Griggs courier., 1888-03-30
DOMESTIC.

TIE New York Legislature on tho Goth
passed hill providing that veteran soldiers
are not to be discharged by city govern
ments without cause
STORM ice and high water damages were
reported from various points in the West
on the 10th. In portions Of Dakota and
Minnesota the heaviest snowfall of the
winter prevailed, and in Western Kansas
and Nebraska heavy storms of sleet and
snow had damaged fruit and lives ock
CYRUS G1BBLE superintendent of the Vul-
ture mine, and a man named johnson were
robbed of $1,000 and killed at Nigger
Wells Col, on the 10th.
JOHN WALKER, seventy-four years old and
tired of life, shot himself to death in Rich
mond. Ind, on the 2Oth.
THE post-otfce at Radford, Ill. was
burned on the 10Th, all the funds and sup
plies being lost
The to.al exports from this country of
dairy products for the ten months ended
February 2S, 1887, were SIS, ,:}42 O4O, while
the exports of the corresponding period i'll
1888 were $40, l3, III.
MAYOR HEWITT of New York. in q COM
municatlon on the 2Oth to the Board of
Aldermen defen is his action in refusing to
allow the Irish flag to be rais ID on the city
hall on s.. l'atricil's day on the ground that
none bur an American flag should be per
mitted 20 ioat from any pubic building in
this country. He said tlat foreigners who
come TO this country to live should remem-
Der that they thereby become Americans
and cease to be foreigners
The only visible sign remaining on the
Goth of the great Burlington strike was the
retention of their headquarters in Chicago
by the Brotherhood The contest itself was
declared TO be over, despite the rumors of
q combination of swtchnen and brake
to help the engineera and tiremen. The
boycott on Burlington freight, which was
the great stroke relied upon by the engi-
neers to win their demands had been COM
pletely raised
The experts examining the accounts Of
Richard II. Greenwood, treasurer of
Daviess County, Ind. found on the Goth
that Greenwood was short SID, 1863
RESOLUTIONS denunciatory of The Mills
TariAebill were adopted by the Central
Texss livestock Association on the Doth
) The Statstician of the Agrculturl / De-
partment at Washington on the goth esti-
mated the stock Of wheat in farmers hands
at the present time at 1872 600, 900 bush
els, against 122, 900, 900 bushels at the
same iue last year.
A HEAVY wind and rain-storm in the Pitts
burgh Pa.) district on the 21st leveled tel
egraph poles and did other damage
AFTER q three weeks unsuccessful strike
for nine hours work for ten hours pay
the Milwaukee ship carpenters and calkers
gave up the fight on the Dist and resumed
work
TERRIBLE cyclone visited Georgia and
East Tennessee on the night of the 2OGh
causing immense destruction to property
and much loss of life The storm formed
iy>% ;o;,> C.,1I,
sued a northeasterly direction through
North Georgia and into and beyond East
Tennessee. The tornado in places cleared
the ground completely of grass, and for
est OF timber was mown as with a great
scythe.
HE Emigration Board n New York on
the 2lst reported the total number of pas
sengers landed in that city the past year as
45O.S45
DURING storm ut Washington on the
21st lightning struck the Capitol, the flash
being especially vivid in the Senate cham
ber
On the DIST two New York pilot boats,
with fourteen men, were reported us lost
JAMES SAPP, of Goodland, Ind, was ar
rested on the 21st in Logansport, charged
with passing So. 900 in counterfeit money
ONE OF the tiercest gales ever experienced
ragged on the 21st at Wheeling, W. Va Sew
eral houses were unroofed, and many per
sons were blown off their feet on the street.
Cold weather. with one Of the severest
storms of the season, was reported on the
21st from Wisconsin, Minnesota and De-
kota
GREAT floods prevailed on the 21st on
the Upper Missouri in Montana. The coun-
try in the vicinity of Wolf Point'was one
vast sea, farms being under four feet OF
water.
A SEVERE rain-storm, accompanied by
violent winds, prevailed throughout West
ezn Massachusetts on the 21st. inundatingg