Griggs courier., 1892-08-19
The News Condensed
important Intelligence F,om All Parta
DOMESTIC.

CH1LI mas Sl&0lne0 ner 1nGent1On TO
, send commissioners to Washington for
the purpose of arbitrating claims by
Americans against that country.
HENRY RICHER and Fred Floto, aged
81 and 10 years, respectively, were
drowned in the lake at Michigan City,
Ind.
The eleventh reunion of the national
encampment Sons of Veterans convened
at Helena, Mont.
JOSEPHINE DELvEAux was killed by
lightning at Green Bay, Wis, and the
same stroke made her brother deaf.
MRS. ]. c. FITZPATRICK, Of Dubuque,
Ia, died in dentists chair while under
the influence of chloroform.
HARVEY KENYON, a wealthy farmer
at Waldo. O., was fatally shot by his
son George. The old man was intoxi-
Gated, and he began abusing his wife,
finally striking her with a club, when
the son shot him.
EIGHT persons were drowned by the
swamping OF a ferry sloop near Charles
ton, S. @.
RoADMAsTER CORNWALL, of the Monon
route, was fatally injured at Crawfords-
vile, Ind. by John Sullivan. a dis
charged section boss.
JUDGE JAMES c. NoRM1LE, of the St.
Louis criminal court, committed suicide
at his home by taking poison because
of newspaper attack upon him. DIR.
Walter Cole and DR.. NJ. Tolheie, WELL
known physicians, also took their own
lives in the same city. No cause known.
HENRY CLAY KING, the murderer of
David H. Poston, will not hang on the
18th at Memphis, Tenn, Gov. Bu-
chanan having committed his sentence
to life imprisonment in the Tennessee
penitentiary.
THE Schenectady IN. W knitting
Company, of which w. c. Schermer-
horn is president, failed for $125, 900.
A PASSENGER train on the Santa Fe
road was wrecked when near Peters,
burg, COL, and forty persons were in
jured. twelve seriously.
The great pageant of the twenty
fifth triennial conclave of the knights
templar took place at Denver. Col.
THERE was great excitement at Noun
tain Home, Idaho, over the discovery
of fabulous rich gold-bearing quartz
lodges in the Dixie district.
LIZZIE and Bertha Shultz were drlv-
ing in Fairmont, Neb.. when their
horse ran away. The girls were not
injured, but shortly after both dropped
dead.
ST. PAUL and Minneapolis were del
uged with counterfeit one and two-dol-
lar silver certificates and silver quar-
ters.
r. L. RAsBERRY, bartender shot
and killed n. Simons, his employer, at
Talladega, Ala, and then took his own
life.
A LANDSLIDE occurred on the Central
railroad near Whitesburg, Ga, and
three negro laborers were killed and
two fatally wounded.
ABOUT $50 of the largest preserve and
jelly manufacturers of the United
States and Canada are said to have
formed a combination, with capital
of $l2,000,0OO, for the regulation of
prices and output.
The supreme grove of the Order of
Druids in session at Paterson, N. j.,
elected Lewis C. Schord, Of California.
supreme arch.
IT has been decided by the treasury
department. at Washington that a for
eigner who makes contract in this
country to work here and then returns
to his own country cannot come back
to the United States for the purpose
of fulfilling the contract without vio-
lating the provisions of the alien con-
tract labor law.
WHILE being taken to jail at Cam
den, Ark, Rob Jordan, negro accused
OF attempting an assault on a white
woman, was seized by masked mob
and shot to death.
L. b. SALE and two sons were
drowned in Fox river at Green Bay,
Wis. The boys got beyond their depth
and the father going to their rescue all
were drowned.
Gov. BUCHANAN's Communication Of
the death sentence of Col. H. Clay King
so aroused the indignation of the peo-
pie of Memphis that they hanged the
chief magistrate of Tennessee in efiey
and then burned the dummy.
Mrs. MARTHA KEsIER, a Milwaukee
(Wis. } woman, visiting at Eagle Lake,
Minn., poisoned her month-cld babe
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well and drowned him.
On June 16 Frank Vogt fell from q
scaffold at Massilon, O., injuring his
spine. He had partaken Of no solid
food since the accident and died of
starvation.
The famous Frenchmen's mine,
which has been lost for thirty years,
was found by Mexican prospectors
about 80 miles from the new camp Of
Harqua Hala, A. T.
- FIRE at Lorain, CAL. destroyed six
buildings, and Mrs. u. u. Howe and
three men were burned to death.
HUGH McCuRDY. of Corunna, Mich,
was elected grand master of the
knights telnplar at the conclave in
Denver, and Boston was chosen as the
place for the next meeting.
CRUISER No. II was christened the
Marblehead at Harrison Loring's ship
yard in South Boston before large
gathering.
THE Jefferson iron works at steuben.
Vile, o., refused to treat with the Anal
gamated association, and as result
the men left in q body. A long lock-