Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-01-28

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TIE oil field of Indiana. like the gas
field. was assuming immense proper
tons, and new wells were continually
being drilled.
w. Fl. DANFORTH and his sister, Mrs.
Martha Davis, were found frozen to
death IN their house at Athens Ala.
GEORGE DARBY's livery stable. to-
gether with thirty-nine horses, was
burned at New York
A FIRE in New York did about $780,.
600 damage. Schneider 81 Campbell,
Bentano Brothers and Charles f. Bent
ley were the heaviest losers.
SEVERAL business blocks in Column
bia, Mo, were burned.
THE executive committee of the Ma
/ tional Editorial association has select
ed San Francisco, May Il, Tor the next
meeting of the association.
THE barn of William S Huh at
+ Grand Rapids. Mich, was burned. and
+ the trotters Acmon and Eagle BirG and
a gray PAGER were cremated Acmon
alone was valued at so, 900.
The Rio Grande frontier was covered
with snow for the first time ever
known.
FLAMES destroyed the Cedar Bluff
college at Franklin, KY. The sixty fe-
male students escaped
JAMES BRENNAN, the slayer Of Sam
Wood, was released at Hugoton, Kan,
as an unprecedented jury could not be
found in Stevens county.
THE total foreign commerce of the
port of New York for tire calendar
year 1891 was $1,000 667, 425.
ARTHUR SLOANE, an escaped muir
derer who killed his step-father and
mother, was found frozen 10 death-ou
the Brile Indian reservation in Ne
brasl6a
THE United States express Office at
Dwight, Ill, was robbed Of a package
of money containing $1,000.
SEVENTEEN stores in Ohio City, o.,
were destroyed by fire
FIVE persons were injured in a
wreck on the Iron Mountain road near
De Soto. Mo.
Miss FRANCES L. WILLARD, president
of the National Wouan's Christian
Temperance union, sent to President
Harrison an urgent request that the
trouble with Chilli be Settled without
war.
CORNELIUS n. Bliss was reelected
president Of the American Protective
Tariff league at the annual meeting
held in New York.
INDIANS on the Fon du Lac reserva-
ton in Minnesota were said to be in a
starving condition.
AT the leading clearinghouse in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 22d aggregated ST.,
300, 1859, S22 against S1,2l3, $40, s72 the
previous week. The increase as com
pared with the corresponding week of
1891 was l2.5.
JIM LYLEs and Margaret Lashley
(colored) were hanged at Danville, Va,
for the murder of George Lashley, the
woman's husband in October, 1890.
Ar Kansas City, Mo, 800 mules and
sixteen horses were burned in a fire at
Sparks Bros. mule market.
In the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the ED numbered 32s, against $50 the
preceding week and al for the CORE
spending week last year.
In the billiard match in New York
between jacob Schaefer and George
Slosson for ST. 600 and the ballS-line
championship the former won by a
score of 500 to 592
THE total production of pig iron in
the United States in 1891 was s,279, $40
gross tons, against 1902, 7OS gross tons
in 1890. The total production of Bes-
semer steel rails was 1.2ls. s74 gross
tons, decrease of 577,6I5 tons from
the production in 1890.
TWENTY persons lost their lives by
the burning Of the national surgical
institute ut Indianapolis. Ind, aud
twenty others were injured, some
fatally
WILLIAM McHENRY, a travelling sales.
man of Cleveland, received four tele.
grams within an hour each announc-
ing the death of brother from diph-
liberia.
SUCCESSFUL tests of new war ex-
plosive called terrorite have been made
at the Preside military reservation in
California.
In a country schoolhouse at Phil
brick, Hardin county, o.. four boys
{ hilAtd I Iduh NINlAdhS HllAa dSCQ - duu
fatally injured his sister, who was the
teacher.
LUcIUs DoTsoS (coloredl was hanged
at Savannah ia, for the murder of
/ JEFF Coats in September, 1890
JAMES CASSIDY and John Herman
got drunk in Brooklyn, n. v, knocked
down the pipe attaced to the stove and
were suffocated by coal gas.
I CAROLINE SHIP was hanged ut Dallas,
1 y. c., for infauticldc.
+ A MAN named Hepler, who murdered
4 Mrs. Goodly and her little son, was
hanged at Lamar, Mo, by mob
IN collision on the Atlantic & Pa
/ cifie road at Blue Water. n. NJ, Engi-
neer Taylor, Fireman Haggey, Engi-
neer Moore and Conductor Mora were
killed
Miss DELLA NICHOLSON, of Franklin
county Va, and her lover, John I.
Pinkhard committed suicide because
the young iady's parents objected to
their marriage.
A PASSENGER train on the Rock
Island rpad was ditched near Blue Is