Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-04-23

lation in 1890 was IS, 235, $40, or 90. 10 per
cent of the total population. In 1850
the urban population was l1,3l3, 547, or
22.57 per cent. of the whole.
SENATOR FAssETTE, in the New
York legislature, charged that $3.50, 900
blood money was extOrted monthly by
the police Of New York city from the
liquor interests of that city.
WILLIAM HOFFMAN, was struck by
lightning and instantly killed at Tren-
ton, Mo.
THE new secret order known as ''The
| Knights of Reciprocity" was said to be
rapidly gaining a strong foothold
throughout the west. Members are re-
quired to pledge themselves to support
the perpetuity Of the union, to favor
liberal pensions 10 soldiers and sailors,
TO maintain the doctrine of protection
of American industries. and to adyo-
cate and work in favor of a free ballot
/ and an honest count.
THREE men were killed and two bad
i " injured in a railroad wreck near Bal
/ timOre, Md, in which a freight train
/ plunged through trestle.
THE body Of William lines, which
/ was buried at Corunna, Ind, two years
/ ago, was distinterred and found to be
petrifed. every feature being preserved,
/ even to the hair.
THE Western baseball association
opened the season with games at Lin
| coin, Omaha and Denver, wet grounds
/ preventing a game at Kansas City.
WHILE J. w. Jacobs and Abraham
| Carr, prominent citizens OF Jefferson
| will, Ind, were attending a funeral at
| Bennettsville their horses ran away and
| both gentlemen were thrown out and
probably fatally hurt
The Ross building, in which Station
C, New York post office, was located,
was destroyed by fire, involving a loss
/ of $500, 900. The mails were saved
C. L. DAVIDSON of Hull, was elected
department commander of the Iowa G.
A. r. at Dubuque.
THE Winner Investment Company of
! Kansas City, Mo, made an assignment
for the benefit of its creditors. II was
claimed that its assets exceeded the
I liabilities by 500, 600
A TERRIFIC cyclone passed 2 miles
west of Claud. Tex. One man was
/ killed and another badly hurt
/ A FIRE which started in the whole
sale drug house Of Charles LEIGH & Co.
ut Evansville, Ind, caused a loss of
Sl10, 900
The Todd mills and elevator at Dali
las, Tex, were destroyed by fire, the
loss being 100000.
WOMEN burned two saloons with
their contents at Scott, O., because
their owners continued to furnish their
hus bands with liquor after they had
received their protests.
WILL SKAGGs, a colored desperate
who fatally stabbed white man
named Kirby was riddled with bullets
near Bowling Green, Ky, by posse of
masked men.
IN the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the nth numbered 25l, against 243
the preceding week and pa for the cor
responding week last year.
WALKER Brown (coloredl was hanged
at Laurens. ;. G., for the murder of
Noah Ramaga last November.
THE entire government life-saving
service for the Eleventh district, which
includes Michigan, Illinois and Wis
consin, has gone on duty.
LAvIERING, a young Omaha Indian at
the Carlisle Pa school, is to enter the
Presbyterian ministry and will labor
among his own people
THE old east mill of the Norwich
Falls Conn Cotton Manufacturing
Company was burned, causing a loss of
Sl50.O 900
AT Alliance, o.. Addie Duncan. a
farmers daughter, fell from fence
and broke her neck, and hogs partly
devoured the body before il was found.
Ar Shullsburg, Wis, Mrs. Jacob
Blotz shot and mortally wounded her
brother Henry Ivey, as he was enter
ing her house for the purpose Of killing
/ her.
JAMES LyNcH. Of New Brunswick,
n. j., after being indicted for wife
beating, went home and hanged him
self
WILLIAM GREEN ,coloredl was hanged
| at New Orleans for the murder of
Joseph Proper on January g, 1890
WHILE Alta Foster, aged 10; Ray
mond Foster. aged ;, and Walter Smith.
aged 10. were playing on skiff in the
river near Marietta, O., the boat cap
sized and all three were drowned
Tue Ohio State Farmers Alliance was
organized at Columbus
While eating breakfast Mrs Nesbit,
Of Leclaire la, fatally shot her hus-
band and then herself. Domestic
trouble was the cause.
GEORGE and Fred Dunawas (Indians)
were hanged at Tahlequah, l. r.. for
the murder last September Of Wash
Lee. Il Cherokee.
a TERRIFIC windstorm at Marion,
Ind, completely crushed the Crosby
paper mill and damaged a number of
other buildings.
PALupoRA, little town on the
| Beaver river in Beaver county, o. T.,
was entirely destroyed by cyclone.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
DRopAT TAYLOR, a veteran of the