Griggs courier., 1891-07-03
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

For the Week Ending, Juno 30.
Corbett defeated Donohue in the sin
gle scull race at Hamilton, Can.
Frederick Dengler, an eccentric
miser, died at Lima, O., worth $50. 900.
San Francisco was shaken by slight
earthquake shock but no harm was
done.
Zinc works are to be established at
Dubuque, Ia, by a company with ST.
600, 900 capital.
Alley Bros. & Place, leather dealers
of Boston, have assigned with liablli-
ties of $50O.OO0.
The coffee mill of E. Levering & Co.
at Baltimore, Md, was burned causing
a loss of $4,000
Clarence Becker, lad II years old,
was drowned in Rock river, near JAMES,
vile, Wis, Thursday.
Gotlieb Muenter, living near Month
cello. Ill, was gored to death by q
vicious bull yesterday.
Capt. Shaw, who for many years has
been the head of the London fire bri-
gade. has resigned his office.
White Oak mine at Morissa, ILL, has
been damaged to the extent of $25, 900
by the caving in of the sides.
The firm of Kimball Bros, manu-
facturers and dealers in carriages at
Boston, has failed for 100000.
In a quarrel over girl at Pleasure
Ridge Park, KY, White Seward and
Sidney Smith were fatally shot.
Brakeman Mcguire was killed and
Conductor Grubb severely injured in a
railroad wreck near Waverly, Ill.
The Turkish government it is said
will refuse to give its consent to the
Russian Jews settling in Palestine.
A tornado swept over Harrington, N.
j., and several houses were blown
down and number of trees were up
rooted.
David Boyle, the inventor of the first
ice manufacturing machinery, died at
Mobile, Ala, of heart disease, aged 81
years.
Gebhardt Burkey, citizen of Bloom
ington, ILL.,, was thrown from buggy
during runaway in that city and
killed.
/ A cloudburst in Cherokee county,
N. c., flooded farms for miles, and Har-
vey Agnew and Jack Newton were
drowned.
Judge Bartlett, of New York, made
an order dissolving the sugar trust and
appointing receivers for the various
companies.
Twenty foreign men of war are now
lying in the Yang -Tse- Kiang to pro-
tect Europeans from the outrages of
the Chinese.
A freight train plunged into swollen
creek near York, Neb., and Engineer
Delaney, Fireman Bean and brake
man were killed.
Moliere Lange, wealthy colored
philanthropist of Baton Rouge, La, is
dead. He was II years old and left a
fortune of 100000.
The st. Louis & San Francisco rail-
road filed at st. Louis a $50, 900, 900 gen.
eral mortgage on its property in order
to make improvements.
An imperial ukase in reference to re-
cruiting for the Russian army places
the number of recruits for 1891 at 262,-
400, against 21a,0OO in 1881.
Col John L. Brady, one of the Oldest,
/ wealthiest and most progressive citi-
zens of Texas, was stricken with apo
plexy and died at Houston.
| Harvey Mullens and Riley Cooper,
two notorious West Virginia moon
sinners, were captured by government
officers in Buchanan county.
Mrs. Richard Mclaughlin committed
suicide at Cheboygan, Mich, by jump
Iv1Sp into <tA nsxy0r
balanced from a recent illness.
According to Japanese official re-
turn the population of the country was
~, 072,0 ,020, of which 2O,245,33 were
males and 19,s25,6 were females.
The stables and car house of the
Newburyport & Amesbury Street Rail-
! way Company were burned at New
buryport, Mass, the loss being $780,
| 900.
The Connecticut supreme court has
handed down an opinion in the suit of
Gov. Bulkeley's secretary, recognizing
Bulkeley as governor, and that his acts
stand.
John Baachtl, a student of law at
Vienna, while sparrow shooting acci-
dentally killed his own sister, where
upon, in despair, he blew his own
, brains out.
Louis Hepburn, of Wichita, Kan.
was accidentally killed Saturday. He
was standing beside stack of wheat,
when "a man on the pile dropped q
pitchfork on him.
Edward Mcmillan, of Wilkesbarre,
Pa, who murdered his wife last Feb
ruary by boring holes in her flesh with
red-hot poker, has been convicted of
murder in the first degree.
Gov. Hovey, of Indiana, has paroled
Sylvester Bassett, subject to his good
| behavior. He was serving an eighteen
year term in the penitentiary for mur-
dering his brother three years ago.
In the village of Schrein, Silesia, q
coachman named Tost arose in the
night, shot his sleeping wife and three
children and then committed suicide by
hanging. Loss of work made him de-
spondent.
Silas H. Gardner, of Brockton, Mass.
who was injured in the Old Colony rail-