Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-06-09
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the Week Ending Hume :.


For the Week Ending June :.
Three men were instantly killed and
two others hurt by lightning at Gaines
vile. Ca
Josiah Lagton sailed from Boston n
his 12-foot canvas boat for trip across
the ocean.
Col w. B. Remey, judge advocate
general of the navy, was placed on the
retired list
The museum at Stralsund, famous for
its collection of antiquities, has been de-
stroyed by fire.
DNew York has petitioned congress to
change the date of the worlds fair ded-
icatory ceremonies.
A fire in the town Of Kovno. Russia.
destroyed 500 houses, depriving 1000
persons of their homes.
Two brothers named Scott were re-
united at Guthrie, o. T., after separa~
ton Of tifty-nine years.
An alligator or 10 feet long was seen
foundering around on the bank of the
Wabash river near Andrews, Ind
Samuel NJ. Wilson. the most distin-
guished member Of the legal profession
in San Francisco, died on Saturday.
Chauncey Depew made a speech at
the dedication Of the republican ma
tiOnal convention hall in Minneapolis.
a cyclone at McCook, Neb, de-
stroyed the Congregational church and
other buildings and injured many per-
sons.
The bodies OF five dead babies were
found under a sidewalk at Twenty
second street and Armour avenue. Chi
cago.
The training stable at Woodburn
farm, near Lexington, Ky, was burned,
and nine valuable horses were ere
mated.
Burglars entered the house of S. ID.
Spratt at indianapolis, chlorformed
the occupants and made off with $500
in cash.
A mass-meeting was held at Louis
vile to celebrate the Tooth anniversary
of the admission of Kentucky into the
union.
Gov. Pattison, of Pennsylvania on
Monday issued u proclamation TO the
state at large for relief TO the Oil City
sufferers.
An electrical storm killed several
hundred acres of grass and cotton near
Greenville, Tex. The cotton had the
appearance of being burned
The United States win exhibit in the
government building at the worlds
fair specimens of the various nipple
ments used by the army since l776.
The firm of Farmer Little Il Co,
the celebrated New York type foun-
ders, has been dissolved The new
firm will be known as A. D. Farmer &
Son.
Andy Mccarthy, the well-known jock
ey and winner of many brilliant racing
events, died in New York Saturday, the
result Of being thrown by Little Nell
Wednesday.
Exports Of wheat land flour as wheat
from the United States during the past
seven days aggregated 2, sol 900 bushels,
or about GOO 900 bushels more than the
previous week.
Charles Lee. the Dubuque ia boy
convicted of murder for completely IN
the killing of a street-car driver, was
sentenced Monday to twenty years in
the penitentiary.
The Canadian homestead colonization
agent reports that he has Just sent
twenty-five Michigan families to the
Canadian northwest, and will forward
100 more by August l.
The Platte Valley bank at Central
City, one of the oldest and wealthiest
institutions in Nebraska, closed its
doors. 1t was said Cashier Starrett
had lost $50, 900 bulling corn at Chicago.
Rudolph Hacker, cigar mauufac-
turer, and Mrs. Louise Plum. wife of
JACOB Plum, baker. were found sutfo-
Gated in a room in Chicago They had
turned on the gas and took their own
lives.
A relic of the recent war between
cattlemeu and rustlers was found in
the shape of four human bodies swing
ing to the limb of tree near Buffalo,
Wyo. The bodies had evidently been
hanging for weeks.
In a fight at primary election Mon
day at Salyersville, Ky, Robin Daniel
was shot and killed by Joseph Higgins,
another lost an ear, and still another
was probably fatally injured by being
struck with a rock
A company which includes some of
the leading Northern Pacific railway
stockholders, with capital of $40, O0o-
600, has been organized in New York to
build a fleet of whalebacls vessels to
compete for ocean carrying freight
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