Griggs courier., 1890-10-10

cooPERSTOWN N. DAKOTA.
Epitome Of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
CONGRESSIONAL.
TIE Senate agreed to the conference report
on the tarif bill on the 30th ult by y vote of SO
, to S7.... In the House joint resolution was
passed appropriating $4,000 to enable the
Postmaster General to test st small towns and
villages the system Of free delivery The Sen
ate bill was passed establishing customs col.
, lection district in the States of North and
South Dakota.
IN the Senate on the lst the tariff bill, en-.
rolled, was received from the House with the
Speakers signature, and it was Immediately
signed by the Vice President and sent to the
President. Mr.. Morton then thanked the SEN
ators for their uniform kindness to him and de-
clared the Senate adjourned sine die 90. In the
House the resignation of James L. Wheat as
postmaster OF the House was received and &C.
cepted. A Senate concurrent resolu ion was
agreed to requesting the President to enter
into negotiations with the governments Of
Great Britain and Mexico for the prevention Of
the entry Of Chinese laborers into the United
States. Speaker Reed then declared the first
session of the Fifty first Congress adjourned
without day.
DOMESTIC.
In fit of jealousy George ]. Jones,
living near Athens, o., shot and killed
his wife and little babe in her arms.
The entire business portion of One
onta. Tenn, was destroyed by fire.
rONsNfTrTIu rorort moo <o1 -
the Mississippi constitutional conven-
tion in session at Jackson in favor of
asking Congress to repeal the fifteenth
amendment to the Federal constitution.
The Western Association baseball
season closed on the 30th ult., the Kan
sas City club winning the pennant,
with Minneapolis second and Milwaukee
third.
The Census Bureau gives the popula.
tion of the city of Detroit, Mich, at
205, 1850, an increase of 80, 329 in the past
decade.
NJ. H. Jusrus. of Oakland City, Ind,
was bunkoed out Of So, ,00U at, Evansville,
Ind.
The Census Bureau gives the popula-
tion of the State of Georgia at 1884
1856; increase in the past ten years, 292, >
1s8.
CHARLES A. BENSON, the alleged mur-
derer of Mrs. Mettman at Leavenworth,
Kan, last March, who was literally cut
to pieces, has been arrested in Camden,
N. j.
THE mail on the stage line between
Eureka Springs and Harrison, Ark, was
w0h nod hyrk k,vr
thing stolen and carried of.
The steamer Wyoming arrived in
New York with $50 mormon proselytes,
forty of whom were young girls. There
were also four Mormon elders.
ALcYoN, q 3-year-old stallion owned
by Dr. John Wilbur. of Palmer, Mass,
and valued at $4,000, was burned to
death in barn near Iowa City, Ia
CHARLES McELvA1NE, convicted of
the murder of Christian w. Luca, q
grocer. was sentenced at Brooklyn, N.
Y, to death by electricity in Sing Sing
prison during the week beginning the
18th of November next.
The Supreme Court of Minnesota has
decided that upper berths of sleeping
cars unsold to occupants must remain
closed.
DURING the past nine months upward
of 8, 900 new manufacturing enterprises
of all kinds have been started in the
South.
SEVEN men were injured, one fatally,
by collision between gravel and
freight train near Bangor; Me.
The Iron and Steel Institute was
opened at New York on the 1st with an
address Of welcome by Mr.. Andrew
Carnegie. Delegates were present from
all over the world.
THOMAS O'CoNNoR, who had served
twelve years on life sentence in ths
Saltwater (Minn.) penitentiary for kill
ing his nephew, has been pardoned on
condition that he leave the State for
ever.
The first training school in this coun-
try for deaconesses of the Episcopal
church was opened in New York on the
lst.
JAMES HERR1NGToN, a pettifogging
lawyer, was taken from Jail at Bakers
Vile, Cal, by masked men and given a
coat OF tar and feathers.
The statement of the public debt is
sued on the 1st showed the total debt
to be 1850, 500, $50; cash in the treasury,
S679, 1896, 1856; debt less cash in treasury,
ss7O, ,973, 132 Decrease during Septem-
ber, $4, ,5S2, ,90S Decrease since June 30,
1890, $26, 494, sl3.
PRESIDENT HARRISON on the 1st
signed the tariff bill.
WHILE driving across the railroad
track at Maskinonge, Que.,. Mrs. Dosta-
Ter. Mrs. Piche and Mrs. Heroux were
struck by an engine and killed.
THREE counterfeiters who had been
flooding Michigan with bogus silver
dollars have been captured at North
Lansing.
The New York Central railway has
declared open war against the Knights
bf Labor.
THOUSANDS of acres of timber, grain
snd buildings have been destroyed by
prairie fires in the vicinity of the Black
Hills in South Dakota.
ERNEST HUMPHREYS (colored) was