Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-03-03
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.


For the Week Ending Feb. 20.
Maj. Gen. George W. Cullum (retired)
died at MS home in New York, aged IS
years.
The Newmarket IL. H. savings
bank suspended, with deposits of about
slsl, OOO
Jonathan Crago and his wife were
killed at Denver, Col, by Union Pa
cific train.
John Seger, moved bv jealousy, shot
Mrs Elfirst at Byers, Col, and then
killed himself
Three men We're crushed to death BY
falling rock in the Anaconda mine at
Butte, Mont, Saturday
The Indian school at Winnebago
agency in Nebraska was burned Satur-
day morning. Loss, SIS. 600.
During a storm at oporto, Portugal,
500 boats were lost and 500 persons
were said to have been drowned
Peter Smith (colored), of Spring
field, O., has patented a self-binder
that uses straw instead of Irvine for
binding.
Patrick Martin, wealthy business
man of Bordentown, \. j., was bun
coed out of S5,OaO by three gold brick
swindlers.
In fight over a prisoner at Dexter,
Mo, City Marshal Sprinkle. A. J.
Cooper and an unknown man were IA
tally shot.
The thirteenth anniversary of the
founding of the government Indian
training school at Carlisle, Pa, was
celebrated.
A fire which originated in the large
clothing establishment of Smith, Gray
& Co., in Brooklyn, n. Y, caused a
loss Of $500, 600.
A fire in Lowman & Berger's cloth
ing house at Baltimore caused loss of
S125,000. A fireman named Talbot
burned to death.
Mrs. Helen tombstone, of Englewood.
Ill, and her daughter, Mrs Hartman,
were fatally injured in a runaway at
Minneapolis, MINI.
Advices from China say that during
the recent troubles the imperial forces
lost about 800 men and killed about
1880 of the enemy
A fire at the Hamilton & Dayton
railway depot in Cincinnati destroyed
two express cars and two postal cars
with their contents.
Carl Hartman, aged IS years, and
Edward Shaffe, aged 16 years, died at
Rochester, Pa, from eating roots sup
posed to be sassafras.
George Whistler, aged rs, and Sallie
Barton, aged Il, were married at Fort
Dodge, Ia, being the oldest couple ever
joined in wedIock in the state.
Suburban trains collided in a tunnel
in Cincinnati and Engineer George Col
Inns was instantly killed aud five other
persons were wounded, two fatally.
The authorities of the state of Duran
go, Mex, have received $50, 900 bushels
of corn from the United States for dis
tribution among the foreign sufferers.
Two little negro girls were burned
to death in a shanty at Mariana, Ark.
The children were locked up in the
house alone while their mother was abb
sent.
NOA- II. W. Ing CISO11 Will DSSiH SulG
against Rev. A. q. Dixon, of Brooklyn,
for SANDER, the latter having said that
Ingersoll advocated the dissemination
of obscene literature.
Frank Orleans, farm hand, was
found in a box car on a sidetrack near
Lawrenceville, Ind, almost dead. He
had by some blunder been imprisoned
in the car for eight days.
BY an explosion of gas in kiln at
the Knowles, Taylor & Knowles pot
terry in East Liverpool, o., three EN-
ployes were fatally injured and por-
tion of the works demolished.
Talma and Loman Brown, brothers,
who had led secluded life on farm
near Palmer, Mass, for many years,
died within few hours of each other
of the grip Loman was SO and Talma
IS years old.