Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-04-21
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
,or the we'd ENDING Aprn 1e

The Ohio legislature has adjourned
sine die.
I A gang of counterfeiters, four in
number. were arrested in Chicago.
Alexander Mackenzie, ex-premier of
Canada, died in Toronto, aged 20 years.
John Waner was hanged at Talequah,
/. T., for the assassination of George
DOugherty.
The Iowa weather bureau states that
the season in the state is fully two
weeks late.
Reports show an average decrease of
about 80 per cent in the cotton acreage
of the south.
Samuel jackson, the most famous man
ufacturer of fireworks in the country,
died in Philadelphia.
James Abbott confessed at Newark,
\. j., to having seven wives in different
parts of the country.
The supreme court of the state of
4 Pennsylvania has decided that the oleo-
margarine law is constitutional.
There was great excitement at Buck
ner, Ark, on the Cotton Belt railroad,
over the discovery of rich gold fields.
Herbert Pavey, a 14-year-old boy,
committed suicide in his fathers barn
at EarlviIle, Ia, Sunday by hanging.
Lew Bach and Jeu Geng, both Chris
tian Cinnamon. were shot and mortally
wounded by highbinders in St. Louis.
In a Jealous rage John E. Geist, a
carpenter, shot and killed his wife at
Dayton, o., and then took his own life.
Chief Engineer n. b. Clark, inventor
of the defective armor now used on the
warships of all nations. died in Wash
ington.
Over 1900 negroes near Greenville,
Miss, were said to be in starving con-
dition owing to the failure of their EN-
ployers.
A fire that started in a store house of
the Long Island Railroad Company at
Long Island City, \. Y, caused loss of
$500, 900.
Incendiary fires at San Antonio, Tex,
destroyed the offices of the Daily Demo-
crat and Daily News and several other
buildings
w. c. Erskine, of Pittsburgh, Pa.
was knocked down by footpads and
robbed of $1,000 in money and other
valuables.
The United States court of appeals at
San Francisco holds that Chinaman
can enter American territory by prov
ing prior residence here.
Advices from British Columbia state
that the coast seal catch is a failure,
and does not number one-half that taken
up to the present date last year.
fire in San Salvador caused loss
of $500 600 among warehouses, and
three persons were killed and several
wounded by the falling of wall.
K. G. Dun & Co. report that the vol
ume of trade this year exceeds that of
any other year. Western cities are
gaining almost without exception.
An examination of ex-Sheriff Higgins
books at Olney, ILL.,, showed him to be
in debt to the county in the sum of ST.
6s5.22. Mr. Higgins is in England.
AT Goshen, Ind, divorce has been
granted Abraham Price, aged II years,
from his wife, aged Ga years. They
had lived together forty-three years.
Unknown persons made an unsuccess-
full attempt to wreck the New York ex-
press on the Delaware, Lackawanna &
Western railroad near Oswego, N. Y.
AT Niles, o., Samuel Williams
crushed the skull of his 20-year-old
daughter with a fiatiron and cut his
own throat. He was insane from drink.
In rush by excursionists to catch
trains at Hampstead, England, two
women and six children were killed and
thirteen other persons were seriously
injured.
painting representing a head of
Christ, owned by the Mallard family,
of Keokuk, Ia. has been recognized as
the work of Raphael 1t is valued at
$40, 900.
In a disrepntable house in Proyi-
dence, K. l.. Adair Simoni shot and
killed Mary Marrigan during a quarrel
and then took his own life in the same
manner.
Good reports have been received re-
garding the prospects in Russia for
winter wheat and for the sowing of
spring crops. A fine harvest is prom
Used in the Caucasus.
Thomas F. Clegg, secretary of the
Philadelphia Kingsessing Building g.
Loan association, is short $50, OO0-en-
tire capital and earnings-but says he
can't account for the deficit
Duluth sawmills began operations
Monday and the season is expected to
be the best on record. The log cut
during the winter was Ala, 1000, 900 feet,
140, 000,0 600 feet more than last year.
The steamship Canemaugh, laden
with 100000 pounds of -four for the
ADMINISTRATOR people of Russia, left
New York Monday for Philadelphia
where her cargo will be completed,
when she will sail for Ria.
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Georgia for Harrison.
| ATLANTA, Ga, April 16.-The state
4 republican convention elected delegates
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