Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-04-28
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the weed Ending April 20.

For the heeu EndlnS April 20.
Yellow fever was causing great NOR
/ tally in Rio de Janiero.
Boston was flooded with counterfeit
silver dollars Of the date of 1851.
The emigration of Russian Poles to the
United States is largely increasing.
The Martin Clothing Company at St.
Louis failed for $50, 600: assets. SIS, COO
An ineendiary fire at Henrietta, Tex,
destroyed the best portion Of the town.
Loss, s25O,OOO
During the week ended on the 23d
16,z40 immigrants were landed at the
port of New York
While leaving the Ohio national bank
In Cincinnati Henry Werndt was robbed
by two men of $3.50.
The volume of business in iron is
greater in all lines than last year The
outlook is said to be good.
Fears of great uprising were felt in
Rome, and public buildings and the
Austrian embassy were being barri-
caded.
Colby academy, the famous old Bap-
tist institution located at New London,
n. H., was burned to the ground. Loss,
s75, 600.
The national silver committee has is
sued call for a national silver conven-
ton to be held in Washington May 90
and 81.
The malt house owned by Henry
Altenbrand & Co was burned with its
contents at Brooklyn, n. Y. Loss,
$500, OO0
The city council of Selma, O., has
passed an ordinance prohibiting girls
from being on tie streets after s o'clock
at night.
Advices from Constantinople state
that fifty of the rebellious sheiks who
fell into the hands of the Turks were
beheaded
In the parish of Pointe Coupee, La,
white man named Freeman was
lynched by mob for killing G. Cotton,
a merchant.
Josiah Belden, leader of the first COM
pany of immigrants that ever crossed
the plains TO California lin 1s41), died
in New York.
AT San Francisco two large barns
were burned by incendiaries and John
Hand, teamster, and sixteen horses
persisted in the flames.
Charles E. Stoner, of Birmingham,
Ala, land commissioner of the Louis
vile q Nashville railroad, is charged
with enbezzling $4,000.
Three boys named Alfred Lucas,
aged II, Ernest Lucas and Henry Petit,
aged IL, respectively, were smothered
in a sand pit at Toronto, Ont.
James NJ. Palmer acknowledged that
he had been swindling Tiffany & Co.,
New York jewellers, for years. His
REGULATIONS were placed at $500
A newly enacted statute of Ohio
makes it unlawful for any person Zen
gagged in the business of barbering'' TO
prosecute that business on Sunday.
Coates & Co.'S tin plate mill at Balti-
more has commenced operations with
$50 men and a weekly output of from
1900 to l, 500 boxes of ITO pounds each.
The Russian government has decided
to establish boards of trade like those
of the United States for the purpose of
gathering information about the crops
Isaac n. Jump, of Trapper, Md,
aged IS years, and his wife, aged So
years, both died within a few hours of
each other and were buried in the same
grave.
An immigration bureau has been
formed in Lincoln, Neb 1t will try to
induce farmers to move into the state,
and will offer inducements to manu-
facturers.
High water in the Green river in In
diana flooded and ruined thousands of
acres of wheat and oats and many
farmers had their fences and small out
building carried away.
Edward A. Trask. Chicago real
estate man who passed forged check,
was found guilty on one of seven in
dictments and sentenced to eighteen
years in the penitentiary.
John Crawford and Nat Aldrich, of
Ozark county, Mo-, quarreled, and the
latter was killed by Crawford. The
dead mans son avenged his death by
shooting Crawford. Young Aldrich and
his two brothers were arrested.
Mary Feeney, farmers daughter
living at Monticello, H., while assist
ing her father Saturday to burn old
corn stalks in the field was burned to
death before his eyes, her clothing
catching fire from blazing stalk.