Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-03-31
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
FOR the Week tndine March 20.


Mrs Margaret Courley died at Water
town, Wis, aged 100 years
Arie Pardee. one of Pennsylvania
greatest coal operators died Saturday
in Florida
The Crewe railway works at Crewe,
England, were burned, entailing a loss
of $3.50, 600.
Fire in the curtain works % John
Bromley ~ Son in Philadelphia caused
a loss of $4,000
The Cheyenne and Arapahoe lands in
Indian territory will be opened not
later than April 15
J. b. Wickersham, of Philadelphia,
who was the first man to advocate the
elevated railroad, is dead
Seven business buildings at Cloquet,
Mimi, were burned and Patrick tlah-
erty persisted in the flames
A woman living near Holly Springs,
Miss. is said to have given birth to six
well-developed boys Monday.
Hon. Henry Green, of Elizabeth, Ill.
died Sunday night lie served ten
years in the Illinois legislature.
Jacob Wilbur, of Pownal, Me-, aged
81 years, committed suicide by hang
ing. Dependency was the cause.
Railroad Commissioner Norton. of
Ohio, has rendered his resignation to
Gov. Mckinley, to take effect May 1.
Bishop Jones, a noted colored minis
ter in Alleudale, S. G., was shot dead
in his pulpit by some person unknown
The City Of Detroit passed down De
troit river into Lake Erie Monday.
Navigation is now considered to be
open.
The American Bobbin Spool and
shuttle Company at Woonsocket, r.
l., has failed for 5000, 600; assets, ST.
500 600
BY means of ngeniously- worded
contracts the farmers in Henry county,
Ia, are being swindled by lightning
rod agents.
Mrs Sallie Smith, a colored woman
who lives with her granddaughter in
Chicago, celebrated the 100 anniversa-
ry Of her birth.
Henry Smith (colored was hanged at
Louisville, Ky, for the murder of his
former employer, Louis Specht, on
January $, 1891.
Two brothers and the wife Of one of
them have been arrested at Monki.
Poland, accused of having murdered
over forty persons.
DIR. Munford well known the coun-
try over as editor of the Kansas City
(Mo) Times, died at his home in that
city, aged so years.
The post Office authorities in Chicago
have discovered that gang of eastern
green goods" men is operating ex-
tensively in the west.
Fifty-two anarchists in Rome were
sentenced to Imprisonment for terms
ranging from twenty-five days to two
years and eight months
Four carpenters were fatally injured
at Durango, Col, Saturday A build
ing on which they were working was
blown down by the wind
In a saloon quarrel at O'Brien, Wash,
Sunday night Mike Crowley, a bar
tender, shot aud killed Richard Harm
and then committed suicide.
Rev H. NJ. Lamport, pastor of the
Methodist church at Kendallville, Ind,
were struck by IA train and killed.
Adam Neidig, a German miner, shot
and instantly killed his wife Barbara
at Washington. Ind, and then took his
own life. jealousy was the cause
According to Paris dispatches the an
archists of that city have abandoned
dynamite and will hereafter use poison
as their chief weapon against society
Mrs. Mary A. Green. a widow of
revolutionary soldier, died at Clay City
Monday, aged a6 years. She was mar
ried when II to William A. Eden, who
was r.
II is reported from New York that
leading manufacturers are endeavoring
to organize an umbrella trust This
branch of manufactures amount to
5000 600 a year.
Mrs. Patrick Murphy. mother OF
Lizzie Murphy, out of jealousy for
whom Tom Galley killed Buggy at
Duncomb la, two weeks ago, died
Saturday as a result Of the shock
Unless rain comes quickly and in
great quantities, the boatmen of the
Fox and Wolf rivers in Wisconsin will
be without an occupation. The streams
are several inches below extreme low
water mark
Mrs J. l. Case. Of Racine, has con-
tracted with parties from indianapolis
for the erection of a handsome mauso-
leum in Mound &c netery to receive the
remains OF the late Jerome l. Case.
The cost win be- SIS. 900 70 500 600
4 Fireman Killed.
CHICAGO, March IS. Fire totally To-
stroyed the eastern and frame half of
the Cribbeu & Sexton stove foundry.
Nos. rs to 90 Erie street, Saturday