Griggs courier., 1892-01-29

duced for public buildings at Sterling and Dix.
on, Ill, and for the purchase of the Sturgeon
Bay and Lake Michigan ship canal Adjourned
to the 25th.
DOMESTIC.
PETE BAKER was murdered near
Fort Smith, Ark, and the neighbors
suspecting his wife and a man named
johnson OF the crime tied them to-
gether and hanged them with the same
rope.
HENRY JOHNSON, a locomotive engi-
neer OF Chicago. murdered his wife
and committed suicide at Peoria, Ill.
Domestic trouble was the cause. The
couple had only been married four
months.
NINE persons, three Of whom were
from Chicago, were injured in wreck
on the Omaha road at Shepards, Wis.
UNKNOWN persons blew up portion
Of the Standard Oil Company's pipe
line near Woolwich, Pa, and cut the
company's telegraph wires.
A PASSENGER train on the Frisco
line was wrecked near Woolsey's,
Ark. and eight persons were badly
hurt.
The collections Of internal revenue
for the FIRST six months of the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1892. were S477,-
l24, 800, being an increase of 81. .427, ,s47,
rs compared with the collections for
the corresponding period of last year.
A RIOT occurred at a Hungarian we'd
ding at Uuited. Pa, in which Stephen
Logani and Marco Lonzo were NOR
tally wolnded and the bride, Mrs
John Sofranki, seriously hurt.
Will STEVENS. a memb ber of the firm
OF Weatherby & Co., of Cincinnati, was
said to be short $4,000 in his accounts.
Ar Five Points, O., John Burton, re-
covering from the grip. fell in a faint
while walking, and while unconscious
his hair tarned white.
LUKE 11ERNoN, st. Louis tinsmith,
claims one-fifth of billion dollars
worth OF real estate in the heart of
Chicago
A. N. DoE, ex-treasurer Of the Bay
State League Of Boston. was charged
with en- bezzling $15,e1e from the
league.
F. G DAVENPORT, of Boston, importer
of tin plate. sheet iron and metals,
failed for $500. 900.
MRS. fREDER1cKA OLEsoN and her 2
year-old daughter, Fredella, were
burned to death in their home in Chi
cago. anil another child, a boy years
old. was fatally burned.
A sLEleHING party was run down by
an engine at q crossing near st. Louis
and nine men were killed and six 9TH
ers were badly injured.
The firm of H. B. Claflin & Co, of
New Yoek, charge Charles Weatherby
and w. A. Stevens, their agents in Gin
cinnati. with embezzling over $40, 600.
FIRE in the barns of the electric
street railway at Toledo, O., destroyed
el50,00O worth Of property.
The nude in art will be suppressed
st the coming annual exhibition of the
philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts
THE Burnside breaker at Shamokin,
Pa.. owned by the Reading Coal and
Iron Company, was destroyed by fire,
causing q loss of 500, 600.
The supreme court of Ohio has re.
fused q new trial to w. ]. Elliott, the
editor and murderer, now serving out
. life sentence.
IT was estimated that Texas cattle
men would lose $1,000, 900 as result
Of the recent blizzard.
AT the Retreat poorhouse near
Wilkesbarre, Pa, is q Polander named
John Mica who has been sleeping for
thirteen months and shows no signs Of
waking up.
The official statistics Of the anthra-
cite coal production in the United
States for 1891. just made public, show
Z the shipments from the mines to have
been 44,446, ,3S8 tons. The wear was
the greatest in the history of the trade
and the production exceeded that of
1890 BY 4.5os. 18l tons.
The Harvest Stove Company at
South Pittsburgh, Tenn, failed for
$4,000.
BusnEss in Grand Rapids, Mich,
vEas practically paralyzed BY the burn.
ing out of the telephone exchange.
CONGRESSMAN MILLS, of Texas, has
resigned his Craftsmanship appoint
/ ments in . letter to Speaker Crisp.
"A VEIN Of coal Of good quality 14}<
feet in thickness was struck at Mo.
brara, Neb.
MEyDEz COHEN, Of Baltimore, wa.
chosen president Of the American So
aiety Of Civil Engineers ct Nav York
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