Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-12-17
DOMESTIC


z. BAUGmAN, merchant at Fort
Worth, Tex, failed for over 5000 600
FORREST Thomas (colored) was exc
cuted at Greenyille, Miss. for the muir
der of Hayward Bryant in November,
1890.
Mrs. W. II. LoNG. living near High
Rock Ind, gave birth to a perfectly
formed, healthy girl weighing one
pound.
THE Indiana supreme court has de-
cided that a woman has a right to sue
any one for damages who alienates her
nus bands affections.
Gov. MERRIAM has issued circular
letter asking the people of Minnesota
to help the poor in Russia
1T was estimated that there was not
a weeks supply of soft coal in Iowa.
Dakota. Minnesota, Illinois, Kansas
and Nebraska.
ASHER G. MAsr's barn and sixteen
fine horses were burned at West Mil
ton. o., causing loss of $50 900
AN Indian outbreak was threatened
at the Cheyenne agency in Montana
and United States troops had been
ordered to the scene
FIRE destroyed the John Dunlap silk
mills at Paterson, n. j.. causing loss
of 500, 600
A STATEMENT prepared ut the pen
sion office shows that during the month
of November last %, 253 pension claims
of all classes were allowed. upon which
the first payments aggregated Sc, sos,
333. The average payment to each
pensioner was therefore Sl2420
UNITED STATES gunboat No was
launched at Bath, Me, and christened
the Machias.
ONE man was killed outright and
four others terribly injured by a fall
ing wall caused by an explosion dur
ing a fire in Buffalo On. y planning
mill.
SIX PERSONS were drowned near
Stelaeour Wash, by the upsetting Of
a boat during a storm on Puget sound
+. A. HARrER, paying teller in the
Detroit national bank at Detroit, Mich,
was said TO be over $4,000 short in his
accounts,
Mrs. CHARLES BLISS, Of East Maine,
n. Y. was frightened to death by the
running away of her horses
JouN nERCsH and Lewis Rhodes, of
St Marys, had a fight over a woman
at Lima, o., and both were fatally in
jured.
AT Rochester, n Y, Joseph L. Deyo,
convicted of wife murder, was SEN
fenced to be put to Ceath by electricity
at Auburn during the week commenc-
ing January Is.
AT Cleveland O., the Cleveland
theater VAS destroyed by fire, entailing
loss Of 5l00 900
THE Richmond lVa,l city council will
buy Mrs jefferson Davis city resi-.
dence TO cost SIS 900 in the event that
she makes Richmond her home.
Two MEN were killed and five injured
by the coHapsing of frame ice-house
at Lehightown, Pa
DURING the twelve months ended
September so the value of our exports
of merchandise was SOS, 09l, l56, against
$500, I17,Il5 for the previous twelve
months. an increase OF SG2, 9l4,027
Mrs 0LENA SCpEsE1 i'll Jail ut Sun.
bury, Pa on the charge of stealing
$40, hanged herself
ENocH MoEGANs Sous < Co, of New
York, have given $4,000 toward thc
worlds fair.
THE coinage Of the minis during tn,
last fiscal year was the largest in tn,
history Of the minis in this country
aggregating li9541s77 pieces valued
at S63, GIL. l5935.
JosEPH r. LAMPkIN, the night watch
man al the Santa lie depot al La Jun
ta Col, was killed by J. W. Knorsa,
crazy man, who then took his own life
THE average condition of wheat il
Michigan was reported at % per cent
against l02 per cent one year ago
During the month Of November 1,63s,
COS bushels Of wheat were marketed
TALToN HALL. who said that durin,
his life he had killed ninety-nine men
was arrested at Memphis, Tenn.
FIVE fremcn and five girls and on
boy lost their lives in two fires a
Louisville, Ky.
THE American house at Wau6esha
Wis, was destroyed bv fire, the guest
escaping in their nirhtclothes.
THE new congressional Director
shows that nearly oue-half of tn
house. or l43, are new men unknown
in the halls ~ the national legislature
THE annual report Of Secretary Eos
ter Shove that the revenues of the gov
eminent from all sources for the fsca
year ended June So 1891, were S45s 544,
1888 03. The expenditures for the same
period were S42l,S04, 47o 40, leaving
q surplus of So, 239, 762 ~ As compared
with the fiscal year 1899 the rece pit