Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-05

the Two Medicine mountains in Mon
tana-
THE bill recently passed by the Ar
kansas Legislature providing for sep
arate coaches on railroad trains for ne
grOes has been signed by Gov. Eagle.
WALTER DIE, aged II years, of Van
dalia, Mo, was killed by lightning
while standing in his fathers yard
THE town of Fennville, Mich, was
almost entirely destroyed by fire
WILLIAM WEST was hanged at Wash
! ington, Pa, for the murder of the
Crouch family May IA, $780, and Henry
1 Marsh was executed at Ebensburg, Pa,
for the murder of Clara Jones at CALI T.
Yin July g. 1890.
THE twenty-third annual convention
of the National American woman suf-
frage association convened at Washing
ton.
IN landslide at Berry, Vt, hundreds
of tons of earth were hurled down and
many dwelling houses We're wrecked or
damaged
DR.. BLANC, chief sanitary inspector
of the state board of health, announced
that there were in New Orleans twenty
five fully-developed cases of leprosy.
ABOUT 1000 Wichita, Caddo Della
ware and Kechis Indians, near And
arko, A. T., were reported as continu-
ing the dances which commenced dur
ing the Sioux troubles
Mrs. Ed. CLARKE and child, Superin-
tendent Ropell and Engineer b. +.
Smily were buried beneath a snow
slide at Irwin, Col.
WARRANTS to the amount of SIS, 0O0,-
900 on account of pensions were signed
at Washington by Assistant Secretary
Nettleton
THE Kansas house by vote of ~ to
y defeated the proposition to resubmit
the prohibition amendment
SECRETARY NOBLE issued a notice that
all persons found on the Cherokee strip
or other Indian lands would be removed
by force and their rights to acquire pub
lie lands forfeited.
Ar the national conference in Phila-
delphia OF school superintendent reso-
buttons We're adopted indorsing the COM
pulsory education law, commencing the
principles of civil service as applied to
the teachers of public schools, and rec
ommending the retirement and pension
ing of teachers after a service of thirty
years.
DURING the year 1890 over 10000 inn
migrants arrived at New York. Italy
sending the largest number
THREE men were run over and killed
by railway hand car at Santa Cruz,
Cal
THE steamship France from Liver
pool reached New York four days over
due and badly battered A succession
of gales was encountered throughout
the passage. The second officer was
swept overheard.
AT Fort Edward n. Y, DR. Crandalrs
house was robbed of s., 500 in gold
MAJ. J. b. Hicks, an old settler and
one of the Mexican war veterans, was
found dead in his bed at his home near
Monticello. Ill
IN the stomach of COW killed at
Seymour, Ind, were found silver
half dollar, a lot of needles and pins,
several large bones and over one-fourth
of a pound of horseshoe and other nails.
The COW was apparently healthy
ABRAHAM GUMP, of Fort Wayne. Ind,
who wagered with Col Geary that he
could fast thirty days, gave up after
fasting twenty-five days and losing
twenty-fonr pounds.
In the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended
on the 27th ult numbered 200, against
295 the preceding week and Sol the CORE
spending week last year
Ar Tacoma, Wash, J. c. Arnold, a
guard, and two pris )ners, Charles Ole
son and Charles Barrett, were drowned
BY the capsizing of sailboat while at
tempting to reach the mainland
A GASG of burglars blew open the
safe in the Mulvane KAN post office
and carried off all the cash and stamps.
Ar bonneville. Mo, w ii. Lawrence,
who confessed to wrecIing passenger
train last November, was sentenced to
five years in the pcnitentiary
THE coolest weather of the winter
was sweeping down over the north
west, the thermometer ranging from
% 40 degrees below zero.
AFTER str Ike lasting two wears the
SIIlkiliS SIdSS DlbNtIS Ut trIhsS uOFO, y.
j., were returning to work
An explosion of gas in iron works at
Pottstown, Pa, caused several tons OF
hot metal t. flow over several men, and
fifteen We're terribly burned.
AT Pine Bluff Ark. a daughter of
Frank Rufus (colored) picked up an AK
and killed her father during a quarrel.
EX-JUpGE Bono, of Decatur, Ind,
while under the influence of liquor shot
his son Roland, aged % years. inflicting
a fatal wound
EVERY building except two in the
village of Yuma A. T., was swept
away by floods. In Tia Juana, Cal,
not a building was left standing on its
foundation and several persons were
drowned.
The census bureau announced the
population of Kentucky by races as fol-
lows: Whites, l,5S5, 500 colored, ara
9sl; Indians, 9S; Chinese, 20; Japanese
i; total, t,s5S,6S5.
+. L. WooD, of HaverhilI, Mass, was
| fined $50 for allowing women and chill