Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-09-08
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.


The Nebraska State bank at Crete
closed its doors.
Mrs. McGuffey died at Sharon. Pa,
in her Tooth year
Lightning killed eight soldiers at
SeyPusch, Austria
A fire at Cassel, Germany. destroyed
fifty houses and many persons were
homeless
Juan Ruiz and Jesus Molira, two
| Mexicans, killed each other in a fight
/ at Santa Ana, Cal.
Great distress prevailed among the
many hundred idle employees of the tin
/ plate factories in Wales.
The supreme lodge knights Of Pyth-
las closed its labors at Kansas City
after two weeks session.
The population of Duluth. Mimi, ac-
cording 10 the directory just issued, is
SO, 207, an increase of 5,55s.
At Bangor, Me-, Buuco. Jr.. paced a
mile in 2'lSA. breaking the worlds
record on half-mile track.
T. vs.. Parsons, who died suddenly at
Scituate, Mass, aged IS, was one Of
BostOn's most eminent poets
German authorities announce that
Russian emigrants will not be permit
ted to pass through Germany.
The stables of the Belt Line railroad
in Washington were destroyed by fire
and sixteen horses were roasted.
Never in the history Of western New
York have the plum and peach crops
been 50 large as they are at present.
The old state house was burned at
Des Moines. la. 1t was built in 1875
and fifteen assemblies were held in it.
The promising 5-year-old stallion
Kentucky Bird died in Meadville, Pa.
of pneumonia. He was valued at S15,-
O0O
1t is reported that Sir John Thomp-
son, minister of justice, will shortly
become premier of the dominion of
Canada.
Jay Eye See and other flyers of the
j. l. Case stables narrowly escaped
death in a railway smash-up at Shir-
land, III.
Mrs Ted Dineen, wife of a young
farmer near Yankton, 5. D., gave
birth to four girl babies. All were do
ing well.
Mrs. Margaret Rivera. grandmother
of Gov. Galan, of the state of Coahuila,
died at Monterey, Mexico, at the age of
1a2 years.
Il. NJ Xix, one of the best known
fine stock breeders in Nebraska, was
torn to pieces by bull on his farm
near Omaha.
The revolution in Honduras was
brought to an end by the capture of
Gen. Nuilla, the insurgent leader. and
his men near Irona.
H. b. McClelland, poor school
teacher living near San Antonio, Tex,
has fallen heir to an English estate
valued at 81, OOO 900.
Rocky Bar, an Idaho mining town.
was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of
Sl00, 600. One hundred and fifty per-
sons were homeless
In fit of jealousy George Willis.
farmer living near Center Lisle, n Y.
shot his wife and Wallace Oliver and
then took his own life
Charles Edwards, a prize fighter, at
tempted 10 kill Red" Briggs near
Leadville, Cob, but was struck with an
iron bar and fatally injured.
Labor day was appropriately OBJ
served in all the leading cities of the
county. The weather was generally
favorable for the celebrations.
During a quarrel Henry h Orm. a
faro dealer, shot and instantly killed
his mistress, Dolly Reed, at Denver,
Col, and then took his own life
robber failed in an attempt to muir
der David NJ. Cooper, pastor of the
Memorial Presbyterian church in De.
troit, while he was sitting in his study
Twenty-one election inspectors
found guilty in Jersey City, n j., of
ballot-box frauds in 1889, were SEN
fenced to various terms of imprisou-
ment
The 2-mile sculling match at Trenton,
Ont, between Edward Hanlau and
Charles Stephenson, champion of New
Zealand, was won by Hanlan by two
lengths.
Some of the strikers at Homestead,
Pa, entered the house of mill
worker named Maple while he and his
family were absent and destroyed all
the furniture.
The bona fide sale of a boy of Is is
reported from Quinze Lake, Ont. an
Indian named Rogers having sold his
adopted son to French hunter for
three dollars
Several trainmen were hurt, two
engines wrecked and several freight
cars demolished by collision on the
Burlington road between West Quincy
and Moody, Ill,
The town Of Alphine, Tex, was
flooded by cloudburst, and the tim ber
cattle and horses that hoated through
the place gave plain evidence of the
havoc in the mountains.