Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-08-30
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For dc Week ending Aug. a1.


Joseph Balls lcolored) died at EN-
/ poria. Kan, aged ia years.
Forty Moorish rebels were killed by
the sultan's troops at Azimoor.
w. G. Taylor was hanged at New
burn, Va, for the murder of his wife.
The rebellion IN Venezuela has come
to an end. Amnesty viii be granted
/ to all insurgents.
Walter Fisher, divekeeper at Day
4 ton, O., was shot and killed by his
brother Robert, aged Is.
The malthonse of Busch & Epps was
/ totally destroyed by fire IN Chicago.
4 mourning loss of 100000.
! Mrs. Simmons, once noted belle of
Lexington, KY, was arrested at Wich-
tia, Kan, charged with murder.
The skeleton of a giant found in a
swamp ia Indiana turns out to have
been manufactured by spectators.
Affected by her sons conversion,
Mrs. Jane Newberry dropped dead at
church revival at Surveyville, Tex
Mexican soldiers surprised the noto-
rious bandit, Luna, and his wife in the
mountains and killed both of them.
Mrs. Eunice Conrad, the oldest wom-
an west of the Alleghenies, died at
Parkersburg, w. Va, aged III years.
At Sherburne. Mimi, Lee Walker
seized the trailing rope of an ascend
ing balloon and was killed by the fall.
Rather than be censured for reckless
driving, John c. Peck, member of the
Philadelphia fire department, killed
himself.
The wholesale grocery store of r. G.
Williams 81 Co. at New York was de-
stroyed by fire, entailing loss o fully
$500, 600
Senator Mcpherson, who contem-
plated resigning because of ill-health.
was prevailed on by friends to change
his mind.
Heirs of Richard bishop in Pitts
burgh viii lay clam to ten acres in
the heart of indianapolis, Ind, worth
81, 900, 900.
United States Judge Caldwell has
ordered the Santa Fe receivers to pay
employees promptly, borrowing money
if necessary.
Many cases of cholerine have APP
peared in Paris, while cholera con-
tinues to spread throughout Germany
and Holland.
Gabriel Brock was shot and killed
from ambush and Mrs. Mary Edwards
wounded while driving near Hot |
Springs, Ark
The first bale Of cotton of this years |
crop, from Eagle Point, Miss, was
sold at auction in Memphis for ten
cents pound.
AS result of religious revival at |
Hammondsville. o., seven women left |
their husbands because they would not |
join the church.
Populists of Lake county, Ind, NOM
mated full ticket, then reconsidered |
their action, got into general fight |
and adjourned.
The cases against the ASSISTANTS Of |
Adjt. Gen. Tarsney, of Colorado, were |!
dismissed, the grand jury having failed
to find indictments.
Naval regulations have been changed |
reversing the policy of permitting
right of asylum for political refugees
on American vessels.
New Jerseys legislature is to be pc
titioned to permit the consolidation of |
Jersey City, Newark, Hoboken. Orange,
Paterson and Passaic.
Gen. Felix Angus, of Baltimore, pro-
poses to secure a Maryland lake and
fill it with salt water for scientific |
cultivation of the oyster.
A double wedding was celebra at |
Pana, Ill, in which Edward Munday |
and Thomas Ellison were married to |
each others divorced wife.
Prohting by the bitter experience of
the present year, many Nebraska farm
ers were preparing to vote bonds for
the introduction of irrigation.
A cotton expert estimates, after
trip over the entire state, that the |
crop in Texas will be about $500, 1000 |
bales, or one-half million bales over
last year.
Mrs. Mack Abrahams, of Frankfort, |
KY, quarreled with her hus band be- |
cause she went to hear Breckenridge |
speak and took morphine and arsenic |
with fatal effect
Herbert r. Hess, brilliant young
lawyer of Chicago, was found dead
with bottle of morphine by his side.
He had been respondent over the death |
of his wife and child.
Rio Janeiro advices state that by
the explosion of gunpowder wagon
in Largo do Sandal thirty-two per
sons were killed, many more were
wounded and several houses were de-
molished.