Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-11-08
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the Week Ending Oct. SO.


Two-and-a-half feet of snow is re-
ported at the Gold Park mining camp
in Colorado.
Snow fell in many northwestern
states, reaching depth of s inches at
Sioux CITY, la.
William Hill. an American. has been
fined 500 for sketching the defenses
of Hong Kong.
Five hundred negroes will sail from
the south for Liberia to find homes in
the African republic.
Six worlds bicycle records were
lowered at Waltham, Mass Tyler
made flying mile in l:4s 3-5.
Mrs. Margaret E. Easter author of
many popular poems. died at her home
IN Baltimore, aged SIS years.
A new counterfeit fve-dollar treas
ury note with the Thomas head was in
circulation in Rochester, n. Y.
A force of 1900 Chinese was routed
by the Japanese at Kiurenn. and 200
were killed and many captured.
President Cleveland has for the third
time within year appointed John
Beard postmaster at Danville. Ill
Seven members of the notorious
Cook band of outlaws were captured
and were taken to Fort Smith, Ark.
Rev. DIR. Andrew P. Happier, who
{ vent forty-four years as a missionary
in Canton, China, died at Wooster, o.
Clarence II. Blackall, a Boston
architect. filed insolvency papers. His
liabilities were estimated at $780, 1000.
Metbodists of New York celebrated
on Sunday the founding of the first
Methodist Episcopal church in Amer
lea.
Stirred to action by a recent muir
der, people of Milwaukee will close the
saloons in the vicinity of the soldiers
home.
DR.. Eugene Crowell, the author of
two works on spiritualism, of which
he was a strong advocate, died at New
York.
The wholesale grocery of f. G.
Shoudy & Co. at Rockford, Ill. was
totally destroyed by fire at loss of
$4,000.
Germany has prohibited the impor-
tation of American cattle or fresh beef,
fear of Texas fever being the reason
alleged.
Henry w. Meyer, of Dayton. o..
killed John j. Grimme, neighbor and
former friend, in quarrel over
woman.
Stern s. Co, New York shirt manu-
facturers, failed for $3.50, 900 and Louis
s. Stern, one of the partners, drowned
himself
]. D. Roe fatally shot Ed McAlester,
his rival for the affections of a young
lady at Dayton, Mo-. aud then killed
himself
Miss Agnes Jones, who took a claim
in Oklahoma, fatally shot Sam Bartell.
who had jumped the claim during her
absence.
Illinois supreme court has declared
unconstitutional the law exempting
building and loan associations from
taxation.
James J. Wood, poor carpenter of
Springfield. o., returned from Ireland
with $500, 000 his share of the estate of
ancestors.
By vote of "a to 63 the lower house
of the Georgia assembly refused to
consider a resolution declaring for
free silver.
Stanley Knowles, one of the A. r. IT,
strikers, has written confession of the
train wrecking conspiracy at Battle
Creek, Mich.
Henry f. Schatzel, Brooklyn baker,
lays claim to property in Texas once
owned by his uncle, and now worth
$25, 900, 900.
Philip Raymond, of West Newton,
Mass, attempted to shoot muskrat
when the gun exploded, instantly kill
ing his wife.
The men who robbed the Pacific ex-
press Office at The Dalles, Ore, of S14,-
600 were captured and nearly all the
booty recovered.
Col Garrick Mallory, U. S. A., re-
tired, died in Washington. He was
in charge of the signal service bureau
from 1870 to 1879.
thirty-year lease of the Chaplin
iron mine, with all buildings and ma
chinery, was sold at Iron Mountain,
Mich, for sss,97S.
The wholesale millinery establish
ment of j. J. Porter & Co. at Pitts
burgh, Pa, was destroyed by fire, the
loss being S55O,0OC
The Garden theater at st. Louis was
DESTROY ed by fire and Albert Shaw was
burned to death and several others
had narrow escapes.
Negotiations for the transfer of
majority interest in the Chicago Trib-
une to H. III. Kohlsaat are off, Mr. Me-
dill declining to sell
Young Hammett. IA years of age,
committed suicide at Columbia, S. C.
Punishment by his father for excessive
cigarette smoking was the cause.
Henry w. Purchase, of Philadelphia,
was awarded damages of S35, 900
against the Pennsylvania railroad for
injuries received in train wreck.
A deer hunter found at Ashland
Junction, Wis. the remains of a man