Griggs courier., 1891-08-14
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Pant.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
The grand jury of New York city in-
dicted the editors and publishers of all
New York city morning newspapers
except the Tribune. charging them
with misdemeanor in publishing details
of the execution of the four murderers
recently killed at Sing Sing.
The fifth anniversary of the murder
of Rev. George c. Haddock, who was
killed on account of his efforts to en-
force the prohibitory law of Iowa, was
celebrated at Sioux City under the
auspices of the Law and Order league.
A SENSATION was created at Beatrice,
Neb., by an announcement made by
William Wymore, an old citizen Of
that county, that he saw in south
western Kansas John Cameron, for
whose murder jackson Marion was
hanged over four years ago.
The treasury department reports that
the total receipts from customs during
the month of July were ss, 49,, ,2s2 less
than the receipts during the same
month last year.
The failure of A. B. Stockwell, once
noted millionaire speculator, was an
nounced on the New York Consolidated
Exchange.
ROBBERS who broke into the safety
deposit vault in a bank at Kinsman,
O., carried away sixty private deposit
boxes, $1,000 in silver plate and large
amount of other property.
The death of George X. Anderson,
register of the United States land Of
fee at Folsom, Col, occurred at Trini-
dad. He was once wealthy operator
in oil in Pennsylvania.
JOHN G. HOWELL, prominent Cali
fornia politician, killed r. j. Colvin, q
young stenographer who was an aspi-
rant for the hand of his daughter.
CATTLE men in the Indian territory,
on the Cheyenne and Arapahoe noun
tains, were fined one dollar per head
for all cattle now within the lines. The
trespassing cattle number between
100000 and 100000.
AFTER robbing the mails for over q
year, during which his stealings must
have amounted to several thousand
dollars, Carrier Henry e. Barlow was
arrested in Chicago.
THE president approved the finding
of the retiring board that examined St.
John F. Meigs, U. S. N, for retirement
on account of color blindness, and he
was placed on the retired list of the
navy.
LATER accounts from Lake Charles.
La., place the number of killed in the
recent riot at Locke, Moore & Co. 8
tram works at fourteen, with sixteen
wounded.
AT the second days session of the
Grand Army of the Republic encamp-
ment at Detroit, Commander-in-Ch Chief
Veazey in his annual address recon-
mended the establishment of separate
departments for colored camps. Wash
fngton was decided upon as the next
place for holding the annual meeting.
HE White Star line steamer Ma
jestic which reached New York made
the trip across the Atlantic in five DAYS,
eighteen hours and eight minutes, the
fastest time on record.
MISS NELLIE BOISE, daughter of the
circuit judge of Salem, Ore. and Will
liam Steel, son of Postmaster Steel, of
Portland, were drowned while bathing
at Long Beach, Wash.
IT was reported that nine men were
killed and sixteen wounded in battle
between cattlemen and outlaws near
West Lake. La:
Grange, Ark, confessed to having MUIR
dered three men during his lifctime-a
detective, farmer and book agent.
SAMUEL FREEMAN, prominent mer-
chant at Lawrance, Kan, killed his
wife and 1-year-old child, and then fred
a bullet with fatal effect into his own
brain. Domestic trouble was supposed
to have been the cause.
The east bound mail train on the
Ogdensburg & Lake Champlain rail-
road collided with returning Sunday
school excursion train at Champlain
station. N. Y, killing five persons and
fatally injuring ten or fifteen.
A PASSENGER train was wrecked on
the Grand Rapids & Indiana railroad
about 2H miles north of Kalamazoo,
Mich, and sixty-two passengers were
injured
MRS. o. W. CAss, wife of merchant
bf Aurora. Neb., in a fit of temporary
insanity saturated her dress with kero-
sene and then set fire to it and was
burned to death.
A cnOUDBURsr near Harrisburg, Pa,
inundated factories and flooded the sur.
rounding country. doing great damage.
WILLIAM ANDERSON dropped dead at
the breakfast table in Passaic. N. j.,
John Humphrey died in an electric car
at Atlantic City, N. j., and George Nc
Allister died in q bath house at Cape
May, N. j.
A TERRIFIC hailstorm in the vicinity
of Howard, s. d., did great damage to
the wheat crop. 1t was estimated that
from 10000 to $4,000 bushels of wheat
were destroyed. @
ROBERT H. MURRAY, who was recent
" released from the Jeffersonville
IInd.) penitentiary. was arrested at
Louisville, KY, charged with the mur-
der of a sister of charity who had
nursed him during an illness, and who
refused to marry him.
The twenty-first annual convention
of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union
of America convened in Washington
on the 5th.
AT the Auburn IN. W state insane
asylum seventeen insane convicts over
powered their keepers, secured the