Griggs courier., 1889-06-21
of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC.

The Edison electric light companies were
on the 11th consolidated under the name of
the Edison General Electric Company. The
capital is $4,000
THREE drunken men jumped off Balti-
more & Ohio freight train on tho 11th near
Suter, Pa. just as an empty engine passed
in the other direction, and all were killed
TIE arrest was announced on the 11th of
Uric Dulac, chief of band of outlaws who
had been terror to the towns and villages
on the Name Canadian border.
Ar Dalton, Ga, on the llth s. E. Fields,
State Senator. was shot and killed by his
stepson, Dennis Taylor, whom he attempt
ed to chastise.
A STORM Of wind and rain on the 11th
in New York City and Brooklyn did consid-
cradle damage, and three persons were
killed by lightning.
11th to wreck and rob passenger train on
the Louisville 4 Nashville road near Falk.
ville Ala.
A THUNDERSTORM in New England on the
d1th caused heavy damage, especially in
New Hampshire towns. Roads were washed
out, wires lcveled and houses wrecked by
lightning.
The international Typographical Union
opened its thirty-seventh annual conven-
tion on the 1lth at Denver, Col
j. D! HAGGERTY, q witness at the Cronin
inquest in Chicago, swore on the 11th that
Alexander Sullivan told him in 1855 that
DR. Cfonin was traitor to the Irish cause
and should be exterminated. The Jury
found that Daniel Coughlin, Patrick O'Sulli-
van, Woodruff and Alexander Sullivan were
either principals or accessories to the mur-
der. Alexander Sullivan was arrested in
the evening and placed in Jail.
AT Meriden, N H., on the 11th Lucian
Freeman killed his mother, Mrs Daniel
Freeman, and neighbor, John Morgan,
with an axe. He was insane.
HIGH water was doing great damage in
Indiana on the 11th. In Owen County two
thousand five hundred acres of crops were
Clay and Greene counties it was estimated
that over ten thousand acres more were
Inundated.
WESLEY CLARK and Harrison Blackburn,
both colored were hanged on the 1lth at
Aberdeen, Miss, for the murder of Major
Pat Hamilton last December
Ross ScHooNovER, a wealthy farmer Hv-
ing near Kewanee. Ill, was swindled out of
$1,000 on the 11th by two men who pre-.
tended that they wanted to buy farm.
ADvIcEs of the 11th from Shepherdstown,
W. Va, say that great desttution existed
in that neighborhood among the canal boat
men on account of the recent food.
IT was stated on the l1th that in October,
1888, Miss Emma Bond, victim of the out
rage at Taylorville, ILL.,, in 1852, was mar
ried to c. E. Justus, young wood mer-
chant of Hepler, Kan, and that the wedding
was kept secret until recently
AT HolyoAe, Mass. one of the canal banks
gave way on the 11th, undermining the
foundations of the Cabot mills, which
collapsed, causing \ 'oss of slOO.WO.
SETH MURRAY Il l:i.slrr aged fifty-five
years, living nc.ss ,incennes, Ind, and
having five or six children, became Jealous
of his wife on the 18th and shot her and
then killed himself
IT was said on the 1lth that Rev. NJ Alley,
of Phillips, Wis. had invented an apparatus
for burning water
WHILE crossing the railway track at
Louisville, o., on the 12th Lawrence and
Edward Streb, business men, and two
Catholic orphans naned Seifert whom the
Strcbs had adopted, were struck by an ex-
press train and all instantly killed
The special grand jury impaneled in Chi
cago to act upon. the verdict of the cor
oner's fury in the Cronin murder case began
taking testimony on the 18th.
THE Bank Of Wahpeton, d. T., closed its
doors on the 18th
A MINE cave-in on the 18th at Wilkesbar-
re, Pa.. made cracks in some of the prin-
cipal buildings and caused gas to escape in
great volumes. The men and boys in the
mine underneath the city narrowly escaped
The loss to property owners was placed at
83oO,OOO
The work of restoring order in Johnstown
passed into the hands of the Pennsylvania
State officials on the l2th, with Adjutant-
General Hastings in charge. The report Of
the registration bureau showed nearly thir-
teen thousand persons yet unaccounted for.
The New York State Sunday School Asso-
citation in session on the l2th at Albany re-
ported 1888 Sunday-echoos in the State,
l0S e72 teachers and officers, 949, Ais scholars,
and u, 2228 conversions in the year.
COLE YOUNGER, the desperate, reported
drowned in Wyoming. was in the State
prison at Saltwater, Mimi, on the 18th with
his two brothers.
AT their meeting in Milwaukee on the
10Th the Millers' National Association
elected F. L. Greenleaf. of MinneaHolis.
president.
The Massachusetts Legislature ON the
18th passed a bill making it penal otfense
to dock horses tails.
a FlRS OH Ghe l.th at Gr1nnell, Ia, de-
stroyed forty-one buildings, causing loss
OF from $50, 600 to sa30. COZ, partly insured.
REPORTS OF the 18th from Minnesota were
to the effect that forest fires were doing
much damage. AT Ely from twelve to
fifteen buildings had been destroyed
The steamer City of Pekin which arrived
In San Francisco on the 18th from Hong
Kong brought news of the burning of the
city of Luchow, and ten thousand people
we're said to have lost their lives in the fire.
FOREST hres were sweeping south and
west OF Superior, Wis, on the 18th, and up
to date over 100000 worth of pine had
been destroyed
The Michigan monuments ON the battle
field at Gettysburg. Pa, were dedicated on
the 18th
JAMES DEAv1N and Charles Tennyson
were lynched at Corydon, Ind, on the 10th
by two hundred masked men, for robbins
the residence of James lie May and serious
~ shooting him.
AN armed mob attacked the Jail at Hunts
vile, Tenn, on the 18th and secured E. R.
Reynolds and Thomas J. Lloyd and hanged
them to the limb of tree Their crime was
the killing of Mrs. j. Harness and her son.
W. B. ROBERTS, Governor Hovey's private
secretary, who was sent to Brczil, Ind, to