Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-05-26
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the Week Ending May "a.

NpF tine WEN AlNAhk way &4s
Mrs. Sarah Rothsehild eelebrat ted her
104th birthday at her home in Chicago.
In row at dance in a suburb of
Atlanta, Ga, three men were fatally
shot
Flames at Brigham City. Z. T.. did
500, 600 worth of damage to business
houses.
Mrs. Mildred Ann Clay, aged 100
years, died at her home in Leaven-
worth, Kan.
Indianapolis felt sharp shock of
earthquake, lasting five seconds. No
damage was done.
The factory Of the Etna Pyrotechnic
Company at Hartford, Conn, blew up,
killing five persons.
The Baptist Woman's Missionary
society held its fifteenth annual meet
ing in Pittsburgh Monday.
Two men named Williams and Davis
fought with knives at O'Fallon, Mo,
and both were fatally injured
The prohibition state convention of
Illinois viii be held Tuesday, May 81,
in the state house at Springfield.
Flames that started in a lumber mill
at Spokane, Wash, caused a loss of
$3.50, 600. Three men were suffocated.
A Milwaukee man claims to have in
vented a self-regulating gas burner
that precludes the possibility of asphyx-
iation.
BY the falling of the roof of the First
Methodist church at Pittsburgh, Pa.
two men were fatally and five seriously
injured
Two children were playing in barn
at Guttenburg, Ia, when it caught fire.
Their mother tried to save then and
all persisted.
Dispatches from Lagos say that the
British defeated the Jebus near Mag
bone and twenty chieftains and 400
Jebu soldiers were killed
The treasury department has decided
adversely on the proposition to remove
the life-saving station from Grand
Haven to st. Joseph, Mich.
Herr Scsencl1, manager of the ST.
Gaul branch of the Federal bank at
Berne, Switzerland, was charged with
embezzling 5000, 900 francs.
William Knight was hanged at Roll
ing Fork. Miss, for the murder of
Michael Shea, a section boss on the
Louisville & Texas railroad.
Harry Crock, George Doughty and
William Reilly, three young mechanics,
were drowned in the lake at Cleveland
by the upsetting of their boat.
George w Estes. the first man to
play a snare drum by note and one of
the oldest musicians in the country,
died at Salem. Mass, aged 81 years.
Joseph Mcfarland, business man of
Wapakoneta, o., shot himself to death
at St Mary from grief on account of
the death of his affianced, Miss celia
Smith
A. Nelson. who resided with his wife
and eight daughters on Wright street,
Saginaw, Mich, committed suicide by
blowing the top of his head off with a
shotgun.
From various points in the United
States sixty-three contract laborers
were returned to the countries whence
they came by the treasury department
at Washington.
At Benton Harbor, Mich, William
Vance was sentenced to twenty years
at hard labor in the state prison at
jackson by Judge O'Hara for shooting
at Mayor Hobbs.
At the Presbyterian general assem-
bly, in Portland on Monday the commit
tee on the revision of the confession of
faith rendered its report recommending
twenty-eight changes.
Jack Burke, under arrest at Kansas
City, Mo. for vagrancy, is generally
believed to be the man who murdered
four women at Denison Tex. last
week. At Denison sunday the murders
were alluded to by nearly all the minis
tiers. "