Griggs courier., 1892-12-02
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.


50, ,5s6; 600 bushels; corn, 12, 2s5, 600 bush
els; oats. 1921, 200 bushels; rye, 1885,
900 bushels; barley, 2,sl2,0 600 bushels.
JOSEPH KuLwA, a wealthy German,
fell dead while seated at his daughters
wedding dinner in Baltimore, Md.
AT the sixteenth ANIMAL session in st.
Louis of the Knights of Labor r. v.
Powderly was reelected grand master
workman and John w. Hayes general
secretary-treasurer.
LEMUEL PIERsoLD, aged 80, was
found murdered in his home near Bell
aire, O. The murderers secured $4,000
in money.
PERRY HoRsHoR, one of the wealth.
lest farmers in Woodford county. I'LL,
was instantly killed at railway cross
ing near Peoria and Henry Kerker, of
Champaign, was fatally injured and
Conrad Kerker and his wife were also
slightly injured.
f. w. BONNER & Sons, bankers at
Rusk, Tex, failed for 100000; assets,
b150, 600.
AN explosion of dynamite at Searcy.
Ark, wrecked many buildings. The
perpetrators of the deed were un-
known.
A MOVEMENT has been inaugurated
in the Seventh congressional district to
divide Kansas into two states, each of
witch shall have an area of 200 miles
square.
ADv1CEs from Portland, Ore, say
that not since the winter of 1889 have
the railroads of the northwest expert
enced such difficulties on account of
washouts and landslides.
WILLIAM r. BINDER, booklSeeper for
the Liedersdorf Tobacco Company in
Milwaukee, shot and killed his wife,
his 5-year-old daughter and himself.
Fear of losing his position had affected
his mind.
THREE men were killed, two fatally
and seven seriously injured by an ex-
plosion of giant powder at a colliery
at Golfers Station, w. Va.
AT the state university in Columbus,
o., 100 students struck because the fac
ulty failed to provide suitable recep-
tion room, study and lunch rooms as
requested by them.
SKILEs, REARICK & Co. g bank at Ash
land, ILL.,, was entered by burglars, who
secured 81, 600 in cash and other valua-
bles.
The Lindell Street Railway Com
pany's car sheds, cars and electrical
machinery were destroyed by fire in
st. Louis, the loss being $125.OOO.
The first continental congress of the
Salvation Army began in New York
city.
In railway wreck near Hartley, Ia.
DAILY and j. Stephenson (brothers)
were killed and three other persons
were injured.
The steamer Ethelmold sailed from
Fernandina with 10000 boxes of
oranges for England. 1t is the first
direct shipment of Florida fruit ever
made across the water.
In the recent great storm in the. state
of Washington several lives were lost
and the damage to the farming districts
alone will reach hundreds of thousands
of dollars.
TRAIN wreckers placed obstructions
on the track of the Western & Atlantic
railway near Atlanta, Ca. and En-
gineer Squires and his fireman were
fatally injured.
The execution of Allen Harrison for
the murder of Bette Adams April 2
last took place at Huntington, w. Va.
The scaffold was erected in a field and
more than 10000 persons witnessed the
execution.
AN express and freight train collided
at Aida, Neb., and six men were
killed and several other persons were
injured.
In the future the Carnegie Company
at Homestead, Pa, intends to treat
with its employees as individuals. Each
man employed is required to sign an
agreement in which he pledges him
self to refrain from belonging to any
labor organization and to be governed
entirely by the rules and regulations
of the company.
FIRE in the Morning Patriot building
at Harrisburg. Pa, burned out the in.
terror of the structure.
GEN. RAUM, pension commissioner,
estimates that $l80.O00.000 will be
needed for pensioners during the next
fiscal year.
PHILIP SMITH, postmaster at Red
Hawk, o., dropped dead in his office
while talking to his son.
c. SINCLAIR, cashier and confidential
bookkeeper in New York of the Ar
mour Packing Company, was charged
with embezzling $4,000. = He was
missing.
The Order of Amitie. a beneficial
organization in Philadelphia, has made
an assignment. 1t had seventy lodges,
5000 members, and has existed four
years.
The discovery has just been made
that the wheat crop of Minnesota and
the Dakotas is many millions of bush
els above all estimates. The yield is
now placed at 1s0, 600, 900 bushels.
The residence of H. w. Dapnehowe,
at Sharpsburg, Pa. was destroyed by
fire and Dannehower, his wife and
child lost their lives.
x The large dry goods firm of A. z
Solomon & Co. at Denver failed TO,
$225,O0O.
PROF. GAN1ARD, his wife and sou
aged 10, and Miss Thompson, aged o.
all musicians, were drowned nea,
Everett, Wash, by the upsetting of 9