Griggs courier., 1890-10-10

Two MEN entered an express car on
the Cincinnati, Sandusky s. Cleveland
railway near Urbana. o., tied the mes
and escaped.
| AT meeting of the National Civil.
Service Reform League in Boston
George William Curtis was reelected
president.
In the ten months session of the last
Congress President Harrison sent to the
Senate 1887 nominations, Of which all
but twelve were confirmed.
AT East Liverpool, O., Teemer defeat
ed Hanlan in one.mile sculling race
for purse of $1,000
| A COMMITTEE reached Denver, COL,
to solicit aid for settlers in the eastern
part OF the State. Crops there were q
total failure, and many families lacked
the necessaries of life.
NEAR Saratoga, N. Y, James Denton,
rich farmer aged IS years, shot his
wife dead and then killed himself. He
was temporarily insane.
A MAN known as 7. j. Henderson died
at the house of Mrs. Pannell, near
Birmingham, Ala On his death-bed
he confessed to her that he was Charles
William Quantrell, the famous Missouri
outlaw, who was supposed to have been
killed in a fight with Federal soldiers
in Kentucky near the close of the war.
THE Census Bureau announces the
total population of the State of New
Hampshire to be 375, S27; increase, 2S,-
1856.
THE business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the Sd numbered 1917, against 219 the
preceding week and 2O8 the correspond
ing week last year.
SAMUEL ECK's three little children
were fatally burned at Topton, Pa.
They we're locked in the house during
their mothers absence, and the build
ing took fire.
MICHAEL MoR1AR1TY, 10 years old,
died of hydrophobia at indianapolis,
Ind, after suffering convulsions for
three days.
The Oxnard Beet Sugar Company be-
gan operations at Grand Island, Ne..,
and in twenty-four hours turned out 800
barrels of refined sugar ready for
market
ACTING INDIAN COMMISSIONER BELT
has instructed the agents of the various
tribes to allow no more Indians to en-
gage in the "Wild West" show business.
AT Chewalla, Tenn, five men were
instantly killed by the explosion of a
saw-mill boiler.
GENERAL business throughout the
country is reported in a highly pros
porous condition BY New York COM
mercial agency, special feature being
freedom from unhealthy excite ment re-
sulting from speculation.
DURING the first nine months of 1890
there have been $3.50 miles of new
roads added to the railway mileage of
the United States.
In New York the grand jury indicted
the board of walking delegates of the
building trades which ordered the brick
boycott last July.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY GRANT, of the
War Department has written to Secre-
tary Butterworth, of the Worll's Co.
lumbar Exposition, authorizing in the
Governments name every use and en-
largement of the Lake Front requested
by the management, thus confirming.
absolutely the dual site of the exposi-
tion.
AT Marlboro. Mass, two children of
Nelson Dion, aged and years respect
lively, were burned to death by the ex-
plosion of a lamp.
w. l. MARTIN, aged 80 years, was
hanged at Raleigh Courthouse. Md,
for the murder of his wife.
IT is announced that when Congress
reassembles Postmaster-General Wana-
maker will advocate the reduction of
letter postage to one cent.
THIRTEEN colts broke out of an in
closure in Lancaster County, Pa, ran
down railroad track and all were
killed.
CHARLES WILLIAMS, a colored boot
black of Bridgeport, Conn.,, has fallen
heir to fortune of over $50. 1000.
CATERPILLARs have eaten every leaf
from twenty-five acres of oak trees near
Kalamazoo, Mich. The worms were
moving westward.
The Ottumwa Qa.) baseball club has
won the pennant in the Illinois and
Iowa League.
Mrs. ELLIS JoL1IE. of Chicago, found
in Providence, R. l., daughter for
whom she had been searching eighteen
years.
The potato crop in Northern Michi-
gan Was said to be the largest on record.
THE local United States authorities
! at Boston, Mass, have begun a stringent
enforcement of the new lottery law.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
MRS. ANNIE G1LRoY died of old age at
her home in New York on the 30th ult.
She was born in Fermanagh. Ireland, in
1883.
The nominations for Congress on the
30th ult were: Ohio, Fifth district