Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-02-09

For the yyeek Ending Feb. :.

For the Week Ending Rem q
Charles Mohr, wife and son all died
from inhaling gas at Lima, q.
An iron roller mill was burned a.
lrondale, Mimi, the loss being $780,
Hundreds of head Of live stock have
died from the recent blizzard in Kan
sas.
The grape sugar works at Peoria,
Ill, were burned, the loss being over
500, 600.
B. F. Howey, an ex-congressman,
died at his home in Belvidere, n. j.,
aged 6s years.
By a fall of slate in Princes coal
mine near GAINESVILLE, O., four miners
were fatally crushed.
A Central Hudson passenger train,
westbound, ran down and killed four
men near Syracuse. N. Y.
Flames in a tenement house in New
York caused the deaths of Morris Cohen
and his wife and little girl.
The Northern Pacific snow pillow going
west struck and killed three men about
8 mile east of Perham, Mimi.
Counterfeit silver dollars, halves,
quarters and dimes of the issue of 1892
were in circulation in Chicago.
Mrs. William c. Whitney, wife Of the
ex-seeretary of the navy, died at her
home in New York, aged - years.
Wharton Mcknight, owner of a large
iron foundry and machine shops IN
Pittsburgh, Pa, failed for sl25 600
During a fire caused by a gas explo-
sion in New York one man was killed
and many persons were seriously in
jured.
The boilers Of the Planters Compress
company at Vicksburg, Miss, exploded,
killing three men and injuring twelve
others.
Thomas w Bennett, ex-governor Of
Idaho, who was appointed by Presi-
dent Grant, died at his home in Rich
moud Ind.
A lamp explosion set fire to the
house Of Alfred Bugerson in Chicago
and Mrs. Burgerson and her baby were
fatally burned.
A natural gas explosion in the home
of John D. Shofstall, at Urbana, O.,
killed his daughter, aged %, and Mrs.
Clark, aged IS years.
John s. Johnson, the cyclist and
skater, broke the amateur 5-mile rec
ord of America at Minneapolis, making
the distance in 1920 10
At Louisville, Ky, George Smith,
Jr., aged %, fatally wounded his IA
ther with a brick because the old man
chastised him for drinking
Another great gold discovery has
been made 100 miles south of Oaxaca,
Mexico, and hundreds of prospectors
were fiocking to the new fields
At Columbus, o.. human ear nailed
TO telephone pole created great ex-
element It was believed to be
prank of some medical student.
George II. Anderson has resigned his
position as agent of the American Ex-
press company at Beloit, Wis. He had
been an agent OF the com pany for forty
years.
John Wilder and Steve Morrisko
were killed and Anthony Torrosko and
Charles johnson fatally injured by
falling down mine shaft near Halle
ton, Pa
A jury at Toledo O., awarded Mrs
Henry Kahlo verdict of $40, O0O dam
ages against Mrs. Caroline Meyers for
alternating the affections Of the formers
husband.
The superior court of Marion county,
Ind. handed down an opinion declar-
ing the fremen's fund pension law
passed by the Legislature of 1921 uncon-
stitutional
The Philadelphia & Reading Coal aud
Iron company has shipped fifty tons of
anthracite coal TO Genoa. Italy. in the
hope of creating market for their
product there.
Bessie Pitman was fatally shot in a
resort in Indianapolis. Ind. by Philip
Pahbach, who then turned the revolver
on himself and blew his brains out.
Jealousy was the cause.
All the mines of the Delaware. Lack
Awanna * Western Coal company in
the Lackawanna and Wyoming val
leys, Pa. employing about $4,000 per
sons, have been put upon eight hours
per day
Frank Kelly, the elevator boy in
Coultrie's dry goods store at Zanes-
Vile, o, caurht hold Of an uuiusuiated
electric light wire and was instantly
killed. The body presented horrible
appearance
The bin to submit the question OF
calling u state constitutional conven-
ton Was defeated in the Alabama legis-
!ature GOV. Jones sent message to
the assembly urging the necessity for
legislation against mob violence,
Mrs John Robmson's 4-ycar-old
dauEhte, al Nevada. Mo, picked up an
old revolver and pointing il at her
mother sand. I'm shoot mamma.
The weapon was discharged, the ball
entering the mothers head AZ the left
gar she may die
Belknsp Is seated.
LANSING, Mich, Feb 4.-Thc Michi-
gan aprcmc court has handed down a
decision i'm ne com tested elect INN saS,s