Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-05-14
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From Al Paris
DOMESTIC.


Rochester. y. y.
THREE men were drowned at the out
let of Braddoclx's bay on Lake Ontario
by the capsizing Of boat.
AT Ottumwa. la. William West shot
his wife and then killed himself Do
nestle infelicity was the cause Of the
crime.
john CALDER & Co. commission mer-
chants at New Orleans, failed for
SOS. 600
0 sHNIEBEwEND& LEE, a printing-press
firm of twenty years standing in Chica-
60. failed for 500, 900
SECRETARY FOSTER has signed a war
rant for Sl,G5h7ll in favor Of the gov
ernor Of the state Of Pennsylvania. this
amount being that states share Of the
direct tax fund.
J. r. BBATLEY, cashier OF The Iron
Mountain railroad at Little Rock Ark,
was said To be short SO, 900 in his &C
counts
: COLD wave throughout New York
and New England did much damage to
fruit ana vegetation.
THE defalcation of Cashier Percival
Of the Shoe and Leather national bank
of Lewiston, Me, amounts to Sl60, 900.
AT Mcnamara Bros ore mines near
Birmingham. Ala, a cave-in caught
five men and killed two aad wounded
three
CAPT l.. NORTON, who. with his wife,
niece, engineer and crew sailed from
New London. Conn, Novem Der - last
ia lis small steam yacht on his way to
Toulon, France, have been given up
as lost
THOUSANDS Of acres Of valuable tim
Der in the vicinity Of Davis, W. Va,
have been burned by forest fires.
THREE years age L Smith, Of Lin
coin county, Tenn. killed John Brooks
ia quarrel about q girl. On the 9TH
he killed James Wakefield. who had
married the girl few weeks ago.
BELor Wis. saloon keepers have all
closed up their places Of business and
many were leaving town The city
voted mo license 9t the recent cleo
ton
OVER 100 families were eyicted in the
Pennsylvania coke region
The Hayes county tNeb.l courthouse
at Hayes Center, with all the county
records, was destroyed by fire.
THE schooner Atlanta foundcred in
Lake Superior off Whitefish Point and
three of the crew were drowned.
THE commission firm of ID. K. Calder
& Co at New Orleans has failed for
sos, 600.
FIRE among business houses in Pitts
burgh Pa, caused loss OF $40, 900.
THE New Orleans grand jury report
ed the result of their investigations in
regard 20 the Hennessy murder and the
Malta lyuehing Ne indictments were
returned against persons connected
with the lynching, but several were
found against the alleged jury bribers.
SNrEEN horses persisted in livery
stable fire at FL Paso, Tex
ICE formed in portions of Michigan,
Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and the Da-
kotas on tlla 5th.
THREE men were arrested at Wooster,
o.. for robbiug Michael shelby of Sl3.-
900 last August.
LEE BARTON, young negro who was
sold from his home and wife and chill
dren in Virginia thirty-eight years ago,
and carried away by the slave traders
and resold in Mississippi, has just been
reunited with his family at Houston,
Miss
THE American Medical association in
annual session in Washington elected
DR.. n. 5. Davis, Of Chicago, as presi-
dent
Iva New York concert saloon c. $
Wilbur shot and killed lda Breevort
and then killed himself Jealousy was
the cause
FntE destroyed the county intirmary
near Muncie Ind, and the inmates mar
rowly escaped death.
A RREAk occurred in the lcvee in
Coucordia perish, La, and the country
for miles around was under water
FROST was said to have greatly dam
aged fruit Of all kinds in Illinois, Iowa,
Indiana, Michigan ana parts OF Ohio.
THE treaty entered into between
Spain and the nited States stipulates
that coal petroleum aud machinery
shall be admitted free into Cuba and
Porto Rico, and that the present duty
on UNuf bt reduced ptlt~nhli IN e&-
change for the free admission into the
United States Of sugar, coffee and
cocoa.
THE National association of ma
ehinists at its meeting in Pittsburgh,
Pa decided to exclude negroes from
the organization
\ CASE of leproSy was discovered in
New York city.
JoHN TtRNBCtL, an attorney at Port
Townsend, Wash has been arrested
ON the charge of helping to smuggle
Cinnamon into the United States
A RISE in the Rio Grandc riscr flooded
a large portion Of FL Paso, Ten, ano
over fifty families were driven from
their homes
THE shops Of the American Vince
Company at Sidney, o., burned, caus
ing loss Of 500. 600
THE entire lumber district of New
York, covering seven acres, WAS burncC
over causing a loss of 81 600 900.
ACTING under orders from Secretary
Blaine the United states marshal a
.ts,