Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-12

| Florida, resulting in the capture and
destruction of twenty-six illicit stills
and the arrest of thirty men.
THE fruit-preserving and canning es-
Establishment of the J. o. Schimmel Pre-
serving Co. at Philadelphia was burned,
causing loss of $50, 600.
CHARLES CoRYELL, a Jackson county
lind farmer, attempted to take his
child away from his wife, who had left
him. Arthur Burdell, his brother in
law, interfered. whereupon Coryell shot
him dead.
IN an avalanche near Alta. Utah, two
men were killed and two were fatally
injured
SIXTEEN horses were burned in feed
stable at Des Moines, la.
The first of series of meetings to be
held throughout the country by union
prisoners of the war to raise money for
memorial hall at Washington was
held in New York
THE National league made public its
schedule of baseball games for 1891.
The season opens April % and closes
October3
THOMAS PEMBERToN, of Little Rock,
Ark, and Albert Bost, OF Bost's Mills,
n. c., were burned to death in fire
that destroyed the high school in Mon
roe, n. c.
IT was announced that the legisla-
ton enacted by the last congress would
result in the opening up of over s,00O,-
600 acres Of the public land to settle
ment
THE schooner Elsie Smith, of Port
land, was wrecked off Cape Cod and
eighteen lives were lost
The race quest ii s, - said to be as
Stunning d serious phase in Oklahoma
territory, and fighting between black
and white people was reported to be
imminent
THE passenger boat City of Rich
mond and cargo burned at New York.
The loss on the boat was Sl25, OOO fully
insured.
The buildings of the Worlds Column
bian exposition in Chicago will be dedi-
Gated in October, 1892, with imposing
ceremonies the exercises to extend
over four days.
A REUNION of the founders of the re-
publAtdu party Will ut lltlN dL Fti1O0I
temple in Boston April Is next.
In fit of jealousy Daniel Mcmahon
killed Miss Annie Murphy near Port
Huron, Mich, and then took his own
life
HUNDREDS Of ranches in Yolo coun-
ty, Cal. were under water, and the loss
to property was estimated at 81, 900, 600.
A COMPANY has been formed with
$500, 900 capital to develop rich deposits
of onyx in Pulaski and Crawford coun-
ties, Mo.
NEAR Ellis, Kan, the body of sheep
herder frozen to death in the recent
blizzard, was found The body had
been nearly devoured by coyotes.
THE savings bank at Freeport, Pa,
was robbed of so, 900 in money and Sc
curities.
AT the Ives sale in New York Mr. J.
w Ellsworth, of Chicago, secured the
famous Gutenberg Bible at cost of
S14, 500.
DANIEL MCMAHON was given life
sentence at Port Huron, Mich, for the
brutal murder of Annie Murphy
SECRETARY PROCTOR has authorized
the enlistment of >, 900 Indians for the
army.
j. NJ FoRBns, Of Boston, paid SlI 900
for 2-year-old brown colt at the New
York horse sale The animal was sired
by STEAMBOAT
THE first colored bar association in
America was organized at Gainesville,
Miss.
rrup RaI+ir,.,,... Nfctb,l;s+ g,<,,, f,,..,,,.
has by vote of las to 80 decided not to
allow women delegates to the general
conference.
JOHN OSCAR BURLINGTON was hanged
at Bonneville. Mo. for the murder of
Sheriff Cranmer. and Shakespeare
Reeves, alias Jacob ShaIkey (coloredl,
was hanged at Newcastle. Del, for an
assault upon little Grace Clark, a white
girl of II years.
Four men committed suicide in St
Louis on the 9th.
AT meeting of the worlds fair di-
rectory in Chicago the eight-hour day
for exposition labor was adopted.
Mrs. BoDENBER, aged 81, died at
| Hamilton, O., and John Hopple, her
aged brother, was SO overcome bv grief
| that he fell dead across the corpse.
NEAR Lima, O., Lyman Hyde, farm
er, and his 2S-year-old daughter, 1u-
dith, lost their lives and Emeline, 10
year-old daughter was fatally injured
| by the ears.
The treasury department at Wash
ington has reaffirmed its decision that
Koch's lymph is dutiable at the rate of
% per cent adj valorem
THE courthouse at Archer City, Tex,
was burned, together with nearly all
| the county records.
THE census bureau announced the
population of the state of Missouri by
| races as follows: Whites. ASA, 46S
colored, l54, 1871; Indians. 1873; Japan
ese, 4; Chinese, as, total. 2,679, 1S4
| THE ten weeks strike OF 5000 coal
miners in the Monongahela PA val
ley ended in a victory for the men,
their request for an increase of pay be-
| ing granted.