Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-01-07
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.


Hiram, died of apoplexy in his cell in
the state prison at Concord, y. H.
FLAMES among business buildings ia
Boston caused loss of $3.50. 900.
W. j. SEAMAN. the noted comedian,
was stricken with paresiS in New York
and would probably never play again
IL the United States the visible sup
ply of grain on the 2sth was: Wheat
1860, 2l7 bushels; corn, 5, SEA 252 bush
els; oats, 3,720Gf7 bushels.
THE annual cloth statement pub
ished al FAN River. Mass. shows a
production of 9.9s5, 900 pieces the past
year, against 1857, 900 pieces the preee-
ding year
PRESIDENT HARRISON refused 10 par
don Harper, the wrecker Of the Fidel-
ity savings bank al Cincinnati, who
has been in the Ohio pehitentiary since
1857 ON a ten years sentence.
Q. &. NEWELL 81 Sons. New York
lumber dealers, nave failed for S., III.
GEORGE WICHTNAN and three other
men were frozen to death III storm
near Gary, s. D.
CHARLES KBHALG, Of Little Rock,
Ark, disrobed his refractory Swear
old child, placed il IN tub Of icc-cold
water, and afterwards whipped it IA
tally.
LEM JOKES was hanged at Oliver
Springs, Tenn, for the murder of his
wife and child on June % 1920
Two coLoEgn children were burned
To death in house at Shelbvville,
Tenn.
By the error Of gateman at a cross
ing in Brooklyn of the Long Island
railroad a coach containing four per-
sons was pcnned in on the track and
all the occupants We're struck by
train and fatally injured.
WILLIAM SUrCLIFrE, an Auburn (N
y brewer, has failed for $4,000
IT was reported that it had been de-
eided that Chilli must express her re-
grets for the assault upon the sailors
of the Baltimore and pay to the fam
lies Of the murdered seamen a snug
indemnity, and that She must do this
within two weeks. Her refusal would
mean war with the United States.
TT was said that it had been decided
to allow the sale OF liquor at the
worlds fair, the exposition company to
receive for the privilege Of the sale d
percentage Of the gross receipts.
SIX well-known old people at Jack
sonville, Ill. whose ages ranged from
Is to Sc years, died on the 10Th of the
grip.
OLIVER ANDERSON and a Young man
named Peerman were killed at the
Middlefork coal mines near Danville,
Ill, by an explosion.
JOSEPH and Nicholas Dnuth. who
murdered Farmer Kuntz near Spald-
ing, Neb., were captured by a mob and
lynched
A LITTLE 5-year-old child named Eek
bert, residing in Springfield, O., stole
a half pint of whisky and drank it,
went TO sleep and never woke up.
A PHILADELPHIA company has com
pleted arrangements in that city for
the erection of the largest tin-plate fac
tory in the United States.
A LARGE building in the course Of
erection at Brooklyn n. Y. fell in
juring nineteen workmen, three fatally
THE Clcarteld pa hotel livery
stable was blown mp with dynamite
and the debris and eight houses were
destroyed by the fire that followed.
FRElGHT trains collided near Chilli
Gothic, Mo, and an engineer, two fire.
men and brakeman were llillsd and
eleven cars containing cattle were
burned.
FELIX REGNTEB was killed by an
Iowa Central passenger train az Mon
mouth, ILL., lie was over 30 wears old
THE win Of W. L. Scott, of Erie,
Pa, who died last September, was
filed for probate. 1t left property
valued at SIS 600 900 to the family.
IN a quarrel at Ensley City, Ala,
Frank Phillips and Joseph Smith
killed each other
NATION and Dave Beatty and Gwyn
Bowden, of Fentress county, Tenn,
were shot and killed by "A young man
named Ed Harris The shooting was
caused by the Beatty brothers striking
their sister
In has been discovered that the bond
given by JEFF Davis TO the United States
government to answer To the charge of
treason has been stolen from the court
records at Richmond, Va.
\ FIRE, supposed to be incendiary,
destroyed the business portion Of Plain
field, Hi
A RECIPROCITY arrangement has been
entered into between Secretary Blaine
and the British minister to embrace
the British West Indian colonies of
Jamaica, Barbados, the Leeward and
the Windward islands, Trinidad and
the colony of British Guiana
JoHN SIMS, the last of the outlaw
gang, was taken from the iail at But
Ter, Ala, and hanged by mob
W. NJ. HUMPHREYS an aged farmer
living near HoplIinsville, KY, was ter
ribly beaten by white caps
THE work Of destroying the dies used
for making coins during 1921 was be-
gun at the United States mint in Phua-
delphia.
= JOHN BRuNEILE and his wife were
located 10y eoa' gas in their home at
- y. d., and nine children
.phans
ARsH, young man Of