Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-10-24
NEWS CONDENSED.
A History Of the Week Given In Short
Paragraphs.

Official returns .0r the last fortnight in
September show that there were during
that time APO new cases and l, 70i deaths
from cholera in the province of Eolhynia,
Russia
Sidney A. Slocum. under indictment in
the United States court at Peoria for
sending unlawful matter through the
mails, has disappeared
Mrs Lille j Krepp and her son of Ban
croft Wis, We're arrested at Denver on the
superstition that they were 10 meet John
Krepp, defaulting cashier of the Bancroft
bank. He did not appear and the woman
and the boy were released.
At Rock Rift. y. Y, the pastor of the
Presbyterian church refused to officiate
at wedding on the ground that il would
not be valid If solemnized on Sunday
AT Princeton, lis. William Knox paid
Dennis Doyle a jut grI,at of 50 900 for in.
3uries caused by s..lktng him over the
head with hoe Knox is Sc years old
and wealthy.
At Winona. Mimi, sale OF -. 000. OC0
feet of cut lumber has been made 10 the
Jay Lumber company OF ST Louis
Jack Crews was hanged at Denton,
Tex, for the murder of the Merrill family
in 1898. He killed father, mother and
children. The hanging was public, the
crowd being estimated at 10000
The Brazil amnesty bill. as amended,
contains a clause in violation of the con
stitution
At n massmeeting of miners at Spring
field, Ills, motion for all miners 10
strike If 40 cents was not granted by all
operators was defeated Three or feilr op.
orators refused 20 pay over 30 certs and
their miners continue to work at that
II is stated that the dress to be worn by
the Empress of Russia at the coronation
ceremony next year has just been ordered
n Paris IL is 10 be decorated with pearls
and gold, marveously worked, ana is to
cost over 900, 900 francs.
4 1t is interesting to learn that John
Armstrong CHAMBER proposed four times
to Amelia Rives before she consented to
become his wife.
At Decatur, Ills, the firm Of J. Dun 81
Co. was closed on claim of $3.50.
Mrs Ormiston Chant, the social purity
leader from London, who is = NV visiting
in this country, believes in bicycle riding
for women, and when asked as TO her
choice of costumes. replied The bloom.
ers, of course skirts. no matter how
the wheel "
At Minneapolis, Mimi, Ignatius Don
nelly has decided TO attack the reform
ers' of the state in series of articles in
the official Populist organ
At North Manchester, Ind, Eta Over
holser was arrested for perjury in testify
ing to her previous moral life in her
breach of promise suit against David
Whistler
Near Eflingham, Ills, an uniden, fled
tramp was killed and an engine destroyed
by head.cnd collision of freight trains on
the Vandalia road.
Lady Aberdeen advocates official in
spection of she teeth of school children
with a view 20 better care,
An insane man was captured at Anti
och, Ills. and is held by Supervisor Pad.
dock awaiting Identification He speaks
OF Galena. Ills, aud says his name is
Batty or Barry
Ex Water Commissioner q T. Watkins
of Beatrice, Ncb has been arrested on
two rew sharges of fraud in city war
rants
20 Anderson, Ind market house com.
pany with capital stock Of $i00, 600 has
been organized The building will also
contain great public hall
Max Straus. citizen OF Elyria O.. has
given TO Oberlin colt 20 block of ground
valued at S50.on
George r. Harrison and + II Baker
Colorado mining men have been murder
ed ia Mexico A Mexican guide, who SAYS
Indians killed them is suspected OF the
crime
Mrs Mary Bur,,e for forty years resi-
dent ~ Dixon Ills dropped dead At the
dinner table of heart disease Resent lii.
cation over her property rights had pros
trated her
A cyclonic disturbance Is reported along
the western part Of cuba. with ten
dency to reach Havana aud the coast OF
Florida
samuel Russell Of Denver. Ms very
wealthy and eccentric. was found dead IN
his barn A laddcr fell with him and
cracked his skull
Thomas Quiuan, who killed Gottenreid
kloppenstein of Chicago AT Ilarrahee. Mo,
and managed to get into the insane asy.
lum has been detected shamming aud
must 60 60 the pententiary
While coupling cars in the Baltimore
and Ohio yards at Washington Ind Cit
iofu 1FaWloru WAS INSTANTLY Killed
At Cambridge Mass the old lsouisburx
cross was stolen from the entrance 10 the
library at Harvard 1t is 1870 years old
and was brought back by troops after
the capture of Louisburg students are
suspected
Vice President Stevenson. wife and
daughter have arrived at Atlanta
William Tetro and Augustine Malloy
were indicted at Thin. o on a charge Of
arson Tetro has confessed
Miners in the Coat City (Illsl ield have
adopted resolutions demanding AN in.
crease In wages and Saturday half hoh
day
Lord Alfred Douglas, who left England
after the Wilde scandal and who is now
at Niagara Fails with his wife. says he
will not return to England for tsye years