Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-08-25
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the week ENDING Anr. Il.

For the Week Ending Aug. 90.
Rev. John v Talmage, brother of T.
De Witt, died at his home at Bound
Brook, n J.
]. +. Rives, an attorney of Searcy,
Ark, committed suicide by blowing
out mis- brains
President Harrison celebrated his
fifty-ninth birthday at Loon Lake, n.
Y, on the goth.
S. A. Brito, sheriff of Cameron coun-
ty, Tex. was assassinated from ambush
at Brownsville.
Mrs. Rose Quinn, of Philadelphia,
took oxalic acid in mistake for rochelle
salts with fatal results.
The Whitney wooden mills at South
Royalston, Mass, were totally de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, s175,O0O
G. +. Taylor lowered the bicycle rec
ord at Buffalo, N. Y, going mile in
1921 2-5, the fastest time on record.
Fire in the furniture house of Shive.
Rick & Co. at Omaha, Neb., did dam
age to the amount of 100000.
Mrs. Patsy Sears, the oldest inhab-
liant of Indiana, died at the home of
her daughter at Kokomo, aged los
years.
A lightning bolt near Grant, Neb.,
killed James McHugh and Levi Gastin-
eau and rendered unconscious several
others
The Burton family, having over TO-
600 representatives. in the United
States, is holding a reunion at Mitch
ell. Ind
The British steamer Rome was
wrecked near Algoa bay and all on
board are thought to have been
drowned.
While resisting arrest at Bedford,
Ind, Constable Stultz fatally shot two
broth, rs named Lentz and seriously in
jured another.
Owing to threats of strike the
master tailors of England have ordered
a lockout of journeymen. The number
of men affected is IS, 600
The body Of the famous Cardiff giant,
which has been bun ed under livery
stable in independence, la, for twenty
years, has been exhumed
Mary Gooding, aged 81 years, and
Harry Goodwin, both of Catlin. Md,
have just been married. They had been
engaged twenty-seven years.
James Blunderfield, an engineer, and
Robert Crater fireman, were instant
~ killed by the explosion of locomo-
tive boiler at Memphis, Tenn.
Dispatches from Zanzibar report that
Baron Paul and four leading members
of the German punitive expedition have
been murdered at Kilimaniaro.
AT Berne, Switzerland, the interna-
tional peace congress opened, with over
500 delegates present, including Belva |
Lock wood, of the United States.
Gen. Franklin Sawyer, prominent
attorney, who commanded brigade at
Gettysburg and was promoted for gal |
lantry, died at his home in Norwalk, O. |
Mrs, Lizzie Hicks, widow living in
the suburbs of Richmond, Va, shot
and killed her l6-year-old daughter,
and only child, installing her for
burglar.
Abram Smith (colored) died at Alex !
andria, La, aged ITO years. Uncle Abe
remembered Gen. jackson well and
often spoke of him and the battle Of
New Orleans.
AS further precaution against the |
introduction of cholera into Canada the |
importation of rags from Germany and |
Belgium has been prohibited by an |
order in the dominion council
At a meeting of the republican state
central committee of Nebraska the |
name of J. I. Myers was placed on the |
ticket for lieutenant governor in place |
of j. c. Tnte, found ineligible.
Commau ter-in- Chief Palmer, of the
G. A. r., has issued a general order in |
which, among other things, he de- !
nounces campaign badge modelled
after the insignia of the order.
In hurricane there fell in the City
of Mexico a shower of fishes 3 inches
long and number of small peicans,
but no rain, while at Mazatlan the
ground was covered with dead winged
ants.
The big four-masted schooner Roa-
noke, the largest wooden vessel ever
built, was launched at Bath, Me. 1t is
81 feet in length and % feet in
breadth, and has gross tonnage of
5, $50. 03 tons.