Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-11-02
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For The Week Ending oct. 81.

George Barker, OF keOSauqua, Ia,
was cut in two at Ottumwa by a steam
saw.
Mrs Harriet Van Derburg (coloredl
died at Sheffield, Ill, at the age Of 10
years.
The dead body Of man was found
in trunk at the Rock Island depot in
Chicago.
Florence Shea, the 0 dest man in
indianapolis, Ind, died at the age of
tO4 years
IS-foot vein Of natural stove polish
was found near Fort Dodge, la. 1t is
zinc sulphate
Philadelphia celebrated on Saturday
the 21lth anniversary of the landing of
William Penn.
The Oregon, the largest battle-ship
in the United States navy, was launched
at San Francisco
The Georgia house of representatives
passed a bill prohibiting the sale of
cigarettes In the state.
Mrs Christina Bordner, of Lewiston,
Ill, attained the 1O4th year of her age
and was in fair health.
Alexander Beokwell, lineal de-
scendant of African kings, died in New
Orleans, aged 100 years.
Effie Smith, quartered in the female
section of the Peoria (Ill bridewell for
vagrancy, turned out to be a man.
In leading a sortie against Riffians at
Melilla the Spanish Gen. Margallo was
shot dead with seventy Of his men.
Emperor Francis Joseph accepted
the resignation of the entire Austrian
cabinet, headed by Count Won Taafe
The weekly pay law passed by the
last legislature was declared uneonsti-
tutional by the Illinois supreme court
Hugh Gordon was frightfully burned
by acid placed upon his blowpipe by
union glassblower at Wellsburg, w
Va.
Cowed when given the oath of his
oWn country, Jun Jeck Lin confessed
in Chicago to the murder of Jung Din
Kok
The Michigan supreme court has de-
cided that the regents of the state uni
versity at Ann Arbor are exempt from
suit.
nude Wild man was caught in the
woods near Logansport, Ind The en-
tire neighborhood turned out in the
hunt.
GEORGE Gould says western legislation
has injured railways and there will be
no more eastern investments for a
time
King Herod, colored resident OF
lea ~ I
birthday. lie was born a slave in Rich
mond
Union street car employees at 81
Paul, Mimi, were quickly defeated in
their strike the company finding men
easily
Santa Anna, the crack racing mare
81 the Santa Anita (Cal.) stables, died
>. lung fever. She was valued al
$4,000,
Mrs. Lizzie Lee and Peter Adams, Of
Richmond, Ind, were arrested for
grave robblng Adams was caught in
the act
Saloonkeepers at Eureka, S D., an
gered because they were blaekballed.
set fire to the pythian and masonic
lodge rooms
According to the currency comptrol-
Ter Illinois banks have 80 O6 per cent.
reserve, over double the amount re.
quired by law
Benjamin Sanford, correspondence
clerk Of the New York continental
bank, is accused pa stealing over $50.
600 from the firm.
Gold ore worth from 81 600 to $4,000
per ton was discovered in the lowest
level in the Victoria mine near Colo
RADIO Springs, Col
superintendent Frederick Matthews.
Of the Postal Telegraph company, was
fatally shot 10y q crank while in his of
ice in New York
Maj. Decker, "the smallest living
man, is dead he was A. years old.
weighed seventy-l.ve pounds and was
thirty-two inches high.
At Hernesand port on the Gulf Of
Bothnia, the Norwegian bars Nordst-
Jernen ran into a nall boat ana sunk
il, drowning ten persons
Justice Williams al Syracuse y. Y.
has declared unconstitutional the law
Of Sq2 which gives women the right 10
vote for school commissioners
The trial of Mrs. Hanna Mary Park
hurst, Of Greenfield. ~ y, who was
charged with numbering her S-year-old
con, resulted in a verdict OF not guilty.
The reorga nized National German
American bank at ST. Paul, which
closed its doors during the financial
NtrinEcDcy August 4, Aas resumed bust
ness
The body of what was supposed to
have been an infant, Killed in the Bat
de Creek tMicf wreck, is declared by
tie coroner to'pe o piece Of burned
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