Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-06-08
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the Week Ending june 8.

Cholera is spreading rapidly in Asiatlc
Turkey.
Charles ". Dayton has been appoint
ed postmaster at New York.
Aeronaut Charles Richmond fell ), 600
feet from balloon at Trenton, y. j.
Five men charged with heinous
crimes escaped from the Jail at Sedalia,
No.
A new counterfeit two-dollar treas
ury note has made is appearance in
Chicago
Eighteen persons were injured in p
wreck on the Iron Mountain road near
Mill Spring, No.
The mare Esperanto, valued at sl0.-
900, was fatally injured in race at
Sacramento, Cal.
Sixteen passengers were injured,
some fatally, in a railway disaster near
Poplar Bluff, Mo.
Judge Jesse J. Phillips has been elect
ed to the supreme bench from the Sec
ond Illinois district.
The greatest gas well ever struck in
the Ohio field was drilled in Z miles
north of Findlay.
John C. Mining, treasurer of Fort
Jennings, O., has disappeared, leaving
a shortage Of $4,000
The office Of the Western Mail news
paper in Cardiff, Wales, was burned,
the loss being 500, 900.
Schclp Bros wagon and carriage
works at st. Louis have been destroyed
Y fire Loss, 500 GOO
John McQuaid, John OConnor and
Jane Mooney committed suicide in
Philadelphia Saturday.
With paid-iu capital stock of $1,000. :
goo the National union bank of New
York has begun business.
President Cleveland completed his
fishing trip IN Virginia Saturday and
returned to Washington
The Fisher x Burnett Lumber com
pany, with headquarters at Memphis,
Tenn, failed for 100000
Many miles of timber and several
houses in Stevens county, Wash, were
consumed by forest fire.
Fire destroyed the iron foundry
works of j. =. & j N Cornell in New
York, the loss being $500, 900
Herman Schafner n Co, Of Chicago.
the oldest and largest private bankers
in the west failed for 100000.
A mortgage for $4,000 600 has been
placed on the property of the whisky
trust to secure an issue of bonds.
Andrew Carnegie has presented the
First Christian church at Braddock,
Pa, with pipe organ to cost $500
George Deputy, who lost $50, 600 in
land speculation in Minnesota, com
mitted suicide in an indianapolis hotel
Ephraim Comedian, a Braceville lIllD
miner, killed his wife aud then blew
ont his own brains. Whisky was the
cause.
The house of John Reddng, Ken
tucky farmer, was struck by lightning
and three of its Occupants instantly
killed
The Office of the Hustler paper in
Breathitt county, Ark, that advocated
local liquor license. was blown up by
dynamite
The Missouri river has cut a new
channel behind the government bikes
at East Atchison. Mo, and great dam
age has been done.
Chevcrton, Martin X Co. private
bankers in Chicago have assigned The
assets were said To amount TO 500. 600
and the liabilities To $40, 900
Michael flanagan, aged 20, completed
fifty years Of labor as a city official at
Kingston, and ranks as the oldest Off
.cial in active service in Canada.
Two Memphis switehmen riding on
the footboard of an engine were killed
by the locomotive jumping the track
and burying itself in an embankment,
Justice Bradley has ruled that courts
have the right To inquire as TO suffi.
cheney of the cause of removal of gov
eminent empl yes under the civil ser.
vice act