Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-05-25
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

The Baptist national anniverSa ries
commenced in Denver, Col.
Walter o. Olds has been elected chief
justice of the supreme court of Indiana.
The grand jury at Norwalk, O.. in
dicted a dozen prominent men for
gambling.
The Clinton dynamite works near
Haverstraw, n. y, blew up and killed
eight men.
Flames in the Arbuckle Brothers cot
fee mill in Brooklyn, n. Y, caused
loss of t25O,OOO.
John Downey's cottage in Buffalo, N.
Y, was burned and three children per-
ished in the flames.
The Russian government proposes 10
colombo Siberia with peasants impover-
ished by famine and cholera.
Frank Ferguson, of Corning, O., muir
deFed his wife. He had just been dis
charged from an insane asylum.
Fire destroyed the American Tubing
e. Webbing company's works at Prov
idenoe, r L., the loss being $3.50, 900.
twenty-five horses belonging to tho
Peoples Quitting company were
burned to death in fire in Chicago
Flames in Chicago in the building oc-
cupied by the Dr. Price Baking Powder
company caused damage of $4,000.
Seventeen business houses and resi-
dences were destroyed by an iucendiary
fire at Montfort, Wis. Loss, 500, 600.
The immense plant of the Beatty
glass works factory at Tiffin, as
damaged by FIRE to the extent of $500,
600.
The establishment Of the King Iron
Bridge company at Cleveland, O., was
damaged 10 the extent of $780, 900 by
fire.
The water in well on Joseph Stoves
farm near Mortified. Mimi, has turned
salt The well has been in use for thirty
years
Mrs Gottlieb Fox fell over dead Sun
day during the observance Of commun-
ion in church near Upper SAN
duslSy, o.
The extensive wine vaults Of the
Eschenauers at Bordeaux, France were
destroyed by fire, the loss being ZOO,
600 francs.
Lewis Taylor (colored) was hanged
in the Jail yard at Lake Charles, La,
for assauiting a negro woman some
months ago
eloped with his niece, Mabel Summers.
Her father followed them and shot and
killed Wilson.
George Landlord shot and instantly
killed his wife at Marietta, o., and then
shot and killed himself Domestic
trouble was the cause
Allen Causius, noted colored des-
perado. while drunk shot and killed his
wife and mortally wounded his father
in-Iaw at Knoxville, Tenn.
WIN Neal lcolorea} was lynched by
negroes near Willtmsville, Miss, for
assau az the 6-year-old daughter of
Jackson Comfy, also colored.
Secretary Gresham has appon ted
Clinton Kurdish, OF Chicago to succeed
William + Curtis as director Of the
bureau Of American republics.
jerry T Moynahan, editor OF the
Wilton Review, was ran down by IA
freight train near Moscow Ia, and was
horribly crushed He viii die.
Edward McDuaie. of Maiden. Mass.
lowered the American 25-milc road BIZ
cycle record by riding the course in
hour ID minutes s. - seconds.
The AK polishing and finishing de-
rarunents % the American Ak 4 Tool
company at Douglas, Mass, was
burned, causing loss If 500, 600
The Calumet and uecla Mining com.
pany has divided s25, o00l among the
widows and children Of the ten men
killed in the recent mine disaster.
Samuel r Galloway, Of Cleveland
has been appointed receiver of the To-
ledo, ST. Louis & Kansas City railway.
known as the Glover Leaf line
At the tweaty-seventh annual meet
ing in New York of the national board
of underwriters D. w. c. SHELTON. of
Hartford, Conn. was reelected presi.
dent.
Inc receivers Of the Reading road
have ordered reductions in the wages of
miners at several collieries from $40 "a
to IS per week. Some of the miners quit
work
Mrs. Annie Peterson was sentenced
to the state prison for two years at Co
lumbus, O.. for smuggling small saw
TO her husband in jail, by which h,
made his escape,
James Poe, farmer living near Ben
ton, Ark, fell from his wagon unde
the wheels, and before he could craw
away "a wheel passed over his head
crushing il TO Jelly.
A receiver has been appointed 70
the Archer & Pancoast Manufacturing
company at New York. The conceri
has assets of 81. 200, 900 but was unabl
20 meet notes which fell due on May /
and which went to protest
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