Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-03-10
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the Wool Endinc March J.


been closed by the authorities
The Iowa state republican conven-
ton win be held at Des Moines on
March Il.
Friday the Baltimore Methodist con-
ference voted against admitting wom-
en- as delegates
Thirty Of the most prominent citizens
of Marine City, Mich, were arrested
for smuggling.
Ludwig Bilineir and Felix Green,
employed in Chicago livery, were as
phyxiated by gas.
An attempt was made to destroy the
British embassy in Brussels with an
internal machine.
James Dubois drowned his infant
child at Cincinnati because he said he
could not supportlt
The Kansas democratic convention
TO elect delegates to Chicago will meet
at Salina April 20.
a telegram received at New York
announces the election of Barrios as
president of Guatemala.
Four men were killed and six wound
ed by boiler explosion in Farrelrs
sawmill at Longview, Tex.
The Ocean and Beach hotels and
three cottages at Tybee beach. near
Savannah Ga, were burned.
John I. Chidester, known the cohn-
try over as the original overland mail
carrier, died at Camden, Ark.
In race fight near Memphis, Tenn,
Deputy Sheriffs Cole and Harold were
fatally wounded by negroes
Bob Currie shot John Butler and
Sarah Washington at Brownsville,
Tex, because he was jealous.
Five men were fatally injured by a
tire-damp explosion in the Elmwood
colliery at Mahanoy City, Pa
Philip & Casey's electrotype foundry
at Rouse Point, n. Y, was burned
Thursday night. Loss, $40,
Fire destroyed the Boston g. Maine
passenger depot at Newburyport,
Mass, Thursday. Loss, $685.
In fit of jealousy Edgar G. Drew
shot and killed his wife in Lowell,
Mass, and then took his own life.
Edwards Pierrepont, who was attor-
ney general in President Grants cabi-
net, died in New York, aged rs years.
At Dexter, Mo-, fire destroyed the
Iron Mountain depot and fourteen
business houses, causing loss of $780,
900.
The committee on appropriations of
the Iowa house has cut the worlds
fair appropriation from 100000 to
100000.
c. A. Dean, of Denver, has been
awarded damages of S45, 900 against S.
w. French for alternating his wife's af-
fections.
The corner stone of the Grant me-
mortal monument in New York will be
laid on Gen. Grants next birthday,
April 81.
While the czarina and czarowitz were
out driving in st. Petersburg some one
threw a bomb at their carriage, but it
failed to explode.
The 6-year-old son of Mrs. Mary
Coyer, of Pittsburgh, Pa, has become
an idiot through drug given him by
SplOe1ul SeTNdub SlIl.
Daniel Hayes, a wealthy Dudley
ia farmer, laboring under the mania
that he was starving to death, commit
ted suicide by hanging
Farmer Samuel Forgie fell through
a worn-out well cover into a well SO
feet deep at Brooklyn, Ia, and was in
jured so badly that he died.
Two powerful dynamite cartridges
were placed in the doorway of the
Paris police quarters, but failed to ex-
plode on account of the rain.
The new directory for Freeport, Ill,
and suburbs gives the population at
16, $40, showing remarkable increase,
the census of 1890 giving it 1000.
j. b. Ryer & Co. s upholstery goods
at Philadelphia was
burned, causing a loss of $3.50 200.
Eight employees were badly burned.
The Methodist Episcopal conference
of Kansas by ballot of IS to 25 de-
cided in favor of admitting women as
delegates to the general conference.
Postmaster General Wanamalker is
a system of locating and
country houses with a view
to extending the free delivery of mail.
Secretary Blaine has given official
notice of a definite agreement for the
estab lishment of a commercial reci-
procity treaty between France and the
United States.
At Black River Falls, Wis, members
of the Woman's Christian Temperance
union tore down the indecent bills of
burlesque troupe and declared boy
colt on the opera house.
Friday the Nebraska prohibition con-
vention at Lincoln adopted platform
declaring for government ownership
of railways telephones and telegraph
systems and woman suffrage.
Mrs Minnie Smith. of Manson, Ia,
has secured $4,000 damages from the
town for injuries sustained through
falling into an open ditch last summer.
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