Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-10-08
The News Condensed.
important intelligence From All Parts
DOMESTIC.

fences.
The checker championship games,
twenty-five in all, played in Chicago
by Charles F. Barker, of Boston, and
j. p Reed, of Chicago, resulted as fol-
lows: Barker. 5; Reed. 0; drawn, 81
Mrs. HENRY KEssLER, wife of lead
ing business man at Erie, Pa, was
burned to death by the explosion Of
gasoline stove Mr.. Kessler in trying
to save his wife's life was disfgured
and crippled for life and his aged
mother was badly burned.
THE total number of immigrants ar
irving in the United States from for
eign countries during the month ended
August 81, 1891, was 45, III, against 81
SS1 in August of last year
A MARBLE statue of Pope Leo Kill
was unveiled at Washington.
THE forest fires in Wisconsin, Min
nesota and the Dal1otas have been
checked by rain. The losses are enOr-
nous and hundreds of families are
homeless and penniless.
IT was estimated that the output of
sorghum sugar in Kansas and beet SUI
gar in Nebraska, Utah and California
would reach fully $4,000, 600 pounds the
present season.
IN the nine months of the year 1891
the failures numbered s,S2s, with liza
bilities of $780, 0OO, 600, as compared
with 1881 failures and $780, 900, 600 of
liabilities for the same period of 1890
FOREST fires in Eldorado county, Cal,
destroyed farm houses and barns, and
left over forty families homeless.
+. b. WALLACE q Co, New York
brokers, failed for $500, 900; assets,
1928, 535.
THE steamer Teutonic, of the White
Star line, reduced the eastward record
by making the trip from New York to
Queenstown in days 81 hours and %
minutes.
The John Seller Brewing Company
of Covington, Ky, has failed for $780,
OOO
DURING a heavy gale the tug Bertha
Endress went down near Point Iro-
quois, Mich, with six men on board,
and all persisted.
FRANK SWEENEY was elected grand
master of the Switchman's Mutual
Benefit association at the annual meet
ing in Philadelphia
MANY persons were reported killed
at the opening of the new land in
Oklahoma.
THE biggest oil well ever struck in the
United States was opened near Pitts
burgh, Pa. Its product was estimated
at 10, 600 barrels a day.
JOHN APPLEMAN, of Buckhorn, Pa,
was swindled out of $500 by two
strangers with gold bricks"
Ed POWELL and James Lepor were
hanged at GatesviIle, Tex, for the
murder of John T. Mathiason.
AT Lebanon, Pa, Mrs. Thomas Bonn
berger and her little boy were killed
by the cars
The Kentucky savings bank at
Louisville closed its doors. Depositors
would be paid in full
r. A. WILSON'S stables at Woodlake.
Ky, were burned, together with ten
valuable trotting horses.
SAM JONES and Sam Small, the noted
revivalists, have been summoned be-
fore a grand jury at Rome, Ga, for
saying in one of their meetings that
Rome was hotbed of cussedness and
corruption"
WILLIAM ALLEN, aged SO years, who
spent a small fortune and fifty years
of his life in efforts to ameliorate the
condition of workingmen, has been
sent to the county poor-house at Co
lumbus, o.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS was re-
elected president of the National Civil
Service Reform League at the conven-
ton at Buffalo, n. y.
AN American express car was robbed
by two masked men between Little
Falls and Utica, n y. A package con-
tanning IS. 600 was overlooked.
THE First national bank Of Houtz-
dale, Pa. suspended payment on ac-
count of the embezzleinent of $4,000
by the teller
A TEXAS judge refused to naturalize
an applicant for American citizenship
who is a socialist The judge said the
principles of socialism were not in har-
mony with the constitution of the
United States
AT Murfreeshoro Tenn, J. II. Al
lens livery stable and eleven fine
horses and residence were burned by
an incendiary fire.
Two MEN were struck and instantly
killed by an express train on the Pan
Pandie road near Nobletown, Pa.
A wATERsPoUT near Elizabeth, Ark,
ruined the corn and cotton crops and did
other damage.
LARGE numbers of hogs in South
Dakota were dying of cholera.
THE First national bank of Cleartield.
Pa, closed its doors on account of
run amounting to nearly $40, 600
The receipts of the government
since September amount to S27, $685.
600, being an excess of 81, 2s7. 600 over
ordinary expenses during the same
time. The net cash balance in the
treasury on the SOth ult was S42, 0O0,
600
MCCARTNEY exchange bank at Fort
Howard, Wis, was robbed of $4,000
in cash and bonds.
BIRD & WELLS sawmill and lumber
yard at Wausankee. Wis, were burned,