Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-04-16
EpitOme of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION
DOMESTIC.

guard about the tomb would be with
drawn.
YALE and Harvard have completed
arrangements for a series of annual
athletic contests, this years meeting to
be at New Haven, Conn. May IS.
LATER developments prove that Alex
ander Snyder, an old citizen of Goshen,
Ind, thought 10 have been murdered
by tramps, was attacked in his sleep
by rats.
The steamer Earle Kinsley. from
Hiawa, arrived at San Francisco and
reported that in northern China there
had been a severe flood and that over
10000 people had been drowned
Two YoUNG women at White oaks,
N. ", committed suicide by shooting
themselves with the same revolver.
They belonged to wealthy families and
left a note saying: Death is sweet,
and we prefer it 10 life "
Two CHILDREN at Plattsville. Col,
were fatally burned by the explosion Of
a can of kerosene which they we're
using to start fire.
GEORGE HARRIS, who cut his wife's
throat and did the work successfully,
was sentenced at Caldwell, o, to "a life
term in the state penitentiary.
By an explosion in a Hungarian
clearinghouse at Braddock. Pa, elev-
en- men were burned, four fatally.
PHnApELPHA's new mayor gives the
police department ten days to get out
Of politics or out Of the citys employ.
The New York Methodist conference
has decided Overwhelmingly that wom-
en- shall not be admitted to the general
conference.
The Stoekbridge savings bank at
Stockbridge, Mass, has gone into a re-
ceiver's hands. Depositors would lose
% per cent.
DOZENS of cattle, horses aud hogs
were dying Of hydrophobia in Britt, Ia.
a mad dog run amucl1 in that vicinity
several weeks ago
HENRY NJ SrANLEY's lecture tour in
the United States is over lie said in
New York that the total number of
miles he had Travelled in all his ex-
ploration Of Africa was p, 600, and that
he had beaten that record by over 2, 600
miles on his lecture Journey
LEWIS BOOKER, one of the most prom
inent business men in Richmond. Va,
was arrested, charged with misappro-
priating 500, 600 Of fdlciary funds.
TooF, McGowAN & Co, grocers and
cotton factors at Memphis Tenn, have
failed for Sl26, RS.
THE most valuable cargo Of coffee
ever brought to this country arrived at
Baltimore. 1t consisted of %. 32s bags,
worth S66O,2
THE town of Tobias, Neb., was near
ly wiped out by fire.
DAVID DAVIS, a detective employed
in hunting ont Illicit stills. was found
murdered near Elkhorn. va.
THREE Of the Hungarians who we're
in the labor riot at BraddocS, Pa. last
New Years day ia which Michael
Quinn was killed. were convicted Of
murder and sentenced to be hanged.
THE celebration Of the Tooth anniyer-
sary Of the establishment Of the Amer
lean patent system was begun In Wash
ington, a large number Of inventors
participating.
n. BYREs IL Co, lumber dealess at
Lancaster, Pa, have failed for $40. 600.
MICHIGAN salt manufacturers have
formed new organization to control
the price of their product
Two UNKNOWN men were seen to cap
size in a boat on the Mississippi river at
Davenport, l. a.
CHARLES +. KINCAID, the newspaper
correspondent on trial in Washington
for the shooting Of ex-Representatiye
Taulbee, Of Kentucky, in February,
1890, was acquitted
THE championship season of the
American association of baseball clubs
opened on the Sth
THE loss to the oyster beds near New
Orleans caused by the crevasSe at Ames'
plantation VIII reach $500. 900
The United States treasurer has paid
the governor of Tennessee the direct
tax claims Of the state, amounting to
$500. 600
THE directors of the Washington ma
tional bank of New York have decided
to close up the institution
A TERRIBLE cyclone visited Nevada,
Mo. and houses were Rnroofed, wires
Frustrated and havoc played in all di-
rections. One person was killed.
Two SOCIETY women at Albuquerque,
n. NJ, became insane from the use of
cosmetics on their faces.
FRED llUNpLEY, Is years Of age, was
sentenced to fourteen years in the peni-
tentiarr at Huron, s. d., for shooting
his father over a quarrel in putting
down a carpet last summer.
JAMES COWARD and his mother quar-
relied in Jacksonville, Ind. She struck
him with stone, when he shot and
killed her
THE Central hotel at New London,
Conn, was burned, and Michael Daley,
father of the proprietors, was suffo-
Gated in his room.
FIRE in the village of Cheviot. O., de-
stroyed property covering nearly an
acre of ground.
THE Indiana supreme court has de-
clded that where candidates for public
office receive an equal number Of votes
the election may be determined by the
drawing Of lots.
Mrs ANDREW Doll, Of Herman,