Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-04-27
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the Week Ending April a5.

The revolution in Honduras was said
to be- at an end and the government was
again in control
The Fuene coal mines near Piedras
Negras, Mexico, have been sold to c. z.
Huntington for $500, 900
The two leading business blocks at
Colfax, Wash, were destroyed by fire,
causing total loss of $3.50, OOO
After four years of open gambling
the gamblers of Springfield, o., have
closed up by order of the mayor.
The hide firm of Benjamin Mclean &
Co., one of the oldest institutions in
Kansas City, Mo, failed for $1,000
A Quebec paper has been investigat-
ing the exodus from that province and
declares that it reaches 20, 900 month
The schooner Newell Eddy, with
crew of eight men, foundered on Lake
Huron, and all were supposed to be lost.
Celestin Schwind, a brewer with an
establishment valued at $500, 900 at
Dayton, o., died Monday, aged IS
years.
The Tennessee legislature has passed
an act authorizing state banks to is
sue currency redeemable in gold and
silver.
Richard Verbyke and Isaac Monroe,
stillmen at the Solar refinery in Lima
o., were fatally burned by still blow
ing off.
A Wells-Fargo express car was
burned near Albuquerque, n. NJ, and
SIS, 900 in gold in one of the safes was
melted.
The Surrey Lumber company's mills
at Dendron, Va, with 5000, 900 feet Of
lumber, were burned, the loss being
5000, 900.
The discovery was made that the FIVE
dollar currency notes of the Lagonda
bank at Springfield, o., have been coun-
terfeited.
Fred Badgerm. George Lyons and
William King were killed by the ex-
plosion of a glycerine house at EN-
porium, Pa.
In Mexico the rebels captured the
cities Of Guerrero and Santa Tomas
and in the first named city 600 federals
were killed
Father Yandever. a priest in the
I
have squardered s62 900 belonging to
/ the church
Storm damaged to She extent of $780,
900 the United States ship canal CON
Meeting the Harlem and Hudson rivers
in New York.
Sixty of the provisional guard at
Honolulu We're poisoned by some drug
put in their milk by their enemies. the
medicine men.
Jack BRADY (coloredD has been
/ hanged at Benderville n c.. for the
murder Of L. ID. Taylor, white man
| He confessed the deed.
Jacob Newman, Chicago lawyer,
was swindled out of SOS, 900 by an adroit
sharper known to his victim as Lyman
| l.. Lamb of Akron. o.
Three Frenchmen named Triquois,
| Alphonz Ranger and Cyrille Fourier
while scutfiing on raft at East Gray,
Me, Saturday, were drowned.
The American ship Jabez Howes,
| Capt. Henry, arrived in San Francisco
from New York, having made the vcy-
age of $4,000 miles in loo days
Eleven white caps, some of them the
nsoSt prominent men in Carrollton. Ca,
were sentenced in the superior court to
twelve months in the chain gang
col. Edwin II Webster died at his
/ home in Belair. Md. He was elected a
member of congress in 1859 and was re-
elected three times in succession.
COT William McMichael. aged 81.
well-5nown lawyer and assistant at
torney general under Gen. Grant, was
founc dead in his bed in Ne>~ York.
During a recent storm in the oyster
growing districts along the Connecticut
coast the oyster crop was almost ruined,
the loss being estimated at over $780,
| coo
Alexander Nickerson. real estate
dealer of Sioux City. Ia, who had been
drawing money on checks when he had
no money in bank, killed himself Mon
day.
Miss Rose Mcdonald, who never rode
on steam railroad tram because, as
she tated, they were an invention of
the devil, died at Uniontowa Pa, aged
% years.
An Ohio River railroad train was de-
rallied on the twelvepole trestle near
Ceredo Ky, and one man was killed
and thirteen other persons were seri-
ously injured.
William p. Casper. a colored hod car
rier At kensington, Pa, is heir to s1o,-
600 left him by a slavery day mistress.
Miss Mary Struthers, living near New
Philadelphia, 0.
John Sweeney and Patrick Walsh.
first cousins, who We're born in Ireland
seventy years ago on the same day.
died of old age on the same day in
clifton city Mo
Extensive and rich deposits Of tin
were found near Guyanjuato Mexico.
the mines giving evidence of having
been worked by the Aztecs or some
other race centuries ago
Miss MAY Miller, who IS alleged Is
have absconded from Omaha. Neb.
ssi.n several hundred dollars belong
ing Is her employers. was arrest ted
Monday u Kansas City. Mo