Griggs courier., 1892-03-25
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the Week Ending March FL

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For the Week Ending March FL.
An explosion of nitro-glycerine at
Susa. Switzerland, destroyed ten lives.
The floods in Spain continue Over
100 houses in villaverde have been de-
stroyed.
Flax can be raised in any part Of
Texas with more profit than can cot
ton, it is said.
Judge Sherwood. Of St Louis, has
declared the Missouri antitrust law un-
constitutional
BY the eruption of Ngauruhoe, an
active volcano at Taupo. 500 natives
lost their lives
The business portion of Homer, Ill. /.
and large number Of dwelling houses
were destroyed by fire.
The national bank note circulation
is now $l61. 900, 600, an increase of near
" $40. 600. 600 since July last
A 5-foot vein Of coal has been discov-
cred by, a farmer who was boring for
water near Marshalltown, Ia.
Franz Schneider. convicted of as
saulting and numbering eight servant
girls. was strangled at Vienna.
A fall of slate in the johnson coal
mines at Boone, Is, caught Anthony
Smell, who died from his injuries.
The power-house of the Mount Au-
burn cable road in Cincinnati was de.
stroyed by fire, the loss being 800. 0o0
Herman Desso and Carlin Pring and
his son were crushed to death by a fall
of rock in coal mine at Robertdale,
Pa.
A mob at Meridian, Miss, punished a
negro woman for misusing child by
administering $50 lashes on her bare
skin.
Yellow fever is raging at Rio
Janeiro. Brazil. There have been 775
deaths from the disease within a fort
night.
Over million pounds of. Galena ore
have been taken from the st. Rose
mine at Galena, H., and good ore is vet
in sight
A. w. Lang, of Amigo. Wis, injured
in a Milwaukee & Lake Shore collision
about two years ago, was given $1,000
damages by jury.
The depot of the New York, New
Haven & Hartford railroad in New
Haven, Conn.,, was almost destroyed by
fire. Loss, 100000.
A trust including the leading ribbon
manufacturers of the country was be-
ing organized in New York with a
capital stock of SEQ, 0,000,0 600
Mike Mccarthy, T. E. Doyle and
Dennis Shaunnessy, laborers employed
at q tunnel at Ivanhoe, Col, were fa-
tally injured by a snowslide.
The first execution in Switzerland
since 1868 took place at Lucerne. An
Italian named Gatti, who murdered
Mile. Degen, a teacher, was guillotined.
In st. Louis Mrs. Burke poisoned
her 2-year-old child and then poisoned
herself. Mr.. Burke had deserted his
wife. and this was the cause of the
deed.
A. B. Bailey, of Kenton, O.. is in Jail
at Toledo, O., for counterfeiting. He
was caught with newly made coins and
the material for making more in his
possession.
Rev. H. d. Benjamin, prominent
minister of Portsmouth, o., was found
in his room dead, hanging to an iron
bracket Temporary dementia caused
by illness was the cause.
c. w. Williams. of independence.
Ia, owner of Allerton, has backed cut
OF the agreement for big $4,000 race
at Grand Rapids He will not take
Allerton away from home.
Excitement was caused at Union
Landing, o., by the finding under a
dwelling house of over twenty skele-
tons, and more were in sight Tools
and trinkets were also discovered.
Great suffering exists in the colony
of Queensland, Australia, owing to the
stagnation of industry. Hundreds of
women and children were applicants
for government relief at Brisbane.
The body of Mrs. Anna Schultz, the
, woman of Taylor Center, Mich. who
mysteriously disappeared over month
| ago, has been found in hole under.
meath dead COW. The body was COW
cred with many marks OF violence, in-
dicating murder.
The great sugar deal that has been
talked of for two weeks past has been
consummated and the Philadelphia re-
fneries of Claus Spreckels, Harrison,
Frazier & Co. and E. G. Knight are now
in the trust. These acquisitions give
the trust absolute control of the sugar
market of the United States.
Three Hundred Hogs Killed In Wreck.
! GREzNsBCRa. Pa, March 2l.-A
!; west train on the Pennsylvania
{. was wrecked near here Sunday morn
ing, and few minutes later the
+; wreck was run into by an east-bound
+; freight Three hundred hogs were
killed and about 100 more injured so
badly that they will all have to be killed.
The greater portion of two carloads
of cattle were also killed The loss