Griggs courier., 1888-03-30
meadows for miles and badly washing


country about u mile south of Fulton, n
y, on the 22d. wrecking several houses
and dong other damage. No lives We're
lost, hut several persons We're injured.
FURTHER investigation of the treatment |
of Arkans as convicts in the Coal Hill mines
revealed ON the 22d brutalities even more
horrible than at first reported Warden
Scott whipped seventy-tive men IN one
night till all were bleeding, the men had
gone wi hout shoes all winter and one had
been murdered
At Milford Mich, the Pettibone Touring |
mills were burned on the .2d. Loss, $l22,-
600.
A FREIGHT train went down an embank-
ment on the 22d near Portland, Ore, kill
ing one IN n and injuring ten others Two |
carloads of cattle were Xii. ed.
A DAM at QuicsSstream, Mass, collapsed
on the ODD, causing two bad washouts on
the New York & New England railroad. be-
sides destroying three highway bridges
The loss was p75, 900
A FREIGHT train was wrecked on the 221
at Barre, Pa and three men were killed
and three injured
AS AREsUlT of the liquor prosecutions at
Concord, N. H., every saloon c.osed on the
22l, the proprietors refusing absolutely to
make any s,tles
THREE boys, sons OF George Walker, Rob
ert Wood and Edward NJ Gully, We're
drowned on the 22d in the Delaware RIVER
neer Chester, Pa, by the cupsizng OF a
boat
Il. F. BysA's yacht Coronet, which won
the ocean y;cht.race with the Daunt.css
last spring left New York on the 29d Tor Il
tour around the world The crew consists
OF the master and forty men, and Alf. Bush
and family will join tie party at sam Fran
c.sro.
lr was estimated on the 22d that the
strike of the engineers on the 'nrl urton
road had cost the brotherhood to date over
$500 600, md .he railway company over
81, 600, 900
The William II. Schmidt Sash & Door
Company's factory ut N lwankee was
turned on the 22l Loss, 100000
The hoo at Millburg, Mass. nee .ssitated
removal of prisoners from the jai on the
22l, where the water WIS six feet deap.
Some of tue citZ had narrow escapes IN
getting out of ther honses The central
portion OF the town of UXbridge also
flooded
AT Milwaukee on the 22d Thomas Brown.
an inmate OF tn. Soldiers Home ;ged
sixty years, was found near the grounds
frozen to death
ALL railways in Northern Michigan were
blockaded by snow ON the 22d, and in some
towns the thermometer registered twenty
~ degrees below z ro.
IT was estimated on the 22d that over
forty tn ousand dollars in counterfeit five
dollar silver CT rlifcates h;d been put i'll
circulation in Chicago in the past few days
In The lard Investigation before the Ma
tionel House Agricultural Committee on
the 23d w. G. B.rt e, an ex-pork- packer of
I t,,% l,ol ;,, tio
business for forty years. ana knew that
cholera-infected hogs were cut up and put
upon tn market as good meat.
| DURING the seven days ended on the 2}d
there We're PIP business failur S in the
| United States against POP the previous
Sc ven days
| The union plastercrs at Buffalo, N. Y,
struck on the 2:}l for nine hours work
with ten hours pay.
| JAMES SEARCH was knocked down at the
Lake Ere depot in Lima, o., ON the 23d,
robbed of So, 800 and seriously injured.
| The burglar escaped.
The switchmen along the line of the Bur-
lington systen quit work on the ..2!:sd in
order to help the engineers and tiremen of
| that line
| THOMAS BROWN, a new Burlington en-
! gineer, in passing n crowd of strikers and
their sympathizers on the Odd at St Joseph,
Mo, was struck on the head with some
blunt Instrument by some one in the crowd
and fatally injured
| In New York on the 2}d Henry Bcrgh
| nephew of the lately deceased founder Of
| the Society for tie Prevention of Cruelty TO
! An mais. Was unanimously elected presi-
dent OF the soc ETY..
! PASSENGER ira rs the Pittsburgh &
Lake Erie roUd came in collision near Wani-
pun, Pa, on the 23i and Two men were
killed and nine other persons We're serious
| ly wounded
IT was discovered on the 2Sd that H. T.
Rovce, the treasurer of Il wings bank in
Wilimantic, Conn. had appropriated the
funds to the amount OF Sl5O,OOO
In the tally sheet forgery ,sc ut Column
bus o., the jury dis ed on the 23d.
after having been out four days, and was
discharged The ballot stood at ten to two
for conviction.
AT the State convention of organized la
Dor in Montgo omery, Ala, on the 23 a com
mitt4e was appointed to call convention.
If it should become advisable to nominate
Il State cket, not later than June l. A
prohibition resolution was defeated
The pens on claim of Cyphcrt p Gillette,
of What Cheer, Ia, was allowed by the
Pension Department at Washington on the
25d The amount Gillette Will receive is
about Rl6, 900 in arrears aud month y
pension OF T72. This was 50 d to be the
largest sum ever laid to o private soldier
as u pens on.