Griggs courier., 1893-06-30
The News Condensed.
Important intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

CONTRACTOR UANT, superintendent
Covert, Engineer Sasse and Col. Aims
worth were held responsible by the
coroner's jury for the death of the Ford
theater victims in Washington and the
government was censured for careless
ness.
AN incendiary fire destroyed the bust
ness portion of Tillamook, Ore, leav.
ing many parties destitute. Loss over
$780, 900.
PHILIP GRAvER. a retired market
man 81 years of age, whose es-
tate is valued at $l50,OOO, committed
suicide at Pittsburgh, Pa. No cause
known.
A PLAN of celebration has been con-
ceived by the committee in Chicago in
charge of the Columbian liberty bell
whereby on July all the bells in
schoolhouses and churches of the land
will ring simultaneously at noon.
JOHN j. HAaGERrY while drunk
jumped from the Brooklyn bridge to
the river on wager of pint of beer
and was not injured in the slightest
way.
The explosion of a kerosene can caused
the destruction of the home of L. Van
Dusen at Madison, Wis. the death of
one child and the injury of another.
Theresa Rink, servant girl, was fatal
ly burned.
Ten government inspectors IN the
state of Washington were detected in
aiding in smuggling in Chinese by
means of fraudulent certificates and in
permitting opium smuggling either by
connivance or otherwise.
In a row at an emancipation day Gel
ebration at Flat Prairie, Tex, four
negroes We're killed and many others
wounded.
WEST VrRGIN1A's building on the
worlds fair grounds was dedicated, the
day being the thirtieth anniversary of
the birth of the state.
THOMAS CoRDwAY and his sister were
murdered at their home near Logans-
port, La. Robbery was the motive.
A STEADY improvement in the condi-
ton of labor is shown by the report of
subcommittee of the United States
senate committee on finance on prices
and wages for fifty years.
FOREST fires were still raging in Min
nesota and Wisconsin. The line of fire
in Minnesota extended so miles and in
cluded eight. new mining towns, four of
which were totally destroyed The
fire in Wisconsin was scattered in
patches from Michigan to Minnesota,
a distance of SO miles, over nearly 5000
square miles of territory.
COpNEvrs
Columbia at New London, Conn. The
2-mile course was covered in 1O:Os.
A PORTRAIT of ex-Gov. S. j. Kirkwood
was unveiled in the governors Office at
Des Moines, Ia, and speeches were
made by many prominent men.
The American Hallway union, a new
society to embrace every branch of the
service, was organized in Chicago with
Eugene V. Debbs of Terre Haute, Ind,
as president.
AT fire in New York dyeing estab-
lishment ten men were badly burned by
explosives
LIZZIE BORDEN was acquitted at New
Bedford of the charge of numbering her
father and stepmother at Fall River,
Mass, on August 4, 1892.
By the terms of Edwin Booths will
his daughter will receive the bulk of
his estate, which is estimated at $685.
900.
ENLISTED Indians had fight with
other Indians at the Cheyenne agency
in Montana and five of the latter were
killed.
FIRE in the barrel works at South
st. Paul, Mimi, caused loss of $780,
600.
The University bank and City saw
Angeles. Cal.
A TRAIN on the Long Island railroad
upon which We're about 1000 persons
returning from Sheepshead Bay races
was derailed in tunnel near Parksville,
n. Y, and nine persons were killed and
twenty-six others were injured, some
fatally.
ROBERT E. PHILLIPS and Arthur
Mead, promipent members of the Bos-
ton chamber of commerce, were
drowned by the upsetting of boat.
FISHER BROTHERS, cloak manufac-
turers in New York. failed for $3.50, 900.
AN earthquake shock was felt
throughout North and South Carolina
and Georgia.
By an edict issued by the school COM
missioners all married teachers in the
public schools in st. Louis have been
dismissed.
Four persons were burned to death
in fire that destroyed the Bunnel
block in Duluth, MINI.
Four banks closed their doors in Los
Angeles, Cal. They were the First ma
tional. Southern California, Broadway
bank and East side bank. At San
Diego the Consolidated national bank
and the Savings bank suspended.
TxE collections of internal revenue
for the eleven months of the current
fiscal year amounted to e145 1882, 800, an
increase over the corresponding period
of the last fiscal year of $7,457, ,4O3.
FRANCIS SPIES, vice consul for Hon
duras, committed suicide in New York
The Utah Clothing Manufacturing
company at Salt Lake City failed for
100000.
A CYCLONE that passed through Will
Jamestown and the surrounding coun-