Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-07-20
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the Week Ending July ls.


lege baseball tournament.
The First national bank Of Cedar
town, Ca, closed its doors.
The 9th of September has been desig-
mated as Grand Army day at the world ;
fair.
0sen Belts, farmer living near
Hillsdale Mich, committed suicide by
hanging
George Crandin left New York 10
walk to the worlds fair. lie carried no
money with him.
Patti Stone, the opera singer died at
the St Louis home of her father, Maj.
George II. Stone
Bands Of Mormons are at work in
Virginia PROSECUTING. They ayow their
belief in polygamy.
Lick observatory astronomers claim
the new comet is really two comets
with two distinct tails.
Ignoring "A warning, Dan Mccarthy
attacked one Nethrow at Marysvillc,
Ia. and was fatally shot.
Robert LarlIin, colored, was lynehed
at 0cala, Fla, for crIminally assaulting
Fannie Alexander, white.
Worltmen at Elwood, Ind. where
factories have closed, were suffering
for the necessaries Of life.
The business section OF Lucliey, O.,
was almost completely wiped out by
fire. the loss being 500. 600
John Mcconnell morocco and cotton
manufacturer in Philadelphia, failed
for 5000. 600; assets, 500 600.
Clement Miller and his wife and
baby were fatally burned by the OK
plosion of coal oil at Columbus, O.
Sheriff Spradley, Of Nacogdochcs
Tex, killed his fifth man in Joel Good
win who had "a murderous record.
The private banking house Of Will
liam Oberhauser in Peoria. Ill, closed
its doors with liabilities Of SEQ, 439
Two oil tanks at Whiting Ind, ex-
ploded and the Standard oil company
lost ZOO, coo gallons Of refined petroleum
John McGrath leader OF d notorious
Chicago gang, has been sentenced TO
twenty years in prison for burglary.
Rudolph won the Columbus handicap,
worth SIS, 600, in a brilliant finish at
the Washington park track in Chicago
Annie Morris has been masqucrading
as Frank Blunt for fourteen years. Ar
rest AT Milwaukee revealed her identity.
Dr. Henry G. W. Meyer, alleged
poisoner and swindler Of insurance CONF
panies, is now locked up in New York
Near Atchison, Kan, the Missouri
river has begun eating away lands and
is eneroaching upon the railway road
beds
The bank of Hay < Webb made
general assignment at Carmi, III, with
liabilities Of $4,000 and assets Of
t2l6 600
Glen house, popular resort in the
White mountains, was destroyed by fire.
entailng loss of sl60, 600 Guests
escaped
Richard r Roughton and Frederick
T Rawlins, prominent citizens of
Sandersvllle, Ca, killed each other in
a street duel.
Warren Dean, a negro accused OF as
saulting woman, was captured by
mob at Stone Creek. near Macon, Ga,
and lynched
= Meredith Lewis, acquitted Of the
charge of numbering his wife. was
lynched neer Roseland, La, by I'M
known persons
William J. Christie, stage manager of
the opera house at Elgin, Ill, was over.
come by heat and died from the pros
tration ensuing,
In a runaway at Thomas boro H.,
two young sons of William Seymour
were so injured that they died soon
after the accident
The council of administration has de-
cided not TO cooperate with the plan OF
the railroads Ia bring all western news
paper men and their wives to the
worlds fair free
Annie Geary aged Il, and Mary
Schreber, aged D were burned IL death
at their home in Port Clinton, o.. 10y an
explosion of gasoline.
A train ran off the track and went
over high precipiec near Bilhoa.
Spain, and six persons we're killed and
thirty seriously injured
4 man named Scgerman and his son,
aged about If years were found mur-
dered i miles from Wharton. q T.
Their pockets were rHcd
). n nusocnherrc cashier of the sus-
pended bank al Puyallup. Wash. was
arrested on a charge OF embezlliug
Sil 600 Of the banks funds
Lizzie Byram, aged 10 Years daughter
of 4. ! Ryram, Of Newark. \ 4, died
at A>bngv Park 81 hyd.ophobia, the re-
suIt Of 4 bite from pet dog.