Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-26

Work on the white mousse crevasse
near New Orleans had been abandoned
and all the country about that city was
under water.
THE supreme association of Patrons
of Industry, in session at Lansing,
Mich, elected y II. Lake, of Rose,
Mich, as president The report Of the
secretary showed total of 1I3, 600 mem
bers in the country.
Mrs. WILLIAM WATTERsoS, aged IS,
was burned TO death in smoke house
near Easton, O.
SEVEN men we're found frozen to
death in the recent heavy storm in
Montana, and il was said that many
/ persisted of whom no traces had been
/ found, and whose bodies had made food
4 for wolves and coyotes.
4 A HIGHwAYMAy robbed a California
stage near Redding and compelled the
driver to hand over the treasure box.
The colored editors closed their ma
| tional convention at Cincinnati and will
meet next year in Philadelphia. Mr..
John Mitchell was elected president.
PETER CRYAN, aged 80, and his sister
| Mary, aged 50, were burned 20 death by
a fire in a New York tenement house.
THE famous Laguna de Tache ranch
/ in Tulare county, Cal, was sold to an
/ English syndicate for 81, 600, 600.
| BECAUSE his bride threatened to leave
1 Writeman, of Napoleon, o., hanged
| himself
THEODORE SCHWARTZ & Co, private
bankers at Louisville, Ky, failed for
about $500, 900, the crash carrying down
the Union tobacco works.
IT was reported that gold had been
! found near Boston, Mo.
The resignation of A. w Thurman
as chairman of the national baseball
| board has been accepted and n. E.
Young selected to fill the vacancy.
ID. j. SPAULDISG, wagon manufacture
er at Black River Falls, Wis, made an
assignment with liabilities of $40, 600
and assets of S7O0. 600.
JAMES NJ. NOLAN, a wealthy resident
of Pittsburgh, Pa, died after eating
prepared meat obtained at grocery.
His wife was taken violently i'll, but
would probably recover.
IL the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended ON
the Goth numbered 275, against 273
the preceding week.
CHAUNCEY MARBLE, a wealthy farm
err of Marion county, Pa, was arrested
for counterfeiting, and dies and other
tools were found in his possession.
IN the following thirteen states and
territories worlds fair appropriation
bills have been passed and are in force:
California; $500, 900; Idaho, So, 900; In
diana, SIS, 900; Iowa, $50, O00 Montana,
100000 New Mexico, SIS, 900; North
Carolina, $4,000. oklahoma, 81 1000;
Oregon, 500, 900; Pennsylvania, $3.50, 900;
Vermont, S., 600; Washington, 500, 900;
West Virginia, $4,000 total, 81, 0O7, 900.
IKE ALLEN cut John Weatherford's
throat at a dance in Mosquito, Tex,
and Weatherford's brother Bud shot
and killed Allen. All were prominent
young men.
OWEN MILLER. of St Louis, was
elected president of the National
League of Musicians in session at Mil
waukee.
A FIRE at st. Joseph, Mo, destroyed
the stock and the building of the Ken
nard Grocery Company, causing a total
loss of $4,000.
IT is proposed to establish a naval
war college on Coasters island near
Newport. K. l., under control of the
navy department.
TWENTY ear loads of cattle were
killed or manned in wreck near Ada,
o.. on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne &
Chicago railway.
AT St Adams, Vt, +. T. Harding,
aged -, husband of dissolute woman,
shot her dead, and then killed himself
with the same weapon.
FIRE destroyed St Georges Episco-
pal church in st. Louis. 1t was built
in 1873 at a cost Of $4,000.
A De BEIsTHAL & Co, china and
glassware importers at New York,
failed for Sl5O,000, due principally to
European houses.
BY the closing of many Montana
mines LOO men have been thrown out
employment.
NINETEEN young women renowned
the world and took the veil at the st.
Joseph and St Mary convent in St.
Louis.
AFTER serving fourteen years for
crime of which he was guiltless Warren
Clough was released from jail at Stew.
art, Neh.
THE three children of John Doan died
at 2ringville, La, while under the
treatment of Christian scientists.
FouR car loads of valuable merchan-
disc were destroyed by fire in the
Baltimore 4 Ohio transfer house in
Chicago, the loss being 500, 600.
THE comptroller OF the currency
caused the keystone national bank OF
Philadelphia to be closed. 1t was said
that the banks deposits amounted to
81. 400, 600
w l.. BARTLETT and G. W Freese.
respectively city editor and managing
editor of the Monmouth tIn) Atlas, to-
gether with two daughters of man
named Hines, Of Huron, 5. D., were re-
ported 10 have been drowned ii Puget
sound