Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-07-06
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the Week Ending July 3.

Grandma" Luteral, OF Astoria, III,
celebrated her 1Olst birthday
Robert p. Porter, superintendent Of
the census, has rendered his resigna-
ton.
Harvard won the college baseball
championship by defeating Yale. The
score was to 4.
The Muskegon (Mich.) Iron & Steel
company went into a receivers hands
with liabilities of $4,000
Seven thousand men are thrown out
of employment by the shutting down
of tho iron mills at Youngstown, o.
Frank Hayes, aged 20 years, was
found guilty of murder at Detroit and
sentenced to imprisonment for life.
George Drew Barrymore, the noted
actress, died suddenly in Santa Bar
bara, Cal
At the session in Chicago of the Ma
tional Association of Elocutionists T.
+. Macltay, Of New York, was elected
presidents
A statement Of the government bu-
reau Of statistics shows the value of
merchandise imported for the fair was
$12, 160,o 4a.
The Bedford Gnd) Stone Quarrics
company the largest producers Of
oolitic limestone in the world, made an
assignment.
The total amount Of money received
as duties, etc, at tho New York custom
house during the year ended Friday was
slBs, 00o, 600
Ellsworth Goshen, aged years, was
sentenced at St. Joseph, Mo, to twelve
years Imprisonment for wrecking a
freight train
Dizziness in the iron trade has caused
the shutting down of the mills of the
Springfield Steel company at Joliet, H.,
and Milwaukee, Wis.
The Madison Car company has made
an assignment at Edwardsville, ILL.,
The liabilities are placed at ST. 222, 900
and assets at 5000, GOO
Nearly $4,000 worth OF stolen goods /
were found At the residence OF a.
Meyers, in Chicago, a former janitor in |
Manufactures building
John Berry. the cowboy who was the
first TO arrive in Chicago in the great I
race from Chadron, Neb., was awarded /
the first prize of 81 600.
John Harvey, alias Airing, one of the |
most noted expert confidence men and
all-around crooks in the country, died
at Niagara Falls, n, a.
a violent rainstorm. followed by hail
passed over a portion Of Iowa in the
vicinity of Boone, doing considerable
damage to growing crops.
Arthur Crockett struck stranger
who entered the saloon where he was
at work at Lima, O., aud the man died
soon after Crockett fed
w J. Jamison, the Quincy, III, ne
gro condemned to death, win be hung
August IS A jury has found his al
legged insanity to be feigncd
William &. Shaw, ex-cashier of the
Lincoln national bank in Bath, Me.
has been sentenced to ten years in
states prison for embez1lement.
Two supposedly insane prisoners in |
the penitentiary at Pucbla, Mexico.
killed three feliow-convictS and wound
ed seven others with shoe knives.
T. J. Wood, until recently cashier Of
the Ninth national bank of DALLAS, Tex,
was arrested on the charge OF embez-
cling 1928, 600 of the banks money.
Mrs. Julius Collins, Of Oak Cliff. Tex,
administered poison to herself and
three little children. Poverty and
dissipated husband caused the deed
The military department of Arizona
has been reorganized under the name
of the department of Colorado, and
headquarters established at Denver
President T. w Palmer of the Ma
tional Columbian commission has an
nounced his iptqntion of resigning. In
view of the serious illness of his wife
James j. Corbett and Charley Mitchell
will fight before the Columbian Attn
letic club. near Chicago, for the heavy
weight championship and purse Of
s45, GOO
Twelve thousand bushels of Canadian
wheat which had become wet were
dumped into the lake from the steamer
Sitka TO avoid the duty Of twenty-five
cents Il hushel
4 box containing $4,000 worth Of
securities, sccretcd assets OF the failed
firm of Field, Lindley Wclchcrs 4 Co..
is said 10 have been discovered by
New York detective
The Michigan national guard viii
hold an cneampmeut for FIVE days be-
ginning August 10 on the state grounds
because the project TO encamp At Chi
cage was declared illegal
sam Wilson, the lone bandit who
robbed the express car Of the Missouri
Pacific train a few weeks ago, has been
sentenced al St Louis, Mo, to fifteen
wears in the penitentiarY
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