Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-10-15
The News Condensed.
important intelligence Fr0m Al Pats.


fatally injured
A HURRICANE in the northern pineries
of Minnesota swept fifteen townships
bare, millions IF feet Of lumber being
destroyed
CHARLES H. RITTER. a defaulting
bank teller at Evansville, Ind. was
sentenced to six years in the peniten-
tiary.
a FIRE which started in blacksmith
shop at Columbus Junction Ia. burned
two blocks of business houses, entail
ing a loss Of Sl50.00).
DEPUTY SHERIFF CASTOR and bar
tender were found dead in a saloon at
Arthur City, Tex, with bullet wounds
in their backs.
Ar Charlottesville, Ind, William
Donley and John Davenport, two cir
Gus performers. were sent to prison for
two years for stealing half pint of
whisky.
A WAGON containing a man, woman
and two children was struck by train
at Giffords, n. y, and all four were
killed.
ACTING GOVERNOR MURPHY, of Ari-
IONA, in his annual report to the secre-
tary Of the interior recommends that
the territory be admitted to the union
as a state.
AFTER being speechless for nearly
seventeen years otto Wirthner, a we'll
known German at Youngstown, O..
regained his speech by the use of cleo
tricity.
$ w CHtPMAN a young merchant of
A IeA
out of 81, GOO in cash by a MIR Smith"
in a bogus cattle deal at Kansas City.
DANIEL son Of Rev. A. l.. Chilcoat,
of Orbisonia, Pas, fell from a tree and
was killed Ills mother went insane
from the shock OF seeing his fall
RIVERS in Oklahoma, swollen by the
heavy rains, have destroyed the prop
erty of boomers and washed out
railroads.
WILLIAM CANFIELD confessed at New
Lisbon, o., that he wrecked the train
at New Palestine o., recently in which
three men were killed for the purpose
of plumber.
A FRAME building was destroyed by
fire at WILDER. Wash, and Mrs. Wag-
ner and her two children were burned
to death.
FORTY per cent. of the wheat crop
in North Dakota was said to be in the
shock and large proportion was
sprouting, SO that it would be worth
less.
THE trial of DIR. Briggs on the charge
of heresy has been set for November 4
IN the Scotch Presbyterian church at
New York.
REV. SAMUEL BENEDICT, aged go
Y ears, rector of ST Paul Protestant
Episcopal church at Cincinnati. o., was
almost instantly killed in an elevator
accident
FoRrY-FIvE horses in livery stable
at Manhatton, Mont, were burned to
death
A FIRE at Braddocl1, Pa, caused by
lamp explosion, destroyed row of six
frame houses. James Mcclure was
burned to death
BY the sudden folding up of patent
bed at Warsaw, Ind, Mrs Mary Nye
had both arms broken and her daughter
was severely injured.
AT Sacramento, Cal, a blacksmith
named Richard Van Olinda murdered
his wife and then killed himself
A COLLISION on the Norfolk " west
ern road near kenoya, W. Va, killed
Hiram Lowell and wounded hve others,
two fatally.
THE equestrian bronze statue Of
Gen. Grant in Lincoln park, Chicago,
was unveiled with elaborate and im-
pressive ceremonies. Mrs. Grant was
present
AN accident occurred on the Penn
sylvania railroad at uniontown, Md, in
which two men were killed outright
and three fatally injured.
EDWARD CHICK, aged 81 years, was
found dead in bed at his residence in
San Francisco. \ coffin was found
under his bed which he had made for
himself twenty wears ago
TWENTY of the leading cigar man
.ufacturers of New York city held
meeting and organized a trust to in
clude all the prominent cigar mann-
facturers in the United States.