Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-03-08
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.


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The Illinois democratic state conven-
ton win be held at Springfield june 81.
The State bank at Brookville, KM-,
closed its doors with liabilities of sks,-
QUO.
The republicans at Richmond, Ind,
renominated Henry " Johnson for con-
gress
Frank Fuller (colored) fatally shot
his wife, another woman and himself
at Carrollton. La.
Nine clipping Kentucky couples
crossed the river to Jeffersonville, Ind,
and were married
Gould A. Still, night operator. was
assassinated while at work at his key
at Hay Springs, Neb.
Miss Ida Van Etten, an American
authoress living in Paris, is said TO have
died from starvation.
Queen Victoria prorogued parliament
after giving her royal sanction to the
local government bill.
The Worlds w. c. I. U. is preparing
temperance petition to be presen ted
to all the rulers on earth
Henry's opera house and other build
iDgs were burned at North Baltimore,
O., the loss being 100000.
Daniel Mccormack and Mrs. Annie
Kelly were suffocated by gas in hotel
at South birmingham, Mass.
Sylvester Rhodes (colored) was
lynched at Collins, Ca, for the muir
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Joseph c. Spasn, indicted for embez-
cling funds of Keokuk, Ia, while city
collector, has settled for $4,000.
Grape growers of Ohio have formed
a combine" alleging as the business
is now conducted there is no profit
Thus far in 1894 eighty lives and
eighteen vessels have been lost from
the fishing feet of Gloucester, Mass.
Carl Jonas, lieutenant governor of
Wisconsin, was appointed consul gen.
eral at St Petersburg by the president
Ed Williamson, of Chicago, one of
the most popular of ball players in his
time, died at Mountain Valley springs,
A4Z.
City elections were held throughout
Maine. The republicans were uni
formly successful by increased majorl-
ties.
Governors of majority of states de-
clare they will do everything in their
power to prevent the Corbett-Jacksen
fight
For accepting bride ]. 7. Benuier
was expelled from Louisville's city
council Four other aldermen are TO be
tried.
At the inquiry into the death of her
husband near Manitowoc, Wis, Mrs.
Schroeder confessed having given him
poison.
Farmers in Kansas are turning their
old enemy, the wind. 10 account by
utilizing it through windmills for irri-
eating.
William E. Burr, cashier of the St
Louis national bank at St Louis, was
arrested on a charge of embezzling
e57, 600.
The Commercial bank of Milwaukee
has resumed business after having been
in the hands of an assignee for seven
months.
Municipal elections were held
throughout Maina, the republicans be-
ing uniformly successful by increased
majorities.
DIR. E. John Kaufman, first husband
of Actress Minnie Seligman, has re-
nounced the Hebrew faith and Joined
the Baptists.
Gen Miles said at Boston that there
was not harbor in this country in
proper condition to resist a hostile
modern feet.
Col. Alfred w. Taylor, newspaper
man and Pennsylvania worlds fair
commissioner, died at Philadelphia,
aged so years.
Two houses were demolished in a
storm at Butler, Mo-, and Jasper Smith
and his wife and two daughters were
badly injured.
Four thousand miners near Bridge.
port, O., resumed work, leaving the
settlement of wages of outside laborers
to arbitration.
After making what he supposed was
a successful attempt 10 kill his wife,
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hanged himself
Danny Russell and George Siddons
fought twenty seven rounds at Newark,
n. j.. the latter being awarded the
victory on foul
John Sachs, a tombstone decorator,
dropped dead while placing an inscrip-
ton on tombstone at Waldheim GEM
etery in Chicago.
The striking West Virginia miners
planned to blow up the Acme mine with
dynamite and Kill Operator Wyant. but
were unsuccessful
A crank, who said he had been di-
rected by God to turn The white house
over to the Jews, has been put under
arrest at Washington
Members of the Protestant societies
would AJAX the courts for an order en-
joining Catholic nuns from teaching in
the public schools of Pittsburgh, Pa
White caps took Wesley Thomas and
his wife, aged negroes, from their beds
at Brantley, Ala, and whipped then
so severely that their lives were de-