Griggs courier., 1893-07-07


way has been completely absorbed by
the Chicago, Milwaukee 4 St Paul
company.
AT . meeting in Cleveland of the cab
met of the Epworth league of the
United States resolution was adopted
which instructs the withdrawal of the
leagues exhibit at the worlds fair be-
cause of Sunday opening.
F. G.. PIERRA & Co., shipping COM
mission merchants in New York, failed
for 800. 600.
E1eHTY persons fell Is feet with a
temporary flooring in the building of
the color department at the worlds fair
grounds and eighteen of the number re-
ceived severe injuries.
AN attempt to hold up train near
| Breckenridge, Tex, resulted in the kill
| ing of the fireman and capture of one
of the bandits after hard fight.
THE catch of the seal poachers off
the Alaskan coast is expected to reach
20. 600 skins, q larger number than ever
before.
| AN explosion Of gas in the Green
Ridge colliery at Mount Carmel, Pa,
killed one man Instantly and fatally in
jured two others.
AFTER listening to an address by Prof.
Walter Sims 1000 citizens of. Duluth,
Minn.. resolved that the presence of
Mgr. Satolli in this country was q men
ace to their liberties.
In thirty counties in the west of Kan
sas the wheat crop is failure and
Gov. Lewelling has been appealed to for
relief.
WILLIAM Fl. MOORE, editor of the Au-
gusta (Ga-) Evening News, dropped
dead in his room. He had been ON the
street fifteen minutes previously.
A STATUE of Admiral Faragut was un-
veiled in Marine park, Boston.
jim ANDERSON, a notorious burglar,
who has committed crime in every large
city in the state and always escaped
conviction, was sentenced at Columbus,
O., to five years imprisonment
Two SQUARES of the business portion
of Augusta, Mich, were burned over.
The attorney general of New York
says it is the duty of all fish and game
protectors to prohibit fishing on Sun
day.
CHARLES WILSON shot his wife fatally
at Fairfield, Ia, and then fatally shot
himself Domestic trouble was the
cause.
The Hartly bank at Jericho, Mo, was
robbed by burglars Of ST., 900.
| THE number of presidential post
Offices in the United States is now 1887,
and the aggregate salaries paid to the
postmasters for the past year was
IS, ,665, 900.
The doors of the State bank of Lock-
haven, Pa, were closed.
The Union Trust company of Sioux
City, Ia, asked for a receiver, with liza
bilities of ss50,00O
| AT the convention in Saratoga, n. Y,
of state republican clubs George B.
Green, mayor of Binghamton, was
chosen president.
| NEARLY million Columbian souve-
mir half dollars were held at the mint
in Philadelphia owing to the opinion of
Attorney General Olney that NO more
money ought to be paid to the Illinois
corporation known as the "World's Co
lumbian Exposition"
! The market for silver in New York
was completely demoralized by the
/ oSOPRoSO "a 4AVO SAAtCE N9O1uG1xC Al luOl8.
JOHN SEAMAN, for more than fifteen
| years treasurer of Wiltshire, O.. was
said to be defaulter to the amount of
5000.
| GEORGE w. STAGE. of Painesville, O..
was missing, together with a certifi-
cate of deposit for slO.0So and a certi-
fed check for $1,000 belonging to the
city.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY REYNOLDS, of
the interior department., says that
women who ministered to wounded
soldiers during the war are entitled to
pensions.
REPRESENTATIVE mining men met in
Denver and decided to close all the
smelters. mills and silver mines in Col
orado until such time as silver is appre-
ciated at its proper worth.
| Mrs. GEN. GRANT and Mrs. jefferson
Davis met at Cranston- on-the- Hudson.
n. Y. and enjoyed a long talk upon
"reminiscences of their own and their
husbands active and eventful careers.
| ELLSWORTH GOSHEN, aged years,
was sentenced at st. Joseph, Mo-, to
twelve years imprisonment for wreck
ing freight train.
Owing to trouble between the stu
dents and faculty of the state normal
school at Terre Haute. Ind, the entire
class of 1893 refused to graduate and
the commencement exercises were de-
clared off.
The Women's Christian Temperance
union has inaugurated crusade against
the salooes in Fort Scott, Kan.
DARTMOUTH college at Hanover, n.
H.. held its 123d commencement, the
graduating class numbering sixty.
THREE tramps were caught at Owens
boro. KY. by the employees of the Texas
railway plundering the freight cars
and the thieves were strung up and
given twenty-five lashes.
JOHN HARVEY. alias Airing, one of
the most noted expert confidence men
and all-aronnd crooks in the country,
died at Niagara Falls, N. Y.
THE annual convention of the Ep-
worth league met in Cleveland and Gov.
Mckinley and Mayor Blee made
speeches of welcome.