Griggs courier., 1893-05-19

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His daughter Emma, who was trying
to prevent the shooting, received the
bullet in her brain after it had passed
through her fathers head and she died
also.
THE steamer Danube left Portland,
Ore, for China with 400. Chinese on
board who had been refused admission
to the United States.
A FREIGHT train on the Ohio River
railroad went off the tracks at Walkers,
w. Va, falling IS feet, and three men
were killed.
F1RE destroyed two business build
ings ut Pittsburgh, Pa, causing a loss
of $15O,0OO and the fatal injury of two
hremen.
The seventy-seventh annual meeting
of the American Bible society was held
in New York and the reports showed
the total cash receipts for the year ended
March 81 to be $57s, $50 and the disburse-
ments $526, 6,537.
The Columbia national bank in Chi
cago suspended with liabilities of over
s1,000,000. The principal business of
the bank was with country banks and
they will be the chief sufferers.
r. r. ROBINSON & Co., bankers and
brokers at Wilmington, DEL, failed for
$500, 600.
THE Capital national bank at In.
dianapolis closed its doors with liabili-
ties of $1,OO0,O00.
A GRANITE monument to the memory
of James Barren Hope, known as the
poet laureate of Virginia, was unveiled
at Norfolk.
The Scotch Irish congress of Amer
lea convened at Springfield, o.
The house of John Mahin and two
other houses at Muscatine, Ia, were
destroyed by dynamite. Mr.. Mahin is
editor of the Muscatine journal, post
master, and an ardent prohibitionist;
and the residences destroyed were those
of prominent citizens who have been
active in prosecuting saloon cases.
Mrs. ANNA HARRIS, of Tonawanda,
N. Y, charged with starving her g.
year-old stepdaughter to death, was
convicted of manslaughter in the Sec
ond degree and sentenced to eleven
years imprisonment. This is the first
case in the history of American juris-
prudence where person was convicted
of manslaughter in the second degree.
The Sioux City ua.) engine works
failed for 5000 600.
ONE-HALF of Spring Lake, Mich, was
destroyed by fire and fifty families were
homeless. Total Loss, $4,000.
The power house and carhouse of the
Grand View Beach railroad near Char
lotte, N. Y. were burned, the loss be-
ing 100000.
DURING the week ended on the 12th
the leading clearing houses in the
United States reported exchanges
amounting to 81 l,370,664, 100, against
81, ,37s.6ss, l56 the previous week. AS
! compared with the corresponding week
of 1892 the increase was lilo.
JOHN z. Carlisle and Charles Luttrell
were hanged at Sherman. Tex, for the
murder of w. T. Sherman at Denison
ON April %, 1892.
THERE were 257 business failures re-
ported in the United States during the
seven days ended on the 12th. In the
week preceding there were ZIG, and
during the corresponding time in 1892
the number was 209.
r. j. HoR1NcK, conductor of q general
ooOAS 0Ao pAAV1CO Ob1h 1V 1lduO ANsVs
ILL.,, failed for $500, 1000, and scores of
farmers are ruined by the disaster.
FOREST fires burned hundreds of
acres of oak, pine and cedar timber,
many valuable cranberry bogs and
three houses in Berkeley township, N. j.
The tweoty-6ve ringleaders of the
mob that took from jail at Chattanooga,
Tenn, Alfred Blount, a negro assaulter,
and hanged him, have been indicted for
murder.
The Hygeian Ice company at Tren-
ton, N. j., failed for s15O, ZOO.
SEVERAL farms east of Pinckney,
Mich, were swept by a cyclone and
buildings were wrecked and several
persons were hurt, but not seriously,
though many horses and sheep were
killed.
THE collapse of the Columbia national
bank in Chicago caused the failure of
banks at Rusiaville, Greentown, Ok
ford. Morristewn, Arcadia, Spicelatd,
Orleans, Hebron, Broolston, Dunkirk,
Geneva, Boswell, Knox, West Labanon
and Greenwood in Indiana, the Rich
land. Edwardsburg, Lawton. Rockford
and Charlevoix banks In Michigan, the
bank of Oregon in Wisconsin, the bank
of Casey in Illinois and the bank at
Clearmount in Ohio.
MEMBERS of the local worlds fair d.
rectory passed a resolution that the fair
should be open Sundays on and after
May II, the admission to the grounds
to be twenty-five cents, and the big ex-
hibit buildings to be closed. This &C
ton may be annuled by the national
commission.
JOE BRAxSoN,s aged 10, was hanged
at Charleston,S c., for the murder of
Stephen Kearney ON the 8lst of August
last.
The police At Buffalo, N. Y, claimed
to have discovered evidence OF a plot by
anarchists to blow up the water works
and fire the worlds fair buildings to
avenge upon Chicago the execution of
the anarchists condemned for the Hay
market murders.
THE new Cunard line steamship Cam
pania made the trip from New York to
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