Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-01-28
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10 the 25th.
DOMESTIC.
PETE BAKER was murdered near
Fort Smith. Ark. and the neighbors
suspecting his wife and man named
johnson of the crime tied them to-
gether and hanged them with the same
rope.
UENRY JOHNSON, a locomotive engi
neer of Chicago murdered his wife
and committed suicide at Peoria, Ill
Domestic trouble was the cause. The
couple Lad only been married four
months.
NINE persons, three OF whom were
from Chicago, were injured in wreck
on the Omaha road at Shepards. Wis.
UNKNowS persons blew up portion
of the Standard Oil Companys pipe
line near Woolwieh, Pa. and cut the
company telegraph wires.
A PASSENGER train on the Frisco
line was wrecked near Woolsey's,
Ark. and eight persons were badly
hurt
THE collections of internal revenue
for the first six months OF the fiscal
year ending June 30 1892, were SAT-
l24, $50, being an increase of 81, 427, SAT-,
as compared with the collections for
the corresponding period of last year
A RIOT occurred at Hungarian we'd
ding at United. Pa, in which stephen
Logan and Marco Lonzo were NOR
tally wounded and the bride, Mrs
John Sofranki, seriously hurt.
WILL STEVENS, a mem Der of the firm
of Weatherby 4 Co, Of Cincinnati, was
said to be short $4,000 in his accounts.
AT Five Points, O., John Burton, re-
covering from the grip fell in faint
while walking, and while unconscious
his hair turned white.
LUKE TIERNoN, a ST Louis tinsmith,
claims one fifth of a billion dollars
worth of real estate in the heart OF
Chicago.
A. n. Doe, eX-treasurer of the Bay
State League OF Boston, was charged
with embezzling Sl5,6l6 from the
league
L. c. DAVENPORT, of Boston, importer
of tin plate sheet iron and metals
failed for $500, 600.
Mrs. FREpRRIcKA OLEsoN and her 2
year-old daughter Fredella, were
burned to death in their home in Chi
cage, and another child, a boy 8 years
old, was fatally burned.
A sLEIGHNG party was run down by
an engine at a crossing near ST Louis
and nine men were killed and six 9th
sers were badly injured
THE firm of II. b Claiin & Co, of
New York, charge Charles Weatherby
A - 4
cinnati, with embezzling over $40, 900
FIRE in the barns of the electric
street railway at Toledo, O., destroyed
S150,000 worth of property.
THE nude in art will be suppressed
at the coming annual exhibition of the
Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts.
THE burnside breaker at Shamokin,
Pa, owned by the Reading Coal and
Iron Company, was destroyed by fire.
causing loss of 500, 600
The supreme court Of Ohio has re-
fused a new trial to W j. Elliott the
editor and murderer now serving out
life sentence.
Ir was estimated that Texas cattle
men would lose 1000, 900 as result
of the recent blizzard
AT the Retreat poorhouse near
Wilkesbarre, Pa, is Polander named
John Mica who has been sleeping for
thirteen months and shows no signs of
waking up,
The official statistics of the anthra-
cite coal production in the United
States for 1891, just made public, show
the shipments from the mines To have
been A, 446 $50 tons. The year was
the greatest in the history Of the trade
and the production exceeded that of
1890 by 4 592, l6l tons
The Harvest Stove Company at
South Pittsburgh Tenn, failed for
S122, 600
BUSINESS in Grand Rapids, Mich.
was practically paralyzed by the burn
ing out Of the telephone exchange.
CONGRESSMAN Mills Of Texas, has
resigned his Craftsmanship appoint
ments in letter to Speaker Crisp,
A VEIN of coal OF good quality lax
feet in thickness was struck at Mo
brara, Neb.
MENDEz COHEN, Of Baltimore, was
chosen president Of the American So
ciety Of Civil Engineers at New York
THOMAS $ HUrroN, of Nevada, Mo,
who killed G. G. Diefenbaugh for pur-
suing his wife, has been acquitted of
murder.
NEAR Port Huron, Mich, several
barns belonging to F. a Beard were
burned, together with eignseen horses
and thirty head of cattle
IN Buchanan county, Ia, has beer