Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-03-29
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For he Week Ending March go.

mated Nathan Pierce for governor.
The Kansas republicans will hold
their state convention IN June 8 at To-
peka.
Four highwaymen held up two police
men, shot citizen and robbed a store
at Chicago.
After spending fifty years in Chinese
prison Mariana Gantaano, aged III.
was released.
Jerry Harlbeck was hanged at
Charleston. S. C., for the murder of
Constable Hazel.
Mrs. Mary Sheets died at Union. o..
from paralytic stroke, aged l01 years
month and day.
Pugilist Corbett In an interview says
he will quit the arena after his fight
with Peter jackson.
In an attempt TO destroy church in
Paris the anarchist who exploded the
1 bomb was blown to atoms.
Troops were sent TO Altman, Col, to
aid the sheriff in maintaining order
among the striking miners
A counterfeiter, to whom officers and
farmers gave chase near Walcott, Ia.
killed himself with revolver
The Union depot at Denver. Col, one
of the finest in the coustry. was
burned, the loss being $500, 600
Nearly seven inches of rain fell at
Memphis in thirty-six hours. Much
damage has been done by floods
Esther Jacobs was awarded 5000
damages in a breach of promise suit in
New York against Henry b. Sire.
Eighty thousand persons took part
in the trade unionist demonstration in
London against the house of lords.
Frederick Rumpe s. Bros big mill
property at Philadelphia was destroyed
by fire. The loss is put at s242. O0O
Told by companion in jesting
way TO kin himself, Fritz Gighnaer, of
st. Joseph, Mo, blew out his brains.
At Brooklyn, N. Y, the tinware
mandatory of Ilsley g. Co. was de-
stroyed by fire. causing loss of $780,
600.
Mrs Annie Bailey, colored woman,
died at Philadelphia at the reputed age
of 121. She was born near Chambers
burg, Pa.
Ministers at Kansas City, Kan, have
started crusade against the numerous
lottery concerns which flourish through
out the state.
In sermon at St Paul Archbishop
Ireland said foreign nationalism should
give place in church and state to
Americanism.
Bill Nye announces that his present
lecturing tour. ending in Galveston,
Tex, in four weeks, is the last one he
will undertake
In the chapel of st. Joseph's academy
at St Louis twenty-five young ladies
took the vows which separate them
from the world
Six members of the family of Her
man Thuron, living near Plano, Ill,
are at deaths door from eating un-
cooked sausage.
The Poorman lead mine in the Coeur
d'Alene district in Idaho has been
bought by English capitalists for half
a million dollars.
Edward H. Bennett and Charles p.
witch, r. l., were drowned in the bay
Wnlle DUCK nunblng.
Frank JUG, lacking railroad fare.
walked 125 miles to answer summons
as witness in liquor case in the fed
eral court in Chicago.
The Illinois steel works at South Chi
cago started up, giving employment TO
5000 men. The works have been idle
since last September
John Brady killed his wife and blew
out his own brains in Roman Catho.
lie church at Oakland, Cal. Domestic
trouble was the cause
The interior of the Pickwick Club
building, the handsomest in the south
was destroyed by fire at New Orleans,
the loss being Sl73, 00o
populist paper at Wichita, Kan,
says if Secretary Carlisle issues more
bonds million armed men should
march on Washington.
Prof Milton Whitney has been made
chief of new division of the weather
bureau in Washington which will
study agricultural soils.
Elijah Harrison, non-union potter
of East Liverpool, O., frightened by
threats of strikers, al pealed to the
British ambassador for protection
Hosting OF green flags on St. Patrick
day at Danville. Ill, and Baker City,
Ore, nearly led TO riots The OBJ
jectionable emblems were removed
A yachting association has been
formed at Cleveland which will in
clude in its membership all the inn
portant clubs on Lake Erie and Detroit
| river
Announcement was made of the en-
gagement of Miss Hattie Blaine. daugh-
ter of the late James q. Blaine, and
Truxton Beale, son OF the late Gen.
Beale.