Griggs courier., 1893-07-21
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Pa,

Inc news COn00nS0Q.
important intelligence From All Parts
DOMESTIC.
THE banking house of w. r. Thorn.
ton & SON at Shelbyville, ILL.,, made an
assignment with liabilities of $500, 900,
involving hundreds of business men and
farmers.
DuRINe fight at picnic near Mas
coutah, ILL.,, twenty-five men were hurt,
one fatally.
THE issue Of standard silver dollars
from the mints and treasury offices dur
ing the week ended July was $3.50, 240;
for the corresponding period of 1892,
$445, ,895. Tho total gold reserve fund
OF that date was s97, ,2S8, ,101.
BY . vote Of 81 to 9 the worlds fair
national commission put itself on rec
ord in favor of closing the exposition
gates Sunday. President Palmer said
the gates were open ON the Sabbath in
defiance of congress, in defiance of the
commission and in defiance of the
wishes of employees.
j. s. CoNovER 4 Co., manufacturers
In New York and dealers in open fire.
places, CRATES and tenders. wood man
tells and tiles. failed for s400, 900.
The total fire loss in the United
States and Canada for June last was
SIG. .S44, $50, against s9,265, $50 in June,
1891 The aggregate loss for the first
six months of 1898 is 81. 1852, 600, against
s65, 49,, $50 last year.
FIRE destroyed the factory of the
Lake Superior Mineral Paint company
and adjacent buildings at West Su.
perior, Wis, tho loss being 800, 900.
JAMES CoRBRrr and Peter jackson
have signed articles to fight next June
for purse of $4,000.
Mrs. G.. H. ~ANAKsDALE, aged 90,
wife of the leading dry goods merchant
at Beatrice, Neb.. and Mary Hogenfeldt,
her servant, were burned to death by
an explosion of gasoline.
SEvENTY-FIvE persons were killed by
the recent cyclone at Pomeroy, Ia,
and many others were left destitute
and in urgent need Of aid.
The Terre Haute Qnd.) Car company
failed for ss70.00O.
ERIE o. VAN BROcNLIN, secretary of
the fire commissioners and one of the
best known men in Buffalo, N. Y, was
arrested for embezzlinx $50. 900 from the
city.
The Kansas City Safe deposit and
savings bank, one of the largest insti-
tutions of its kind in Missouri, made an
assignment, with liabilities of 81, zoo, 900
and assets of s., 100000.
The North Galveston (Tex.) Land &
Improvement association was placed in
the hands of a receiver with liabilities
of S500,OOO.
Ten more bodies were discovered in
the cold-storage warehouse fire ruins
on the worlds fair grounds, making
twentv-three in all.
MISSES CARRIE and Pearl Plant isis
ters) started to walk from Muskegon,
Mich. to the worlds fair.
The private bank of John L. Davis
at Auburn, Ind, made an assignment,
and the Holt county bank at O'Neill,
Neh, closed its doors.
The funeral services over the remains
of the late Justice Blatchford, of the
United States supreme court, were held
at Newport, R. l., and the burial took
place at Greenwood cemetery in Brook
lyn, N. Y.
FREDERICK J. AMwEG. of Philadel-
phia, the contractor for the state asy-
lum for the chronic insane at Werners-
vile, failed with liabilities of $500, 600.
A HAILsToRM destroyed 10000 acres
of grain in the vicinity of Wheaton,
MINI.
MRS. CHARLES .GoLLMER, of Alton,
ILL.,, gave birth to her twenty-second
child
TWENTY-FIVE families comprising
eighty-three persons were poisoned by
eatin; bad cheese ut Mansfield, O., and
twelve of the sufferers may die.
The Hercules Iron Works company
of Chicago failed for 5000, ZOO.
AN engine ran into herd of steers
at st. Joseph, Mo-, and after killing
ten of the animals was derailed. The
engineer jumped and was fatally in
jured.
AMONG the indicted officials of the
Plankinton bank in Milwaukee, that
failed recently, is Judge Jenkins, of the
United States circuit court.
The tiny viking ship from Norway, a
fac simile of the one in which Left
Erickson is claimed to have touched
upon American shores 400 years before
Columbus sailed from the harbor of
Palos. arrived in Chicago.
OSCAR NEEBE, the anarchist receutlv
released from the Joliet Qn.) peniten-
tiary by Gov. Altgeld, was married in
Chicago to Mrs. Eliza Hepp. Neebes
first wife died while he was in prison,
The Bank of Commerce at Spring
field, Mo-, closed its doors with de-
posits of Sic, 200, and the Bank of Gar.
nett. Kan, stopped business with
heavy liabilities.
The six members of the Kreider fam
lily murdered at Cando, N. d., were
buried Mt Elizabethtown, Pa, over 49,
600 persons attending the ceremonies.
You've women from fifteen states met
at Lake Geneva. Wis, for the Young
Women's Christian association summer
school
TWELVE business buildings at Max.
well, Col, were destroyed by an incen-
diary fire, the loss being 100000.
Two MEN were killed two fatally ;,