Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-02-23
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the week E.dlag Fen. FL.

The golden jubilee of Pope Leo All.
was cele brated in Rome.
A recent earthquake has destroyed
the main road il the Yellowstone Ma
tional park
Gold was said to have been found on
Newton H. Huston's farm in Calhoun
county. Mich.
James Crawford and his son were
struck by train and instantly killed
at Springfield, ..
During fierce gale in Brooklyn, n.
Y. fifteen houses were blown down.
but no one was injured.
Lieut. William G. Buck U. S. A., has
been assigned to Wisconsin as an in
structor of the state militia.
Mrs. Kate Painter, accused of pois-
oning her husband, has been acquitted
by jury at Greensburg, Ia.
The Farmers bank at Harrisburg,
Pa, closed its doors voluntarily. De
positors would be paid in full.
The National Wallpaper company's
big storage building in New York was
burned, the loss being 1925 00O
Twenty-seven persons were killed
10y the noxious fumes in the lmpensada
lead mines near Cartagena, Spain.
NJ b. Vandergrift, highly-respect-
ed citizen, aged IS years, dropped dead
At the Wabash depot in Chillicothe, o.
1t was reported that flames swept
away 10, 600 houses in Peking China,
and that great mum Der of lives were
lost.
The dryhouse Of the tobacco firm of
John Finer & Bros. in Louisville, Ky.
was destroyed by fire, the loss being
500. 600.
Feuds of the natives at Roclxtown,
Liberia, eliminated in battle in which
forty persons were killed and 200 were
wounded.
Owing to the failure of the cortes 10
approve the financial scheme. Of the
ministry the cabinet of Portugal has
resigned.
Ex-Congressman Barksdale, of Mis-
sissippi. aged 20 years, died of heart
failure on his Yazoo county Miss
plantation.
The large hominy mill OF the Hud-
nut company at Mount Vernon, Ind,
was totally destroyed by fire, the loss
being 100000.
George Grier, who built the first log
house in the eastern part OF Auglaize
county, o., was found dead in bed He
was 80 years old.
Rear Admiral August Ludlow Case,
u. s. N, retired, died in Washington.
He was born in 1918 and placed on the
retired list in 1855.
Several schooners were driven ashore
d blizzard on Chesapeake bay and six
sailors were drowned.
Baron Bleichroeder died in Berlin.
He was the richest banker in Germany,
the fortune left by him being esti-
mated at 100. 900, O0U marks
The fire losses in the United States
during the week ended on the 18th
amounted to Sl.S73, 500. The total
losses from January to date were $50,
7oS, 600.
A woman died in the poorhouse at
Sweetness, Great Britain, who was
born in the institution ninety-two years
ago and had lived there all her life
public charge.
Harvey Ramage, who shot and killed
Policeman bunker in Cairo, III, in
September. 1892, was found guilty of
murder in Cairo and sentenced to the
penitentiary for life.
In rear-end collision on the Pitts
burgh. Fort Wayne & Chicago railroad
at Monroe, Ind, Engineer Knode. Fire
man Graham and Brakeman Blackford
were fatally injured.
In q six-days' contest EIGHT hours a
day. which ended in Syracuse, N. Y,
Aggie Harvey, of Pittsburgh broke the
worlds record for women for that time
by walking 200 miles.
One hundred shots were exchanged
by the striking miners OF the Gatshurg
Coal company's mine near Mononga-
hela, Pa, and the colored nonunion-
lists. but none of the shots took effect
Col George W. Kendall, aged SIS, q
millionaire. and one of the best known
business men in the west, committe 1
suicide In his room at the Wellingto 4
hotel in Chicago. Sickness was the
cause.
Tho legislatures Of Oregon and Wv
oming adjourned sine die, the latter
without breaking the senatorial dead
lock. and the governor will appoint a
United States senator who will serve
two years
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