Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-07-05
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the Week Ending june no.

hor the Week Ending June 10.
The cholera was said to be spread
ing in Russia, China and Turkey.
United States marshals arrested
twenty-five Coxeyites for seizing a
train at Fairfield, Ill
Owen pgletree (colored) who as
saulted Mrs. Wright near Forsyth, Ga,
was hanged by a mob.
Gen. John Ellis, of Columbia. Mo-,
who had seen service in three wars,
died in Denver of old age.
The expedition for the relief of Lieut..
Peary, under command of Henry G.
Bryant, left Philadelphia.
A. C. Traatman. the largest whole
sale grocer in northern Indiana, failed
at Fort Wayne for s100, 00O
James Is. Carpenter was hanged at
Middletown, Pa, for the murder of his
father on December II, 1898.
The populists of South Dakota in
convention at Mitchell nominated Isaac
Howe, of Sphinx, for governor.
The Missouri river was rising rapidly
and at Sioux City and Kansas City hun
dreds of acres We're inundated.
The Baltimore & Ohio railroad broke
the record in running 69l miles in fl
teen hours and sixteen minutes.
William Hart. the noted landscape
painter. died at his home in Mount
Vernon, n. Y. He was ~ years old.
The rebellion of Corea had assumed
serious dimensions. Government forces
were defeated in two engagements.
On the Waltham Mass track ohm
S. johnson rode a mile ON a bicycle in
2:O3 s-5, breaking all previous records.
Gen. L. W. Butterfeld, who fought
CALAMITY throughout the civil war,
died suddenly at Excelsior Springs,
Mo
Fruit prospects are poor, according
to department of agriculture reports,
The peach crop will probably be a
failure.
The American Railway Master Me-
chanics association began its twenty
seventh annual convention in Sara
toga, n. Y.
An express train ran into an electric
car in Paterson, N. j., and three>of the
passengers were fatally and five Sc
riously hurt.
Cornell beat Pennsylvania in the an
nual boat race on the Delaware The
Ithacans led all the way and won by
five lengths.
The three national banks at Dead
wood, S. D., were consolidated and
will be known hereafter as the First
national bank
A fire in Chicago did 500. 600 damage
Hayes & Tracy, Franklin Macveagh &
Co, and the Chicago Stove company
were the losers.
Van Wagner won the Lockport-
olcott 12-mile handicap bicycle road
race at Lockport, n. Y, in 82:ls, MAX
ing a new record.
A Washington paper claims to have
discovered plot to destroy the capitol
by dynamite Matched by Ii. J. Jaxon
ard other Chicagoans.
A big crowd and brass band well
coined Coxey, of commonweal fame
on his return to Massillon. He pro
poses to make a lecture tour.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
to assassinate Premier Crispi as he was
riding in a carriage on his way to the
chamber of deputies in Rome.
Napor and gas stove men have de.
cided to pool their interests and will
form corporation under the laws Of
Illinois, with capital Of ss,5oo,0OO
Fifty Coxeyites, all that remain Of
the army Of 1900 which left Denver
two weeks ago for Washington, start
ed down the Platte river from Jules
burg, Col, IN boats. @
In tie absence Of proof Of the nat.
uralization Of Stanislaus Krzwiniski,
of Buffalo, sent to Siberia while visit
ing in Russia, the government is pow
erless TO interfere.
In railway wreck near Batesville,
Ind. Tommy Haley, of Wheeling, Va,
and Michael Cunningham, of Ply
mouth, Pa, who were beating their
way east, were killed.
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