Griggs courier., 1893-10-13
DOMESTIC.

The public debt statement issued ON
the 1st showed that the debt increased
1884, 793 during the month of September.
The cash in the treasury was s106, $780,
.633. The total debt, less the cash hal
-ance in the treasury. amounts to $685.
1886. Q75.
AT special meeting Of the worlds
fair directors it was decided to admit
children under II years of age for ten
cents each beginning with October 10,
and children under 6 years of age free.
RESISTING an attempt to hold him up
at Sioux City, Ia, John Rohrer was
shot and killed.
MuNc1E representatives have appealed
to Gov. Matthews of Indiana for aid
for the smallpox stricken town.
>.ONE of the worst storms in years Wis
tied the vicinity of Mobile. Ala. Houses
were blown down, trees uprooted and
several persons were reported to have
lost their lives.
MANN1O LRvANDIE, an insane Greek
sign painter, drew q roll Of money
from his pocket at Pittsburgh. Pa, and
burned $50 before he was stopped BY
the police.
The Kentucky law, passed at the last
session of the legislature, requiring
separate coaches for white and colored
passengers has gone into effect and the
colored people have organized and will
file snit to test the constitutionality Of
the statute.
RouGHs attacked . meeting near
-Jonesboro, Ga, and in the fight two
men were killed outright and several
seriously wounded
JOHN w. BELL, . prominent attorney
of Plymouth, O., has disappeared and
is said to have left ashortage of $50, OtsO.
Mrs. CArHARINB WERNER, . widow
~ years old, was killed ut Eoliet, Ill,
by being struck by an engine.
GEORGE McFADDEN. q negro, was
lynched ut Moore's Crossroad, s. c., for
:assaulting 1e-year-old white girl.
REroRTs from the whaling feet in
the Arctic are to the effect that nearly
all the vessels have had good luck and
that the catch this season will be un-
usually large.
-FOUR persons were reported to have
been killed by falling walls and seven
badly injured by fire which destroyed
the Farnham Street theater at Omaha,
Neb. The loss on the building and
property destroyed was e200, 200.
POLICEMAN OBR1EN, of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul force was shot
and killed by tramp at Mason City, Ia
THREE persons were killed and three
Others badly injured by the collision OF
freight trains near Edgewood, O.
Two EkPLoYEs of tho Greenwood
cemetery at Brooklyn, N. Y, had a
quarrel in the cemetery and as a result
of a fight which followed each killed
the other with siclkles with which they
were cutting grass.
IAE following national banks which
recently suspended payment have been
permitted to reopen for business: The
Kentucky national bank of Louisville,
KY; the Farmers national bank of
Findlay, O., and the Union national
hank of Rochester. MINI.
TaE United States court of appeals
In session at 81. Paul, Mimi, sustained
the decision Of the lower court as to
the legality of the Trans- Missouri
Freight association as a trust.
The issue of standard silver dollars
from the mints and treasury Offices for
the week ended September so was s541.-
1868; for, the corresponding period Of
1892, e1s.@25.
FURTHER advices from the terrible
storm which swept over portion of
the southern states are more appalling
than were at first reported. All along
the south coast Of the gulf is death and
destruction. The total number of lives
lost SO far rs reported was said to be
2O7, and the property loss would foot up
TO millions of dollars
N. D, BUNCH, postmaster at Witller.
spoon. Ark, was fatally poisoned by
people against whom he testified ia q
hog-stealing case.
FIRE destroyed the immense car
barns Of the Canton Massilon Electric
Railway company 1t Canton, O., the
loss being 100000.
w. w. WINDLE broke the worlds BIZ
cycle record at Springfield, Mass, for
mile flying start at Hampton park,
making it in 1858 Is.
A DECISION Of Judge Shepard, of the
Bowie county district court, makes IL
legal over 1000 marriages in the county
Af ROwio T'ov