Griggs courier., 1889-05-24

a HALL anu Wlnu-SCOrm on the l4th 010
great damage in the vicinity of Norfolk and
Portsmouth, Va The vineyards and Or
chards suffered severely, vines and trees
being cut terribly md the fruit destroyed
A swath Of five or six miles broad was cut
through Norfolk and Nansamond counties
by the storm. Barns were blown down by
the wind and many horses and cattle were
killed The losses were placed ut 81 ,0OO, :
co.,
A GALE on the 14th at Lumberton, n. c.,
unroofed many email houses and utterly
obliterated the crops
AT sale of trotting stock In Cleveland,
O., on the 14th Suisun, a bay mare, was
bought by John Madden, of Lexington, KY,
for $4,000.
A s1x-DAY walk in San Francisco was
ended on the 18th James Albert, the win
ner, making 533 miles; Gurrero, second, 525
miles
In family quarrel on the 18th at Marion,
Ind, Charles Hupe, aged seventy-two
years, shot his daughter-in-law, fatally
wounding her. He was arrested
The bill prohibiting the importation of
ed in the New York Legislature on the 18th.
GEoRas W. RICHARDS, superintendent of
the Santa Fe mines at Carthage, n. NJ, was
murdered by two Mexicans on the 18th and
robbed of $1,000 which he had just received
to pay the miners
The next meeting of the National Ed
ttorial Association will be held In Detroit,
Mich, August 27-3o.
A VALUABLE tin mine was discovered ON
the 18th twenty miles from Topeka, Kan
The Wabash railway was sold in Chicago
on the 18th by order of Judge Graham to q
committee representing majority of the
bondholders for Sl5, ,50O, 100.
TIE celebration of the seventy-fifth anni-
versary of the American Baptist Missionary
Union was begun in Boston on the 18th.
The union has constituency of nearly
7Oa, 600 church members. and is the largest
missionary society in the world.
In fit of insanity on the 18th John
Schroeder, German saloon keeper at In
dianapolis, murdered his wife with q razor
and then killed himself
GENERAL ADNA ANDERSON, of Sing Sing,
n. Y, aged sixty years, and one of the best
known railway men in the country, COM
mitted suicide on the 18th at Philadelphia
by shooting himself in his room at hotel
The cause for the deed was unknown.
| BLINDING snow-storm prevailed all over
Northern Wisconsin and Michigan on the
18th.
JOHN HOWELL, sixty-one years old, no.
torious crook and horse-thief from Noble
County, Ind, whom vigilance committee
came near hanging at one time. completed
a seven-years' sentence in prison on the
| 18th, but was again arrested for some old
offensa.
ABOUT five hundred dollars in counterfeit
ten-dollar bills were circulated in Rush
Vile, Ind, on the 18th by two strangers
They travelled in buggy, and left town be-
fore their game was discovered.
S. J. CoFFMAN. of Greensburg, Pa, lately
received White Cap notices. On the 18th his
barn was fred and the throat of valuable
horse cut.
A PECULIAR accident happened on the
18th at Pana, Ill, by which Thomas Gregan
lost his life. A strong gust of wind blew
an empty coal oil barrel into the Springside
mine, where several men were at work. Ft
fell two hundred and twenty feet, striking
Grogan on the head and killing him in
stantly.
The Ohio Sons of Veterans at Cincinnati
on the 18th elected William E. Bundy
Colonel He is a son of ex-Congressman
H. S. Bundy.
TEE Worcester Theater at Worcester,
Mass, was destroyed by fire on the 10th,
and the company filling an engagement at
the time lost $l1, ,0O0 in costumes, scenery,
| etc.
JAMES DoHAN, of Maltby, Pa, killed his
wife with an axe on the 10Th and then took
his own life Domestic trouble was the
cause.
SEvENTEEN-YEAR locusts had made their
appearance on the 10th in Middle Tennes-
see, and grave fears were entertained for
the safety of vegetation.
IT was reported on the 10th that star fish
were making heavy depredations on the
oyster beds in Long Island Scum l.
| The Methodist Episcopal bishops of the
United States commenced their semi-an-
nual meeting at Delaware O., on the 10Th.
IT was reported ut Duluth, MINI, on the
10th that the Sarnta Line steamer United
Empire had been burned The boat was
valued at 100000
ADv1cEs of the 10th report the loss at sea
off Cape Blanco of the iron side-wheel
steamer Alaskan, of the Oregon Railway &
Navigation Company, and the loss of five
of the crew. The steamer was valued at
1854, GOO.
Two THOUSAND employees of the National
Tube Works Company at Mckeesport, Pa,
vance in wages.
AT Loveland o., on the 10th Robert Day,
a young farmer, while drunk shot and
killed his aged father, fatally shot his
divorced wife, and then set fire to the place
Day was arrested.
EIGHT men were injured, three probably
fatally, in an accident to work tram ear
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 10th
IT was reported on the 10th that so.eme
was being perfected for long distance tele-
phoning which contemplated the connec-
tion by telephone of st. Paul, Minneapolis,
Omaha. st. Louis and Kansas City with each
other, and with the East through Chicago
AT the State council in Lynchburg, Va,
on the 10th of the Protestant Episcopal
church it was voted to exclude the colored
people from place in its councils.
STEWART BROTHERS packing house at
Council Bluffs, la, wars burned on the 10th.
Loss, sllN,O0O
JOSEPH PELz who keeps restaurant at
Horton, Kan, was taken from his home by
two hundred men on the 10Th and given
seventy-ive lashes on his bare back for
bruta'ly beating his step-daughter.
/ The one hundred aud first annual session
of the general assembly of the Presbyterian
church was begun in New York City on the
10Th.
A HEAVY hail-storm passed over Clinton,
Ia on the 18TH stones Six iu chas iu ojroy,,,,