Griggs courier., 1891-03-13


unanimously adopted thanking Vice President
Morton for the impartial manner in which he
had presided over that body. and in the house
Speaker Reed was the recipient of similar
thanks from the republicans the democrats re.
fusing to vote.
DOMESTIC.
PRESIDENT HARRISON on the Sd signed
the bill for the erection of q new mint
at Philadelphia. It was the Tooth an
niversary of the day on which Presi-
dent Washington signed the bill estab-
fishing the mint in that city.
BETTE SANDERS, an aged colored
woman, and her two grandchildren
died at Nashville, Tenn, from the eff
fects of poison put in tea which they
drank
The lumber firm of Henry w. Sage
s Co., of Albany, N. V, was defrauded
out of Ss75,ooO by Joseph Il. Abbott, a
trusted employee.
PRESIDENT RAE, Master Workman
Wise and others of the United Mine
workers, were arrested at Pittsburgh,
Pa, charged with conspiracy, riot and
assault for their connection with the
coke strike.
The body of Emma Abbott. the opera
singer, was cremated in Pittsburgh, Pa.
The ashes were placed in q jar and sent
to New York.
A NEGREss named Dayton confessed
at Denver, Col, that she murdered and
robbed James Wade at Kansas City,
Mo-, two years ago
w. e. LYMAN, Buffalo IN. W type
founder, said that an English and
French syndicate would buy all the
type foundries in the country.
The diamonds valued at $1S5, ,OOO)
presented by the khedive of Egypt to
the daughter of Gen. Sherman are to
be sold.
JOHN GOULD, a Philadelphia furniture
dealer, failed for 1926. 900.
GEORGE HATHAWAY was convicted in
Chicago of the murder of ex-Alderman
Whelan and sentenced to life imprison-
ment.
SEVEN laborers working on the Great
Northern railway extension in Mon
tana were frozen to death. The bodies
of five were recovered.
GTHE body of William Mullen, secre-
tary of the Miners federation, was
found frozen in the ice in a creek at
Geneva, Ind. He was short in his &C.
counts.
CORNWALL & Bros, dealers in soap
and candles at Louisville, KY, made
an assignment. The assets were $780,
600; liabilities, $177,OOO.
STATISTICS of the voting population
OF Chicago show slight preponderance
of foreign-born voters over those of
American birth.
"A STATEMENT prepared at the census
bureau IN Washington shows that the
total population OF Louisiana is 1,1ls,-
5s7. of this number 554,713 were
whites, 562,S93 colored, 62S Indians, 315
Chinese and 50 japanese.
SUPERINTENDENT SAR1N received at
Des Moines an elegant gold medal from
the directors of the Paris exposition,
the award of the Iowa school exhibit,
which was the best in the United States
department.
Six men were drowned near Prince
ton, KY, by the sinking of raft.
The Kentucky Union Lumber Co. of
Louisville failed for 100000.
A BULLETIN from the census bureau
shows that the increase during the last
ten years of the white race has been
"a per cent, while that of the colored
race has been Is per cent.
In the Fifty-frst congress 1908 bills
were introduced in the house and s, 129
in the senate. In the Fiftieth congress
1864 bills were introduced in the house
and 1900 in the senate. The bills that
became laws during the congress just
ended numbered 2,1s6. In the Fiftieth
congress 1924 were enacted. In the
Fittieth congress President Cleveland
vetoed 16l bills and joint resolutions,
while in the Fifty-frst President Harri-
son vetoed eleven. The total appro-
priations for the last congress will
probably reach 81 ZOO, ,O0O, 900. During
the session three senators and twelve
representatives died.
j. w. BUCHER, son-in-law and conf
dental manager of Ira T. Clement, one
OF the wealthiest business men OF
Northumberland county, Pa, is de,
faulter to the extent of $50, 900.
PRESIDENT HARRISON signed the copy
right bill wi:h a pen made from the
quill of an American eagle.
AN explosion occurred in the Noting.
ham colliery at Plymouth, Pa, three
men being fatally injured.
A GOLD medal was presented by the
government to Captain Alfred Mitchell
of Buffalo, N. Y, for rescuing thirteer
persons from the burning steame,
Annie Young, off Lexington, Octobe,
20, 1890.
AT Kansas City, Mo-, Kittie Lentz, :
years old, was accidentally shot ant
{ killed by John Phillips, aged Is years
LAWRENCE MURPHY, aged % years
died at bridgeport, Conn.,, of heart
failure. caused by excessive cigarett
smoking.