Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-01-15
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the wcck Endine Jan. -.

Wolves killed the infant child Of Henry
Carver at Liberal. Kan.
The great shoemalSers' strike at Roch-
ester, y y, has been declared off.
Jacob Murphy. a coIored wife muir
derer. was hanged at Caldwell. Tex.
A fire in q pianoforte warehouse in
Paris caused loss Of 1000. 900 francs.
J. W, Hartman was stopped by high-
waymen near Lima. O., ANA robbed Of
$500.
At Menden. ia, Charles Polling. aged
90 years. killed himself ii taking a gun
from a closet
Much damage has been done in New
Jersey by heavy rains and serious wash
outs are feared
During the past week over 500 miners
have been discharged ON the Gogebic
range in Michigan.
At Mount Vernon. Mo. two newspa-
per offices. bank and fifteen dwellings
were destroyed 10y fire,
Decker. Howell y Co, the New York
firm Of brokers which failed for S12,-
000.0 900, has resumed business.
Thomas y. Pinllham, of East Peoria,
III, died Of hydrophobia. lie was
bitten by mad dog year ago.
Polk Lynn killed George Lacey at
Brooklyn. ILL.,, by striking him over the
head with billiard cue Lynn escaped
The Queen Oil Company struck oil
six miles north of Portland, Ind. The
well was said to be good for 100 barrels
day.
La grippe caused the death of five
persons in the vicinity of Woodville,
Miss, each victim being over 20 years
of age.
Daniel Will5e, of Kewanee, Ills, was
killed Sunday by the accidental dis
charge Of revolver in the hands of
Paul Streicher
The Kansas Supreme Court has de-
cided that colored children could not be
Disseminated against in the public
schools Of the State
1t was reported that a syndicate had
been formed for the purpose of CONSOLE
dating the western part of Kansas into
one vast cattle range.
David Davidson was taken from his
home in indianapolis, Ind, by White
Caps and terribly whipped for abusing
his family while drunk,
Daniel Spofford, a hostler at Green
Bay, Wis. has by the death of his
uncle, Norris Spotford, at Montreal,
Can, fallen heir to S11, 900.
-Four hundred citizens of Columbus,
Iga1 lpI s
foxes in an open field and killed TWEEN
ty-eight of them. The others escaped.
Three boys aged 10, Il and 10 years
Were caught at Springfield, Mass, and
confessed to having committed series
of twcnty-three burglaries in that city.
Rev. John McClintock, d. d., Of Car
michaels, Pa, died at the age of So
years. He had been pastor of the
Presbyterian church there over fifty
years.
Last Monday an old man named
Dyer disappeared from his home al
Kewanee, Ill. Sunday his body wa.
found in the snow lie had committed
suicide.
Chief Marsh, of the Chicago police
force, asserted that local politicians had
written to thieves in other cities invit-
ing them to come to Chicago and ply
their calling.
Mrs. Sherwood has been awarded
damages of $40, 600 against the C. & W.
NJ. r. r. at Grand Rapids Mich, for in.
juries received in alighting from one OF
their trains.
Arrangements have been made for a
regular service of steamers between
Chattanooga, Tenn, and st. Louis, as a
result of the opening of the Muscles
Shoals canal.
The Governor of Mississippi has just
completed a count of the cash in the
treasury, as required by the new con
stitution, and finds the amount on hand
1928, 1874, correct.
Frank Thomas, cook on the steamer
Big Sandy, who three weeks ago killed
one man and wounded three others who
made an attack on the cooks galley.
was acquitted ut Henderson, KY
Secretary Blaine has begun CORE.
spondence with the Spanish Govern
ment in regard to the alleged indigni-
ties offered the American missionaries
on the island of Ponapi. in the Caroline
group, by Spanish soldiers.
Boiler-Makers Assign.