Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-08-13
The News Condensed
important Intelligence From All Parts
DOMESTIC.


except the Tribune, charging them
with misdemeanor in publishing details
of the execution of the four murderers
recently killed at Sing Sing.
THE fifth anniversary Of the murder
of Rev George c. HaddOck, who was
killed on account Of his efforts to en-
force the prohibitory law of Iowa, was
celebrated at Sioux City under the
auspices Of the Law and Order league
A SENSATION was created at Beatrice,
Neh., by IN announcement made by
William Wymore, an old citizen Of
that county, that he saw In south
western Kansas John Cameron, for
whose murder jackson Marion was
hanged over four years ago.
THE treasury department reports that
the total receipts from customs during
the month Of July were S., 4s5, 232 less
thar the receipts during the same
month last year
The failure OF 4. y. Stockwell, once
noted millionaire Spectator, was an
nounced on the New York Consolidated
Exchange.
KoBBERs who broke into the salty
deposit vault ia a bank at knsman,
o., carried away sixty private deposit
boxes, $4,000 IN silver plate and large
amount Of other property.
THE death Of George x. Anderson,
register Of the United States land. Of
flee at Folsom, Col, occurred at Trini-
dad. He was once a wealthy operator
in oil in Pennsylvania,
joins G. Howell, a prominent Cali
fornia politician, killed i. J. Colvin, a
young stenographer who was an aspi-
rant for the hand of his daughter.
CATTLE men in the Indian territory,
on the Cheyenne and Arapahoe noun
tains, were fined one dollar per head
for all cattle now within the lines, The
trespassing cattle number between
100000 and 500 000.
AFTER robbing tie mails for over a
year during which his stealings must
have amounted TO several thousand
dollars, Carrier Henry +. Barlow was
arrested ia Chicago
THE president approved the finding
Of the retiring board that examined St
John f. Meigs | 5. N for retirement
ON account If color blindness. and he
was placed on the retired list of the
navy.
LATER accounts from Lake Charles,
La, place the number Of killed in the
recent riot at Locke. Moore Il Co. 5
tram works ut fourteen, with sixteen
wounded
AT the second days session of the
Grand Army Of the Republic encamp-
ment at Detroit, ConInander-iu-Chief
Veazey ia his annual address recon-
mended the establishment of separate
departments for colored camps. Wash
ington was decided upon as the next
pl &c for holding the annual meeting
THE White star line steamer Ma
iestic which reached New York made
the trip across the Atlantic in five days,
eighteen hours and eight minutes, the
fastest time on record
MISS NELLIE BoIsE, daughter Of the
circuit Judge of Salem, ore, and Will
liam Steel son Of Postmaster Steel. of
Portland, were drowned while bathing
at Long Beach, Wash
IT was reported that nine men were
killed and sixteen wounded in a battle
between cattlemen and outlaws near
West Lake, La.
JoHN GRAYsoN, who died at La
Grange. Ark, confessed to having muir
dered three men during his lifetime-a
detective farmer aud book agent.
SAMUEL FREEMAN, a prominent mer-
chant at Lawrance, Kan. killed his
wife and 1-year-oid child, and then fired
bullet with fatal effect into his own
brain Domestic trouble was supposed
to have been the cause.
THE east bound mail train on the
Ogdensburg 4 Lake Champlain rail-
road collided with returning sunday
school excursion train at Champlain
station, N. y. killing five persons and
fatally iniuriug ten or fifteen.
a PASSENGER train was wrecked on
the Grand Rapids & Indiana railroad
about y miles north of Kalamazoo
Mich. and siXty-two passengers were
injured
Mrs 0. W CAss wife Of a merchant
of Aurora, Neb., in fit Of temporary
insanity saturated her dress with <ero-
sene and then set fire to it and was
burned to death.
A CLoUDBuRs r near Harrisburg, Pa,
inundated factories and flooded the sur.
rounding country, doing great damage.
WILLIAM ANDERSON dropped dead at
the breakfast table in passaie, \. j.,
John Humphrey died in an electric ear
at Atlantic City, n. J., and George Me-
Allister died in a bath house at Cape
May \. J.
A TERRIFIC hailstorm iu the vicinity
Of Howard $ D., did great damage to
the wheat crop. Ii was estimated that
from 40. 600 to 50 O00 bushels Of wheat
Were destroyed
RoBERr II. MURRAY, who was recent
II released from the Jacksonville
Ind) penitentiary, was arrested at
Louisville, Ky. charged with the muir
der Of a sister OF charity who had
uursed him during an Illness, ana who
refused to marry him
TnF twenty aunpal convention
OF the Catholic Total Abstinence I Mon
of America convened It's Washington
on the 5fh
Ar Tine Auburn o. Ssh static insane