Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-06-21
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the week EndinE june ~.

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Richard Croker, the ex-central power
Of Tammany ball, has sailed for Eu-
rope.
Flames in the lumber yard district Of
Dubuque, la, destroyed property
worth 100000.
4 sunday closing ordinance was
passed by the Chicago city council by
vote Of = to b.
Cyrus W Field. recently consul at
Brunswick, Germany, died in New
York Of consumption
Five men were seriously hurt and
property worth $4,000 destroyed 81 q
fire in Kansas City, 40.
Congressman Breckenridge is nolong-
er on the honorary roll Of the Union
League club of Chicago.
Forest fires in Michigan swept dis
trict ] mile wide and miles long and
wiped out the town of Sagoda.
Forty-seven graduates of the naval
academy at Annapolis were given
diplomas by Secretary Herbert.
The German national bank at Den
yer, Col, closed its doors with deposits
Of 1888, 600; resources. SLIT, 000
The supreme lodge of the Ancient
Order of United Workmen began its
annual session in San Francisco.
Three members of a suicide club"
died within a short time of each other
at Bellevue hospital in New York.
ID. L. Hardness, dairy and food com
missioner of Wisconsin. died at his
home in Berlin of blood poisoning.
Robert Bonner, of New York, was
reelected president of the Scotch-irish
society in session at Des Moines, la.
Otis Haskins, living near Rittsfeld,
H., was fleeced out of $1,000 by two
strangers who wanted to buy his farm.
Dispatches from Ardmore, l. T..
state that Bill Dalton, the outlaw was
killed by deputy marshals near Elk,
/. r.
Four members of boating pSrty
were drowned by the capsizing of
their boat on a lake near Brewster,
ny
Charges have been made By a Wash
ington paper that congressman are in
terested in surface-car lines ut the cap
ital.
Mrs. Lois Triton. who was the last
slave sold at auction in New Iaven.
Conn, lin 1929, is dead ut the age
OF 95
The American Investment company
at Emmettsbufg, Ia, with capital Of
100000, went into the hands Of a re-
ceiver
In Chattanooga, Tenn. the grain
warehouse of J. T. Thomas, Son & Co,
covering nearly an acre of ground. was
burned.
Near Talequah, |. T., an Indian des-
perado killed a man, woman and boy
and was later shot by the son of his
victims.
In race lasting six hours on the
Thames the American yacht Satinata
defeated Wales Brittania by seven
minutes.
To check the tendency to lower
prices Wisconsin paper manufacturers
have decided to close their mills two
days week.
The three national banks at Dead
wood, S. d., We're consolidated and
viii be known hereafter as the First
national bank.
samuel Slausen, president Of the Ex-
change bank at Ottawa O, which
failed recently, has been indicted for
enlightenment.
a st. Bernard dog suffering from n.y.
drophobia til five men and two women
in Dallas, Tex. three OF them being
fatally injured.
-Four jockeys were hurt and two
horses killed in the handicap steeple
chase, the first of the season at Haw-
thorne, near Chicago.
Sixteen horses were burned To death
in fire IN the rear of Hostetter & Co S
coal yard in Chicago. Property worth
80, 900 was destroyed.
Alfred Johnson, Swede laborer at
Delano, Mimi, cut his wife's throat
and then killed himself. Loss of money
had made him crazy.
Car thieves at Vincennes, Ind, bound
and gagged Claude McAlpin, who knew
of their work, and shipped him to
Mexico in a closed car,
King William, the largest horse in
the world, being 2711 hands high and
weighing 3,027 pounds, died at Chester
ton, Ind. He was valued at SO 900.
Officers were elected by the supreme
council of the Royal Arcanum in ses-
sion at Detroit, c. w. Hazard, of Mo-
nongahela, Pa, being chosen regent.
The national section of the Cadets of
Temperance held their annual conven-
tion at Hoboken, N. j., delegates from
all parts Of the United States being
present.
Killed by a Landslide.
LEADyILLE. Col, June II Us an
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