Griggs courier., 1891-03-06

nre, involving q loss OF $lVU, UUO.
EIGHTY soldiers were in the hospital
and four deaths had occurred at Fort
Logan, Col, from the grip.
Four persons were killed in q wreck
on the Richmond division Of the Pan
Handle road at Hagerstown, Ind, and
a large number Of passengers were
wounded.
Four of party of five lato torcrs in
search of work were frozen to death in
the Two Medicine mountains in Ion.
tana.
The bill recently passed by the Ar
kansas legislature providing for sep.
arate coaches on railroad trains for ne
groes has been signed by Gov. Eagle.
WALTER DIE, aged II years, of Van
dalia, Mo-, was killed by lightning
while standing in his fathers yard.
The town of Fennville, Mich, was
almost entirely destroyed by fire.
WILLIAM WEST was hanged at Wash
ington, Pa, for the murder of the
Crouch family May ID, 1890. and Henry
Marsh was executed at Ebensburg, Pa,
for the murder of Clara Jones at Gallit-
zin July 6, 1890.
The twenty third annual convention
of the National American woman suf-
frage association convened at Washing
ton.
In landslide at Berry, VT, hundreds
of tons of earth were hurled down and
many dwelling houses were wrecked or
damaged.
DIR. BLANC, chief sanitary inspector
of the state board of health, announced
that there were in New Orleans twenty
five fully-developed cases of leprosy.
ABOUT 1000 Wichita, Caddo, Della
ware and Kechis Indians, near And
arko, A. T., were reported as continu-
ing the dances which commenced dur
ing the Sioux troubles.
Mrs. Ed. CLARKE and child, Superin-
tendent RopeI and Engineer B. F.
Smily were buried beneath a snow
slide at Irwin, Col.
WARRANTS to the amount of SIS, ,OOO,-
900 on account of pensions were signed
at Washington by Assistant Secretary
Nettleton.
The Kansas house by vote of - to
~ defeated the proposition to resubmit
the prohibition amendment.
| SECRETARY NOBLE issued notice that
all persons found on the Cherokee strip
or other Indian lands would be removed
by force and theirrights to acquire pub
lie lands forfeited.
AT the national conference in Phila-
delphia of school superintendents reso-
lutions were adopted indorsing the COM
pulsory education law, commencing the
principles of civil service as applied to
the teachers of public schools, and rec
ommending the retirement and pension
ing of teachers after service of thirty
years.
DURING the year 1890 over 10000 inn
migrants arrived at New York, Italy
sending the largest number.
THREE men were run over and killed
by railway hand car at Santa Cruz,
Cal.
The steamship France from Liver
pool reached New York four days over
due and badly battered. A succession
OF gales was encountered throughout
the passage. The second officer was
swept overheard.
AT Fort Edward, N. Y, DIR. Crandalls
house was robbed of $40 in gold.
MAJ. J. B. HICKS, an old settler and
one of the Mexican war veterans, was
found dead in his bed at his home near
Monticello. I'LL
In the stomach of cow killed at
Seymour, Ind, were found silver
half dollar, lot of needles and pins,
several large bones and over one-fourth
of pound of horseshoe and other nails.
The COW was apparently healthy.
| ABRAHAM GuMP, of Fort Wayne, Ind. !,
who wagered with Col. Geary that he
could fast thirty days, gave up after
fasting twenty-five days and losing
twenty-four pounds.
In the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended
on the 27th ult. numbered 29O, against
295 the preceding week and sol the corre-
spending week last year.
AT Tacoma, WASH, j. c. Arnold, a
guard, and two prisoners, Charles OLE
son and Charles Barrett, were drowned
by the capsizing of a sailboat while at
tempting to reach the mainland.
A GANG of burglars blew open the
safe in the Mulvane (Kan.) post office
and carried off all the cash and stamps.
AT Bonneville, Mo-, w. H. Lawrence,
who confessed to wrecking passenger
train last November, was sentenced to
five years in the penitentiary.
THE coolest weather of the winter
was sweeping down over the north
west, the thermometer ranging from
to 40 degrees below zero.
AFTER a strike lasting two. years the
striking glass blowers at Glassboro N.
| j.. were returning to work.
AN explosion of gas in iron works at
Pottstown. Pa, caused several tons of
hot metal to flow over several men, and
fifteen We're terribly burned.
AT Pine Bluff, Ark, q daughter of
Frank Rufus (colored) picked up an ak
and killed her father during quarrel.
Ex-JUDGE Bono, of Decatur, Ind,
while under the influence of liquor shot
his son Roland, aged % years, inficting
fatal wound
| EVERY building except two in the
village of Yuma, A. T., was swept
away by floods. In Tia Juana, Cal,
not building was left standing on it's
foundation and several persons were