Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-06-29
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the Week Ending June "a.


600.
The Pennsylvania democratic state
convention will be held at Harrisburg
September 10.
South Carolina's liquor dispeAsary
has begun business and all saloons will
soon be closed.
The Braddock wire mills at Rankin,
Pa, have been shut down and 700 men
are out of work.
Mrs jefferson Davis and Mrs U. S.
Grant had long chat at their meeting
at Cranstons-on-the-Hu Hudson.
James Stephenson was killed and his
son fatally injured by mad bull at
their farm near West Union, 0.
India has stopped the free coinage OF
silver and decided to make gold the
money standard of the country.
The Carl coal works of Carlton, O..
made an assignment Monday. The liza
bilities are $4,000; assets, $1,000
Frank Hayes, aged 20 years, was
found guilty of murder at Detroit and
sentenced to imprisonment for life
The sOth anniversary Of the birth Of
Henry Ward Bcecher was commem-
GRATED at Association hall in Brooklyn
BY the breaking Of levee near As
eension, La, some fifteen sugar plan
tations were ruined, the loss being 81
600 600
kozine and Moneypenny Indians
We're found guilty at Madison Wis. of
the murder Of Boneash and his squaw
last fall.
Iowa's banks are In excellent condi-
ton. according 10 Examiner II A. Nil
Ter, who has just completed a tour Of
the state.
An ll-year-ola boy robbed a safe at
Silver Plume, Col, and in an attempt
70 escape fell over preoipice. receiving
fatal injuries
A census Of Aurora, H., just com
pleted, shows a population Of 2S,077,
gain Of go per cent since the govern
ment census
Because Of its EDITORS attacks on law
breakers the Office Of the New Albany
Miss Gazette was broken into and its
plant destroyed
). 4 G. Gump, dealers in art goods at
san Francisco, Cal, made an assign
ment with liabilities of $40 900 and
assets Of 500 600
The Bank of Commerce at San Diego.
Cal, and the Savings bank at Fresno.
Cal, which suspended recently have
resumed business.
An explosion of molten iron in Rohig's
IRON works at Magdeburg, Saxonv.
killed six workmen and seven others
were terribly burned
Forty-one persons have been acct
dentally killed on the worlds fair
grounds since The constuc ton of the
buildings commenced
An explosion Of gasoline caused the
destruction of five business establish
ments in Huron, 5. D., and Alderman
Fcary was burned to death.
Robert Burns was instantly killed
and Louis johnson fatally injured by
the falling Of the stone coping If a
Minneapolis bank building.
The factory OF Turner & Seymour,
manufacturers of small hardware was
partly destroyed by fire at Torrington,
Conn, the loss being sloo, 600.
An engine left the rails on a trestle
near Mount Washington, O., and Con-
ductor David Holman and Fireman
Philip King were fatally injured
Knobnoster Mo- citizens have
formed company TO search for ST.
SOC, 900 in gold, believed TO have been
hurried there by Spaniards years ago,
The body of woman OF the unfortu-
nate class was found in a suburb of
London with her throat cut in the
n, t.rr To, II -,
Rev w. W Kone, aged 90 years, died
at Denison, Tex. lie was the oldest
Baptist minister in the United States,
having entered the ministry at the age
Of Is,
superintendent Frank p Mills has
received orders 70 close down iron
mines at Ishpemiug Mich, June so.
Over 900 men wiil be thrown ont of
work
Twenty men were Killed ANA scores
wounded as the result Of refusal hy a
British magistrate o permit The cele-
bratjon of IA Mohamucdan festival at
Rangoon
Jacob Wejsman, who sold liquor near
the soldiers home at Ieaveuworth,
kan. in defiance ct an injunction, has
been fined 500 and sentenced ~ thirty
days in jail
The livery business Of leroy Payne,
Of Chicago, has been placed in the
hands Of a receiver. The liabilities are
$50. 600. while the assets are estimated
at 500 ,o00.
Sloane. Johnson & Co. wholesale gro.
GERS Of Omaha, Neb., have failed Their
liabilities are Sl60. 200 and STOCK and ac-
counts viii amount 10 nearly double
that amount.
William Ransdell was bitten by tar
antula III Lebanon, Ind, while handling
bananas. In the bunch of bananas a
nest az geo young tarantulas was found.
Rausdell may recover.