Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-06-13
MISCELLANEOUS.

and that he wants TO keep a hotel.
A Philadelphia syndicate is TO furnish
100000 for the construction of a rail-
road between Grand Junction and
Green River. Col.
The remains OF John w. Parks of At
lanta, which We're refused interment in
Calvary cemetery at Nashville. Tenn,
because of his Maso-..c connection,
were buried in Mount Olivet Members
of several orders followed the cortege.
Justice Stephen Field Of the United
States Supreme court was given cor
dial welcome at san Francisco by
friends.
The condition of Miss Mary A. Dodge
Gail Hamilton is again precarious.
The Missouri Chautauqua opened its
assembly Saturday at Sedalia, and will
continue until June 10.
Lovejoy Memorial day was observed
at Alton, ILL.,. by the societies of col
ored people Of Alton, St. Louis and Ed
wardsville.
The remains of Gen. ]. S. Marmaduke.
who was a governor of Missouri, will
be taken to the family burial ground at
Marshall, where a monument will be
erected.
Mrs. Marion Reid, mother of White
raw AAtANAF Oit0 d. IeI NOME near A6udI-
vile. Ohio, aged 81 years.
Supt. R. w McClaughry of the Pom
tiac Reformatory has been selected as
the Warden for the United States Peni-
tertiary at Fort Leavenworth when
that institution comes under the juris-
diction of the Department of Justice
July l.
The General Lutheran Synod at Hag-
erstown. Nd, adopted a week of self
denial for the sake of their missions.
J. p. Jordan has been appointed re-
ceiver of the Beacon Lithographic
company of Boston. Liabilities, $780,
900; assets. $4,000
The hearing Of the South Carolina
United States Circuit Court of APP
peals before chief Justice Fuller and
Judges Seymour and Hughes at Rich
mond, Va
The u tied Electric Securities COM
pany of Portland, Me, has applied for
a recei yer for the Louisiana Electric
Light company, which furnishes New
Orleans with light. Charges of mis-
management are made.
William r. Peck, who killed George
X. Kroenig in Denver, March II, has
been acquitted. the jury holding that
the act was justified, owing to the re-
lations between the dead man and
Peck's wife.
The president has appointed Attorney
General Olney Of Massachusetts to the
secretaryship of state, and Judge judi
son Harmon of Ohio to be attorney
general
The Illinois legislature by vote OF
S4 to "a, passed a bill to tax inheri-
tances.
Dun's Weekly Review of Trade shows
business in this country to be in a
healthy condition, and prosperity be-
coming general.
Sheep breeders in Colorado have
given up their grazing lands at the de-
mands of the cattlemen. 1t is thought
there will be no further trouble.
The relay bicycle race between Chi
cago and New York was accomplished
in 65 hours and SO minutes, breaking all
American records for a relay race.
The Standard Oil Company and the
Scotch Oil Company have concluded an
agreement which is to last three years,
for an advance in the price of candles.
The backbone of the strike which has
been in progress several weeks at the
Farwell woolen mills at Central Falls.
r. l., is broken.
The 200 boilermakers of Pittsburg
made demand for an increase ranging
from 10 to Is per cent. The manufac-
turers were given until June Is TO grant
the demand.
Indications are that before the close
of the week a genera strike will be in
augurated by all the furnace employees
through the Mahoning valley for an ad-
vance in the present scale of wages.
The schcolship Saratoga started from
Philadelphia on its annual cruise in
European waters
The Bolt and Nut Manufacturers as
ISOLATION. in session at Cleveland, Ohio,
advanced prices 10 per cent.
Samuel Gornpers. the labor leader,
who has been sick at Little Rock, Ark.
with gastritis. is slightly improved
The vote on the scale in the Massil-
Ion district so far received seemed to
show large majority in favor of re-
jecting the offer.
The hearing in the five suits in equity
against the estate of Benjamin F. But
Ter, aggregating $21S,0O0, has begun at
Boston, Mass.
Representative Hit continues to i'm
prove, and his physician is considering
the possibility of his removal from
Washington about the middle of this
month.
Bimetallists are encouraged with the
idea that the advent of the Conserva-
tive party to power in England will
give an impetus to the movement for
bimetallism.