Griggs courier., 1890-05-16

A GANG Of thieves who had stolen
| goods valued at over $25, 900 from freight
cars were arrested on the 7th at Pitts
burgh, Pa.
EXPRESS trains collided In Allentown,
Pa, on the 7th, and Miss Emma Hail. q
passenger, was instantly killed and ten
other persons were more or less seri.
ously injured.
A CYCLONE on the 7th badly damaged
the villages Of McRea, Camilla and Ty.
Ty, in Georgia, and several persons
were injured.
FoRrY houses at Scranton, Pa, were
burned on the 7th, rendering $50 per
sons homeless. Loss, $500, 900.
A NATIONAL convention in favor Of
free silver coinage will be held ut Car.
son, New, May 90.
FIVE bodies Victims of the food one
year ago) were found on the sth by
workmen at Johnstown, Pa Two oi
them were . mother and child clasped
in each others arms
FRosTs on the Sth In the vicinity ol
Wabash, Ind, did great damage to veg.
citation.
The Pandora levee near Benton, La.
broke on the sth. and the water swept
down over q large area of country, in
volving heavy losses to hundreds OF
planters.
AT the session in st. Louis on tho sth
of the general conference of the M. e.
church South resolutions were adopted
denouncing dancing, card-playing and
theator-going and in favor Of prohibit
ing members from signing dram-shop
petitions.
The Chenango County Insane Asylum
at Preston, N. Y, was Aburned on the
Sth, and nine insane persons perished
in the flames.
INSPECTOR EBERso1D, of the Chicago
police department., narrowly escaped
death on the 8th from the explosion Of
torpedo which was thrown at him by
some person unknown.
Four Greek workmen were fatally in.
jured at Braddock, Pa, on the sth by q
new smokestack falling on them.
In the New York Assembly on the Sth
concurrent resolution proposing pro-
hibition constitutional amendment was
passed by vote of &C to Al.
REV. GEORGE M. GREEN, one Of the
bestknown ministers in Arkansas, was
accidentally shot and killed in Saline
County on the Sth by his brother, Mar
tin Green.
JOHN D. DAVIS and William Morgan
were killed by fire damp on the sth in q
coal mine near Mahonoy Plane, Pa.
Two SISTERS named Mcdonald, aged
Q and 12 years, were drowned on the Sth
at Portland, Ore.
The town of Columbia, Tex, with the
exception of one street, was under water
on the Sth and railroad traffic was sus-
pended.
AT the annual meeting of the New
York Civil-Service Reform Association
on the sth George William Curtis was
reelected president.
AT Charleston, s. c., on the Sth the
diocesan convention of the Episcopal
church adopted an amendment exclud-
ing colored members from seats on the
floor.
The boiler of an engine drawing .
freight train exploded on the Sth near
Wellington, Kan, killing the engineer
and fireman and 1875 cattle.
NATHAN WILLIAMS, of Staunton, Ind,
who in nine months spent in dissipation
500, 900 left him by his father, was taken
to the poor-house on the 9Th.
IT was reported on the 9th that the
Pennsylvania Railway Company had
made cash contribution of $275, 600 to
the Chicago worlds fair fund.
DAVID Stokes (colored) died on the
9th in R ockingham County, N. c., from
the bite of cat.
HIGH water on the 9th swept away
$40, 900 log boom at Bangor, Me.
The Iowa Supreme Court decided on
the 9th that the sale of original liquor
packages in the State was legal.
MAsuEY & Sons large paint factory
at Brooklyn, N. Y, was burned on the
9th. Loss, 100000. -
A TERRIFIC tornado passed north of
Blythedale, Mo-, on the 9th, completely
wrecking dozen houses and as many
barns and outbuildings. The family Of
Henry Young were all injured, Mrs.
Young fatally.
THERE were 209 business failures in
the United States during the seven days
ended on the 9th, against 211 the pre-.
vious seven days.
CONSTANTINE ScHAEFFER a farmer
living near Chester, Minn., murdered
his wife and child on the 9th and then
killed himself. The cause of the trag.
edy was unknown.
THOMAS LYNCH, one of the Rochester
IN. w detective force, and a man
named Samuel Stoddard had dispute
over fence on the 9th, during which
Lynch shot and killed Stoddard and his
wife.
AFRE1GHr train dashed into herd OF
horses on the 9th near Andover, N. D.,
killing eight of them, wrecking the
train and fatally scalding Engineer Joe
Dixon.
JOHN M. W1NsrED shot his wife and
himself through the heart on the 9th
at Ouray, COL, in an alteration over
money.
The Providence Or. I.) school board
decided on the 9th to Danish the Bible
and devotional exercises from the city
schools.
w. E. DuBo1s, negro, won on the
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