Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-08-13

| izenship Levi Coins, a veteran of Rob
ison. III. Coins had been wrongfully
imprisoned for fraudulently endeGvor
ing to obtain pension.
Gov. BUCHANAN. of Tennessee, is.
sued a proclamation calling a special
/ session Of the legislature to take ac-
| ton in regard to the revision Of the
convict labor laws.
/ FIRE destroyed the Hutchinson coop
/ erage works at Peoria, Ill This was
the third time the buildings had been
destroyed by fire The loss was over
| $4,000.
AT the third and last days session Of
| the Grand Army Of the Republic ut De-
| troit Capt John Palmer, of Albany, n.
| Y, was elected commander in chief.
The proposition to institute separate
camps for colored veterans was de-
feated.
Mrs. WALTER BEEBE, of Council
! Bluffs, Ia, jumped from carriage as
the horses were running away and was
fatally hurt.
AS infringement of patent was the
reason for attaching property belong
ing to the city of Boston to the value of
$500. 900
LIBERTY SHOCKS, a farmer near
Humeston. Ia. was shot and instantly
killed by Dick Gwinn, as the result Of
a family quarrel
A HEAVY hailstorm passed Crooks
ton, Mimi, laying waste aud destroy
ing grain from Marin to Hixon, a strip
miles wide by IA in length Every
thing was destroyed and there would
be no harvesting in that belt of coun-
try this season.
IT was said that the village of Com
ance, la, had been entirely destroyed
by fire.
FATHER Quay, the Catholic priest of
Snohomish, Wash, was tarred and
feathered by a mob of citizens. He
was accused of immoral practices.
In the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the 9TH numbered 23l, against 247
the preceding week and POS for the
corresponding week last year.
JAMES S. FULLER, veteran so years
old of Otisyille, Mich, committed sui
eide at Detroit while attending the en-
campmeut.
THE Blyner Zee Machine Company
of Cincinnati has assigned Liabilities,
$500, 600
REV. DIR. SHERWOOD, an evangelist
from Florida was arrested at Omaha,
Neb., for having six negro boys as
slaves. 1t was said that they were
treated with great cruelty. lie would
De charged with violating the fifteenth
amendment of the constitution.
FoR ASSEMBLING child Of 5 years,
James Thoroughbred, colored man,
was hanged at Dover, Del.
THE secretary of the United States
treasury was advised that an attempt
was to be made during the present
month to rob the treasury by an organ
lied band of men.
WHILE shooting his brother, who was
crazy and who had attacked him with a
knife, planter named Huff of Willis,
l. r., shot and mortally wounded his
own wife The crazy man was killed
with three bullets from a Winchester
rifle
SHOOTING and killing his prisoner
was the cause Of the arrest of the city
IliaFsuai = ar o''iia"ie' IL on tie
hiliiiiS ~ inc coroner jury that the
Killing was unjGs1lna ole. ne victim
was Tue sou ~ neN' " ~ CIarh' Inc
young man 'lao oeeh orlhNihg ana re-
sisted arrest.
IHEopoRE DENNIS OF boston was
elected president OF the National As
soeiation OF Lettef carriers
FRED LEwicR, one os the editors Of
the Western Poultry journal was
drowned at CEDAR Rapids Ia, while
bathing m the Cedar river
}. W. SHoNALfEk, OF Lexington,
KY, won the United states Chess asso-
cations championship prize.
DIR, w W. WALEER OF New York,
was elected president OF the American
Dental Association at Saratoga, y, T.
AT Seneca, Neb. train struck a
buggy, killing 4. II. Burnett and Miss
Frances Fuller Two women and two
children were seriously hurt.
AFTER about twenty-five years OF
lltiWatlOn the supreme court OF Cali