strikers of Lee county,
Ark, were hanged to a tree by an
armed mob as they were being con-
veyed by sheriffs from Cat Island to
Mariana. Two Of the same gang were
shot earlier in the day.
EDGAR H. KELLOGG. until recently
the Chicago agent of the Home Life In
surance Company of Brooklyn, N. Y,
was said to be short S30, 900 IN his ac-
counts.
THE fishing smack Ada, of Pensa-
cola, Fla, with a crew OF six men, was
given up as lost
THE Harper Manufacturing Com
pany's wooden mills at Oxford, Me,
were burned, causing a loss of 500, O0O'
WITHIN the last ten days prices in the
Connecticut tobacco market have ad-
vanced from TO 5 cents per pound.
FRANK RUDY, a wealthy citizen of
Lima, O., was hypnotized and heeced
out of $500 by confidence men.
ANDREW QUGNLIN, aged so, and the
oldest railway conductor in the United
States, was killed by train near Avon,
n. J.
DURING the month of September the
coinage at the United States minis was
II, 437, 246 pieces of the value of S3, 702,-
GIL.
JAMES JOHNSON, city marshal of Ant
werp, O., while arresting two burglars
in the railroad yards at that place was
thrown by them under freight train
and fatally injured.
THE corner stone of the Ohio cottage
of the National Woman's Relief Corps
Home was laid at Madison, o.
A TRAIN ran down hand car near
Carrollton, o., killing two men and
wounding seven, three of whom would
die.
AT Davenport, la, the water in the
Mississippi river was lower than it had
been for years
IN the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the I'd numbered 23O. against 2lO
the preceding week and 29T for the
corresponding week last year
THE schooner Frank Perew was lost
in a gale on Lake Superior off Vermil-
lion Point and the captain and five of
the crew were downed.
TURNER & BRO, Boston bankers, have
failed for $500, 600.
THE census Office issued bulletin
which showed that the real estate
mortgage debt in force in Illinois jan
uary l. 1890. was $3.50. 299, POO
THE city marshal Of Baltimore gave
notice that the sale of cigars, candy,
soda or mineral water, in fact every
thing except milk or ice, would not be
permitted on sunday hereafter
THE irish National League Of Amer
lea in session in Chicago elected NJ. V.
Cannon, Of Omaha as president. The
report of the secretary scored Parnel
aud the parliamentary party, and de-
clared that parne,l and his followers
We're more anxious for American dol
lars than anything else
THE great huckleberry marsh west
of Walkerton, Ind. caught fire and
was totally destroyed, entailing a loss
OF many thousands Of dollars
JOHN BBowF (coloredl and a well-to-
do farmer at Childersburg, Ala, was
lynehed to prevent his testifying
against two white men in u barn-burn.
ing case.
,IosEpH HoBE attempted to kill his
wife at Fremont, O., and failing, took
his own life
THE Minnesota supreme court has
declared that contracts in futures are
not valid and therefore persons who
get caught on the boards Of trade may
repudiate their contracts unless they
buy and sell real grain.
WILLIAM lloUsER and Spencer Cam
eron, farmers living near kenton, O.,
.ght a duel and both received fatal
wounds,
An explosion of giant powder in a
mine at Butte, Mont. wrecked fifty
houses and injured several persons,
/ three fatally
AT Red Lodge, Mont, and other
/ places the snow was feet deep on the
| level
THE five states of Iowa, Kansas, Hi.
nois, Nebraska, and Missouri produce
fully one-half of the corn crop of the
/ United States
II was re ported that great fields of
| grain in North Dakota would be ruined
/ through the inability of farmers TO Sc