Griggs courier., 1888-09-07
1t was said that th rteen persons We're
drowned, and that nine bodies had been
recovered. The financial loss was placed

qultulns tne clty In thousands.
REPORTS from the Northwest on the 3lst
ult. showed an average yield of eighteen
bushels of wheat to the acre in Northern
Minnesota and fifteen bushel to the acre in
Dakota.
THE Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will hold it's annual meeting in New
York October 10.
GEORGE w. Cox was hanged on the 3lst
ult. at San Andreas, Cal, for the murder
of his son-in-law Henry G. Cook, last No
vember.
DURING the last fiscal year the total
number Of applications received at the
Patent Office in Washington was 40, III;
the total number granted, g, 1Ol against
23,2l7 the previous year; total receipts,
81, 1929 decrease Of S27, 1902; total ex-
penditures, 1868, 730, a decrease of So7, ,9l4
There were ,227 cases on hand awaiting
action.
HEAVY wind and rain storms had on the
3lst ult injured the cotton crop in West.
ern Tennessee and the northern portions
of Mississippi, Arkansas and Alabama
about ten per cent.
FIVE cowboys were drowned on the 3lst
ult. near Pixies Peak, Col, by a cloud burst
which flooded the place where they were
sleeping.
ARCHER Cook (colored) was hanged on
the 3lst ult. by mob at Farmville. Va.
for assaulting a white girl
BURKE MITCHELL, negro wife murderer,
was hanged on the 3lst ult at Houston
Tex.
FOREST fires had on the 31st ult done
| great damage to fencing, corn fields and
small buildings in the vicinity of Mont
pelier, Ind.
The American House at West Superior.
/ h,,r, Il
| the ID and three guests lost their lives
The tire was started by lamp explosion
A FREIGHT train jumped the track on the
lst near Bonneville, Mo-, killing SIX labor
ers who had st epped aside to let the train
| pass
TElE total coinage at the mints of all de-
nominations of gold silver and nickel dur
| .ng the month of August was 4769 251
pieces of the value of So s50,4
The Fields Biscuit and Cracker Com:
pany at San Francisco failed on the lst for
100000.
JOHN BAKER a farm hand, threw :; boy
INTO threshing machine near Guide Rock.
Neb., on the lst, and his enraged com
panions lynched him on the spot
The publicdebt statement issued on the
lst showed the total debt to be g.,
723, 3,0oS, sos; cash in Treasury, s1O7. .6773 800;
| rASoo ASoo SGolA III 1ICtSuTS, SlCf, l~.,OS0
Decrease during August, Sc 1924. .675 De
crease since June 30, 1883, Sl1, ,46l, ,974
| A FIRE started in toy warehouse at
| Baltimore, Md, on the ID and an explo
| sion of fireworks wrecked the building,
the falling walls burying seven firemen,
who were all killed. The fire destroyed
every thing in the block, entailing a prop
erty loss of 81, 100000
| AT twenty six leading clearing houses
in the United States the exchanges during
| the week ended on the list aggregated
sSo6, ,57S l49,agains: >S07, 500, OS7 the prev Gus
! week. AS compared with the correspond
| ing week Of 1887 the decrease amounted to
| 1874 per cent.
| ADvIcEs of the lst from Paladora, in the
public land strip in Colorado, say that
| party of vigilantes surrounded a band of
seventeen horse thieves, aud in the fight
| which occurred all Of the thieves were
killed and the vlgilantes had three men
killed and nine wounded
SAMUEL. BLISS, il Chicago wholesale sirup
dealer, failed on the 1st for $50, 600
MIR. AND Mrs. ROBERT McCLlN rocK were
struck BY a train on the lst whie crossing
the track near Delphi Ind, and both were
killed.
MosT of the glass bottle factories in the
country resumed operations on the lst
after an eight weeks shutdown A slight
advance in wages was conceded the work
men.
AN oil tank exploded on the lst near Oil
Center, o., killing James p East. Rem
brandt Runsen and Charles Howard All
were young men.
JULIE LIST, secretary of the Duckworth
Building Association of Cincinnati was
on the 1st 1und to be defaulter to the
extent of $4,000.
The percentage of the base ball clubs
in the National League for the week
ended on the lst was as follows: New
York, CAB; Chicago 55S; Detroit, 535
Philadelphia, .5.5 Boston .52+ Pittsburgh,
All; Washington, $50: Indianapolis, $50.
American Association: St Louis, .6Sl;
Philadelphia 624; Cincinnati, .62a; Brook
lvn, ,64, Cleveland. 400: Baltimore .39S:
Louisville. $50; Kansas City, BIZ. West
ern Association: Des Mones .6sS ST
Paul, $40; Omaha, .5Sl; Kansas City, $50;
Milwaukee,, .456: Sioux City, Alb; Chicago,
400, Davenport, 3l4.
WILLIAM A. SwART, a private banker at
Roseland, a Chicago suburb disappeared
on the 1st, taking with him nearly $50 900
belonging to dcpositors.
The crop reports for the week ended on
the lst indicated damage to corn by frost
in Michigan and Minnesota
WILLIAM WALL (white), prominent citi-
| zen of Clarendon. Ark, and John Stayton.
a negro. were killed on the 1st by John
billiard (colored).
DISPATCHES received on the 1st at Den
Yer, Col, stated that a fight had occurred
between the Piute and Ute Indians. during
which over one hundred were killed
DURING the twenty four hours ended on
the oi there were 81 new taSes of valloy,-
fever at jacksonville, Fla. and . deaths.
Total number of cases to date 25S; total
deaths to date, 81.
THE wife of Il Mr. Steinlee. at Delhi, O..
on the 1st drowned her two little children
and herself. She had been demented for
years.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
The Democrats Of Iowa in State conven-
tion on the Goth at Des Nloincs made the
following nominations: For Secretary of