Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-05-05
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the weed Ending NAV 3.


Honduras.
Boilermakers all over the country
went on a strike for eight hours and
g. IS day.
The volume of business throughout
the country was said to surpass an pre-
viOus records.
S. 5. Lowenberg and wife were acct
dentally suffocated by gas in a room at
St. Paul, Mimi.
Ferdinand Ward, the notorious Wall
street swindler, has been released from
Sing Sing prison.
Mrs. John Ross, Of Rockford, H., was
so badly frightened during a storm that
she died soon after
Fire destroyed six business blocks,
including the Journal newspaper Office,
at Coffeyville, Kan.
The three children of ] A. Wolford
were fatally injured by a runaway
horse at Brazil, Ind.
The schooner Glenora and her crew
of six men were lost in Lake Superior,
off Peninsula harbor.
A fire which started in the Princess
opera house at Winnipeg. Man, de-
stroyed three acres of buildings
Flames at Mount Sterling, KY. de-
stroyed the Sentinel office, post Office
and several other business places.
Charles w. Doerr, prosperous farm
er living near Brownstown, Ind, was
waylaid and murdered by robbers.
At Marshall, H., the jury in the case
of Andrew Rhinehart, for the murder
Of NJ. +, Rollins found verdict of not
guilty
A half block Of two-story houses, the
landmarks of Leadville, Col. were
burned by fire that started in Loeb's
theater.
The small residence of John Long,
Jr., at Cory, Pa, was burned, and two
little children asleep in bed were
roasted.
The marriage of Fen Lee. China
man, and Agnes Gertung, of Berlin,
was the first alliance of this kind in
Germany.
Great suffering was reported among
the people of southwestern Texas
along the Rio Grande river owing to
the drought
George William Curtis was reelected
president of the National Civil Service
Reform league at the annual meeting
IN Baltimore.
BY the capsizing OF boat on Leigh
ton lake near Grand Rapids, Mimi,
Sandy Mcleod, John Murray and an
Indian were drowned.
Rev. NJ. L. Weakley, reported to be
the oldest Methodist minister in the
United States, died at his home in Ber-
lin, Pa, aged IS years.
Rockfords city council has decided to
raise the liquor license from 1000 to
$1,000 An ordinance to that effect was
introduced Monday night.
In a sculling race on the Parametta
river at Sydney, n S. w, Monday for
$500 and the championship of the world
Stansbury defeated Sullivan.
At Dahlonega, Ga. Hamilton Abee.
aged 81, petitioned for a divorce from
his wife Sarah, whose age is 50. He
says She has ceased to love him.
Engineer Jones, of the Central Hud-
son railway, was burned to death in a
wreck at Churchville, n. Y, and twenty
five cars were destroyed by fire.
The supreme court of Pennsylvania
has sustained the constitutionality of
the Baker ballot reform law, which
goes into effect at the next election.
The weekly crop bulletin for Ohio, is.
sued Monday, shows that except in
southern Ohio the condition of the
wheat has not improved as expected
E. T. Wells, who had been day clerk
of the Windsor hotel Clinton, Ia, has
been missing since Friday and so has
Sl75 left by a guest in the hotel safe.
Miss Catherine Moore and Mrs. II.
Alexander (sisters) were burned to
death in a fire which DESTROYED the
"Cayuga' fiat building at New York.
Rev. j. w. Lambuth, ID. D., one of
the oldest missionaries of the Methodist
church south, died at Kobe, Japan. He
had been a missionary thirty eight
years
The committee in charge of the eight
hour demonstration in New York re-
fused to allow John Most, the anarch-
ist, to speak ut the meeting in Union
square.
John Ash, of Osbaloosa, Ia, was SEN
fenced in 1885 to fifteen years in the
Iowa state prison for murder in the
second degree. Monday he was par
doned by Gov. Boies.
Near Rocky Comfort, Ark. boiler
in the mill of K. W. Pullen exploded,
killing Pu!len, his engineer and fire
man, and wounding three other per-
sons, all of whom it is thought will die.
BY an explosion of three kegs of pow
der at Big Stone Gap, Tenn, Zach
Wells and his nephew, Tom Darnen,
were fatally burned, Darnell was drunk
and carelessly allowed FIRE to reach the
powder.
Iowa railways have been beaten in a
suit brought by grain firm for over
charges in freight rates The decision
sustains the rates made by the board of
railway commissioners, which for some
time were refused by the railroads
Mrs. Henry Greye, Of Cincinnati.
ended six years search for a rum
away husband at Indianapolis Saturday,