Griggs courier., 1891-08-14

Ar the ffty-second annual convention
Of the Beta Theta Phi fraternity a,
Lake Chautauqua, Prof. j. C. Gordon,
OF Washington, was chosen president.
d. w. HAYDocK, carriage manufac.
turer of st. Louis, made an assignment.
with liabilities of 100000.
PRESIDENT HARRISON restored to cit
izenship Levi Coins, veteran OF Rob-
ison, ILL Coins had been wrongfully
imprisoned for fraudulently endeavor.
ing to obtain a pension.
Gov. BUCHANAN, of Tennessee, is.
sued proclamation calling special
session of the legislature to take ac-
ton in regard to the revision of the
convict labor laws.
| FIRE destroyed the Hutchinson COOP
erage works at Peoria, Ill This was
the third time the buildings had been
destroyed by fire. The loss was over
$115.OOO.
AT the third and last days session of
the Grand Army of the Republic a. De.
troit Capt. John Palmer, of Albany, n.
Y, was elected commander in chief,
The proposition to institute separate
camps for colored veterans was de-
feated.
Mrs. WALTER BEEBE, of Council
Bluffs, Ia, jumped from a carriage as
the horses were running away and was
fatally hurt.
AN infringement of patent was the
reason for attaching property belong.
ing to the city of Boston to the value Of
$500, 1000.
LIBERTY SNOoKs, farmer near
Humeston, Ia, was shot and instantly
killed by Dick Gwinn, as the result Of
family quarrel.
A HEAVY hailstorm passed Crooks
ton. Minn., laying waste and destroy
ing grain from Marin to Hixon, a strip
S miles wide by IA in length. Every
thing was destroyed and there would
be no harvesting in that belt of coun-
try this season.
IT was said that the village of Com
ance, Ia, had been entirely destroyed
by fire.
FATHER QUAY, the Catholic priest of
Snohomish, Wash, was tarred and
feathered by mob of citizens. He
was accused of immoral practices.
In the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the 7th numbered 2sl, against 247
the preceding week and 20s for the
corresponding week last year.
JAMES s. FULLER, a veteran 60 wears
old, of Otisville, Mich, committed sui
eide at Detroit while attending the en-
campment.
The Blymer Ice Machine Company
of Cincinnati has assigned. Liabilities,
$s20, 200.
Rev. DR.. SHERWOOD, an evangelist
from Florida, was arrested at Omaha,
Neb., for having six negro boys as
slaves. 1t was said that they were
treated with great cruelty. He would
be charged with violating the fifteenth
amendment of the constitution.
For assaulting a child of 8 years,
James Thoroughbred, colored man,
was hanged at Dover, Del.
The secretary of the United States
treasury was advised that an attempt
was to be made during the present
month to rob the treasury by an organ
ized band of men.
WHILE shooting his brother, who was
crazy and who had attacked him with a
knife, a planter named Huff, of Willis,
I. T., shot and mortally wounded his
own wife. The crazy man was killed
with three bullets from Winchester
rifle.
SHOOTING and killing his prisoner
was the cause of the arrest of the city
marshal of Carbondale, ILL.,, on the
finding by the coroner's jury that the
killing was unjustifable. The victim
was the son of Rev. o. N. Clark. The
young man had been drinking and re.
sisted arrest.
THEODORE DENNIS, of Boston, was
elected president of the National AS
sociation of Letter Carriers.
FRED LEwICH, one of the editors of
the Western Poultry journal, YVES
drowned at Cedar Rapids, Ia, while
bathing in the Cedar river.
j. w. SHowALTER, of Lexington,
KY, won the United States Chess asso-
cations championship prize.
DIR. w. w. WALKER, of New York,
was elected president of the American
Dental Association at Saratoga, N. Y.
al OCAcCds NcU., d Train SLruCk q
buggy, killing A. H. Burnett and Miss
Frances Fuller. Two women and two
children were seriously hurt
AFTER about twenty-five years of
litigation the supreme court Of Cali
fornia decided that the Sanpablo ranch
of $4,000 acres must be divided among
several hundred owners.
NEAR Debeque, Col, passenger
train on the Denver Il Rio Grande
railway was swept from the track and
nearly buried by landslide. No one
was hurt.
Mrs. SUE A. SANDERS, of Delaware,
ILL.,, was elected national president of
the Woman's Relief Corps at the Detroit
convention.
A TRAIN on the Santa Fe railway
struck a buggy near Leavenworth,
Kan, killing Mrs. Lonsdale and NOR.
tally wounding Miss Powers and Ray
Powers.
LOUIS BCLL1Na. the wife murderer,
was sentenced to death at Savannah,
NO.. for the third time. The date was
fixed at September 4.
Two WOMEN were instantly killed in
an electrical storm near. Winnipeg.
Man.
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