Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-04-09
EDitOme of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC.

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indictments agains the directors of the
New York, New Haven & Hartford
railroad for causing the death of the
six trainmen in the recent tunnel disas-
ter in New York.
THE totcl number Of deaths in Chica-
go for March was 3, 249, one-third being
caused by the grip.
THE horse Naymare, owned by $. ID.
Puett, Of Rockville, Ind, and valued
at $4,000, died OF heart failure
HARVEY PEOPLES, aged q. shot Miss
Nellie Dyke. aged TO- in Detroit town
ship, H., because She refused to marry
him, and then blew out his own brains
ALL the street-clr lines in Denver
were tied up by an unprecedentedly
heavy fan of snow.
AT san Antonio, Tex, George Teller
and A. Roper were found dead in their
room, having been sufTocated by fumes
from burning lime kiln.
Gov. MARKHAM, Of California. has
signed the bin making traaa wreclfing
punishable By death.
INcENDIAREs set fire to the resi-
dence of Robin Hood in Monroe coun-
ty, Ind, and Hood was sutfocated.
DURING March 1924 immigrants from
Italy landed at New York, nearly
double the number that landed in Feb
ruary.
THE passenger steamer City of De
troit sank in Lake Erie near Limeltiln
crossing. All the passengers were
saved.
THE total number Of business failures
in the United States and Canada for the
first quarter Of the current year, as re-
ported 10 Bradstreet's, was 3, 40l,
against 3,S26 for the first quarter of 1890.
The American national bank of Kan
sas City. which failed January 10, has
resumed business.
BURGLARS entered the jewclry store
Of Adolph Walter at Jersey City, H. j.,
and secured diamonds and othc~ jewelry
valued at 10000
THE lower rates Of duty on sugar
have gone into effect and the price to
consumers win be considerably re-
duced
Tine loclsed-out clothing cutters in
Rochester, n Y. passed resolutions
repudiatinq the Knights Of Labor. and
the lockout was declared at an end
Mrs. CAEotlNE SCHMIDT, on trial at
Media, Pa. for the murder Of her sis
ter, has been acquitted
The license Of the Capital Insurance
Company of Topeka, Kan, has been
revoked by the state commissioner
THE public debt statement issued on
the ist showed the total debt to be ST.
544 4712s7: cash in the treasury. s6g4.-
AL, $3.50; debt less cash ia the treasury,
$3.50, 02o, $40, Increase during March,
S44O. 255. Decrease since June 80, 1890,
S55. lO7, oil
THREE fatal cases of trichjniasis, the
result of eating raw ham, were report
ed near Platteville Wis
AS A result of a factional fight among
the Mormons Of independence, Mo. the
church building Of the sect was
wrecked
SECRETARY BLAINE replied to the
note of Eaya the italian minister. an
nounciug his withdrawal from Wash /
ington by order of his government on
account of dissatisfaction. at Rome con-
corning the course of the United States I
relative to the lynching at New Or
leans. Mr.. Blaine said this govern /
ment was proceeding with an investi- /
cation Of the New Orleans affair, and
that its action in the matter could IL {
be hurried by the course indicated by
Italy.
THE John MeNabb bank. one of the
oldest and most substantial institutions
of Eufaula. Ala, has made an assign
ment.
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Fort Scott reads. "A hundred thousand
Kansas cowboys would like to spend
the summer IN Rome. Can You furnish
trausportati5n2a
THE United states minis during
March coined :, 226. 30 pieces of money,
valued at S1lIs.170. The total of gold
coin was s3. 903, GOO aud Of silver SIS. 105,-
526 the balance being ia nicbcls and
cents.
THE second floor of w A. Hoeyeler's
warehouse in PittSburg, Pa, fell. kill
ing John Herman and injuring others
Two MEN entered the house of Mich
ael Stromlnger, an old farmer near
Harrisburg. Pa, and forced him to hand
over 81, 600 he had drawn from the bank
70 pay off the mortgage on his farm
PLANING-Muf. employees at New Or
leans were locked out because they re-
fused to work with non union men
THE rapid rising of the Missouri
river caused several blocks of lots at
Elwood, Kan. to fall into the stream.
TWELVE patients at Dubuque, Ia,
have been treated with Kochs lymph
and satisfactory results obtained.
A STATEMENT prepared by the treas
ury department at Washington shows
that there was a net increase Of SILL
6l4.4i5 in the circulation during the
month of March, principally in silver
certificates
FOURTEEN coal mines near Ashland,
Pa. operated by the Reading company,
were closed for an indefinite period.
A GIRl IN the Texas orphans home at
Corsicana was burned TO deat& in a
fire caused bv defective hue,
The Waverly oil refinery at Pitts
burgh, Pa. was totally destroyed by
fire Tho Ia4S bafurr &f9S onA