Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-11-19
The News Condensed.
Important InteIhgenee 80 al Pats.
DOMESTIC.

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for baking powder IN making biscuits.
IN the court at Harlan. Ia. J. X.
Cumberland pleaded guilty to the
charge of numbering James Robertson
and his son Jasper in the fan Of 1855.
The total value of the shipments of
breadstuffs from the United States
during the ten months ended October
81 was S169. 4ss, 1913, against s119,O37, 156
for the ten months OF the prior year
LIPPINCoTT. JOHNSON & Co s whole
sale cloth and wooden goods house at
Philadelphia was burned Loss,
$500. 600
THE report of the director of the
minis to the secretary of the treasury
shows that during the last fiscal year
the coinage at United States minis ag-
gregated ll9, 547, ST. pieces, the largest
in the history of the country. The
mines of the United States yielded
during the year gold Of a commercial
value of So, s45, 600 and silver of the
value of ST. 2j. 900
ARIoN, 2-year-old colt owned by
Senator Sanford, trotted mile with
out break in 2:l04 at Stockton, Cal.
A YOUNG man entered the Office of J.
c. Davis, a money lender in Boston,
grabbed a roll of bills amounting to
81, 900, dashed into the street and es-
capped capture.
r. A. KRASHG, travelling salesman
for a Cincinnati diamond firm, left
gripsack containing $4,000 worth Of
diamonds in car while he went out
to get some lunch at Dayton, o. When
he returned the grip was gone.
THE eleventh annual session Of the
National Farmers congress met at Sc
dalia, Mo
THE statistical returns of the depart
ment of agriculture at Washington for
November make the corn crop one of
the largest in volume ever known, the
average yield being twenty-six bushels
per acre.
AT Nashville, Tenn, the Rankin
Manufacturing Company, wholesale
clothing, made an assignment, with as
sets Of Sl93, 600 and liabilities of S133,-
GOO
A DYNAMITE explosion in a ware
house at Hayward, Wis, injured six
persons, three fatally.
MRS GEORGE DAHES, aged so years,
died suddenly of heart disease at Co
lum bus, Ind, being the fifth and last
member of n family all of whom died
of the same disease.
C. b. PAUL, wholesale lumber dealer
at Louisville, Ky, has failed for $780,
600; assets, 500, 600.
Miss MATTE HENDERSON was so
badly burned by gas from a stove at
New Castle, Ind, that she would lose
the sight of both eyes
In the United States supreme court
Attorney General Miller announced
that it had been agreed to submit the
controversy between the United States
and England as to the Behring sea seal
fisheries to arbitration.
IT was reported that masked me n
boarded train on the St Paul road
near Western Union Junction, Wis,
and robbed the express car of an enor-
nous sum of money.
A PASSENGER and freight train on
the Illinois Central road collided hear
jackson, Tenn, and four trainmen
were killed and a number of passen-
gers were injured.
A FIRE among mercantile houses in
Augusta Ga, caused a loss of SIPS, 900.
3 INSPECTOR HUBBARD compelled the
display of the American flag at an an
archist meeting in Chicago and said
that if any more incendiarv language
was used he would clear the hall.
THE National Baseball league in
session at New York awerded the pen
ant for 1891 to Boston.
DURING October 80, 79s immigrants
passed through the New York barge
office
AT the first convention in Boston of
the Worlds Womans Christian Tenn
perance union Miss Frances E. Willard,
of Chicago, was elected president The
resolutions adopted favor the outlaw
ing of the traffic in alcoholic liquors,
opium, tobacco and impurity, the sup
preston of gambling and Sunday desc
Grafton and the enfranchisement of the
women of all nations,
THE livery stable of William Powers
at Yankton, $. D., was burned, and
twenty-six horses persisted in the
flames.
THE Pennsylvania senate has de-
cided, by a strict party vote, that it
has no right to investigate the irregu-
larities OF the state treasurer and at
torney general
A NUMBER Of buildings at Kensing-
ton, Pa, were destroyed by cyclone
JosEPH MuLHATToN, notorious for
the vagaries of his imagination. was
imprisoned at Pittsburgh, Pa, for
stealing money from man whom he
invited to his room to spend the night.
MRS. JAMES KINEs, widow. and her
three children, were murdered near
Calverty, Va, by some one unknown.
THE immense barn of Connell Bros,
on Deer island, St Helens, Ore, was
destroyed by fire, and seventy-two
cows and nine horses were burned to
death.
A CENSUS bulletin shows that the
population of Ohio under the present
census is 3,672, SIG, against s, 19S. 062 in
1880, a gain Of 474, PSI, or 14s3 per
cent
THE American bankers association