Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-06-22
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

For the Week Ending June 20
The village Of JeHersontown, Ky,
was swept away by Gre
The George L. Squire Manufacturing
company at buffalo A. y failed for
S200, 600.
Martial law was proclaimed ia Tona-
wanda, y. Y, because of strike of lum-
Der showers
President Cleveland has issued an
order assigning army officers to act a.
Indian agents.
John J. Haggerty jumped from the
Brooklyn bridge while intoxicated. He
was uhharmed.
A waterspout flooded the town Of
Utzermatlan, Mexico, drowning many
Of the inhabitants.
Immense beds of asphaltum have
been discovered in the Chickasaw reser-
walton in Indian territory.
Warren, James and John Keaton
(brothers) were drowned while bathing
in the river at Merrill, Wis.
The Missouri law permitting the sale
of Migrants has been declared uncon-
stitutional by the state supreme court
A proposition to settle on the basis of
fifty cents on the dollar has been made
to the creditors of ex-Secretary Foster.
Frank Davis, said to have committed
twenty-five burglarics in New York
city, was sent to prison for twenty-four
years.
j. w. Flood, ex-cashier Of the Dono
hoe Kelly Banking company at San
Francisco, was convicted cf embezzling
s164, 600
In quarrel over girl at a dance
near Louisville, Ky. John Nagles shot
and killed John and Jake Shelley
(brothers)
Indian tribes in the village Of Laja,
Ecuador. raided the village Of Zamora,
killed all the male inhabitants and ear
ried off the women.
i. A Dennis sheriff OF Hitchcock
county. Net was found dead IN bed In
Council 81. "a 1t is supposed that
Through nm for Of government SUR
veyors strip Of Texas land embracing
$4,000 acres was included within the
boundaries of oklahoma
Mr. and Mrs T. G. flames drove in
front Of IN exposes train at Rock Is
land H., and both were killed They
leave several small children
The Ohio democratic state central
committee has selected Cincinnati for
the place for the next convention Au- |
gust 9 and - We're fixed as dates
Lyle Kellogg VIII Ford and John
Gay well known young men, were I
drowned IN the bay near Washburn. |
Wis. by the capsizing of yacht.
Philip Graver, retired market man
"a years Of age, whose estate is val /
ued at $3.50, 600, committed suicide az
Pittsburgh. Pa. No cause known.
As the result Of a quarrel Of Ion 2
standing over q line fence William Knv- /
kendall, farmer near Ottrryue, Mo. |
killed w. II Smith and then Shot him |
self
An attempt to hold up an express
train near Council Bluffs, Ia, was frus-
trnted 10y the fireman turning the hot
water hose on the would-be robbers.
The seventeenth international and
second worlds convention of SUNDAY
school workers will be held in St. Louis |
from August 81 TO September 6. inclu- /
sive.
Five hundred pounds of giant powder
were discharged in the Black hills, /
near Rapid City, 5. D., Monday for the I
purpose Of bringing rain Two light
showers resulted.
The steamer FALCON has sailed from
St Johns, n. r.. TO Philadelphia to take |
the Peary expedition 10 Greenland 1t |
carries coal and provisions for the
whole party for eighteen months,
Emma Breene, aged II years, was
drowned while bathing in the Rick
river at Beloit, Wis, aud Charles
Belken, aged 10 years, met a like fate
In the Mississippi at Davenport, la.
The historic warship Hartford, now
lying at Mare island, is to be repaired
and put in commission. 1t will be
armed with modern high-power guns
and be rugged similarly to the cruiser
Chicago.