Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-05-23
MISCELLANEOUS.


The Bell telephone patent has been
declared valid.
Thee Evangelical Synod of Southern
Illinois, in session at Mascoutah, has
closed its convention
The Detroit garden plan is working
successfully in Omaha, Neb, and there
are 500 plats in cultivation
Civic Federation fashioned after
that in Chicago has been formed in
Galena ILL., David Shehan is president.
Comm sioner Lockhart at Pierre.
5. D., has about decided to drop the
Yankton Ian cases, fearing costly liti-
cation.
Thirty cases and three deaths from
diphtheria at Akron, o., have been
traced to dog which had symptoms
similar to those of human beings.
The scalp and skull of a woman,
many pieces of flesh, and body of a
small child were found on the beach Of
Lake Michigan. near Valparaiso, Ind.
The price of corn jumped cents in
hve minutes on the Chicago board of
trade Saturday
Gail Hamilton is dying at Wash
ington at the home of Mrs. James G.
Blaine
Secretary Carlisle has started on his
southern trip.
A call has been issued for a meeting
at Des Moines Thursday of all the coal
operators in Iowa to effect an organiza-
tion' and, If possible. place business on
better basis for all concerned
me rise in the price of crackers is
credited by the trust officers at ST. Louis
as In sympathy with the rise in flour.
Inc story that Minister Thurston IA
VoFs the restoration of the Hawaiian
monarchy is ridiculed at Washington
FIVE miles of nets, said to belong 10
r. K. Edison of Cleveland, were seized
Dy the Canadian government cruiser
near Rondeau, Ont
Prof. Dyche of the Kansas state uni
versity has sailed in the fishing schooner
Golden Hope. for Greenland for speci-
mems of mammalia and birds
Henry r. Thurber, President Cleve-
lands private secretary. will occupy the
new Waters cottage at Silver Shell
Beach, near Marion, Mass, with his
family this summer.
Business men in Chicago report a
gratifying increase in trade.
Wheat closed at 701s cents on the
Chicago board of trade Friday
Presbyterian seminaries are reported
in sound condition.
Dun's Review OF Trade says the cold
weather over the country retards bust
ness.
The city OF Chicago has deficit of
nearly 81 .OOo, 600.
IL Is rumored that decision adverse
20 the income tax has been prepared
BY the supreme court.
The conference of the German Meth
odist ministers Of Michigan. Indiana
ana Ohio, which has been in session at
Say city. Mich. has adjourned to meet
next year In Delhi, Mich.
me window glass manufacturers have
decided not to form trust.
Inc san Francisco police are said to
nave found several new witnesses who
will testify against Durrant at his
murder trial in the superior court
Prof Edward Lee Greene. professor
q botany at the University of Califor-
MIA. has resigned to take a similar DO
sition in the Catholic university. at
Washington. D. c.
Great damage is said to have been
done to Illinois and Indiana wheat fields
by the Hessian fly.
Ex-Postmaster General Wanamaker
proposes to establish a hotel in Phila-
deiphia at which any deserving person
may be housed and fed free of cost.
Wages are being advanced all over
the country. The business situation is
improving daily.
Or. Robert Russell Booth was chosen
moderator by the Presbyterian general
assembly. lie is an anti-Briggs man.
Ex-Presiaent Harrison was presented
with a gold medal by the New Jersey
Historical society.
The report Of the Canadian superin-
tendent of immigration shows the total
immigration To- 1894 to have been p. e11.
against s., AZ il 1898. OF these $50 were
from the United States