Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-11-05
stroyed.

/ ALLIANCE farmers IN LOup City, Ne D.,
hoisted the United States flag. stars
down. A committee of citizens forced
! the farmers 10 lower the flag and read
/ just it properly.
Rev. NJ. 4. WADswORTH, an aged
I minister residing at Vienna, Ore, was
| killed by the limb of tree falling upon
him.
EVERY business house in the village
/ of Loda, Ill. was destroyed by fire.
AT a meeting of the coal producing
companies at New York it was decided
to allow an output of 1000. 600 bushels.
This is practically unlimited produc-
ton.
WILLIAM WEIGEL, a showcase man
ufacturer at Indianapolis, failed for
S125, 600.
BURGLARS robbed Treasurer Ingram,
of Mulberry Grove township, H., of
$500 school money.
A NEGRO named Snowden was
lynched by a mob at West Monroe, La,
for burning the residence of Squire
Emery.
THE director of the New York Pas
teur institute reports that but one
hydrophobia patient has died out of
255 treated at that institution.
SEVERAL persons were reported to
have been killed by collision on the
Kansas City railroad at Taopi, Mimi.
ALMOST the entire business portion
of the village of Lavalle, Wis, was
consumed by fire.
THE steamer Oliver Byrne, Nissis-
sippi excursion boat, was burned near
Milliken's Bend, and twenty lives were
lost.
JOHN T. HENDERSON, 20 years old, of
Twiggs county, Ga, was decoyed to his
door and shot dead.
THE drought in Alabama was re-
ported to be without a precedent for
length and severity. The railroads
were finding difficulty in getting water
TO run their trains.
PRAIRIE dogs were said to be multi
plying so fast in some of the western
states that there was danger that they
would overrun the country.
In the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the 30th numbered 255, against 249
Vic RANGNhAnS NNth anu 30 LOA bbC
corresponding week last year
LEE HUGHES (colored) was hanged at
BRENNAN, Tex, for the murder of his
wife
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY convicts were
released at Briceville, Tenn, by 5000
miners, and an immense stockade was
burned.
Roy WILKES broke the pacing wagon
record at Independence, Ia, going a
mile in 2:13.
JAMES BEGGs, a well-to-do farmer
residing near Elizabethtown, Ind, was
fatally beaten by John and Frank
Newly, two colored toughs, and robbed
of sum of money.
THE United States warships Newark,
Philadelphia and Atlanta have been or
dered to sail for Chilli under command
of Admiral Gherardi
AT Laredo, Tex, Deputy United
States Marshal George Wise and his
friend, C. Garcia, were killed by Fran
cisco Flores, Mexican smuggler.
NINETEEN buildings were burned at
Clinton, n. j., causing loss of 500, 900.
THE government has decided that all
military colleges receiving arms and
ammunition from the national govern
ment for the purposes of instruction
must display the national flag on all
occasions when, under army regula-
tions, the use of a flag is called for
A FIRE which started in the Advance
elevator at Peoria, Ill, caused loss of
Sl00, 900.
VIRGIL j. MUGLEY, lawyer of Mil
waukee, was convicted of the murder
of his wife.
PRAIRIE fires were burning buildings
stocked with grain and fences in Gray
and Ford counties, Kan.
PRAIRIE fires near independence,
Mo-, destroyed sixty acres of corn and
thirty tons of hay, besides several
sheds, board fences, etc.
II. MUELLER & Co. s malt warehouse
at Cleveland, o., was burned, causing a
loss of S15O.0OO.
NEWSPAPER men from several south
ern states met at New York and organ
lied the Southern Associated Press.
THE r. b. Cotter Company, whole
sale lumber dealers at Louisville, KY,
assigned, with liabilities of $500. 900.
CONTINUED improvement in business
was reported from all parts of the
country.
The town of Newberry, in Greene
county, Ind, was almost wholly de-
stroyed by fire.
SEMoNsoN & WEISS, cloak manutac-
turers of New York, failed, with liza
bilties estimated at $50 600
Mrs. JAMES HARHIN, aged go. was
burned to death at Akron, o. Her
ylothing caught from bonfire.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
MRS. JULIA BENSON, Familiarity
known as Grandma Benson died at
Bridgeport, Conn, aged 100 years.
THE forthcoming wedding was an