Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-03-14
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the Week Ending March IL.


John Thomas celebrated his Tooth
anniversary at Racine, Wis
Counterfeiters have flooded Kansas
City with spurious dollars and twenty
tive-cent pieces.
Bishop f. S Thomas. Of the Prot
estant Episcopal church, died Sa -urday
night at Salina, Kan.
@. A. Budd & Co, hide dealers of
Cleveland, failed for $500 900, with as
sets at half that amount
The peak of Orizaba, an ancient vol
eano in the state of Vera Cruz, Mexico,
was in state of eruption
Sailors at Nahant, Mass killed a
right whale, 70 feet in length, which
bore harpoon dated 1855
George w. Bush & Sons, extensive
dealers in coal and lumber at Whining
ton, Del. failed for S25o,000.
Bank clearings of the country last
week were 6.s per cent. larger than the
corresponding week last year.
Twenty diggers in the Sultana mine
in Manitoba were suffocated. An ac-
cident shut off their air supply.
The Wingate Mercantile company at
Kansas City, Mo, went into receivers
hands with liabilities of $4,000.
Twelve counties in Kansas have
notified the governor that they are no
longer in need of outside assistance
South Dakota's legislature has re-
pealed the law which virtually barred
commercial agencies from the state.
Harry Hayward, the convicted muir
derer of Miss Cling, was sentenced at
Minneapolis TO hang on June 10 next.
China has notified Japan of her ac-
ceptance of the conditions imposed by
the latter for settlement of the war,
Mrs. Mary Caruthers, living near
Paris, Tex, poisoned her two children
that she might elope with hired man.
Unknown miscreants attempted to
wreck fast express train on the
Nickel Plate road near Valparaiso, Ind.
Albert K. Keith, letter-carrier of
Ann Arbor, Mich, who had been dis
carded by his sweetheart, killed him
self.
Uuited States army, retired, died at
his home in Belmont, n. T., aged "A
years.
Mrs Anna skadden, pioneer of
Ohio, died at the residence of her
daughter in Union Plains, o., aged l05
years.
DR.. Frederick Cook, with small
band of scientists, will sail from New
York next fall to explore the antartic
regions
Catrino Cara, the notorious Mexican
bandit and pretended revolutionist
leader was killed in an attack on Bo-
cas- del Toro.
John l.. Gill, one of the oldest citizens
of Columbus, o., and the pioneer rail-
way ear builder of the west, died at the
age of 50 years.
Incendiaries We're again at work
near Anderson, Ind, and bloodhounds
had been employed by the farmers to
run them down.
Many of the coal operators in the
Pittsburgh district conceded TIE adj
vance in the wage scale asked by the
striking miners.
Judge Hunt, of Cincinnati, decided
that sleeping car company was re-
sponsible for the loss Of jewehy left in
care Of porter.
Inc cofdage WORKS OF william wall
& Sons in Williamsburg. n. y, were
permanently closed, throwing 1000
men out of work
State Auditor Dunn has discovered
that 200, 0o0. 600 feet of Minnesota pine
has been sold without warrant for
merely nominal price.
Capt. Charles Cropsey, for thirty
three years master 81 the Pennsylvania
union station in Chicago, died at Crown
Point, Ind, aged 81 years.
All the colored residents of Union
vile, Mo, received white cap notices
warning them to leave the city before
| April on penalty Of death.