Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-02-21
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the Week Ending Feb. 1e.

The third Wyoming legislature fin
ished its work and adjourned.
The Bank of Lexington at Richmond,
Va. closed its doors with liabilities of
ST. 900.
capitol removal bill was killed in
the South Dakota senate by a vote of
% to 10.
The tenth annual convention of the
National Electric Light association be-
gan in Cleveland.
John Brabits and his son James
were killed by the fall of tree near
Montgomery, Mimi.
The national committee of the Re-
publican league has been called to
meet in Washington March ..
Charles w. Harding defeated Thomas
Sullivan in the race for the single-scull
championship of England and s.. 900.
Ben Ward (coloredl was sentenced at
Newark, o.. to twenty years imprison-
ment for criminal assault on a woman.
A motion for separation of church
and state was defeated in the French
chamber of deputies by a vote of sos to
EOS.
A. b. Newson, a member of the Ten
nessee senate, resigned, assigning ex-
travagance of the legislature as a rea-
son.
Cyrus Brown, for the murder of his
wife in August, 1893, was convicted at
Column bus, Ind, and sent to prison for
life.
Mrs. Jane COPYRIGHT died suddenly
at Port Jervis, n. Y, making seven un-
expected deaths in the family in three
years.
The Hebrew cemetery at Indianapo-
lis was invaded 10y ghouls who opened
several graves and carried off three
bodies.
Col. Cody Bourne, aged 90. was mar
ried near Lawrencebnrg. KY, to Miss
Rose Brown, aged IS, she being his
seventh wife.
Peter ostlund the skating champion
of Europe, defeated John S. johnson in
a holly contested 1900 meter race at
Minneapolis.
The barkentine Sadie Thompson.
bound for Philadelphia with cargo of
sugar valued at 100000, was wrecked
in the Bahamas.
Charles Lafallet, arrested at the in
stance of his grandfather on the charge
of theft, died from grief in the Jail at
Shelbyville, Ind.
Congress will be asked to establish a
uniform electrical unit to agree with
that adopted by Great Britain, Ger
manv and France.
A l3-year-old boy created a sensation
during revival services in an Indianap-
oils church by claiming to have seen
Heaven in vision.
A receiver has been appointed for the
Linden Steel company OF Pittsburgh,
whose liabilities are S4s5, 900 and esti-
mated assets $685.. 900.
All the cigarmalers at Marti CITY.
Fla, went out on strike because
teacher refused to admit colored chill
dren to the free school
The Buffalo IN. " music hall the
gooms of the Sangerbund society and
the German Young Mems association
We're damaged $4,000 by fire.
Charles Anderson, aged 10 years, was
so worried over failing to pass the ex-
aminations in Cincinnati school that
he took paris green and died.
Mrs Emma Tautish Nelson, weighing
something over 400 pounds, who for
sixteen years posed as fat woman in
a museum. died at Camden, N. j.
d. II. Chapman was found guilty of
conspiring to keep voters from the
polls. in Chicago and his punishment
fixed at one year and six months in
prison.
A lone highwayman, armed with a
shotgun. held up stage near Oroville,
Cal. The treasure box was taken and
the passengers relieved of their val,
uables.
Fire consumed the large breaker of
William Connell & CO., at Connellton
Pa. The loss is 500, 900. Six hundred
men and boys are thrown out of en-
ployment.
Richards Banker, of Portland, Ore,
who swindled the a. o. U. W. of about
$1,000 by feigning death, pleaded
guilty and was sentenced to five years.
Imprisonment.
Jack Mcclure, who murdered Jack
Woods in Little Rock, Ark, last March,
has been found guilty and punishment
fixed at twenty-one years in the peni-
Tertiary. His sweethearts testimony
convicted him.