Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-01-31
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

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Starving miners in the MassilIou e0.3
district issued an appeal for aid
Twenty families in Rusk. Wis, were
said TO b. in starving condition. =
The clergy of st. Johns, \. f.. issued
an appeal for help to prevent wide-
spread starvation
Nora and Alice Norris lSisters) were
Killed by the cars on a crossing near
South Whitley, Ind
A ON TO pro',s5it the teaching or
practice of mes merisn was introduced
in the Missouri house.
Bin Cook, the famous outlaw, was
landed in the United States prison at
Fort smith, Ark, Monday.
While playing with loaded revolver
Harry Barnes, aged y. shot and killed
his 7-year-old sister at Lindsay, 0.
President Saenz Pena, of the Argen-
tine Republic, resigned on account Of
a difficulty with congress over his. cab
met.
Col. William b. Remy, judge advocate
general of the navy, died in Soiner-
vile, Mass, after several months ill
ness.
terrific snowstorm is raging in the
California mountains. In the railroad
cuts the drifts are from 20 to so feet
deep. aN +.
Destitution in western Nebraska is
on the increase. A fifth of the people
Of Greeley county are dependent on
charity
Hounded to desperation by office
seekers, Sheriff Williams, elected by
populists at Prague, Wash, resigned
the office.
A bill to prohibit gambling of every
description in Wyoming has been Of
fered in the Legislature and will prob.
ably pass.
The New York Fur Cutting com
pany's big factory in Williamsburg, N.
Y, was destroyed by fire, the loss be-
ing S24O,O0O.
cyclone struck Covington, Tenn,
and blew off the top of the courthouse
and demolished dozen residences and
a score of barns.
Fosters livery stable in Kansas CITY,
Mo-, burned at / o'clock Sunday morn
ing and twenty-one horses persisted.
Total loss, $40, 500.
Enraged because his wife had sold
chickens to buy sugar, James O'Brien,
of Chillicothe, o., fatally wounded her
and then shot himself
ing food daily from the soup kitchens
at st. Johns, N. F., and the number Of
destitute is increasing.
James Robinson, of Bridgeport, N.
j., was taken with a paralytic stroke
while viewing his dead sisters body
and died in a short time.
A bill was introduced in the West
Virginia house providing for electrocu-
ton as the means of capital punish
ment instead " Ldnging.
Mrs Ida Carroll, aged % years, died
in Tishimingo county, Idaho. She was
married eight times and was the moth
er of twenty-six children.
A snowslide about 10 miles from
Kaslo Il. c.. killed three miners named
Moore, Mcmillan and Charles Mitchell
owners of the Eureka mine.
Four men entered the home of +. s.
Patton near Ell Paso, ILL.,, and after a
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fired secured 5000 and escaped.
The American Slate Blackboard as
sociation was organized at Bethlehem,
Pa, with 100000 capital. Twenty
two manufacturers are members.
j. G Gnorp, founder or tine RAT
Claire Lumber company, died at Cam,
bridge, Mass.
Sam Cody and John Beaver, unf er
arrest at Duluth, Mimi, were ider IL
fed as the men vino passed forged
checks in Wisconsin towns.
IowaE supreme court aeclded tnat
sales of liquor by an Omaha house
through travelling agent to an Iowa
firm were not subject tn the Iowa law.
In sawmill boiler explosion at
Rison, Ark. !. I. Sumeron and Charles
Valentine were killed. Ed Valentine,
James Mccullough and Will Gray will
die.
After married life Of sixty-six years
Mrs Elizabeth Stansbury died at Mas
sillon. She and her husband were cred
tied with being The oldest married
couple in Ohio.
While taking in clothes at Canton, n.
". Mrs Gertrude Holmes was stricken
by paralysis and dropped dead. Her
stepmother saw her fall and went into
4 fit, dying almost Immediately.
George II Lohman. proprietor Of the
leading restaurant at Wilkesbarre,
Pa was found dead il pond, fie
carried life Insurance amounting to
s1Q0090 He committed suicide.
houp county H.. and FLA Trealz.ey,
AGED la af Cochran. Wis, Wcredronned
sunday night hileattemVing toegoss
tha Al3 ssnnl eseer near STERLING.
lie Challenged the Pn.
The suart and disastrous reign Of
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