Griggs courier., 1891-06-19
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the Week Endin1 :Juna TX

/
eral of the United States.
/ The value of the exports of domestic
breadstuffs from the United States
during May was S12,ssQ, sS1.
Secretary Proctor delivered diplomas
to sixty-five graduates at the military
school at West Point, N. Y.
Mrs. Charles Hoffman, of Cedarburg,
Wis. was burned to death Friday, her
clothing igniting at an open fire.
The Farmers Alliance of Otter Tail
county, Mimi, proposes to build rail-
road from Duluth across the state.
A new railroad is to be built to the
summit of Pixies Peak. The line will
be 25 miles in length, with a grade 1
foot in 20.
The Anaconda copper mine in Mon
tana has been sold to a foreign syndi-
cate, headed by the Rothschilds, for
100000. 900.
Oscar Lurnstrom, aged IA, and Peter
Winlund, aged 90, were drowned in
Paul's lake, near Cambridge, Mimi,
while bathing.
In fifty-six of the eighty-eight coun-
ties of Ohio farm lands have declined in
value from 5 to Is per cent during the
last ten years.
The grand lodge of Orangemen of
the United States in session at Detroit
elected w. j. H. Traynor, of Detroit, as
grand master.
Chief Justice Gooding, of Arizona, has
decided that the Edwards act against
polygamy applies to all the territories
as we'll as Utah.
The Maryland state central demo-
cratic committee has named July 80 as
the date for holding the democratic
state convention.
Cotton exports for May aggregated
2S4, 256 bales, valued at $11, 46O, ,9S7,
against 100, ,OOs bales, valued at S5, 146,-
.57, in May, 1890
The coroner's jury at Paris, Ill,
found that Thomas Benson was killed
by Elmer Farris. The latter was held
to the grand jury.
At Alum Cave, Ind, forty masked
men took John Beasley to the woods
and whipped him terribly with switches
for indecent conduct.
Oklahoma is said to be flooded with
counterfeit gold and silver pieces, and
the gold fives and tens could hardly be
told from the genuine.
A barge conveying 500 eonvicts to
Siberia sank in the Volga at Nijniil-
Novgorod, Russia, and over 100 of the
convicts were drowned.
j. N. Gilchrist, member of the last
Alabama general assembly, committed
suicide at Montgomery, Ala. Drink
was the cause of the act.
Fritz Getterup, a member of the Nav
Louise Agen Opera Company, was
drowned in the Minnesota river at
Henderson, Mimi, Saturday.
The training stables of Prior & Brown
at Mulvane, Kan, were burned, and a
number of horses, including three fine
stations, perished in the flames.
Wiley Carpenter and Japhata Wolf
were shot and killed Sunday by post
master named Bray in Hancock county,
Tenn. A lynching is in prospect.
Miss Emma Loup, living near Still
water, Mimi, saved the lives of two
young men, whose boat capsized while
they were fishing on Loup's lake.
The severest and hottest windstorm
ever known occurred in Huron, S. D.
The sand and dust came in clouds so
that people could not go on the streets.
j. w. Harris, superintendent of the
soldiers and sailors orphans home at
knightstown, Ind, committed suicide
at New Orleans by cutting his throat.
Two Poles named Andrew Kratows-
kis and John Maxim were killed by the
fast freight on the Reading railroad
near Mahanoy Plain, Pa, Sunday
night.
John e. Emery and Joseph salus,
both butchers. quarreled al Philadel-
phia, when Salus struck Emery in the
neck with cleaver, killing him in
stantly.
Bob Clark, mulatto, was taken
from Jail at Bristol, Tenn, Friday, by
mob and hanged He was charged
with crilninelly assaulting white
woman.
Henry Miller, sentenced to ten years
imprisonment for robbing the United
States mail at Arizona, escaped from
his guards while en- route to San Quen-
| tin. Cal.
Charles McGough and James Aulds,
two young white planters, were shot
dead near Farmersville, La, by mem
bers of a family named Jones, with
whom they quarreled.
Fri Gray, who is nearing his 1Osth
birthday, and is thought to be the old
est person in the state, has just been
taken from his little home at Roxbury,
N. Y, to the poorhouse.
Three prominent editors in Guate-
mala were arrested by order of Presi-
dent Barillas for criticizing his govern
ment, and were made to sweep the
streets with ball and chain locked to
their feet.
| The explosion of carload of gaso-
line near Newport, KY, Friday morn
ing illuminated the sky so brightly
that it alarmed the entire fire depart
ment of Cincinnati. The force of the
shock was felt for 10 miles around.
Found Guilty of Murder.
| LANCASTER, Wis, June 15.-The Jury
in the Rose Zoldoski case brought in a