Griggs courier., 1889-06-21

the 18th, and six whites were killed and
others wounded All were inoffensive
Swedes.
PATRICK A. WARD, sixty-two years old
and the most prominent Irishman in In
dianapolis, Ind, committed suicide on the
18th. Dependency was the cause.
A NATIONAL convention met in Detroit,
Mich, on the 18th, of divine healers About
sixty delegates were present and each man
and woman declared that he and she was
sick unto death and that faith made them
free.
w. B. BROOKS & Son, miners and shippers
of coal at Columbus, O., failed on the 18th
for $153,000.
WHILE drunk ON the 18th at Cayuga, ILL.,,
Joseph Nenne struck his wife, causing her
to fall and sustain injuries that proved fatal
two hours later.
BoNAFAc1o MARTINEZ, one of the most
noted desperadoes on the Mexican border
and Mexican revolutionist leader, was
arrested on the 18th at Rio Grande City, Tex.
MAJOR WYMAN w. STALEY, of Lansing,
| Major of the First Regiment, Michigan Ma
tional Guards, was killed by Chicago s.
| Grand Trunk trail. ON the 18th three miles
west of Lansing.
| AT delegate convention Of railroad
miners of Western Pennsylvania on the 18th
in Pittsburgh committee was appointed to
draft resolutions demanding that the coal
operators discontinue their stores
In collision of trains on the 18th near
Havre de Grace, Nd, two cars loaded with
provisions for the Johnstown sufferers were
| wrecked.
| A TERRITORIAL convention has been
called at Guthrie, Oklahoma, July II.
| GEORGE COFFEE, negro in custody at
Norfolk, Va, confessed on the 18th that he
set fire to the residence of Rev. F, G. Clarke,
| in which five lives were lost recently.
The contract for printing postal cards
for the next fiscal year was on the 18th
awarded to the Brodix Printing Company
of Washington.
JOHN PRICE and David Evans were fatal
~ injured on the 18th by the premature ex-
plosion of dynamite blast in colliery at
Scranton, Pa.
The American Relief Association, an or
ganization to succor and assist communi-
ties in distress or calamity of any nature,
was formed in Johnstown, Pa, on the 18th
by prominent Pennsylvania and Ohio
gentlemen, with General Axlinc, of Ohio,
as president.
AT the annual session in Denver on the
18th OF the international Typographical
Union it was decided to establish printers
home at Colorado Springs, Col, the citizens
having offered eighty acres of land near the
city as a free gift.
ANNOUNCEMENT was made OH the 18th that
castor-oil trust was forming in the West,
the capital stock to be between $40, 600
and $500, 600. There are but seven CASTOR
oil manufacturing plants in the country
AN old man claiming to be Christ and
showing scars on his hands and feet was on
the 14th predicting the end of the world on
August II, and preaching to the poor people
of Hinesville, Ga
SHARPERs, supposed to be from Toledo,
bunkoed Isaac Walker, wealthy farmer of
Poland. O., out of S., GOO in cash on the 18th.
The Standard Sugar Refinery of Boston on
the 18th purchased twenty-five thousand
tons of sugar in Cuba for So 100000.
DURING thunder storm on the l4th two
children of Lowen Emerson, prominent
carriage manufacturer residing at College
Hill, O., were struck by lightning and
fatally burned
DURING fracas on the 14th near Austin.
Tex, over the attempt of colored con-
stable to arrest white horse-thief, four
white men and five negroes were killed
and many others were wounded.
THREE colored men were hanged in
Georgia on the 18th, as follows: Alex
ander Henderson at cambridge for the
murder of Amos jackson and his daughter;
Will Dibell at Thomasville for the murder
OF negro named Lang, and John Pickett
at Leisburg for the murder of an aged
negro and his wife.
NATURAL gas was struck on the 18th at
Sullivan, Ind, ut depth of $50 feet The
citizens were greatly excited.
In q fire ut New York on the 18th Mrs.
Klachman, aged seventy years, and Esther
Goldberg, eleven years of age. were
burned to death, and the latter's mother
and Mrs. Ruth Kowsky and her little
daughter were fatally burned.
ALEXANDER SULLIVAN, of Chicago, charged
with conspiring to murder DR.. Cronin, was
admitted to bail by Judge Tuley on the
14th in the habeas corpus proceedings
Bail was fixed at $4,000.
AT Lima o., Bridget Welsh was fatally
burned on the 18th by an explosion of natu-
raj gas which had accumulated in the stove
in which she was attempting to light q fire.
The total assessment value of all rail-
roads in Nebraska, as fixed by the State
Board of Equalization on the 14th. was
SG9. Isl, 325, an increase over last year of
81, ,O00.OOO. The total mileage is placed ut
5,O31.94.
AN Italian boy of eight fell into sewer
at Baltimore on uhe l4tll, and when search
was made no trace OF him could be found
JOHN HILLMAN. of Lawrence. Kan, who
was supposed to have been killed several
years ago. and whose wife received SAC, ,OUO
from the life insurance companies, was az
rested at Tombstone, A. T., on tho 14th
A PORTION of the new pontoon bridge
across the Missouri river at Sioux City, Ia,
was swept away by the current on the l4tll
AT Niagara Falls on the 14th an unknown
woman about forty years of age committed
suicide by jumping from Race way Point in
Prospect Park. Her body was swept over
the American falls and was recovered on
the Canada side. At the point where she
jumped she left on a bench a parasol, sill
yer flask and shawl
SQu1RE J. c. MELoNE, one of the oldest
magistrates in Kentucky, dropped dead of
heart disease while testifying in court at
Louisville on the l4th
THOMAS B. WHITE. Cincinnati saloon
keeper, was on the 14th convicted of violat-
ing the Sunday closing law, and was SEN
fenced to twenty days in the worA-housc
and fine of one hundred dollars.
FRANK PABsT, school director of Kinks
vile, Mo !, was shot and killed by his brother