Griggs courier., 1889-05-24
Epito1ne of the Week,
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.

INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC.
TIE two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
of the settlement of Newport, r. Z, was OBJ.
served in that city on the 1lth.
AT Dedham, Mass, on the 11th J. F.
Harnett by a standing hop. skip and jump
of thirty seven feet and one-half inch beat
the record. He also cleared forty feet with
three jumps, beating the worlds record
AT dance on tho 1lth near Portsmouth
O., Hurry Nichols shot and killed Wilson
and Amos Cooper, brothers. who had forced
quarrel upon him after having been
warned to desist.
AT Cincinnati on the 10Th Moritz Blanc, q
workman in DahIs fireworks manufactory,
shot and killed his wife and seven-year-oid
daughter and then killed himself Jealousy
was supposed to have been tho cause.
TIE exchanges at twenty six leading
clearing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 11th aggregated
sl,10S, S,6sl, ,S5l, against $s4s.148,l4s the pre-.
vious week As compared with the cor
responding week Of 1883 the increase
amounted to 13a
OvER three hundred colored persons were
baptized in the James river near Rich
mond, Va, on thc'12th This was the first
result of the unprecedented revival that
had been going on there for three weeks in
the colored churches
TROUBLE which had been brewing for
several days between the whites and
blacks Of Gretna, La, eliminated on the
18th in the wounding of four negroes and
the burning of the negro fire company's en-
gine-house, the negro Baptist church and
four small houses occupied by negroes
PROF. ST. CLAIR, the aeronaut in attempt
ing to give his 'leap from the clouds" at
Houston, Tex, on the 18th lost his grip on
the parachute and fell three hundred feet
to the earth Nearly every bone in his body
was broken.
WHILE insane on the 18th George Loomis,
of Osceola, Wis, killed his wife by cutting
her throat and then killed himself.
EDWARD HAR7sHoSN and Amos Turley
were killed and four other men were badly
hurt by the explosion OF boiler on the 18th
at q saw-mill near Payne, o.
TIE United States Supreme Court on the
18th affirmed the validity of the law ex
cluding Chinese laborers, known as the
Scott Exclusion act.
GEORGE WARD, an engineer at Memphis,
Tenn, shot and killed his wife OH the 18th
because she refused to live with him, and
then killed himself.
FRED MEDLEY, proprietor of the Pueblo
House at Denver, Col, while drunk on the
18th shot and killed his wife because she
refused to give him money to purchase
beer.
AT Springfield Mass, on the 18th Royal
=. Sturtevant mistook his brother-in-law,
James D. Smith, for a burglar, and shot him
dead
THEEs appears to be an epidemic of
rabies among the dogs throughout the
country. Numerous cases We're reported
on the 18th from Kentucky, West Virginia,
Indiana and other sections.
L. CORNWALL, a jeweler at Selalia, Col,
was robbed on the 18th of So, 600 worth Of
jewelry by clerk named Strauss, who, in
his employers absence, packed up the goods
andtlett town.
In collision by a runaway on the 18th
at Grafton, D. T., Miss Johanna Goodman
son was killed and four men were wounded
HE new Ca:itrs.iia Tacater ut San Fran
cisco was ore..es: u:a The 18th by Booth and
Barrett
The Car, phenomenal three -year-old
colt, died of pneumonia on the 18th at
Council Bluffs, Ia. The Gar was the prop
erty OF Theodore Winters, Of Sacramento
C;t!., anu was ValueQ lC SS.3,V0U.
WIND wrecked a new building on the 18th
at Tacoma, W. T., and of the twenty men at
work on the structure twelve were killed
by falling timbers.
c. W. HATCH. the Boston insurance man.
accused of killing his uncle at Burlington,
Col, was acquitted by a jury on the 18th
The younger son OF E. Ellis, OF Westport
Wis. was Instantly killed on the 18th by his
older brother, aged thirteen years, who
shot the child's head off with o shotgun
with which he was playing
AT Richmond, md, on the 14th Dick
sinex, local tough, in a fight with John
Bristow, a wandering soldier, bit the lat
ter's nose off. It was an unprovoked as
sault.
The United States Supreme Court on the
18th awarded the executors of the will of
Myra Clark Gaines the sum of $50, 600.
This decision ended one of the most famous
cases on record, which had been In the
courts since 1884.
IT was decided in New York on the 14th to
erect amonument in city hall square to the
memory of Horace Greeley.
The United States Supreme Court ad-
journed on the 14th until October next
THERE was heavy fall of snow in Minne-
sofa and Dakota on the l4thL
coal miners of the Pittsburgh district,
which began two weeks ago, was settled
on the 14th.
E. Fl. PLATT and John Allen, the former
riding instructor and the latter hotel
keeper. started from New York on the 14th
to ride to San Francisco on horseback
The annual conference of the Hotel
Mems Mutual Benefit Association of the
United States was held in Chicago on the
l4th NJ. S. Gibson, of Portland Ore, was
chosen president for the ensuing year.
NEAR Henryvllle, Ind, two freight trains
coilided on the 14th. and both engines and
thirty cars were wrecked No one was in
iured
TIE Supreme Lodge of the Knights of
Honor met i'll sixteenth annual session on
fnle l4th at Indianapolis. The secretary
report showed total membership of 1877
oo,, divided among $500 lodges, which paid
$3,2l0,000 death benefits last year.
SAMUEL CUNNINGHAM, bachelor of Ga
lena, Ill, seventy years of age, was on the
18th sued tor $4,000 for breach OF promise
by Mrs. Louise Lebram, widow Of three.
score and ten.
MRS. c. F. NYGRES, of Star Lake, Minn.
dislocated her jaw on the 14th while yawn
ing. and was obliged to ride twenty three
miles to have it set.
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