Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-10-03
NEWS CONDENSED.
A History OF the Week Given in short
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NEWS CONDENSED.
A History of the Week Given in short
Paragraphs.
Mrs. Alice Foot of Joliet, Ills 20 years
old, made two attempts TO commit sui
eide, and her recovery is thought impossi-
BILE
Fire destroyed Allison & Metzger's ele-
vator at Pana. Ills, with 6OO90 bushels
of grain. Loss $4,000, with 5000 insur-
anee.
BY the accidental discharge of gun,
Daniel Leiby. wealthy farmer and stock
dealer, living near Lena. Ills, was killed.
August Rosenkranz, carpenter of La
porte, Ind, committed suicide by hanging,
his two children finding his lifeless body
when they returned from school.
The Methodist Episcopal church at Roll
Ing Prairie Ind, was destroyed by fire
The home of Mrs DR. Louise Massock
! at Pana, u.s. burned as the result of a
gasoline explosion, the owner sustaining
severe injuries
While returning on special excursion
train from Louisville George Taylor of
Alexandria, Ind, was run over and fatal
! ly injured.
! Hog cholera is raging near Waterloo,
Ind, over 400 hogs having been reported
| dead in one township within ten days
! from this cause.
/, The advance of 90 cents a ton on iron
rates north and west has gone into effect,
as result of a conference between south
ern freight agents and iron men at Birm-
ingham, Ala.
! A mob of seventy men was fired on
/ by the sheriff while trying to break into
/ the Jail at Ie~.ngton, Tenn, TO lynch two
| negroes locked up there foI assault.
| One man was seriously and two slightly
| wounded.
| John Moore was sent to the workhouse
/ for thirty days at Piltsburg for beating his
wife. Magistrate Donahue let Mrs Moore
fix the punishment
! The common council of Rochester, Ny,
has adopted ballot machines for use at all
municipal elections.
| p ID. Christian took s. away from sa-
/ loonkeeper at the point of pistol at
/ Lynchburg, Va He is believed to be in
| sane from drink
| A young man giving his name as Al
| fred Watson from Chicago was run over
| by freight train near Rochester, n Y,
and fatally injured.
-,
Edward Baker and his family were pois-
oned at Lima o., by eating toadstools for
mushrooms. The people are in danger
! Gus condition.
! Godfrey Perkins, who represented him
self to be a lawyer and a journalist, has
been sentenced TO ten years penal servi-
tude in London on the charge of levying
and collecting blackmail.
San JOSE Costa Rica. has given three
days to enthusiastic celebration of Central
American independence, and to the I'm
! yelling by President Rafael Iglesias of an
allegorical monument in commemoration
! Of the victory.
Mary Brandon of Texas is a blacksmith
and wheelwright
Owing to low water in the Allegheny
/ and Monongahela rivers Alabama coal
producers are enjoying monopoly of
the sugar plantation coal trade south of
| Greenville, Miss
Lord Rosebery owns a large amount of
property on this side of the Atlantic, it is
said, including a cotton mill in the south.
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The pope has received from Cardinal
Gibbons an address of protest against the
Roman fetes.
Isaac Steele and Theodore Cline OF Lib
erty, Ind, were fatally injured in "a runa
way accident
The Federated Trades council of Mil
waukee was so pleased with Governor Alt
I geld's speech at Chattanooga it will ten
der him IA reception when he goes to the
/ city's 5 ni-centennial.
The strike among the helpers ON the
rail machines at the Consolidated Steel
and Wire mill in Joliet, Ills, was dis
cussed by the men and it was voted to stay
away from the works till the manage
mcnt consented 70 pay the men a 3cenu
advance
Thirty-four soap manufacturers of Cali
fornia are about TO combine to increase
prices.
Xavier Funk, who escaped with eleven
others from the Kane county Ills. Jail
two weeks ago, was arrested at Milwaukee
and taken back to Kane county
AT Washington Court House o., Jud-
son Button found Charles Woodmansee
calling on his wife and shot and fatally
wounded him Woodmansce is IA brother
of ID W Woodmansee, chairman of the
Ohio Republican State league.
A solitaire diamond ring worn 10y Mrs
w X Vanderbilt cost SIS. 900
Martin Ballweber. arrested the other
day in Pittsburg said he had been a
tramp fory-four years He is IS years
old
People in Madison county, Ky. who
/ have paid their taxes are entitled to be
/ married free hy the sheriff
! At Anderson. Ind, President Mould Of
the National Unskilled Glassworkers, is
trying to organize union All Indiana
manufacturers say they will not recog
nize it.
At Winchester, Ky, Fulton French has
been indicted for the murder Of Judge
] Combs.