Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-11-22
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the Week Ending Nov. Is.

For the Week Ending Nov. Is
The Export Coal company at Pensa-
cola, Fla. failed for $50. 900.
Busch & Co., cotton and coffee mer-
chants at Havre, France, failed for ST..
600, 900.
The San Bernardino Cali First ma
tional bank closed its doors from lack
of funds
John Donovan, of Bay City. will be
the only democrat in the next Miehi-
gan legislature.
The First national bank of johnson
City, Tenn, with capital of 500, 900,
closed its doors
The dry goods firm of Garrettson.
Woodruff & Pratt at Tacoma. Wash.
failed for 100000
over 100 business men of Perry. o.,
T., were arrested for refusal to pay
the occupation tax.
Three men attempted to thaw some
dynamite at Huntington, Ind, and
were blown to death.
A storm in Connecticut caused loss
of over 100000 to the telegraph and
telephone companies.
The Rex -four mills at Kansas City,
Mo-, were totally destroyed by fire,
the loss being $780,
Ernest HUM, mine superintendent
at Nevada City, Cal, fell 600 feet into
a shaft and was killed.
A heavy fall Of snow was reported
throughout Illinois. Iowa, Indiana.
Michigan and Wisconsin.
n. J. Villars, in jail at Fargo, N. D..
confessed to the murder ola farmer and
his wife near Jamestown.
George w. Scoggan, the well-known
race-horse owner and breeder, died at
his home near Louisville, Ky.
Seventy persons were killed and
much property destroyed by an earth
quake at Tamagata, japan.
Members of Sharon pa maenner-
Choir ate cat which was palmed off on
them as 'possum by an Ohio man.
Th' Arlington inn, famous south
ern hotel located at Fort Worth, Tex,
was burned, the loss being S15O,O00
The large warehouse in London
owned by the Terrebona Tea company
The Shulenburg 81 Boeckeler Lum-
Der company OF st. Louis made an as
signment with liabilities of s215, 600
Move u,ber returns of the rates of
yield of corn per acre make the aver
age 1877, the lowest in thirteen years.
Craaed by a protracted debauch, Pc
ter Pepper, a Louisville barber, tore
out his tongue and died in terrible
agony.
Residents of indianapolis were
alarmed at the frequency with which |
graves were being desecrated and !
robbed.
Almost the entire business center
of the village of Frederick. s. D., was
destroyed by fire. The loss is put at
$1,000
Detectives found the body of Mrs. |
Mary Cottrell, of Hamilton county. on
a disseeting table in an indianapolis |
medical college
Investigation shows that on rail- |
roads owned by governments the
charges are very much higher than in
the Cnited States
Gov. Flower, of New York has |
granted permission 10 experts to at
tempt to resuscitate a man executed |
in the electrical chair
The tug Crusader was burned at
Sanlt Ste. Marie, Mich, and Henry |
Billings and Charles Nhiffen, firemen,
were burned To death
Joseph LaCroix and Philip Wells,
his uncle, were murdered by indians
while crossing Pine Ridge Indian res
ervation in South Dakota
William Sturges, the plaintiff in the
famous Sturges-Farwell litigation in /
Chicago, and who broke down under its /
weight, died at 0wego. N. Y.
Three masked men attempted to rob |
the bank at Sylvan Grove. Kan One |
was wounded by the cashier and was
killed by his companions to prevent
exposure.
First grand lodge of the American
National Union of Stenographers and |
was organized in st. |
Joseph. Mo, with a membership OF
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