Griggs courier., 1891-12-25
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Oy tne return OF about $6OU, QUO to thu
company by MIR. Hoey.
w. +. FITZGERALD was hanged a
Youngstown, O., for the murder Of Of
ficer w. Freed on May is last.
MCDONALD Bros, extensive lumber
men and shipowners at La Crosse
Wis, failed for $3.50, 1000.
AN explosion Of gas at the Cameron
colliery near Shamokin, Pa, fatally
injured two Italians and four HunRari.
ans.
A PASSENGER train on the Southern
Kansas railroad was wrecked by de.
fective ties near Cherryvale, Kan, and
twenty.six persons were injured, three
fatally.
AT meeting Of the Sabbath Union,
in Des Moines, Ia, Col. Ellie tt F. Shep
ard. of New York, was reelected pres.
ident for the ensuing year.
EDWARD MuLDooN and Hugh Reilly
were killed at the Manville (Pa.) coal
mine by fall of coal.
JOHN L. FERGUSON, Eookkeeper in
the National bank of Kansas City. NO.,
was arrested for embezzling $40, 900.
The explosion of sawmill boiler at
Ridgeville, Ind, killed William Wise,
William Collett and James Clawson,
and fatally injured Isaac Nicholson
and Oscar Jones.
The baseball war has ended by the
formation of twelve-club league. The
twelve cities of the new combination
are: Boston, New York, Brooklyn,
! Philadelphia, Baltimore. Washington,
Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati,
Louisville, st. Louis and Chicago.
The newD rexel institute of industry
was formally dedicated at Philadel-
phia. Anthony j. Drexel has given
81, 100000 for the establishment of the
institution.
The Union Mercantile Company of
Pennsylvania, doing business at Easton
and other places, failed for over
$3.50, ,00o
AT the leading clearing houses in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 18th aggregated ST.
2ss. 46s, ,9Sl, against $1,2l3, $40, ,S72 the
previous week. The increase as COM
pared with the corresponding week of
1890 was 1876
Four alleged leaders of gang that
had been flooding Philade phia with
counterfeit money were arrested.
The dead bodies of William l.. Sprep-
gins and George Holiday, brothers-in-
law, were found buried in brush heap
near Brier Creek, Tenn.
FREIGHT trains collided in tunnel
near Catawissa, Pa, and Engineer
Fisher and Fireman Smith were killed.
In the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the 18th numbered 335. against 800 the
preceding week and 404 for the corre-
spending week last year.
A FIRE in the wholesale millinery
house of Porter, Donaldson & Co., in
Pitts burgh, Pa, entailed q loss of
$3.50. 600.
1T was reported at Omaha, Neb, that
the Chicago & Northwestern road had
issued orders to discharge all their en-
ployes who were members Of the Order
of Railway Telegraphers and refused
to withdraw from that body.
The editors of the national prohi-
bition party press met in Chicago and
organized National Prohibition Press
association, with James Lamont of
Rockford, ILL.,, as president.
MICHAEL HARVEY, a maniac, shot
and killed John Connerton and wound.
ed two other persons in Brooklyn, N.
Y, and then took his own life. ..
BY an explosion at the Busk tunnel
near Leadville, Col, three men were
killed, two seriously injured and q
number of others hurt
A GANG of silver coin counterfeiters
who had been operating in Texas for
many months past were nearly all
captured.
AT Roaring Springs. KY, Ben Davis
shot James Dunn dead and fatally
wounded John Dunn, his brother. The
killing was the outcome of an ancient
feud.
New YORK tobacco importers, it was
claimed, had swindled the government
out of over $2,O0O,O0O in duties within
the last few months.
WRIGHT POLAND and his wife were
m urdered in their home at Buckhorne,
La, by Jack Smith, with whom Po
land had quarreled.
MRS. SOPHIE RoMPT, who was serv-
ing her fftieth term in the Paterson
IN. J.) Jail for drunkenness, has been
left fortune by the death of her
father in Germany.
AN unknown tramp was lynched in
Emmett county, Ark. for assaulting
Miss Bette McGough, school teacher.
Two NEGROES suspected of the muir.
der of young Parramore in the streets
of Branford, Fla, were lynched by q
mob.
The Federation of Labor in conven-
ton at Birmingham, Ala, passed res
olution favoring woman's suffrage
to the constitution. Sam
mel Gompers was reelected president
GERTRUDE KuNKLE, aged ls years,
was burned to death and her father
fatally injured by the explosion of a
lamp at Knoxville, Pa.
GEORGE w. CH1LDs has presented al
most his entire collection of rare prints,
autographs, etc., valued
at 500, 900, to the library of the Drexel
institute in Philadelphia.
RAY RICHARDS and John johnson,
two boys, were drowned while skating
at Deer Isle, Me.
AN ancient Indian hnrvinor orony,d