Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-02-11

For the Week Endlne Feb. 5.


A light shock of earthquake was
felt al san Jose. Cal
Hamilton, \. d., was nearly de-
stroyed by fire Friday.
The Western Farm Mortgage Com
pany at Denver has failed for 81 GOO, 600.
John Hogan, who laid out the site of
the city Of Chicago. died 1T St Louis
Friday.
Frederick Zenner shot his sweet
heart in New York and then took his
own life
nKansas democrats will hold their
state convention at Leavenworth
March .
1t was decided to hold the Wisconsin
prohibition convention at Madison
May 81 and June l.
-Four newsdealers were fined SIS and
costs each for selling papers on sun
day at Pittsburgh. Pa.
Seth Dorsey, Henry Dorsey and a
negro named Overton were killed by a
falling wall at Glasgow, Ky.
The barb wire trust, which com
prised all the barb wire plants of the
country, has been dissolved.
Forty-eight contract laborers were
returned to Europe from the immigra-
ton station at Ellis Island, n. y.
During a quarrel at dance near Sill
yer Point, Tenn, two men named An
derson and a Miss Carr were killed.
Mrs. 6. F. Barber died at Lake Har-
Dor, Mich. She was a writer of wide
reputation known as Faith Temple
ton.
E. Goddard & Son, millers at ST.
Louis, made an assignment " it'll liabil-
tiles of $4,000 and assets of S05,-
o95 As.
A fire in the architectural iron works
of the Haugh-Ketchum Company in
Haughville, Ind, caused a loss of
$4,000.
Mrs. Catherine Sharp, of Philadel-
phia, celebrated her Hath birthday,
having been born February 6, IRIS, in
that city
The supreme court of Oklahoma has
sustained the sooner" law ousting all
settlers who entered land before the
hour set by law.
The Austrian government has in
structed all the frontier officials to stop
all moneyless Jews seeking to enter
Austria and Hungary.
Five deaths from spotted fever
were reported from Dangerfeld, Tex.
and the people of the affected locality
were greatly alarmed.
At Salt Lake Friday the liberal ter
ritorial convention adopted a memorial
to congress protesting against the adj
mission of Utah as state
Capt w. E. Edwards, prominent
tobacco dealer of Louisville, was burned
to death in a fire which destroyed the
Central tobacco warehouse.
The Big Mine Run colliery at Ash.
land, Pa, which has been idle several
months, viii probably be abandoned.
1t furnished employment to 600 people.
From New York during 1891 were
shipped S,223,52S bushels of wheat
OF this 1,23s shiploads only twenty.
five were carried under the American
flag.
A negro in Todd county, KY,
charged with making insulting threats
against white men, was taken from
jail last night and beaten almost t.
death.
George w. Childs will attend the
dedication ceremonies of the Childs.
Drexel home for union printers al
Colorado Springs, Col, May ~, the an.
niverSarv of his birth
S. V White and f. w. Hopkins, rep
resenting the firm of : V. White 4
Co, stock brokers Of New York which
failed recently, WEI nstated by the
stock exchange Thursday
Harry W. Shaw, on trial at Potts
vile, Pa. for the murder of David f.
Quinn, was found guilty of murder il
the second degree. Shaw is 10 years
old and showed no emotion.
Earthquake shocks at Omaha Neb.,
caused a bank of earth to cave into the
street, crushing house and fatally in,
juring one of its inmates Shocks
Were also felt in Portland and Astoria
Ore.
Sc Seller the ring blower of the
Celina (O) glass plant, made the largest
roller ever turned out in the United
States last week, So by 80 inches. lie
will try again for an exhibit for the
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