Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-08-11
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the Week Ending Aug. 9.

For the Week Ending Aug. 3.
Archibald Thacker died at his home
near Martinsville, Ind. aged IOl years.
Lord Alfred Tennyson, the poet, cell
ebrated his SD birthday ? his home in
London.
William Reese, the oldest ironworker
in the Uniten States, is dead at Bolivar,
Pa, aged 1O4
Tarrant & Co, importers of drugs at
New York, lost 500, 900 by a fire in
their storerooms
The eleventh reunion of the national
encampment Sons of Veterans con-
vened at Helena. Mont.
Jacob Claus, 50 years old, was grant
ed a divorce in Detroit, Mich, from his
wife, who is 76 years old
Home rulers are satisfied with Glad
stones Irish bill and will give him all
the support ia their power.
At the races in Buffalo, " Y, Robert
j. Even paced a mile in 2:l1, creating
new 4-year-old pace record.
Josephine Delveaux was killed by
lightning at Green Bay, Wis, and the
same stroke made her brother deaf
Henry Richer and Fred Floto, aged
81 and 10 years, respectively, we're
drowned in the lake at Michigan City,
Ind.
Col. J. w. Gore, one of central Kan
sas first settlers, dropped dead on the
street at Abilene from the effect Of the
heat
1t was said that in the governments
of Saratoff and Samara, Russia, the
deaths from cholera numbered 5000
daily.
The queens speech which was read
in the British parliament was purely
formal, and foreshadowed an early adj
journment
Conservative estimates place the loss
to stock, crops and farm property in
Hancock county, H., from the spring
floods at S343, 900.
Mexico has established depots from
which food is supplied to the thousands
of starving peasants in the tlmine-
stricken districts.
A fire which started in the furniture
factory of Chatterton & Co. in Balti-
more, Md, damaged property to the
extent of 5000, 900.
Rev. Benjamin Fisk Barrett, the
most noted Swedenborgian in the
United States, died at Germantown,
Pa, aged 81 years.
Frederick Kayser, an aged, eccentric
and wealthy miser, hanged himself at
Dayton, o., as the result of a quarrel
with his daughter.
Mrs. Rose, one of the first women to
speak in the United States in favor of
the abolition of slavery, died in Lon
don, aged So years.
In Cuba the sentiment in favor of an
neNation to the United States is increas-
ing, but the patriots are fearful OF ill
clustering expeditions.
Chill has signifed her intention to send
commissioners to Washington for the
purpose of arbitrating claims by Amer
cans against that country.
At Louisville, Ky, Tom Johnson was
killed and Harry Parish and James
Walker fatally injured by fall from
scaffold. They were painters.
A ferry boat plying on the Mejerda
river was capsized in midstream at
Tunis, Switzerland, and nine of the
persons on board were drowned.
At the national convention of Car
penters and Joiners of America in St.
Louis Saturday Henry H. Theno, of
New York, was elected president
Reports from farmers in South Da-
kota show the yield of wheat to be
about thirty bushels to the acre An
average crop Of corn is being harvested.
Two freight engines collided on the
Baltimore & Ohio road at Bellaire, O.,
and Thomas Feenev, fireman, and John
Lovejoy, brakeman, were fatally hurt.
JayEye-See, the famous gelding.
who has been lame for over year.
will start as PAGER in several races
this fall. At Racine Saturday he paced
a mile in 2:l5
ten. Schofield has ordered that all
hospital matronS in excess of 100, now
employed, be discharged. This is made
necessary by the provisions of the army
appropriation bill
The town of Rzecze, in Russia. was
set on fire in four corners and complete
" destroyed, fourteen persons being
killed, sixteen seriously injured and
1000 rendered homeless.
Hal Pointer, 2:092t, beat Direct. hold
ing the record at 100 in three straight
heats in match pacing race at Buff
falo Saturday for purse of S., 900, low
ering his record to 2:OSl4.
1t was reported that party of TWEEN
ty tourists that left Vandenong, Aus
tralia, to hunt kangaroos, were cap
tured by the natives, who are canni-
balls, and killed and eaten.
A mortar charged with dynamite was
exploded near ST. Alfonzos church in
Rome, Italy, during a religious fete,
and eleven persons were killed and
number of others were injured.
Three boys named Dean Conrad,
James McGillen and Eddie Litzan ber-
ger accidentally exploded a can Of
dynamite belonging to contractor at
Johnstown. Pa, and all were fatally
injured.
Four members of a family named