Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-02-26

JAMES Il. KISsLEY, a Boston wool
dealer, was held in bonds of $50, 900 on
a charge of embezzling $4,000 from
Boston banks.
Mrs john HENRY and her four
children and Jacob Enrich were suffo-
Gated in a burning building in Brook
Ign, n. Y.
THE American Loan and Trust Com
pany Of New York closed its doors.
Depositors would be paid in full
A WHITE man and negro were taken
from the county jail in Gainesville,
4 Fla, by a mob and hanged for com
| plicity in numerous assaults.
FREDERICK THIEs. farmer living in
| the salt Creek valley in Kansas, was
left 81. 600 600 by brother who died in
California.
II test case in the United States
Circuit Court in New York the McKin-
! ley tariff law was declared cCnstitu-
/ tional
THE Union Investment Company of
Kansas City, Mo, assigned, with LA
bilities and assets each $1,000, 600.
GEORGE J. GmsoN, the indicted sec
rotary of the whisky trust, gave bond
in Judge Shepard's court IN Chicago in
the sum of s25, 600.
Robert MEREDITH, of Center, Wis,
has returned from trip around the
world began a year ago. He started
/ with SIS and came back with s..
Ar Little Rock ex-Treasurer Wood
ruff paid into the State Treasury of
| Arkansas S63, 40. 80, the full amount of
| hiS shortage.
RIVERSIDE, suburb Of Parkersburg,
w. Va, was destroyed by a flood No
| lives were lost
Az express train struck and killed
| Martha Moore and Sarah Mules (col-
ored) az Lake Station, Md
c. v McCHEsNEY, Of Cincinnati was
presented the Wanamaker gold medal
offered TO the postal clerk i'm the Fifth
division railway mail service making
the best record during 1890.
THE census bureau announced the
population Of Tennessee by races as
follows White, l. 332, 97l colored, 434,
800; Indians, l73; Chinese, 81; Japanese,
10; total, 1.767.51S. The population of
West Virginia was given as follows:
White. 729, 2G2 colored, 80, sos; Indians,
s; Chinese, Is; total, 1872, 794.
ANTEco (2:l64), by EIectioneer, was
purchased at Lexington, Ky, by 5. A.
Brown, of Kalamazoo, Mich, for $780,
600
A FIRE at Rochester, n. Y, destroyed
the Grand Opera blouse, valued at
100000, and damaged the Windsor
Hotel &c., 600.
FIVE horses valued at 800 were
burned in the barn of c. f. Butler, near
Paris, Ky.
Mrs. JAMES BASS was murdered by
Anderson Resell, negro at Bartonia,
Ind She knew of a forgery which
Resell had committed.
THE remaius of the late General Sher-
man were on the 10Th borne from the
family residence in New York to the
depot and embarked on train for ST.
Louis. The ceremonies were attended
by President Harrison and his Cabinet
and many other distinguished persons
and thousands of old soldiers were in
the line of march.
AT Martins Ferry, o., an explosion
of natural gas in the house of William
Kuntz burned nine persons, two of
them, Mrs. Kuntz and Miss Graves, IA
tally.
john BULL, an Indian, was hanged
by mob at Battlefield Miss, for the
murder of Ben Pierce, farmer.
A STORM of slees and snow did great
damage to the telegraph service in the
Northwest.
SIX trainmen were killed and seven
injured by collision of railway trains
on the New Haven railroad in New
York City
THE Lake Front was abandoned by
the worlds fair directory. There will
not be building placed upon it and
the Worlds Columbian Exposition win
be held in jackson Park. 1t was said
the expenses of the fair would be Sl7,-
625 413, and the receipts were estimated
at S21 200, 900.
IL the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended
on the 20th numbered 295. against 29T
the preceding week and 2It the CORE
spending week last year
THE standard oil Company has pur-
chased 20, 600 acres Of oil lands in Green
County, Pa. This corporation now own
nearly all of five counties in Pennsyl-
| vania
WILLIAM MCQUEEN, a wealthy and
| prominent citizen Of Leigh, Neb. and
well known throughout the State, shot
and killed his wife and his hired man
and then cut his own throat. Jealousy
was said To have prompted the crime.
THE total production of white pine
lumber in the Northwest during the
past season was 4,06s, 2s5, 5S4 feet. an
increase over the previous season of
500, 700, l4B feet.
NINE miners were killed by ava
lanehes in the Colorado mining camps,
THE bodies Of two victims of the 1889
flood at Johnstown Pa, were found in
the Conemaugh river, They were sup
posed to be the bodies of females
THE Blanchard river at Findlay, o.,
overlooked its banks, driving all the
residents of the lower section from their
homes.