Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-05-02
MISCELLANEOUS.

Governor Upham, of Wisconsin, ap-
pointed Col Warham Parks, of Ocono-
mowoc circuit judge of the Thirteenth
district
FIorin Patrick died at Marshall, ILL.,.
last night. He was driven insane by see
ing one of his workmen killed in his
sawmill
The cornerstone of the new Metho-
DIST church at Galeshurg, ILL.,. was laid
with formal exercises
Gen. Harrison Allen, who lives at
Fargo. N. D., has sued his wife at St.
Paul, Minnn., for divorce. He says she
deserted him in 1888. She is now living
In warren, Pa. Allen lives in Wash
lngton, D., c., in the winter.
Ihe cornerstone of the new st. James
Lutheran church was laid with formal
exercises at Vandalia, Ill.
Attorney-General Moloney of Illinois
mas decided tax assessor can not dele
gate his duties of assessing to a deputy
A movement is on foot for the United
States to establish coaling stations in
the gulf Of Mexico.
Indians in Dakota and the Canadian
Northwest are said to have gone on the
war path. Troops have been dispatched
TO the scene.
Celebrations in honor of the memory
OF Gen. Grant We're held throughout the
country Saturday, the anniversary of
his birth.
Reading officials deny there is a war
in coal rates impending.
The condition Of Representative Hit
OF Illinois remains unchanged.
Gold has been discovered near Rail
elgh, suburb of Memphis. Tenn. 1t
IS plenufully mixed with platinum.
John Rigoulot has started to walk
from San Francisco to New Orleans.
ms home. The Midwinter Fair broke
him
indian Commissioner Browning is en-
route to Chicago to open bids for sup
plies for the Indian agencies for the
coming fiscal year
Gov. Altgeld has appointed c. H. SUIT
ton of Rock Falls, ILL.,. fish warden for
Whiteside county
Memorial day was fittingly observed
at Mobile by Alabama state troops and
confederate veterans
Judge Golf, of Columbia, s. c., and
the state authorities are likely to lock
horns over the seizure of liquor brought
into the state in violation of the dispen-
sary law
At Anderson Ind, William Decker
has shot the first oil well in the history
of the county. The well is running fifty
barrels day and increasing rapidly.
The members of the interstate corr
mefce commission have reached Kear-
ney, Neb, and are listening to com
plants that the roads are discriminate
ing against Kearney.
Reports at Washington show that
during the last ten months the number
of Italian immigrants arriving in the
country was l0,S25 less than during the
same period last year.
Reports indicate a widespread dispo-
sition on the part of farmers to move
to the south.
Sailors from the cruiser Olympia who
are ashore at San Diego, Cal, report
that over sixty men have desertd from
the cruiser on this trip.
Houston. Tex. negroes have taken up
the cause of their race who have been
deceived into going into Mexico, where
they are treated like Siberian exiles.
Gov. Brown of Kentucky has par
doned ex-Mayor j. II. Davidson of Lex
ington, who was sentenced to ten days
in Jail for carrying concealed weapons.
The Illinois drainage dispute has been
amicably arranged, and the pending
bill before the senate will be amended
and passed.
The controller of the currency has au-
thorized the First National Bank of
Vandalia, H.. to begin businessswith
capital Of $4,000.