Griggs courier., 1892-01-29

who killed c. G. Diefen baugh for pur-
suing his wife, has been acquitted Of
murder.
NEAR, Port Huron. Mich. several
barns belonging to F. A. Beard were
burned, together with eighteen horses
and thirty head of cattle.
In Buchanan county, Ia, has been
found in large quantities the peculiar
limestone used SO extensively in litho-
graphic art and which at present is
obtained only in Germany.
The oil field of Indiana, like the gas
field, was assuming immense proper
tions, and new wells were continually
being drilled.
w. II. DANF0RTH and his sister. Mrs.
Martha Davis, were found frozen to
death in their house at Athens, Ala.
GEORGE DARBY's livery stable. to.
gether with thirty-nine horses, was
burned at New York.
A,F1RE in New York did about $780,.
! 900 damage. Schneider & Campbell,
| Bentano Brothers and Charles e. Bent
ley were the heaviest losers.
SEVERAL business blocks in Colum.
bia, NO., were burned.
The executive committee of the Ma
tional Editorial association has select
!! ed San Francisco, May IL, for the next
meeting of the association.
The barn of William 8. Hull at
Grand Rapids, Mich, was burned, and
the trotters Acmon and Eagle Bird and
gray PAGER were cremated. Acmon
alone was valued at $2O,O
The Rio Grande frontier was covered
with snow for the first time ever
known.
FLAMES destroyed the Cedar Bluff
college at Franklin, KY. The sixty fe-
male students escaped.
JAMES BRENNAN, the slayer of Sam
Wood, was released at Hugoton, Kan,
as an unprejudiced jury could not be
found in Stevens county.
The total foreign commerce of the
port of New York for the calendar
year 1891 was 81. .O40, ,667, ,425.
| ARTHUR SLOANE, an escaped MUIR
derer who killed his step-father and
mother, was found frozen to death on
the Brule Indian reservation in Ne.
braska.
The United States express Office at
Dwight, I'LL. was robbed of package
of money containing $4,000.
| SEVENTEEN stores in Ohio City, o..
were destroyed by fire.
FIVE persons were injured in a
wreck on the Iron Mountain road near
De Soto. Mo.
Miss FRANCES E. WILLARD, president
of the National Wonan's Christian
Temperance union, sent to President
Harrison an urgent request that the
trouble with Chilli bo settled without
war.
CORNELIUS N. BLISS was reelected
president Of the American Protective
Tariff league at the annual meeting
held in New York.
INDIANS on the Fon du Lac reserva.
ton in Minnesota were said to be in a
starving condition.
AT the leading clearing houses in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 22d aggregated ST.
200. 169, 1923, against $1,2l3,870, ,s72 the
previous week. The increase as COM
pared with the corresponding week of
1891 was 1916.
jim LYLEs and Margaret Lashley
(colored) were hanged at Danville, Va,
for the murder of George Lashley, the
woman's husband, in October, 1880.
AT Kansas City. Mo-, 800 mules and
sixteen horses were burned in q fire at
Sparks Bros mule market.
In the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the 2:d numbered 1928. against $50 the
preceding week and I'll for the CORE.
spending week last year.
In the billiard match in New York
between Jacob Schaefer and George
Slosson for $1,000 and the balk-line
championship the former won BY q
score of 500 to sea-
The total production of pig iron in
the United States in 1891 was 8, ,279, $40
gross tons, against 9.2o2. .7os gross tons
in 1890. The total production of Bes-
semer steel rails was 1,2lS,S74 gross
tons, decrease of 577,6l5 tons from
the production in 1890.
TWENTY persons lost their lives BY
the burning of the national surgical
institute at Indianapolis, Ind, and
twenty others were injured, some
fatally.
WILLIAM McHENRY, a travelling sales.
man of Cleveland, received four tele.
grams within an hour, each a1nounc-
ing the death of brother from diph-
liberia.
SUCCESSFUL tests of . new war ex-
plosive called terrorite have been made
at the Preside military reservation in
California.
In country schoolhouse at Phil
brick, Hardin county, O., four boys
killed Frank Mclaughlin, aged 10, and
fatally injured his sister, who was the
teacher
Luc1us DorsoN (colored) was hanged
at Savannah, Ga, for the murder of
jeff Coats in September. 1890.
JAMES CASSIDY and John Herman
got drunk in Brooklyn, N. Y, knocked
down the pipe attaced to the stove and
were suffocated by coal gas.
CAROLINE SHIP was hanged at Dallas,
N. c., for infantic1de.
A MAN named Hepler, who murdered
Mrs. Goodly and her little son. was
hanged at Lamar, Mo-, by mob
Ina collision on the Atlantic & Pa
cific road at Blue Water, N. NJ, Engi-