Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-04-16

BOYS smoking set fire to the stock
yards near Cincinnati and property
valued at $3.50, 900 was destroyed.
CAPT. LoAR and thirteen Of his depu-
| ties who shot and killed the striking
! cokemaIzers at the Norwood mines in
Pennsylvania have been arrested for
murder.
THE cotton sheds at Memphis were
burned, with 1926, 900 worth of cotton.
THE city of Spokane Falls, Wash, has
changed its name TO Spokane.
JUDGE JOHNSTON, of Valparaiso, Ind,
decided the law prohibiting the pump
ing of natural gas from the state un-
constitutional
STEPS were taken at Philadelphia for
the formation Of a copper trust that in
extent and Importance promises to
eclipse the sugar trust.
OVER 1000 immigrants arrived at
New York from Europe on the 9th
In the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the 10th numbered Dab, against 243
the preceding week and 200 for the cor
responding week last year
CHRISTIAN PREIsE, aged Is years, and
his wife. aged Y years. were found
murdered in their home at Waukesha.
Wis.
CYCLONES, hail and transforms were
reported throughout western Missouri
and Kansas.
WILLIAM BoLEs, who killed police
man at Kenton, o., on March 81, was
taken from the Jail at that place by a
mob and hanged
THERE was current in Washington a
rumor which originated in Rome that
Premier Rudini had made a demand on
the United States for concession not
heretofore granted, the demand being
supplemented with notice that if it
was not complied with at once Italy
would sever all diplomatic relations
with this country. The rumor was gem
orally discredited.
Mrs. ROBERT HOUsToN was drowned
at Bathgate, n. D.. in an attempt to
save her young son, who had fallen into
the river
THE strikers in the Connellsville
(Pa.) coke region held convention and
passed resolutions to fight to the end.
HORACE CLARK, of Mattoon. Ill, was
elected at Decatur commander of the
Grand Army of the Republic for the de-
partment of Illinois
GENTRY BUTLERand Hampton Nelson
were hanged at Sumter, ). c., for the
murder Of Capt. John Maxey in Janu-
airy last.
A NATIONAL association of inventors
was organized at Washington, with DR.
Calling as president.
April. returns to the department of
agriculture show that the condition of
the growing wheat crop throughout the
entire country is the best since 1889.
A CALL has been issued for a ma
tional temperance congress to be held
August IS and 10 in the auditorium of
the National Prohibition park at Staten
Island, n. Y.
THE New York Tribune was fifty
years old on the 10th and the ey mt was
fittingly celebrated by jubilee at the
Metropolitan opera house.
=. Ii. Roy, a prominent citizen, was
burned TO death in San Francisco in the
destruction If the Occidental hotel
SEVEN persons were injured in
collision on the Chicago, Rock Island
d Pacific railroad near McJunlxin, Ia
FIVE THOUSAND brotherhood car
penters in the Pittsburgh district have
decided to strike for eight hours a day
or May 1.
THE firm of Baumgardner, Eberman
q Co.. coal and lumber dealers at Lam
easter, Pa. failed for 500, 900.
JONI II. KINcLE, admitted to the bar
at Savannah, Ga, is the first negro al
lowed to practice in that state.
A BAG containing 81 1000 in silver was
stolen from an express wagon at the
Water street station in Louisville
ANN BAKER (colored), of Jackson,
Miss, has confessed to numbering her
husband because he made her cook
breakfast too early.
ANNA DIcKIvsoN's sister and friends
Indignantly denied the published story
that the distinguished woman had been
sent to the insane asylum through jeal-
ousy and that She was not insane