Griggs courier., 1893-06-23

THE Populist Womans Progressive
league Of Kansas was organized at
Topeka with Mrs John G. Otis as pres
ident.
THE maple has been selected as the
official tree of Wisconsin by the votes
of the school children,
WILLIAM SHEEDY and Paul Lewis
were under arrest in Chicago for at
tempting to steal a one-story frame
house.
LORENZO B. OLDs, of Helena, Mont,
ex-state senator, was charged with
swindling several persons to the extent
of Seo, 900.
N. d. RICHMOND, of Dunlap, ILL.,, was
killed and five other persons were badly
injured in an accident that occurred on
the ice railway at the worlds fair.
The Kings Daughters and Sons
opened their congress in Chicago with
delegates present from many states.
THE body of Herman Schaffner, q
Chicago banker, was found in the lake.
He committed suicide owing to finan-
cial embarrassment.
ACCORDING to the figures of Auditor
Alderman the total expenses OF the
worlds fair for May were $500, 600; total
receipts, s720, 900; increase.
By the capsizing of a boat in the
North river at New York Rev. Father
Charles b. McKenna, 26 years old, a
priest, and Mrs. Margaret Burchell,
his cousin, were drowned.
B. A. DENNIS, sheriff of Hitchcock
county, Neb., was found dead in bed
in Council Bluffs, Ia. He blew out the
gas.
The trial of Chief P. M. Arthur, of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers, for $500, 900 damages for alleged
encouragement of the recent strike on
the Ann Arbor road at Toledo will COM
mence at Cleveland September 1s.
THE International Supreme Lodge of
Good Templars in session at Des
MONIES, H., elected d. H. Mann, of New
York, right worthy grand chief.
The Kentucky legislature defeated
bill TO move the capital to Louisville,
thus ending finally fight for removal
that has been going on for forty years.
The suspensions were reported of the
Farmers and Merchants bank at Fair
mount, Ind, the City bank at Parsons,
Kan, the Exchange bank at Weston,
o.. and the First national bank at Kan
sas City, Kan.
The International Typographical
nnlon in session in Chicago for the
third time made w. B. Prescott, of
Toronto, president.
The Lone Star Iron company of JET
ferson, Tex, failed for 100000.
AT a meeting of the board of direc-
tors of the Union Theological seminary
in New York it was decided by unan-
imous vote that Rev. DIR. Charles A.
Briggs should continue his work in the
department of Biblical history as hith-
erto.
The Indiana and Arkansas state build
ings and the German building on the
worlds fair grounds were dedicated.
The Seventeenth international and
second worlds convention of Sunday
school workers will be held in st. Louis
from August 81 to September 8, inclu-
sive.
Texas women have by their energy
completed the state building at the
worlds fair which the legislature failed
to provide for.
OMANY wheat fields in Kansas have
been ruined by the chinch bug, and
| since the wheat cutting commenced the
bugs have gone to the corn.
FIGURES show that the savings banks
in the United States contain 81. 700.
OOO, 900.
FRUIT sheds of the Louisville & Nash.
vile road at New Orleans were de-
stroyed by fire. the loss being 500, 900.
j. w. FLOOD, ex-cashier of the Dono-
hoe-Kelly banking company at San
Francisco, was convicted of embezzling
$164. 900.
DURING the week ended on the 10th the
leading clearing houses in the United
States reported exchanges amounting
to $1,0S1 1854, ,527, against 81, 1856, 3s4, 1853
the previous week. As compared with
the corresponding week of 1892 the de-
crease was 9.6.
MANY houses were blown down at
Valdosta and Thomasville, Ga, during
a tornado.
THERE were 313 business failures re-
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seven days ended on the 10th. In the
week preceding there were 1922, and dur
ing the corresponding time in 1892 the
number was 1853.
AT Fairfield, ILL.,, Z. Bonham, bank
er, made an assignment with liabilities
of $l25, 900.
The total value of the exports of
merchandise from the United States
during the year ended May 81, 1893,
was ss4s,S73,s ,s45, and during the corre-
spending period of the preceding year
81, ,022, ,9S4, 545, decrease of $174, ,6lO, 700.
The value of the imports during the
same period was s9s6, ,901, ,2s7 and $685.
s4s,119, respectively, an increase of
s10s, ,O53, 1853.
The dry goods store of Bauer, Foster
q Co. at Dayton, O., was burned, the
loss being 100000.
The International Typographical
union in session in Chicago decided to
demand nine-hour work day for all
printers employed in the United States
and Canada on book and job work.
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