Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-07-28
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
Tor the Week Ending July IS.

of Kinsman, O., was drowned at Peters
burg. III.
Philadelphia was visited by cyclone
which damaged property 10 the extent
Of over 100000
Jesse Mott murdered John Piice by
driving a pitchfork through him during
aquarrel at St Mary's, O.
VIII VI. Nubemeyer and Nellie Boise
of Cleveland were drowned in the lake
by the capsizing of a boat.
Thelas NJ. BisseH. the inventor of the
Bissell chilled plow, died at his home
in South Bend, Ind, aged 90.
The eruption CT Mount Etna, which
for week had excited the greatest
alarm, wac decreasing in violence.
An earthquake at Guadalajara, Mex
leo, damaged the state house, cathedral,
hospital and many private houses.
A fire at Carrillton, Mo, destroyed an
entire block OF business buildings, in
GLIDING the two newspaper Offices.
Residents of Savalla county, Tex,
were said to be on the verge of starva-
ton because of the failure of crops
John II. Wynne murdered his wife
and stepdaughter at Burns, Tenn, and
soon after he was lynched by mob.
The labor organization in New Or
leans caused the arrest of severa! mer-
chants who kept their stores open Sun
day
Thomas Niclserson, the greatest rail-
way builder of the age, died at his
home in Newton, Mass, at the age of
50 years.
The main plant, refinery, warehouse,
etc, of the Waters Pierce Oil Company
at ST. Louis were burned, the loss be-
ing $780, 600
An orphan asylum at La Paz, Bo-
livia, was burned and many of the nuns
and the children in the institution were
burned to death
John and Charles Rugglcs, stage rob
bers and murderers, were taken from
the Jail at Redding, Cal, and lynched
by band OF forty men.
The oldest citizen of Lexington, KY.
I. c. orear, died at the age of 81 years.
He was the first live stock auctioneer
to do business In that city.
Sam Winesburg was murdered and
his wife fatally wounded at their home
near Wheeling, w. Va, by Mike Moy-
Ian and John Moylan, his son.
Great bitterness was aroused be-
tween the blacks and whites at Ir.ne.
5. C., and a race war was imminent
Both sides were heavily armed
Peter Flerimer, for ten years cashier
in the bank of Ullerich & Croclter at
Mount Clemens, Mich, was found to
be over $500 short in his accounts.
A law has been promulgated in Rus
STA empowering the police to remove
all Jews from villages where residence
has hitherto been tolerated to the jew
ish Poles.
Gus Williams (colored), one of the
three convicted murderers of August
Meyer last January. was hanged at
Savannah, Ga. He died protesting his
innocence.
Secretary Tracy has ordered that the
name of the new cruiser To be launched
in Philadelphia be changed from the
Pirate TO the Columbi in honor of this
years event
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at the Gable house, Salisbury Beach,
Mass, were dead, and six more were
dying from eating butter beans that
were not fresh,
Mr.. Deacon, who is serving a years
Imprisonment for killing NJ. Abeille in
France, has begun proceedings against
his wife for adultery, for which the
penalty is Imprisonment.
Over a dozen colored people on their
way to a picnic were injured at the
Grand Central depot in Chicago by an
engine becoming unmanageable and
3ashing into the platform.
John Lipski and Mary Kalzovitch,
Polanders, were married at Mahanoy
City, Pa. A free fight occurred after
the wedding AID the bride and two
others were fatally stabbed.
DR.. Aaron l.. Chaplin, first president
of Beloit (Wis.) college. having occu-
pied that position from its foundation
in 1850 until 1856, died in Beloit after
brief illness, aged Is years
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