Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-02-04

ton.
BURGLARS made a raid on the Union
bank Of Wilton. Ia, and secured 81, 600.
An engine blew M at Newcastle,
Pa, killing the engineer, fireman and
three brakemen. The bodies were
horribly mangled.
LEE GIBSON (colored) was taken from
| Jail at Owenton, Ky, by mob and
hanged for the murder of Frank Leg
! germs.
AT Elton, Pa, Samuel Kring, aged
70 years, and his wife. aged So, were
burned to death in their home.
CHAUNcEY VI. DEPEw gave a dinner
/ in New York in commemoration of the
twenty fifth anniversary of his con-
nection with the Vanderbilt lines.
THE wheat crop of North Dakota for
1891 is estimated at 64,71S, 32S bushels,
or o. IS bushels to the acre.
GES. RAUM, commissioner of pen
sions, appeared before subcommittee
of the house appropriations committee
and asked for an appropriation for pen
sions for the next fiscal year of S144,-
956, 600
IL special message sent to con-
gress on the 2Sth President Harrison
declared that the administration was
satisfied with the answer made by
Chilli to the ultimatum of the United
States of January 81. and with the mes
sage transmitted the answer aforesaid
and the correspondence growing out of
it.
AGENTS Of the coal producing compa-
MES met at New York and decided to
advance prices twenty-five cents per
ton.
SEVEN flint glass factories in Pitts.
burgh shut down rather than comply
with the demands of their employees.
Two HUNGARIAN miners were blown
to pieces at Honeybrook. Pa, by an
explosion of dynamite and seven others
were fatally injured.
AT the session of the Farmers Ma
tional Alliance in Chicago d. +.
Ravens, of Washington, was elected
president for the ensuing year.
Arthur SroCKER fatally shot his
wife and her sister, Mary Tierney, in
New York. Jealousy was the cause.
RALPH r. CHANDLER, cashier of the
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern rail-
road at West Detroit, Mich, left for
parts unknown with $1,000 belonging
TO the company.
BY a vote of 6s to 20 the Ohio house
of representatives adopted a resolution
requesting the worlds fair manage
ment to close the exhibition on Sun
day.
THE Fall River county bank at DEL
richs, S. D., closed its doors with liabili-
ties of about $500
NEAR Jones Mills. Pa, United States
revenue officers captured five moon
sinners and destroyed two Illicit distil-
leries
HENRI DowD, alias 1.-The Slasher."
who committed several murders in
New York, was acquitted on the
grounds of insanity and sent to an
asylum.
IN the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the 29th mum bered 297, against 32s the
preceding week and go for the CORE
spending week last wear
Four men at Thompsons, Tex, cap.
tured and hung Joe Shields to a tree.
No cause was known.
Bon JONES and Lee Davis, members
OF the Parton faction, were waylaid
and killed by Perry Turner and his
men near Pineville, KY.
A MAN named Burdette and his wife
and two children froze to death in
Oklahoma.
AT the leading clearinghouse in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 29th aggregated ST.,
20s, $40, ST., against ST. 900 l69, So the
previous week. The increase as com
pared with the corresponding week OF
1891 was 10l.
ANDREW BoRJEssEN was hanged at
Litchfeld, Conn, for the murder of his
sweetheart, Emma Anderson.
b. Il. MUsGRAvE, of Terre Haute,
Ind, who attempted to swindle in
surance companies by burning a log
cabin containing a skeleton, was con-
victed and sentenced to pay fine of
$500 and to be confined in the peniten-
tiary ten years
AT meeting of President Harrison's
cabinet it was decided that when Chilli
salutes the flag the Baltimore incident
will be closed. There would be no re.
SoIb 10 tHe supreme court Ol tuc y Hlbcu
States nor to a tribunal of arbitration,
as the administration accepts the apol-
ogy of the Gillian government in its
broadcast sense.
THOMAS THOMPSON (colored) was
hanged at Charlestown, Md, for the
murder on the night of August %, 1891,
of William Adams, also colored-
BY the burning of house at Green
Vile, Ga, Tandy Young and his two
children, aged and 6 years, were
burned to death. Mrs, Young escaped
THE Butler county bank at Chicora,
Pa, failed with liabilities of $50, 900.
FLAMES swept away the business por-
ton of Milan, Mo.
AT Washington Friday evening the
Ohio Republicans association gave
reception to Senator John Sherman in
honor of his sixth election to the United
States senate.
The home of George Cramer near
Brainerd, Mimi, was burned during
his absence, and Mrs Cramer and three
children persisted in the flames