The Grenada sentinel., 1889-08-17
In the North Dakota Constitution

In the North Dakota Constitutions
convention, on the sh, tho report of the
committee on legislative appoetionmen
and the school land section were adopted
THE S. R Vanmeter, a small steam.
boat in the Lowell and Parkers burg trade
was burned to the waters edge at Lowell
o., on the 9th. Captain Stowe, who wa
asleep on board, narrowly escaped in his
night shirt. Los, about $4,000; insur
ance, s., 500. The fire is supposed to hav,
been o: incendiary origin.
DR.. w. S. WELSH, prominent physi
clan Of Philadelphia, died at his Ocean
Grove IN. j. cottage, on the night of tbs
81, from complication of diseases.
THE funeral of Felix Pyatt the political
ag itator and writer, took place in Paris,
| on the 9th, without extraordinary incident.
THE acting Secretary of the Navy has
awarded the contract for furnishing the
| Was hington Navy Yard with an electric
lighting plant to the Brush Electric Com
pauy, for S13,79
THE King of Holland had another re-
lapse, on the 9th, and his condition was
reported to 5e very critical. His physi-
clans were in constant attendance at his
bedside.
THE post-office at Factoryville, Pa,
was broken into and robbed on the night
of the Sth.
Mrs. BERTHA PICKETT. clerk in the
Denver iCol,) post-otfice, has been ar
rested for forging money -order.
y BOARD, with Captain L. A. Beardslee
as senior membe:, has been appointed to
survey the United States ship Boston,
and report to the Navy Department the
extent of injuries received when she
touched bottom off Rose Island on
Mitchen Rock.
TIE United States ship Alliance has
been ordered out of commission at the
Norfolk Navy Yard, and board, OF
which Captain A. P. Cooke is senior
member, has been ordered to survey her.
AsTEREIL Bros, of Lancaster, Pa, the
largest dealers in millinery goods in that
city, failed on the 9th, for so 600. !
Two of their heaviest creditors, Julius
Loeb, of Lancaster, and Effiuger Bros,
of Hoboken, N. j., had attachments
issued on the firm-the former for $l1,74S |.
and the latter for 50, 7O9.
THE anti slavery conference at Lu-
cerne, Switzerland, has been abandoned.
.
VIM. P. Randall, of the
navy, for six months with permission to
leave the United States.
The schooner Samuel Wood, from
Island bound for New
York, was capsized on the 10th. Sidney
r. Daisy aged eighteen, seaman, was
drowned
Two freight trains were wrecked at
WAistletOwn, Pa, on the 11th. Bert An
derson, an Erie brakeman, was killed in
stautly, and two engines and twenty five
cars were.pilel up and burned.
A FIERCE forest fire was reported from
Washington County, Ore, about seven
miles from Portland, on the 1lth. Several
houses and barns had been burned, and
many people had been obliged to fee
for their lives.
The Navy Department has received in
that the repairs to the Monoca-
ey will be completed at Yokohama the
after part of this month. She will then
DC put on river service.
THE cricket match at Cambridge, En-
gland, was finished on the 10th, the Cam
bridge eleven making total of 14t in
heir second inning. The Americans won
he game in o.e inning by l2 runs.
IT is again asserted that Emperor Will
am will visit Spain shortly.
LAWYER DICKINSON, counsel for the
embarrassed firm of Brown, Steese &
lark, OF Boston, filed petition of in
olvency in behalf of his clients, Or the
9th. The petition is voluntary as to
dessrs. Steese and Clark, and involuntary
IS to Mr.. Brown.
THE Augusta (Ga.) Orphan Asylum was
lmost entirely destroyed by fire on the
lth. The children were gotten out safe
y. Two tiremen were injured by falling
imbers. A lack of water hindered the
forts at saving the building; loss, about
$4,000.
THE Shah will attend the Austrian
Military maneuvers in Galicia.