Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-09-21
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The town of Colfax, Wis, was said to
have been destroyed by fire
Fire destroyed the United States ma
rine hospital at Port Townsend. Wash
The National Association of Post
Office Clerks met in convention in Chi
cago
BENEFITS casino, variety theatc. IN
Brooklyn, \. y, was burned, the loss
being $3.50, 900.
BY vote Of % to the national com
mission of the worlds fair decided to
adjourn sine die
W. o. Barney, treasurer of Defiance
county, O., was found To be $40, 600
short in his accounts.
The town of Baldwin, Wis, was al
most entirely wiped out by fire, the
loss being over 500. 600.
Joseph Dysart, lieutenant governor of
Iowa from 1874 to 1878, died at his home
in Vinton, aged IS years
Two men captured a mail wagon at
Terre Haute, Ind, and gagged the
driver and rifed the pouches
Except s1s the s., 900 stolen from the
Adams express at Akron, O, has been
recovered and the thieves arrested.
Five children Of f. w Whitney. near
Silver Hill, Ark, were burned to death
while their parents were at church.
Doc" Taylor. who murdered the
Mullins family in Virginia. has been
sentenced to be hanged October -.
Government figures on wheat make
it the smallest yield since 1885. The
amount is about 37l 600, 900 bushels.
George P. Kegaris, Dunkard
preacher, hanged himself to a cherry
tree at his home near Salemville, Pa.
The receiver Of the Evansville &
Terre Haute railroad was dismissed and
the road restored TO the stockholders.
The grain elevator of the w. c. Fuh-
rer Milling company at Mount Vernon,
Ind, was burned, the loss being $780,
O00
Ben Jackson, a negro. was taken
from the Jail at Quincy. Miss, and
hanged by mob. lie had poisoned
we'll
Robert L. Gruschow, cashier of the
Pabst Brewing company, was held up
in his Office in Chicago and robbed of
IS. 600.
The three national banks at Man
kato, Mimi, reopened their doors after
having been closed little over a
month
L. S. Meinties Of South Africa. in a
race against time at Springfield, Mass,
lowered the 5-mile bicycle record to
11:O9 SIS
October IS and 10 have been selected
as the dates for the annual convention
of the American Bankers association
in Chicago.
An incendiary fire destroyed the
property Of the sulphur Mines com
pany at Mineral City, Va. causing a
loss Of 100000.
In filling a lighted gasoline stove
Mrs. Maxwell. of Clinton, Ia. was IA
tally burned. Her daughter Stella was
also fatally burned.
Striking Italians took possession of
the mining town of Beading Pa, ter
rorizing the inhabitants. Twenty
eight were arrested.
James ii. Walker, of Philadelphia.
and Joseph l.. Kilrain, of Elwood, Ind,
died at the same hour on passenger
trains at Pittsburgh.
Twenty-three men scattered through
Jackson and Ebert counties Ga. were
arrested with wholesale counterfeits of
silver dollars in their possession.
At Chillicothe Richard Brown, col
ored, shot and killed Nellie Wolfscall.
also colored whom he was about to
marry. and then fatally shot himself.
Some fend or fiends entered the
graveyard in Hudson, Wis and pushed
over. broke and otherwise DESTROYED
twenty-five of the most costly grave
stones
George w. Dye, one Of the wealthiest
planters in northeast Georgia, is dead.
and has left his fortune Of over half a
million to the negro family who at
tended him for the last fifty years
The following banks have resumed
business: First national at lie Mars.
la, First national at Nashville, Tenn.
Commercial at Stevens Point, Wis.
Western national at Pueblo, Col, and
Bank Of Florence at Florence, Col
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