Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-02-18
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
Zoe the Meek Endlng Feb. I5.

Admiral Sir Provo Wallis, X. c. b.
died in London, aged nearly 1O1 years.
A fire in the opera house block at
Monmouth, Ill, caused loss of $780,
O0O
The state convention of the New
Jersey prohibition party will be held
at Trenton April 10.
Elder Fades, the greatest man among
the sect of Shakers. died in Louisville,
KY, at the age of IS.
Reports from the leading cities
throughout the country indicate gen
eral improvement in trade.
Sir James Card, K c. B., F. R. S,
the noted authority on agriculture,
died in London, aged 76 years
Greenwood, Bohm & Co, clothiers
and dealers in liquors Lid tobaccos at
Helena, Mont, failed for $3.50. 900.
Buck Wilkerson, of Bolton. Tex,
has been found guilty of the murder of
his wife, the penalty. to be hanged
The chamber of commerce of Grand
Forks, n. D., will organize a labor
bureau to secure 5000 or more laborers
for the state.
Riley Weber (colored) was lynched
by a mob of 200 citizens at Montgom-
cry, Ala, for an assault committed
upon Mrs. Crump.
Hamp Biscoe, his wife and son, who
were arrested aud placed in a small
house at Keo, Ark, were all shot dead
by two masked men.
The boiler at a .sawmill snear Eaton,
o., exploded, killing William Kisling.
son of the proprietor, and hired man
named Shiverdecker
Advices from Alaska concerning the
fate of Morris orion and party of ten
miners indicate that the men have been
murdered by Indians.
John ]. Pratt and his young child
were run down by pack of wild dogs
and were torn to pieces near their
home in Leonard, Kan.
John Kelly, the negro who murdered
j. 7. McAdams, at Pine Bluff, Ark,
and gilbert Harris, an accomplice,
were lynched by mob
During a storm at North Adams,
Mass, fall of red snow occurred, GOV.
alarming the country people,
At Decatur, ILL.,, John N. Reed was
declared insane. While the deputy
sheriffs were taking him to Jail Reed
plunged knife into his bowels
The Nova ScotianSclipper Loodiana,
laden with petroleum, and carrying
crew of thirty-eight men, was burned
Of nd oil
Grandma" Middleton, who died
Saturday at Say brook, Ill, in her Goth
year, had been member of the Meth
odist church for eighty-six years.
Flames at Cincinnati in the building
occupied by Ezekiel & Bernheim,
auctioneers and storage commission
dealers, caused loss of $500, 600.
The sisters of charity of st. Johns
academy at jamestown, N. D., have
purchased tract of land and will erect
an orphan asylum for North Dakota.
The supreme court decision annulling
the ST. Paul (Minn) ordinance for
licensing intelligence offices renders
void all city licenses except those OF
saloons.
Railways in Austria have been SC
seriously blocked by avalanches that il
viii require month TO reopen them
for travel In the Tyrol the snow is
feet deep.
The notorious Cooley gang of out
laws, who have terrorized the counties
of Fayette and Westmoreland, Pa, for
years, has been broken up and the
members scattered.
On the New York stock exchange
the total sales of railway stock on
Thursday were 1,542, 613 shares. The
transactions were the greatest for one
day in the history of the exchange.
John Molloy, aged 70 years, killed
his wife, aged u, and then took his
own life at Toledo 0. The wife had
sued for divorce owing to the jeal-
Gus and cruel disposition of her hus-
band.
Near st. Joseph, Mo-, discharged
hired hand named John Hemele set
fire to the dairy barn of William
Rudke, and it was burned with sixty
head of cows and twenty-five head of
horses
The necessary guarantee to secure
for Omaha the encampment of the ma
tional competitive drill next June has
been raised and a committee APP
pointed to complete arrangements for
the event.
The San Fernando hacienda at Lerdo,
Mex, containing 20, 900 bushels of corn
recently received from the United
States for the famine sufferers in that
part of Durango, was destroyed by fire.
Total loss, $3.50, 600.
James Mersler was instantly killed
by a switch engine in the Diagonal
yards at Des Moines Sunday night.
He had muffled his ears to protect
them from the cold and did not hear
the engine approaching.
Sisters Burned to Death.
WEXFORD, S. c., Feb. 15.-Mrs.
GREGORY a widow. was making soan