Griggs courier., 1890-05-16

RSS00U III t00 60u6t0 Oh Luo VIZ 0nQ the army
appropriation bill was considered. ;. In the
House bills were passed increasing the pension
Of Brigadier General Ayers to S75 per month
and giving Mrs. Della 8. Parnel pension OF
80 month. A bill was introduced declaring
ehat any person who shall desecrate the Ma
saonal flag, either by printing on said flag or
attaching the same to any advertisement for
public display, shall be guilty Of misde.
0eanor. The tariff bill was further discussed
DOMESTIC.
@ NJ. BURT and his bride, of Fairfield,
EsA, were suffocated by gas ON the 9Th
In hotel at Grand Island, Neh They
were on their wedding tour.
BROKER JAMES BURT, of New York,
on the 9th secured verdict of $12,5O0
against the Boston Advertiser for libel.
The works of the Singer Sewing-M
chine Company at Elizabeth, N. j., were
burned on the 9Th, causing loss of
100000 and throwing $500 persons
out of work.
The town OF Latham, ILL.,, was almost
entirely destroyed by fire on the 9th.
AT the LIE Grande Hotel in Chicago
on the 9Th Alonzo Edwards and his
wife, of Lake Villa, I'LL, were asphyx-
lated by gas.
A. +. SEEBERGER was chosen treas
urer and w. K. Alderman auditor of
the worlds fair directors at meeting
in Chicago on the 9th.
REPORTS received on the 9th from
the ''fruit belt" OF Michigan were to the
effect that the coming peach crop was
practically total wreck.
LAURA GRIM, aged 10 years, living at
Alliance, O.. was seized with hydro.
phobia on the 9th from being bitten by
. dog seven years ago.
The British steamer Wingates, Cap
tain Thompson, with a crew of thirty
men, which sailed from PHILADELPHIA
March %, bound for Copenhagen, was
given up as lost on the 9th.
AT Foxboro, Mass, man named
Cromack shot and killed his 13-year-old
daughter on the 9th and then killed
himself.
GOVERNOR Bo1Es, Of Iowa, issued a
proclamation on the 9th appointing May
30 as holiday, and urging citizens to
join in decorating the soldiers graves.
FROM 1000 to $4,000 coal miners, en-
ployes of the Northern Illinois opera
tors struck on the 9th for higher wages.
Mrs. MARY PENN, of Huntsdale, Pa,
fatally shot her 6-year-old daughter on
the 9Th because she did not comply read
lily with request to do something.
The bill to abolish capital punish
ment was defeated in the New York
State Senate on the 9th.
THE reported lynching of c. M. Miles,
the attorney who killed DR.. Pritchard
at Coldwater, Kan, was on the 9th found
to be untrue.
AT Ashford, Neb., Charles Clark shot
Miss May Mcintyre on the 9th because
she would not marry him and blew his
own brains out. Both were wealthy.
FLAMES on the 7th at tMiddlesborough,
KY, burned the livery stable of c. E
Clay, and twenty-six fine horses were
Cremated.
A YACHT containing twenty people
capsized in the Ohio river at Wheeling,
w. Va, on the 9TH and only ten of them
were rescued.
AT Richmond, Va, the truck contain.
ing the statue of General.Lee was hauled
through the streets by ladies and chill.
dren on the 7th.
The worlds record for twelve hours
OF heel-and-toe walking was broken by
John Meagher at Detroit on the 9Th.
when he made sixty-seven miles, with
fifteen seconds to spare. The best time
previously was IL hours and A seconds.
The Metropolitan Council of the Irish
National League of New York on the
9TH denounced President Fitzgerald, OF
the league, and other leaders as traitors.
A. +. LANCASTER, q young real-estate
agent OF Philadelphia, disappeared on
the 7th. He was charged with embezz,
ling about $4,000
GOVERNOR FIFER, of Illinois, ON the
18th pardoned Samuel Elkins, who had
served twenty-four years in the peni
tentiary on a charge of child-murder
It having been discovered that the child
was now living in Kentucky.
The New York Central Railroad Com
pany on the 7th issued an order that nj
trains must be provided with fuse sie
mails for night use and torpedoes for da,
use, to avoid collisions.
A SYNDICATE on the 7th purchased the
big plant Of the F. A. Kennedy Cracke
Co ny Of Cambridge, Mass, paying
ther1lor the sum of 81, 500, 600.
A NAN named G. F. Rich, who ha
been stirring up strife among laborer
I stS tens, y. c., was given twenty-flv
lashsk on the 7th by q crowd Of mer
white and black, and driven from tn
I town.
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