Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-02-14
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.


For the Week Ending Feb. Ie.
The Bank of Leesburg, Fla, assigned
for the benefit of creditors
William H. Hill died in Washington
county, Pa. aged 100 years.
Nine fires in one day in Newark. y.
j., caused total loss of S125, 900.
Miss Betty McElroy celebrated her
Tooth birthday at her home in Somer-
vile, n. j.
Fifteen firms were burned out by q
fire in Ottawa, Kan. The losses will
aggregate $4,000
w. j. Edwards rode mile on a BIZ
cycle at Livermore, Cal, in 1:341S. a
new worlds record.
The British parliament met at Lon
don and listened to the reading of the
speech from the throne
Jabez Virgins, who murdered three
persons in Georgia while resisting ar
rest, was hanged at Augusta.
A secret society, whose object is the
mating and marrying of young people,
has been formed at Lexington, Ky.
James Robinson Boise, professor
emeritus Of Greek at the University of
Chicago, died at the age of so years.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
to hold up Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe
passenger train near Overlook, /. T.
Cyrus Bussey. ex-assistant secretary
of the interior, was run over by
sleigh in Washington and badly hurt
Margaret Taylor (colored), aged 50.
and Mitchell Jones, also colored, and
aged % years, were married at Kansas
City.
Over $1,000 900 in stakes and purses
will be distributed by western and
southern race tracks during the com
ing season.
Margaret Cook, who died at Column
bus, o., was aboard Fulton's steamship
Clermont when its initial trip was
made in 1907.
Mrs. William Siefert, while tempo
rarily insane, drowned her two chill
dren and herself in the Ohio river at
Coraopolis, Pa.
The home for friendless women at
Cleveland, O., was destroyed by fire,
and many of the inmates had narrow
escapes from death
James GRAPHICAL was convicted at La
Porte, Ind. of killing William Jones
and his punishment fixed at thirteen
years imprisonment.
Ten men, all the crew of the British
brig Nelson, were drowned by the
wrecking of that vessel on the rocks off
Douglass, Isle of Man.
Joseph Courier fatally shot his wife
while she lay asleep in bed at Newark,
y j., and then committed suicide
jealousy caused the act.
Mrs. Emma McShane, who died at
Leavenwoith. Ind, aged 79, was the
survivor of eleven husbands, two Of
whom were killed in the war.
The First Baptist church, the finest
In Mason City, Ia, was destroyed by
fire, together with the pipe organ. The
loss is Sl2, 900; insurance, SO, 500.
The overdue steamships Rhynland
and Umbria arrived at New York The
latter rescued fourteen men from the
waterlogged bark Jean Baptiste.
Distress in the mining regions of
Ohio was said to be increasing, and
hundreds of men, women and chiideen
were threatened with starvation.
Charles Gayarre, historian and littera-
teur, who introduced the culture of
indigo and sugar cane into Louisiana,
died at New Orleans aged 9oyears.
Buildings occupied by the Campbell
Paint company, the Creamery Supply
company and Reeves & Co, at Kansas
CITY, were burned, causing a loss of
$3.50, 600.
Rev Joshua L. Ambrose died at his
home in Ia Grange, HI aged So years.
lie was the oldest Baptist preacher in
both years and point Of service in the
northwest if not iu the country.
Eugene Byars, well-known detec-
tive who murdered his cousin Sergt
Eugene Walker. Of the United states
army at Behring Park, January 6,
1891. was HANGED at Birminrham. Ala.