Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-05-19
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the Wool Ending Mar -.

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Fire at Newton, Kan, destroyed w.
Pherscn's livery stable and eleven
horses.
Murphy James Foster was inaugu-
rated governor of Louisiana at Baton
Rouge.
During the season just closed 5,354,-
$50 bushels of oysters were measured
III Maryland.
The Wakes oil works at Berlin were
destroyed by fire, involving a loss Of
1000, 600 marks
About S7,5OO,OOO was paid out during
the last fiscal year by the government
as sugar bOunties.
Etienne Deschamps was hanged at
New Orleans for the murder Of l3-year-
old Juliet Deitsch
Germany viii take part in the inter
national silver conference, but is not
hopeful of the result. YJ
Heyman, Alexander & Co, yarn mer-
chants at Bradford, Eng, have failed,
with liabilities Of $780, O0O
The shoe factory of +. W. Breed &
Co, at Rochester, n. Y, was destroyed
by fire, the loss being $4,000
A fishing smack was run down by
steamer off Skiebbereen, England, and
the crew of eight men were lost.
The Arizona democrats in convention
at Tucson elected delegates to Chicago
favorable to Cleveland for president
James Taylor, the man with sixty
wives, was sentenced in Boston TO three
years in the state prison on one count.
Harry Paul, coal miner who earns
one dollar a day at Wilkesbarre, Pa, is
heir to $4,000 left by his father ia
Posen.
In Egypt a band of dervishes made
descent upon Sierra and massacred
thirty-four natives who fell into their
hands.
The Silver Lake lee Company's i'm
mense ice house at Perry, n. Y, was
burned by incendiaries, the loss being
$3.50, 600.
Nelson Packard, Martin Woodward
and an old fisherman named Beimhoff
were drowned in the Blue river at
Crete, Neb.
Barus at the Edgewater stock farm
near Cynthiana, Ky, were destroyed by
fire, and five valuable horses persisted
in the flames.
An aged nurse named Myer. residing
at Broc1enheim, Germany, was ar
rested, charged with causing the death
of tifty-eight infants.
Two highwaymen held up Royal +
Fox, paymaster of the Solray Process
Company at Syracuse, n. Y, and Sc
cured So, 800 from him.
GOV. Barber. of Wyoming, has again
refused to surrender the imprisoned cat
tlemen TO the Jackson county authori-
ties to be tried for murder
John Seymour, railroad man, hanged
himself in his cell at Minneapolis lie
was locked up at the station pending
examination as to his sanity
1t was reported from Astrakhan that
the steamer Alexander Wollxow had
foundered in the Caspian sea and that
$50 passengers were drowned.
Thomas Davis and Henry Dickersou,
two negroes, were hanged at Nashville.
ILL.,, for the murder of Marcus DIETRICH
at Richview, December 20, 1891.
George Girdam and David MarkIey
were drowned at Toledo, O.. by being
caught in the current of the swollen
Maumee and carried beyond help.
Gen Thomas A. Rowley, aged 81,
who served with distinction in the
Mexican war and in the rebellion, was
found dead in bed at Pittsburgh Pa.
The navy department at Washington
ordered the Yorktown, Mohican, Rush
and Adams to sail at once for Behring
sea To protect the sealing industries
Some time since John Goodwin, of
Tuscombia, killed a man named Steele
Friday T. w Steele, brother of the
other, shot Goodwin, killing him in
stantly.
Robert C. Winthrop observed the
SD anniversary of his birth at his
home in Boston. He is the oldest sur
viving ex-spealler of the national house
of representatives..
The Beloit (Wis) Masonic Temple
association has been organized among
the members of the masonic fraternity
of the city, and will this summer build
fine masonic temple.
Elijah Cheavers was executed in
Ware county, Ga, for the murder Of
Sheriff Culpepper, and Coleman Wilson,
who murdered d. f. Adkins, in McDuffy
county, Ga, was also hanged.
The caterpillars have made their APP
pearance in large numbers in North
Carolina and have stripped the forests
of all their leaves They were moving
slowly westward
The secretary of the treasury and the
director of the mint have approved the
plan suggested by the worlds fair man
agement that $40, 900, 600 in tifty-cent
pieces be struck off with designs appro
pirate to the exposition.
FAN of Bolivar.
MARACAIBo, Venezuela, May H.
Confirmation of the capture of the city
of Bolivar by the insurgents and news
of the death of the commander of the