Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-12-29
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the Week Ending Dec. e.

Sallie Jackson, a eolored centena-
rian, was buried in Washington.
An earthquake shock lasting forty
I seconds was felt at Cornwall, Ont
/ The thirtieth legislative assembly of
/ New Mexico convened at Santa Fe.
Martin Handel, of Mount Carroll,
Ill, dropped dead on a stree: corner at
/ Galena, Ill.
/ yacht was upset in the harbor at
Sidney, \. 5. W., and ten persons were
/ drowned
A IRE in THE Berlin" dry goods
store in Brooklyn, n. Y, caused loss
of s125, 600.
Scores of persons were dying from
/ starvation in the government of Ulea-
/ bory, Sweden.
Montague Williams. famous Eng
lish criminal lawyer, died in London,
aged 81 years.
Mrs. Langtry's physicians state that
| she has passed the crisis in her fever
/ and is now out Of danger.
Robert II. Kuehnert, an attorney at
/ Cincinnati for building associations, Sc
/ cured S26, 500 by fraud and fed
Uncle JEFF" Hutchinson, a colored
man, died at the home of Mrs. Maria
Griffin in Chicago, aged 1T years.
Miss Mamie Creegan, of Joliet, aged
%, was found dead in bed from the
i bursting of a cerecral blood vessel
All the thirty three Hudson county
! "a. j. ballot-box suffers in the state
prison at Trenton have been pardoned.
i Two women, Fannie Ward and Maria
Jones' and two children, an colored,
were asphyXiated by coal gas in Balti-
more.
In the race from New York to Liver
+ pool between the steamers City Of Paris
and the Etruria the latter won by four
hours.
/ A Santa Fe train was wrecked near
La Junta, Col, and eight empty Pull
man coaches were demolished and
burned.
The police census gives Philadelphia
population of l, l42, 653, an increase of
95,6s9 over the government enumera-
tion of 1890.
A fire at Wyoming, n. Y, burned
the Methodist Episcopal church, six
stores, seven dwellings and three barns.
Total loss, 500, 0OO
Martin A. Richie, a wealthy farmer
residing few miles north of Litchfield,
| ILL.,, was swindled out of S., 900 in a
three-card monte game.
During a violent gale on the west
coast of Spain the ship Maria Teresa
foundered off San Lucars and eight of
the crew were drowned
Marquis de Pendana, a grandee Of
Spain, has been appointed Spanish
minister to the United States to suc1
coed Senior Suarez Guanes.
Alonzo Mute. member of the Fifty
first congress from the first district of
New Hampshire, died at his home in
Pennington, aged 66 years.
One of the greatest gold excitements
since the days of 40 is at present draw
ing thousands of persons to the new
field discovered in Colorado.
Mrs Alice Faulkner, 40 years old,
while in a fit of dependency choked
her 12-year-old daughter to death and
then killed herself in Paterson, n. j.
The fact has just been made public
that during the Trefort ministry in
hungary 100000 forms were en-
bczzied in the department of education.
Edward II. Hallinger, the negro who
murdered his white mistress, Mary
Patterson, April ), 1891, was hanged
in the county Jail at Jersey City, n. J.
John L. Woods. a wealthy retired
lumber dealer, gave Sl25.00O to the
medical college OF Western Reserve
university at Cleveland as a Christmas
present
Josiah NJ. ri>lc, one Of the oldest
merchants in New York city and the
Oldest director IF the American ex-
change national bank dropped dead in
the bank.
3, Henry Alarm, who was imprisoned
two years ago for embezzling the funds
of the Marine national bank of Pitts
burgh, has been liberated on pardon
by President Harrison.
There was great suffering in st.
Mary's, O., the natural gas supply hav-
ing completely given out. The wealth
er was intensely cold and there was
neither coal nor wood to he had.
The renewal of an old feud over the
location of country road near Sno-
homish Wash, resulted in the murder
of two well-to-do farmers, Foulks and
Smith, by two boys, IA and Is years of
age, named Langston and Robinson.
President Whitney, of the West End
Street Railroad company, Boston, has
notified the families of the four en-
1 ployes who lost their lives while try
ing to save the company's property in
the fire IT Everett Wednesday night
that in addition to paying the funeral
expenses Of deceased the company will
give every family $1,000
Another Witness Dead.
CHicAeo, Dee e1-Wilham c. Lat
tin, one of the witnesses III the Cronin
trial. was killed III a saloon row sun
day, making the thirty-fourth witness