Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-01-14
DOMESTIC.

DUNES ! ICs
j. FINLEY HoKE, at one time cashier
of the Merchants national bank of
Peoria, Ill, was released from Joliet
prison, having served his sentence of
five years for embezzling $40 COO
IN the United States the visible sup
ply of grain on the 4th was: Wheat.
45,66s, 724 bushels; corn, 1851, 1876 bush
els; oats, 3,sGs, 579 bushels.
INa quarrel over game of cards in
Clinch county, Ga, eight men were
fatally shot.
THE natural-gas main at Peru, Ind,
burst. and for twelve hours 10, 600 peo-
pie were left without fire and the Their
mometer registered zero
THE report Of the death of ex-Chief
Bushyhead at Tahlequah l. r., was
unfounded.
PRESIDENT HARRISON sent a message
TO congress touching the efforts in this
country to relieve the distress of the
famine sufferers in Russia in which he
recommended that everything possible
be done to alleviate their terrible con-
dition
Miss MARY BIRD, a member of the
straight Tip" Company, died at Gin
cinnati from burns received by her
clothing catching fire.
john GLEASON, paymaster for the
Cleveland Iron Mining and the Iron
Cliff Company, was murdered and
robbed in the company's office at Ish-
peming, Mich.
THE supreme court of Connecticut
has decided that Morgan &. Bulkeley
is governor of the state.
AN unsuccessful attempt was made
to blow up the courthouse at st. Louis
with dynamite.
FRANK MooRMAN and Amos Houser
died in terrible agony at Coldwater, o.,
from drinking carbolic acid by mistake
for whisky.
SAMUEL ARTHUR, Samuel Francis,
Rufus Hemphill and an unknown man
were killed in railway wreck near
Asheville, n. c.
EXPORTS of wheat and flour from the
port of San Francisco for the year 1891
were of the value of SS2, 105, 600, as com
pared with 81, ll4,0 900 for the year 1890
PASSENGER trains on the Wabash
road collided at Aladdin, H., and en-.
gineers Charles Wilson and Al Bushart
and four Italian immigrants were
killed and five cars were burned
THE county seat war between Woods.
dale and Hugonot, in Stevens county,
Kan, has broken out again, and Sheriff
Dunn has been killed and Judge Bot
kin forced to flee for safety Troops
have been ordered to the scene of the
trouble
The tobacco firm of b. S Kendig &
Co. at Lancaster, Pa, failed for $780,
900.
The third annual congress of the
Colored Roman Catholics in the United
States opened at Philadelphia
PooI-RooM sharks beat boolsmallers
in Kansas City, St Paul, Omaha. San
Francisco and Minneapolis out OF
$3.50, 900 by means of false dispatches
TUE products of corn, wheat and oats
in the United States in 1891 were the
largest ever known. The aggregates
we're: Corn. area, 16, 204,5l5 acres;
product, 20G0, 154, coo bushels; value
1896 489. 290. Wheat, area, 30,9l6, s97
acres; product, Gil, $50, 900 bushels;
value, S5l3. 427. I'll Oats, area, 5,5S1,-
Sol acres; product. 73G, 394, 900 bushels;
value S232, 312, 267.
FIVE more members of the Sims gang
Neal Sims and Laura and Beatrice
daughters of Bob Sims, and two other
men-were lynched by mob near
Womack HILL Ala.
A BROKEN truck wrecked passenger
train on the B. Il o. at Paramount, W.
Va, and three railroad men were
killed ana thirteen passengers were
injured
THIRTY-FIvE employees Of Pittsburgh
(Pa.) newspapers were to be arrested
for engaging in worldly employment
on Sunday.
II collision which was followed by
an explosion at Smyrna, n. Y, two
engineers and a fireman were killed.
LowENTHAL, LIVINGSTON & Co,
grain dealers in San Francisco, failed
tor $500 600; assets. Sl60 0oo
JOHN ANDERSON, under arrest in
Cleveland, o., for burglary, was shown
to have seven wives in various portions
OF the country.
A DESTRUCTIVE windstorm passed
over Oakland, Fla, doing great dam
age to property and causing the death
Of Mrs p. H. Roper.
THE branch Office of the Wells-Fargo
Express Company at Houston, Tex,
was robbed Of four packages Of money
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