Griggs courier., 1888-11-09

In San Francisco, announced on the 3lst
ul.. the discovery Of another comet-the
second discovered by him within two
months.
KATIE KENNEDY, the sixty third .ictim
u she recent Mud Run railway disaster,
fIed at Scranton, Pa, on the 3lst ult-
"A BUILDING in San Francisco occupied
~ several lumber companies was burned
ou the 3lst ult. causing q loss OF El0O, ,00a
ROBBERS held up Mexican Central ex-
press train sixty miles below Ell Paso, Tex,
on the 31st ult., forcing the engineer anu
ire,nau to leave the engine and uncouple
,he passenger cars, and then secured about
8, 600 from the express car.
MEs. S1RIEExL, of Wichita, Kan, was
fnta!ly burned on the 3lst ult. and her ive
reur-oid ohhd was burned to death by
their clothing catching fire. from burning
brush pile.
AT IApesv:Ile, Ga. William Harrison, in
fit Of jealousy ON the 3lst ult-, killed his
niece and fatally wounded his sister.
While testing Il Ere-escape on tho 3lst
ait. aJ Pittsburgh, Pa, three boys were
killed by the breaking of rore which
caused them to fall a distance Of seventy
feet
JOSEPH DIcKESEor, aged seventy years,
vas assaulted by highwaynen at Akron.
sohbc1 Of s;,:aU which he carried in
vaiise
Apv'oE> of the 3ist ult. say that gang
o! negroes iu Mercer County W. Va, way
laid four white travellers and shot and
;siilcd two of them and robbed them OF
900 The other TWO escaped.
a 1.A9GR number OF unopened registered
packages were stolen from the post-oiticc
az Topeka, Kan, Oh the slst ult. All the
.:lcrks were decoyel from the building by
u fire alarm.
GEORGE l.. WAILArE, o noted vocalist,
committed suicide at Troy. n. Y. on the
Bist ult. sending q bullet through his
brain.
SOLOMON BRUEAKEH, a German living
near Washington, Kan, murdered his
mother, Mrs. Samuel NJ Merky, On the 3lst
s1l.- and then cut his throat.
TKE infant child Of John Oldham was
accidentally burned to death near Logans.
port, Ind, on the 3lst ult.
4 ClSCISNATI Southern train was
Wrecked OH the alst ult in the Tennessee
mountains and three persons were killed.
IT was announced on the 3lst ult. that
Rudolph Ericsson, a Swede in New Brit
hin, Conn. had discovered substitute
for dynamite. II looks like cornmsal and
- very powerful.
at Lexington, Mo. on the 3lst ult a
lady descended into a twenty ty-foot clstern
and rescued child who had fallen into
she pit. A number Of men, who had re-
fused 20 attempt to aid the little one
watched the heroic exploit
1HE fourth crop of straw berries for this
,:s.ar was on the 3lst ult. being gathered
n tic Walia Walla valley, W. T.; pear
trees had yielded three crops, apple trees
their second crop, and the second crop of
numerous other fruits Was reported.
AT Central City, Col, OH the Slst ul. a
eefort containing $40 900 in gold was placed
81 . bank for safe kecp,ne. Tho gold was
als produced in single day by one mine.
The amount was the greatest ever taken
from any mine in the same length Of time.
!>rG sal,s of leaf tobacco in the Danyillc
.@n.} market during October amounted to
.:::3 st2 pounds.
IKE total coinage executed at tho mintt
nacinG the month OF October was 8, OO'. liO
pieces, representing a value Of $3.50, $50.
at these pieces l:ss, $50 weA gold, repre-
sentins 81, COS go, a.500,o00 were silver of
.ho value OF s., go. QUO, and $40, 600 werc
minor coins, OF the value Of s:si, 700
JAMES I4oNooNETrI, u bar. tender at Den
yer, Col, who shot and killed A. O. Case
and was imprisoned. died in commissions
on the lst, thinking his victim was tortur-
lug him
A CYCLONE on the ist nt Larorte, Ia.,
destroyed several buildings and unroofed
many others, causing "A loss Of over S75, O00
In the surrounding country great damage
was also done. No lives were lost.
A DESTRUCTIVE prairie fire occurred Oh
tho LIST near Gary, d. I.
FROM the opening Of the Washington
monument lu Washington the sth of
October last to the list inst. 7,4S2 persons
had been carried up in the elevator and
s,3d lad walked up, m"lsns "a total Of
a,SN who ascended the shaft.
A TIRE on the list at Bowling Green, O..
destroyed q hotel. two printing offices aud
twenty other buildings.
AMANDA MONTGOMERY and Gus Will
la1ns lovers, were walking on the railroad
track at Greensburg, Pa, on the evening
Of the lst, and in stepping off one track to
avoid train they were run down by an
other train and both were killed.
L. BERMAS, q New York banker, disap-
peared on the LIST with $1,000 belonging to
depositors
WILLIAM COOKE, Of Providence, f. l.,
aged seventy gears and wealthy, hanged
himself on the lst. Insomnia was the
cause Of the suicide.
ASuREw JOHNSON, a cripple living near
Rcd Hill, KY, while digging i'll the ground
on the lst uncarthed q copper kettle filled
with gold and silver coin worth over 81, 900
TnE students Of Dickinson College at
Carlisle, Pa, had u conflict with tho fire
man on the lst because they started Il
large halloween bonfire, and several were
fatally injured on both sides
THE seventh annual convention Of the
Noman's Home Missionary Society was
opened at Boston on the lst Mrs. Il. Il.
Hayes. president reading her annual re
port
JENKINS. Hr1cHlsoN g. Co. dealers il
notions and white goods at Baltimore
Md. failed-on the list for 500 900.
AT Lima, O.. on tho lst Henry Ertlay
aged sixty years, for thirty five years sta
zion baggage master Of the Pennsylvani;
railroad, committed suicide by ,akin:
poison.
j. IL ALl.ES, owner of the America,
ship Bridgcwater, demanded on the Is
so, 900 for alleged wrongful detention o
his vessel at the port Of Nova Scotia.
TIE President issued proclamation OF
the LIST designating Thursday, Novembo
20 next. IA u day Of Thanksgiving AN
prayer throughout the United States.
AN explosion Ut hot meta. on tho lst a