Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-10-20
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.



Nine miners We're suffocated by choke
damp in the Delere mine in Italy.
A mountain of carbonate of zinc has
been discovered near Hillsboro, n. NJ.
Fire which started in a frame tene-
ment at Jersey City, N. j., did 1925, 900
damage.
Two state banks were closed in Ne
braska, one at Ainsworth, the other at
Spring View.
Several factories and other buildings
were burned at Bethel, Conn, the loss
being s125, 1000
Linus b. Comins, a member of con-
gress from 1855 TO 1858, inclusive, died
in Boston, aged 10 years.
Maxwell Anderson, IA years Of age,
died at Jacksonville, Ind, of hydro
phobia caused by a rat bite.
By the capsizing of boat OF Nvkloe-
bling, a small seaport town in Denmark,
eight persons were drowned.
z. d. Lorenzo, bookmaker of ma
tional reputation, was found dead in
the Dearborn hotel in Chicago.
The box factory and planning mill in
Chicago of II. Paecke & Co was wiped
out by fire, the loss being 100000
Twelve Esquimau families from
Hudson Bay arrived at jackson park.
Chicago, to remain year on exhibition.
In a quarrel at Cleveland William
Donohue threw a lighted lamp at
Emma Wilson and she was burned to
death.
A territory in Nueces county, Tex,
embracing 400. 900 acres of land, was
flooded to depth of feet by water
spout.
Two boys aged Q and 4, sons Of j. II.
Mcnamara, of Des Moines, Ia, were
run over by an electric motor and in
stantly killed.
Martin Peterson, of Goshen, Ind. was
awarded $4,000 damages against the
Lake Shore Railway Company for the
loss of two arms.
Peter Wagner, stonecutter in
Brooklyn n. Y, fatally shot his wife
and then blew out his own brains.
Jealousy was the cause.
John Butts shot and fatally wounded
his wife at Portland Ore, because She
bullet into his own head.
Mrs. William Hackman, an aged in
mate of the county infirmary at Cald-
well, o., was fatally burned by her
clothing igniting from her pipe.
Edward W. Seymour, Judge of the
supreme court and member of congress
from 1882 to 1887, died at his home in
Litchfield, Conn, aged 60 years.
Col. William II. Hutter, of Easton,
Pa, one of the oldest newspaper men
in the Lehigh valley, died of nervous
prostration lie was SO years old
In n race war between Italians and
Hungarians at Milnesville, Pa, one
man was killed three mortally
wounded and a dozen seriously hurt.
Three colored miners, ODE TAYLOR
Andrew Vineyard and his son, were all
instantly killed in coal mine near
Bevier, Mo, by the falling of rock.
Wisconsin's legislature convened in
extra session to apportion the assembly
and senatorial districts, the former
law having been declared unconstitu-
tional.
Rev. William Henry Jernigan, of In
dependence county, Ark, died at the
age of So. He had been member of
the Methodist church for seventy-five
years.
The Tammany democrats in New
York city have renominated John r,
Fellows, Amos j. Cummings, Bourke
Cochran and Timothy J. Campbell for
congress.
j. S. Bedford and another man who
had been arrested on the charge of
horse stealing and acquitted were
shot and killed from am bush near Chcy-
enne, Wyo.
During a quarrel with his wife q
farmer named Bauman, living near
Commando, Ont, stabbed the woman
fatally and then blew out his brains
with shotgun.
The republicans made the following
congressional nominations in New
York: Second district, w \. Grace;
Fourth, C. b. Hobbs; Fifth, c. G. Ben.
nett; Sixth, John Creamy.
In a cyclone that passed over the
Cape Verde islands houses were de-
molished, many plantations devastated,
hundreds of head OF cattle were killed
and several vessels foundered
The western half of Alberta. the
rauching district of Manitoba. has
been devastated by prairie fires.
Thousands of tons of hay ana many
buildings were burned and many cat
tie persisted