Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-04-26
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
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Nearly 1900 miners were on strike
In Alabama
Nicaragua has revoked the exequstur
of the American minister.
Col. Oliver Lathrop Sheperd, Q. S. A,
died in New York of heart failure.
The republican state convention of
Georgia has been called for August 90.
Many houses were washed away and
much stock drowned by cloudburst at
Troy. Tex.
The democratic state convention of
Pennsylvania will be held at Harris
burg June %.
Joseph Ray. the oldest odd fellow in
Indiana. died at his home in Westyille.
aged 90 years
Dogs raided a flock of seventy-fve
sheep near Alliance, o., and killed six
ty-five of them.
Seven hundred young chickens were
burned to death on Joseph Farleys
place at Oxford, o.
Alex Johnson, a Richmond Eva.
negro, was whipped by white caps until
he was almost dead
George Ashworth, who mortally
wounded woman near Indianola, Ia :,
killed himself to avoid arrest.
Senator Morrill,, of Vermont, cele-
brated his saith birthday with recep-
tion at his home in Washington.
At Chadron. Neb., a bandit stole
81, 500 from bank and locked the pres
ident of the institution m the vault
New York society leaders are active
ly at work to secure an equal suffrage
amendment of the state constitution.
More than $780, 600 collected by Sioux
City, la, from saloonkeepers may have
to be turned over to the county school
fund.
Operators threatened to put negroes
at work IN the Blue Creek (Ala) coal
mines, and race war was likely to
follow
The total number of hogs packed in
the west the past winter was ASA, 600,
an increase of $50 600 compared with
last year.
Corydon L. Ford. professor of anat-
omy and physiology in Michigan uni
versity, died as the result of a stroke of
apoplexy.
DIR. James A. Hutchinson, Thomas G.
Knight and Frank White were drowned
while duck shooting near Rockville
Center, l.. !.
If the United States withdraw from
the Samoan agreement Germany, it is
said, will declare a protectorate over
the islands.
Willie Wilde, at one time the husband
of Mrs. Frank Leslie, was married in
London to Miss Sophia Lees, an Irish
girl of wealth.
The schooner Jennie Carter went
ashore at Salisbury Beach, Mass, and
the captain and his niece and six sail
ors were drowned.
In an address TO the Chicago acad-
envy of homeopathic physicians DR.. R.
n. Foster said la grippe could be traced
back nearly 100 years
The incendiary who has l~en causing
so many fires in Springfield, o., turns
out to be an unknown man who pa
rades in woman's attire.
An increase of one penny on the pound
in the income tax is provided by the
budget which was introduced in the
British house of commons.
The republicans of the Sixth congress
sional district of Indiana renominated
Henry U. Johnson, of Richmond, to
succeed himself in congress.
Charlie RadbourA, the widely known
baseball pitcher, formerly of the Bos-
ton club. had the misfortune to lose
an eye while hunting near Blooming
ton, Ill
Charles ID. Stevens, an invalid, 20
years old, son of a wealthy New York
produce broker, was found dead in his
berth on Rock Island train near
Wichita
Rolla Boyd, who was supposed to
have been killed by horse on his farm
near Decatur, ILL.,, is now said to have
been murdered by John Creekmur, who
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