Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-09-20
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the Week Ending Sept. II.


The entire business portion of Malta.
Ill, was wiped out by fire.
The Oklahoma county bank at South
Enid, o. T.. closed ITS doors.
Richard Smith, the well-known type
founder Of Philadelphia, died at Paris
Saturday, aged rs.
The American Society of Irrigation
Engineers at Denver elected James P.
Maxwell president
The forty-fourth anniversary of the
admission of California to statehood
was celebrated at San Jose.
William II. Hatch was renominated
for congress by the democrats of the
First district of Missouri.
One-half of the town of Oakview,
Tex, the county seat of Live Oak
county, was wiped out by fire.
By rear-end collision in the Hoosac
tunnel near North Adams, Mass, two
men were killed and two injured
w. +. Collner & Co., general store
keepers at st. Petersburg, Pa, were
robbed of $4,000 in bonds, notes and
cash.
Prof. Hermann Won Helmoltz, the
distinguished German Psychologist
and scientist, died at Berlin, aged "a
years.
Twenty-four receivers of Northern
Pacific branch lines have been abol-
ished by agreement, in the interest of
economy
W. A. Brady, representing Corbett,
signed articles in New York for fight
with jackson before the Sioux City
(1a.) club.
While he was sleeping in a Chi
cago hotel chair thieves despoiled
Pugilist Peter Jackson of his watch
and chain.
Twenty-one laborers were killed in
Samara, Russia, by eight farmers, in
order to secure the wages that had been
paid them.
The Middleton pa bank, the Oldest
institution of It's kind in Dauphin
county, failed on account of depression
in business.
In race against time at Indian
apolis Directly placed the 2-year-old
pacing record at 2:107l, cut of a quar-
ter second.
swallowed a green fly while laughing.
and died within forty-eight hours in
terrible agony.
During thunderstorm in Wichita,
Kan, Thomas Herman's house was
torn to pieces and his two children
killed by lightning.
It was reported that the Chinese
forces were cornered in northern Corea
without supplies and were killing
their ponies for food.
On the petition of stockholders, a re-
ceiver WAS appointed for the Citizens
( bank of Plattsmouth, Neb. Assets are
said to exceed liabilities
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men met in biennial convention at
Harrisburg, Pa. Attorney General
Hensel welcomed the delegates.
While fixing the electric lights in the
tower of Detroits city hall FL French
was made raving maniac by shock
and was rescued with difficulty.
The Ohio state board of agriculture
announces that the gross rece pts from
the state fair were S25, 472, an increase
over last year of over 20 per cent
Astronomer Louis Garthmann, of
Chicago claims to have discovered
vegetation on the moon with the tele-
scope which he recently completed.
Thirty-one persons were precipitated
into an area by the giving waylof a
sidewalk at Nashville, Mich. Several,
it Is feared, will die from their iniu-
ries.
Before the kaleidoscope in the Edison
laboratory at Orange. N. j., Corbett
knocked out Peter Courtney in six
rounds. He received $1,000 for his eff
forts.
Mary Fisher, ID years old, of New
York, who had been deaf and dumb
for eight years, recovered speech and
hearing after having been stunned by
lightning
In his report on the Northern Pacific
investigation Master in Chancery Cary
exonerates Receiver Cakes from all
charges, but finds Willard guilty of
making unlawful gains as director.