Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-09-17
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts
DOMESTIC.

and so, 600 worth OF property destroyed.
THE visible supply of grain in the
United States on the eth was: Wheat,
I9, S62, 435 bushels: corn, 6, go, 0sI bush
els; oats. 3.59s, Ola bushels.
THOMAS BRITAIN fell on a carrier in
a sawmill st Paris, Tex, and was cut
IL two lengthwise by the saw.
THE great council of the Improved
Order of Red Men began its fifty-fifth
annual session at Cleveland, O., with
200 delegates in attendance.
NINE persons were fatally poisoned
al "A dinner at the home Of George
Gregg at Belleville, Kan. 1t was not
known what the poison was or who ad-
ministered it.
AT Columbus, o., John Henry Web
ster, a negro, was killed by an officer
while resisting arrest
T. H. PATRICK and son Of Hon. J.
i. Brown. Of Pembroke. Ga, came to
blows about small settlement, and a
brother of Brown tried to separate
them. Revolvers were drawn and all
we mortally wounded
Max BEss (colored) was lynched
near Nearland \. G. for an attempted
assault on Mrs Peterson, a white
woman.
GUSTAV BERGER, a German count,
killed his wife and committed suicide
at Topeka. Kan, as a result of a quar-
rel over a dollar.
NEAR Celina, O., James Lewis acct
dentally cut Tom johnson hand while
thrashing, whereupon johnson pushed
him into the machine and his head and
body We're ground to "A pulp. Lewis
brother then seized a pitchforS and
plunged it into Johnsons body, killing
him instantly.
COUNSEL for Timothy Hopkins. adopt
ed son of the late Millionaire Hopkins.
filed a notice of intention at salem,
Mass. to contest the win of the widow,
who left all the property to her second
husband, r. 5. Searles About SO, 000,-
600 are involved.
THOMAS BEIFoRD, a. ed 20 years, was
accidentally shot aud killed ut Kirwin,
Kan, while cleaning revolver
DURING a quarrel J. X sullivan was
thrown into Grand river. near south
Carrollton, Ky, by Dick Keith, and
drowned Sullivan was vice president
of the Central City deposit bank.
BERT GARwooD, an employee of the
Marshalltown la Electric Light Com
pany, was fatally injured by coming in
contact with an electric wire.
The storage warehouse of r. G. Lay
ton was totally destroyed by fire at
New York; loss, $500, 600.
frHE kawefopa I bn.
New Orleans received an order from
the German government for so, 600, 900
feet of pine lumber, the largest order
ever given, and it was said it would re-
quire 100 ships to transport it,
OLIVER G. WILSON, JR., paying teller
of the Produce national bank of Phila-
delphia, was arrested charged with
the embezzlement of large sum OF
money.
Col JOHN q. LEE, formerly of the
United States army was found dead in
bed at a New York hotel
BY the explosion of the boiler of
locomotive at Jamacia, l.. L., Engineer
Donaldson, Fireman Dickerson and ]
brakeman Mahoney were killed
ADMISSION day" commemorative
the admission Of California into the
union, was generally observed through
out that state on the 9th.
THE twenty-second annual conven-
ton of the Master Car and Locomotive
Painters Association of the United
States and Canada began at Washing
ton. J. A. Cohen, Of Huntingdon Va,
was elected president
IT was said that the ltata was to be
returned to the Gillian government
upon the payment of the expenses of
this government in her pursuit and
capture.
DIR. c. y. PALMER, charged with bur-
glarizing a store and post Office at Ray
mond, Wis, was suspended from the
medical board OF pension examiners b.
Commissioner Raum
IT was said that the shipments OF
wheat in Kansas had become So heavy
as to blockade the railroads.
AFTER four days confinement the
jury in the Davis contested will case at
Butte Mont, reported that they were
unable to agree. Millions of dollars
We're involved.
A TEST of the new high explosive
called terrorite was made at Fort Ham
ilton, New York harbor, and it was
found to have four times the force of
dynamite, and is smo1eless.
JOHN BARNARD, of Hancock county,
Tenn, was fatally shot by Tilman
Sutton, who in tarn was Immediately
shot and killed by brother of Bar
nard.
4 G. FAvoRs, prominent farmer of
Merriweather county, Ca, was shot
and mortally wounded by his 12-year-
old boy while beating his wife
AN unknown young man and a young
woman committed suicide by jumping
into Niagara river just above the falls.
THE Michigan NJ. l.. conference
voted-l46 to SIN favor of admitting
women as delegates to general confer
eEces.
AN express train dashed into body
of railroad laborers at Glasgow, Scot
land, killing five men.
The failure of Alexander & Son,
corn brokers of London, was announced
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