Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-04-14
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the Weed Ending Aprl 1a.

| iowa prom DltlonlstS, First district,
nominated S. B. Glasgow for congress.
The famine in Russia has caused {.
loss TO the imperial treasury of 300, OOO,-
tOOO rubles.
Unemployed worzingmen at London
propose to begin demonstrations asking
work or bread.
The British ship Erato capsized and
sank at Hamburg, and fifteen persons
were drowned.
The Trentdale Distilling Company's
plant at Portland, Ore, was burned, the
loss being 100000.
! Forest fires near Cedarbrook, y. j.,
destroyed several houses and hundreds
of acres of woodland
| Ten villages in Hungary were burned
and five persons were killed and thou
sands were homeless.
At Toronto, Ark, A. Frazer was
hanged for assaulting his l3-year-old
stepdaughter in October.
The democrats of the Eighteenth Illi-
nois district have renominated ". ).
Forman for congressman.
This years lumber cut at Cheboygan,
Mich, will exceed 100, 900, 900 feet,
against 1O4, 600, 600 for last year.
The steamship Phillis arrived at New
York from Santos minus seven of her
crew. Yellow fever was the cause.
The Austrian government has decided
to adopt severe measures to check the
emigration of young men to America.
Sim Scott tcolored), of Franklin coun-
ty, Miss, murdered his wife Saturday
because she didn't have dinner on time.
Near Huntington, W. Va, Allen Har-
rison shot and Instantly killed Gettie
Adams because she refused to marry
him.
The skeletons of four men were dis
covered in mound near Marshall, Mo.
An Indian pipe was also found in the
tomb.
Marshall Field has given 800, 600 to
the University of Chicago on condition
that 81, 900, 900 be raised within ninety
days.
In the annual boat race on the
Thames between the Oxford and Cam
bridge crews Oxford won by two and
half lengths.
Monday the Standard Oil Company
of New York fled a certificate of in
crease of capital stock from IS, 900, 900
10 81, 900, 900.
Monday the New England Methodist
conference adopted resolutions protest
ing against the opening of the worlds
fair on Sunday.
Incendiaries fred the city hall at
Chester, Pa, which is historic, having
been erected in 1900. The building was
badly damaged.
The Georgia lumberman's exchange
was organized in Macon. 1t is trust
embracing forty-five firms with a eapi-
tai of $50, 900, 900.
Isaac DraOdon, negro charged with
attempted assault upon white woman,
was taken from the jail at Charles City,
Va, by mob and hanged.
White caps burned the barn of Silas
Raglan near Fancher. Ill, Sunday night
because he refused to heed their orders
not to go to Sunday-school.
In the fourth race at East ST. Louis
Monday the horse Cyrus was killed,
and Jockeys Harris and Steppe injured,
the former in serious manner.
Ramsey johnson, treasurer of the
school board of Graymont, ILL.,, was
knocked down Saturday night and
robbed of So, 600 in school funds.
Another Canadian paper has come
out for annexation with the United
of the existing confederation is neces-
sary.
The prohibitionists have nominated
l.. T. Yoder for congress from the
Twenty district of Pennsyl-
vania, and j. j. Porter from the Tween
ty-third.
A saloonkeeper in New York started
to put tramp out of his place and in
the alteration which ensued he discov-
cred that they were both married to the
same woman.
The big brewery at Dubuque, Ia,
which has been lying idle on account of
prohibition, has been sold for $500, 600,
and the capacity will be increased to
100, 900 barrels year.
r. j. Cortis, representing the Ham
burg Packet Company, was fined $500
at Trenton, n. j., for importing con-
tract labor. The conviction was the
first under the alien labor law of 1891.
In the district court at Des Moines,
Ia, Monday, decision was rendered
giving the salary of secretary of the
senate to S n. Parsons, the democrat
who was deposed in favor of J. w. Cliff.
Eastern window-glass manufacturers
have approved the action of the West
ern Manufacturers association, which
last week decided to shut down all fac
tories May 81 and remain idle until 0c-
tober 15
The exodus Of French Canadians from
Quebec is ten times greater this year
than it ever was before. Whole con-
cessions are depopulated and one
meets as many as forty deserted farms
IN one parish.
Accidentally Killed His Mother.
TOPEKA, Kan, April 11.-Mrs. Ross,
the wife of a farmer wing 10 miles