Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-11-02
MIN OR NEWS ITEMS,
For the Week Ending OCT. "a.

BY vote the Western Traffic associa-
4 ton decided to cancel worlds fair rates
st midnight October 81.
Five of the directors Of the Madison
square bank in New York y ere arrest
ed on criminal charges
Stratton & White, electrical and gem
eral implement dealers at Fort Worth,
Tex, failed for $500, 600.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
has secured control Of the Cleveland &
Marietta railroad of Ohio.
In a row at Atkinsville, Ill, William
Griffith shot Dennis and Martin Flynn
and son of Robert Wyatt.
Three children Of Mrs. Adelaide Crit
tendon fell into a creek near Clayhalt-
chez, Ala, and were drowned.
The jngham county savings bank of
Lansing, Mich, which closed its doors
last May, has resumed business.
At Nashville, Tenn. Directum trotted
heat in the freefJr-all in 2:05A, sur
passing all previous race records.
A movement is in progress looking TO
the uniting of all labor orders and
unions under a central authority.
1t was said that 1000 families of
Louisiana were arranging to establish
a great colony in the state of Colorado
John Gamble (coloren was lynched
by mob near Pikeville, Tenn, for the
murder of Miss Rosa Boring, a white
girl
Six counties in southwestern Kansas
have been almost depopulated by crop
fni - Il.
strip.
Lucky" Baldwin, the California
millionaire, after twenty years on the
turf has decided to sell his string and
retire.
Admiral Mello has proclaimed Fred
erico G. de Lorena, a captain of a rebel
war vessel, provisional president of
bI.fi-
ParneIlites are said TO be preparing
to make trouble unless the English gov
ernment win recompense the evicted
tenantry
Six girls Of Osceola, Neb., were
''whitecappeG" by members Of the w.
c. T. T., and as result eleven women
were in Jail
G. NJ Brinkerhoff, of Springfield,
H., who disappeared in July last was
found in Toledo, O., by his son. His
reason is gone.
Arthur Bennett was lynched in
Georgia for poisoning the family of a
farmer He claimed he was hired by
another negro.
Engineer Mills and Fireman Buchan-
an were blown to pieces by the explod-
ing of locomotive boiler at North Bir-
mingham, Ala.
The male students at the Wesleyan
university in Middletown, Conn, have
formed a secret society to boycott young
women students
For lynching the negro Smith at
Roanoke, Va, indictments have been
found against six persons, including
three police officers.
The firm of Frankenthal, Freuden-
thai Is Co., wholesalers of clothing and
furnishing goods in Chicago, failed for
$3.50, 600; assets, S250,O00.
Twice within eleven months has Mrs.
J. II. Brewer, of Chicago, presented
her husband with twins The first
were girls, the last boys.
James C. Ham, a well-known hotel
man of Bloomington, Ill, fell from the
fifth story of hotel at Omaha, Neb.,
and was instantly killed.
Settlers from the Cherokee strip are
crowding into the towns hungry, cold
and penniless, and the outlook for the
winter was said to be discouraging.
John r Brooks, chief of the New
York and New Jersey division of the
United states secret service, died at his
home in Newark, n. j., aged GA years
All the Canadian sealers have arrived
for the season at Victoria, b. C. The
number of sealskins taken this year
was 69,4 or 10000 more than last
year.
Trains oollided on the Fort Wayne
road at Monroeville, Ind, during a
heavy fog and four trainmen were seri-
ously and three passengers slightly in
jured.
White, the last of the Northern Pa
cifc train robbers, for whom there was
a reward of $500, was shot and killed at
Lake Pine, Mont, in an effort to cap
ture him.
Thieves went through a sleeping car
on Texas road near Longview and
one man lost sl6, 900 in negotiable
bonds and notes. other passengers
lost money, jewelry and wearing APP
parel
Mrs Jennie Dubois recovered YER
dict Of s.. 900 at Bloomington against
the Alton road for the death of her
husband. an engineer, who was killed
by the explosion of the boiler of his
engine
Oflcers OF the W. c. r. q.
CHICAGO Oct 2l-The National
Womans Christian Temperance union
alectod the following officers: Presi.