Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-02-28
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
ror the week ENDING reb. ,ee.

For the Week Ending Feb. 26.
Gov. Sheakie, of Alaska, says Alaska
seals are nearly exterminated
Washington's birthday was generally
observed throughout the country.
The reported damage to the orange
crop of California by frost was denied.
Thomas Cavanagh and his wife were
burned to death near Middle Haddam,
Conn.
Three distinct earthquake shocks
were feltat Portland, Ore. and Tacoma,
Wash.
The funeral of Isaac P. Gray. late
minister to Mexico, took place at Union
City, Ind
David A. Brown, a veteran of the
Mexican war, died at Springfield, ILL.,,
aged Il years.
Ex-Gov. Benjamin F. Prescott died
at Epping, n. H., after long illness at
the age of GO years.
Fires throughout the country during
the week ended on the ed caused
total loss of s., 90, 210.
For the first time in its history Mis-
sissippi has surplus of corn and it was
being shipped to the west.
Absalor Stubbleaeld, who had lived
on farm near Bloomington, Ill, since>
1872, died from pneumonia.
Samuel Dana Horton. the distin-
guished writer on financial topics, died
in hospital at Washington.
An earthquake shock was felt at st.
Louis and in other towns in the vicin-
ity. 1t lasted about fifteen seconds
Rebels entered and looted the city Of
Morocco, many persons being killed
and hundreds wounded in the fighting.
Equal pay for equal work was adj
vocated in addresses before the Ma
tional Council of Women at Washing
ton.
Heilzberg s. Co.'S packing house at
st. Louis was entered, the watchman
bound and the safe n led of upward of
81 900.
An explosion of natural gas wrecked
the residence of John Aston at Sharon,
Pa, and injured its six inmates, one
fatally.
Prohibitionists of Rhode Island in
state convention at Providence nomi-
mated Smith Quimby as their candidate
for governor.
Paul Jones, one of the wealthiest and
most widely-known distillers in Ken
lucky, died suddenly in an infirmary
at Louisville.
Seventeen thousand Chinese, sup
ported by twenty guns, attacked the
Japanese position at Hal Cheng, but
We're repulsed.
While temporarily insane A. G.
Walker, a prominent business man Of
Terre Ilaute Ind, shot at his " e and
then killed himself
David Frazer and wife were held up
on lonely road near Clinton, Ia, by
two highwaymen. The robbers secured
$40 and gold watch and chain.
The Congressional Temperance So
ciety held its sixty-first annual meet
ing in Washington and elected Nelson
Dingley, Jr., Of Maine. ~ president.
Two Of the three men who robbed
bank at Griswold. Ia, were captured
10y Council Bluffs officers after "a fight,
IN which one on each side was wounded.
James and William Toole. brothers,
who for twenty years had been es-
tranged were reeonciied at the bed
side Of their dying mother at isnglish,
Ind
William G. Murphy, aged Is. the last
Of Gen sam Houston's army III the war
for independence for Texas, died in
Philadelphia. He was one Of the party
that stormed the Alamo.
Wade Hampton pleaded guilty at
Cairo, Ill, to the murder of Charles
Booth, both colored, and was sentenced
to forty years imprisonment at Chess
ter The murder resulted from quar-
rel over FIVE CENTS
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