Griggs courier., 1891-12-25

Senator Stewart spoke in favor Of free silve,
coinage The standing committees were an
nounced and confirmed. Bills were introduced
to amend the act OF the last congress author
tzing the sale of timber on lands reserved fol
the use Of the Menominee Indians In Wiscon
sin and to remove the limitation on errears Of
pensions Adjourned to the 2lst.
DOMESTIC.
Svow was said to be 1s feet deep in
parts of New Mexico
FIVE men held up q mail wagon in
Chicago and secured SO, 900 in cash and
100000 of non-negotiable paper from
the stock yards banks.
AN Indian at Cham berlain, y. D., was
granted divorce, the first case Of the
kind on record.
EDWARD M. FIELD, senior partner in
the firm of Field, Lindley, Weichers &
Co, brokers at New York, who failed
recently, was indicted for grand lar
ceny and was admitted to bail in the
the sum of $685.
A LOSS of $3.50, 1000 was caused by fire
at Florence, Ala.
The Hadfield Company, owners Of q
stone quarry and railway interests in
Waukesha county, Wis, assigned, with
assets and liabilities of about $4OO, 900
each.
The superior court Of New York de-
cided that Lillian Russell would have
to pay 1925. 50 for breaking theatri-
cal contract because she could not wear
tights in winter.
M1cH1GAN's output of salt this year
is $3.50. 900 barrels.
THREE beet sugar factories in Cali
fornia. which have been shut down for
the season. produced s,o7o,1S8 pounds
of sugar during the season. The total
amount Of bounty to be paid was
&161, 400.
THOUSANDS of cattle were said to be
dying of cold and starvation on ranges
in Montana
gan. was elected president of the
American Shipping and Industrial
league at meeting in Washington.
SEVEN persons died at Butte, Mont,
as the result of breathing the fumes
from roasting ores.
AN engineer and fireman were killed
and a conductor seriously injured in a
rear-end collision on the Chicago, Bur.
lington & Quincy railroad 10 miles
west of Ottumwa, Ia.
DANIEL MILLER made confession on
his death-bed at Blakesburg, Ia, that
he killed Chris McAllister ten years
ago at Ottumwa, for which crime Pleas
Anderson was lynched by mob.
JUDGE HORACE CLARK, of Mattoon,
ILL.,, was shot three times by Frank w.
Hornish. Neither wound would prove
fatal.
The north-bound flyer on the New
York Central railroal collided with a
switch engine at Newburg. N. Y, kill
ing the engineer and fireman of the ex-
press. Many of the passengers were
hurt. but none seriously.
DURING the first fifteen davs of this
month the pension Office at Washing
ton paid out 81. .00O, 900 in pensions.
GEORGE SE1DL, Bohemian farmer
living in Cherokee county, Kan, was
arrested for numbering his daughter,
aged 1S, and his son, aged %.
HENRY M. K1NaMAN, second vice
president of the First national bank of
Chicago, committed suicide at Grand
Rapids, Mich, through dependency
on account of ill-health.
MRS. MANUEL FORD and her infant
child, of Columbia, 8. c., were burned
to death by the explosion Of a lamp,
and Mr.. Ford was probably fatally in
jured.
THIEVES entered the jewelry store of
j. v. Zimmerson at Little RocL. Ark,
threw red pepper in the eyes of clerk
and made of with diamonds valued at
$1,000.
A sToNE-cUTrER at Roanoke, Va.
named Shelor, received word that his
wife was heir to S., 900. 900 by the death
Of an uncle in Scotland.
SECRETARY OF STATE BLAINE an.
nounced the conclusion of CONNER
cial reciprocity agreement between
the United states and all the British
West Indies islands and British Guiana.
l. G. DELoNE, Denton Duke and
Joseph Duke were killed at East Bar
nard. Tex, as a result of quarrel.
DR. BENTON STRANGE. of Savannah,
Ga. was fogged by a mob and given q
coat of ink.
Two MEN were killed and seven in
jured in wreck ON the Chesapeake &
Ohio railroad. near Anderson, w. Va
The steamer Prince Soltykoff. from
Barry to st. Naziare, was wrecked off
Brest and twenty persons were
drowned.
A BROKEN rail threw an express train
on the Pittsburgh & Fort Wayne road
from the track near Lima, O., and
three men were killed and twenty
other persons were injured, some
fatally.