Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-02-12
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the Week Ending Fen. o.

Mrs. Amos Roberts. aged 100 years,
died Friday at Grand Rapids, Mich.
A fire at Caledonia, n. Y, destroyed
business blocks and residences valued
at 500, 900.
The McLaren lumber mills at OF
tawa, Ont, were burned, causing loss
Of $4,000.
The explosion Of a boiler in Giles
steam saw-mll near Reidsville, Ca,
killed six men.
J. b. ELS. consumptive who was
treated with the Koch lymph at Kansas
City, Mo, died Friday.
The gunboat Concord has been ac-
eepted by the Government, andis being
fitted out at New York
The village Of Ellisville. H., suffered
from fire on Friday, nearly all the bust
ness houses being consumed.
a bridge gave way over the Coosa
river near Shelby, Ala, and four men
were killed by falling timbers.
Mrs. Rosanna Hughes, aged 1O2, died
on Sunday at Louisville, Ky. She was
the oldest woman in the State.
Francis r. Jugg, who fought with
Napoleon at Waterloo, died on Friday
IN Albany, n. y, aged 80 years.
George Slaybaclx, of Cincinnati, shot
his wife who had left him because of
abuse, and then killed himself.
A terrific blizzard ragged on Sunday in
Minnesota and North Dakota with
the thermometer way below zero.
The Pullman car shops and row of
dwellings at St Louis were destroyed
by fire, involving loss of $3.50, 600.
Miss Grace Gridley. of Amboy, Ill,
who has been in comatose condition
for the past year, is now recovering.
Elk Congressman Julius Houseman
died suddenly on Saturday at his home
IN Grand Rapids, Mich, aged SO years
The 4-year-old daughter of William
Grimes, of Guthrie, 0. T.. set the h )use
on fire and burned her mother to death.
Logging is being pushed night and
day in the Ashland wis. district. The
seasons cut is estimated at 800, 600, 900
feet.
Two men held up clerk in E. L.
Wilsdorf's jewelry store at Cleveland,
o., Friday, and took 81, 900 worth of
watches.
General business prosperity is re-
ported by Dun Il Co.'S agency. Prices
are higher, and a healthy conservative
tone prevails.
An examination into the accounts of
defaulting State Treasurer Woodruff
of Arkansas, by his bondsmen, showed
a shortage of 500, 900.
The second trial of William Palmer
at East Saginaw, Mich, for the murder
of his brother has resulted in a dis
agreement of the jury.
The notorious moonshiner, Harvey
Reynolds, was captured near Florence,
Ala. He is the most noted moonshiner
in Alabama and Tennessee.
1t is estimated that during the past
year damage aggregating $780, has
been done to buildings in Ashland Pa,
by the settling of the surface.
An Albany On. " paper reported
!. Friday evening that the American Ex-
press Company had secured control of
the National Express Company.
Friday at Chambersburg, Pa, the
sheriff took possession of the works of
the Taylor Manufacturing Company on
executions aggregating $4,000
= Edward Park, who has been an in
mate of the Westchester IN. W poor
house for thirty-six years. died on
Saturday at the age of 102 years.
The amount of cotton brought into
sight during the seven days ended on
Friday was 1857 against 1877 $50 for
the corresponding period last year.
An international society for the col
onization of Russian Jews has been in
corporated at San Francisco under the
laws of the State with capital of 81,
600, 600
Four men attempted on Friday to rob
an express train at Delano, Cal, and in
the fight that followed the express mes
senger and another train man were Sc
riously wounded.
The bolt and nat manufacturing
plant of j. Henry Sternbergh & Son at
Reading, Pa, the largest of its kind in
America, was burned on Friday, entail
ing loss of 1915, 600.
T. H. Morse, United States Consul
General to London under President
Lincoln, died on Friday in Surrey,
Eng, where he lived since his retire
nent, aged 81 years
=. N. Mccullough, for thirty three
years president of the Cleveland &
Pittsburgh railway, died on Sunday at
Allegheny City, Pa, aged 20 years. He
was worth S10,O00,0 600.
Eleven prisoners were dashed in New
castle tDel) Jail Saturday morning and
two stood in the pillory for an hour.
Several hundred people stood in the
rain and watched the performance
Articles of incorporation of the Mus
catine Rock Island e. Peoria railroad,
with a capital stock of $4,000, 900, to
build road from Muscatine to Peoria,
were filed with the Secretary of State
of Illinois Friday.
The road between Ouray, Col, and
Ironton is completely blockaded by
snow-slides for distance of 1900 feet.
The aren't of the stare cOmnanv saws