Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-02-25
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the Wool BINDING Feb. ee.

William Rhodes, Canadian minister
of agriculture, died in Quebec.
Charles E. Hudson died in Boston
after a voluntary fast of forty-two
days.
E. Gray, the oldest man in North
Carolina, celebrated his 109th birthday
at Delhi
Nineteen British soldiers were killed
in fight with the kachuns in north
ern Burmah.
The Massachusetts republican state
convention has been called to meet in
Boston April 20
DIR. Paul, a French physician. an
| nounces that he has discovered a rem
eGy for paralysis,
Gov Hogg has issued proclamation
converting the Texas Legislature in reg
ular session March H.
A man and woman were crushed to
death in a collision on the Big Four
road near indianapolis.
Seventy men were killed and seven
teen injured in an explosion at the
Horonia coal mine, in Japan
The membership of the League of
American Wheelmen now numbers 2S,-
$50, of whom 6l9 are women.
Three hundred dead wolves repre-
sented the work in hunt in Crawford
and Bourbon counties, Kan.
Henry Hummell, aged 50, veteran
of the late war and a mason for 20 years,
died at Decatur, Ill, Saturday.
The lower house of the Mississippi
legislature has passed bill creating a
new county to be called Jeff Davis.
The famine raging in Russia has ex-
tended to Finland and the entire
northern part Of that country is suffer
ing
Joseph Espalla, Jr., a Mobile real
estate agent, is said to have skipped to
Chicago, leaving $4,000 of debts be-
hind.
John Sherman died at Fitchburg,
Mass, aged 100 years and months.
He came to this country from Ireland
in 1861
In railroad accident near Smith.
wick, S. d., Conductor Benson and
Commissioner Humphreys were fatally
injured
Isaac Brown, aged 20 years, was
found dead in his room at the Craw-
ford house, at Indianapolis Saturday
morning.
A 1O-year-old son of Prof James A.
Willie, of Marissa, ILL.,, was fatally in
jured by being impaled upon vicious
cows horns.
Twenty-Five Italian and Hungarian
1a1 20
from New York because they were
contract laborers.
Mrs. NJ S. Burdge, aged 81 years,
was burned to death at her home in
Muskegon, Mich, her clothes catching
| fire from a stove.
A plot to wreck express train No. 4,
east bound, on the Pittsburgh, Fort
Wayne & Chicago railway, was dis
covered at Arcola, Ind.
In the lower house of the Utah lie gis-
lature memorial for an i-polyga-
my amendment to the United States
constitution was killed.
Treasurer George Garland, of Dun
can township, Houghton county, Mich,
is in Jail charged with appropriating
81, 500 of the township funds
Seven Arabs who had sought shelter
in grotto at Kouba, a village near
Algiers were all killed by the collap-
sing of the roof of the grotto.
An extensive cavern occurred in the
surface workings of the coal mines at
Luzerne Pa, and number of dwell
ings were completely wrecked.
Dale d. Campbell, for years tele-
graph editor of the Oshkosh North
westerner, died Saturday night of con-
sumption. He was % years old.
The Bavarian mail coach between
Brietenquess bach and Untermezbach
was blown over a precipice and two
women and three men were killed
| UGeorge Rauem, farmer 40 years of
age, died at his home in Caledonia,
| Wis, after sleeping four weeks, all eff
forts to awaken him proving futile.
Henry Hillenberg, of Floodwood,
Mimi, while attempting to save his
horses from burning barn was over
come by the heat and burned to death.
A vein of quartz was struck in the
Keystone mine in Pennington county,
S. D., that pays $40, 900 to the ton.
The vein is three-quarters of an inch
thick.
George Garland, township trustee of
Duncan township, Houghton county,
Mich, has been arrested and is in jail
charged with embezzling public money
amounting to over $4,000.
Peter Smith, 20 years old, died at
Trenton, n j., of exhaustion. He was
taken with the grip about tfty-three
days ago and since that time he had not
tasted a mouthful of food
A big plan for flooding Cincinnati
with spurious fve-dollar bills was
nipped in the bud by the United States
| government authorities and the trio of
counterfeiters were under arrest.
Gilbert Elliot Griffin, in the United
States post office department since
1887, died in Kingston, n. Y, aged ~
years. He introduced the money order
and railway systems in the United
| States.
AdOlph Tawsee who lives in a en- hI1rh