Griggs courier., 1889-06-21

CAPTAIN FRANCIS ALEXANDER, a we'll.
known ship builder. died ut his home on
Staten Island, N. Y, on the 10th. The lat-
ter years Of his life had been devoted to IN
creasing the trade between Gulf OF Mexico
ports and tho United States.
PRESIDENT HARRISON will leave Washing
ton the latter part OF June for Deer Park,
Md, where he will spend his summer vaca-
ton
MRS. ESTHER RHoADs, the oldest resident
of Bartholomew County, Ind, died at Harts-
Vile on the 11th, aged one hundred and
one years.
The National Democratic Committee met
in New York on the 18th and elected Calvin
s. Brice as chairman.
WILLIAM w. SIMPSON, postmaster at Sill
yer Springs, Md. eighty-six years Of age,
was married on the 18th to Mss Winnic r.
Willis, who Is but nineteen years of age.
iowa Republicans will meet in State con-
vention at Des Moines on August IL to nomi.
nate State officers
CHARLES WILLIAMSON, q survivor of the
war of 1919, died at his home in Winona,
Minn., on the 18th, aged nincty-nine years
DR. ANDREW SIMoNDs, reputed to be the
richest man in South Carolina, died on the
18th at Charleston. He was worth So, OO0,-
co.,
The Kentucky Republicans will hold q
State convention July to nominate a can
didate for Treasurer in place of John Bar
rett, who has declined to run.
BENJAMIN WATSON GoopspEED an eccen-
trio citizen of North Pittston, Me-, who had
been voluntarily fasting for five weeks,
died on the 14th.
j. LEAMAN, said to be the oldest Odd Eel
low in this country, died ut Chico, Cal, on
the 14th. He was charter member of the
1919.
Rev. WILLIAM n. ScHALL, d. D., of Cana
joharie, N. Y, the Oldest English Lutheran
clergyman, died on the 14th, aged eighty
years. .
JAMES STUBBs, wealthy salt manufact-
urer, died suddenly at New York on the lsth
FOREIGN.
THE town of Sebaraz, in Austrian Galicia
was almost entirely destroyed by fire on
the 10th. and many lives were lost
AT Vile Nouville, France, rejected
suitor murdered farmers daughter, this
father, mother and man servant on tho
10th.
THE Dominion Government decided OIL the
10th to remove the export duty ON logs
eleven inches and under cut in Canada bv
American lumbcrmen and hauled to mills
on the American side
The outlook for tho Russian harvest was
reported to be bad Oh the 10Th.
The Russian authorities on tho 10th SEN
fenced forty-one students OF the Cracow
University to three days imprlsonmenta and
ing Polish airs while ON IN excursion to
Oitlzoff
A PLOT was discovered at Belgrade on the
18th to dethrone the young King of Servia
AN excursion train laden with Sunday
school scholars was wrecked on the 18TH
near Armagh, Ireland. and seventy-two
persons were killed and many others i'll
jured. Most of the killed ranged from six
teen to twenty years of age.
A LETTER received at Zanzibar on the 18th
from Ururi. on Lake Victoria Nyanza,
stated that Stanley, the explorer, was there
on the I'd OF December last
J. & H. TAYLOR. dealers iii railway and
engineering supplies at Montreal, Can,
failed on the 18th for $i35,0GO.
AT the races on the 18th ut Bellcrbeck,
Eng, the crowd became so excited that
they pushed one another OIL to the course,
and many were run down by tho racers and
four We're killed
SIA THOUSAND dock 1aDOrefS az Glasgow,
Scotland. struck on the 18th for higher
wages.
The Canadian order OF Odd-Fellows in
session on the 18th at Toronto voted down
a motion to provide for the eligibility of
colored men for membership in the order
LORD ADE18ERr PERCY CECIL. the evan
gelist, was drowned on the l3:ll in the Day
of Quinto, near Adolphustown. Ont Lord
Cecil was q son OF tho second Marquis OF
Exeter, and was born in 1S4l.
The works Of the Canada Powder Corl-
pany near Brockyillc, Ont, We're blown up
on the 18th, killing a number OF sheep and
horses and wrecking windows in the town