Griggs courier., 1893-07-21

Cleveland. o.
CHARLES M. BARNES, q wholesale
bookseller and stationer in Chicago,
failed for s11s, 900.
ISAAC MITCHELL and his daughter
Ada died at Charleston, s. c., from ar
senical poison placed in water and
three other members of the family were
critically i'll.
The main building Of the packing
house of John Morrell & Co. at Ottum.
wa, Ia, with its contents, were burned,
causing loss of $500. 900.
THE postmaster general has decided
TO abandon the three sizes of postal
cards now in use and to substitute one
size for both single and reply cards.
KELLY and Peterson, two iaborers,
were instantly killed by lightning at
Cedar Rapids, Ia.
The National Retail Clerks union in
session at Nashville, Tenn, decided to
make Chicago their permanent head
quarters and elected F. p. Fitzwilliams,
of Nashville, as president.
H. g. w. MEYER was arrested in De-
troit charged with poisoning no less
than five young women-each of whom
he represented as his wife-and one
man, for the purpose of securing life
insurance which he had taken out on
their lives.
j. X. ARMSTRONG;, of Upton, O.,
county treasurer, was said to be short
ee5. 900 in his accounts. His term ex-
pires August II, 1898.
THE dead bodies of two unknown men
were found in a dense thicket on the
Ray farm near West Newton. Pa.
THE business section of Luckey, O.,
was almost completely wiped out by
fire, the loss being 100000.
For the first time in the history of
the trade every plate-glass factory in
the United States is closed, and that
indefinitely, and fully 10000 men are
idle. Overproduction is the cause.
THE Nebraska savings bank at Lin
coin closed its doors with liabilities of
800,
THE total number of original pension
certificates of all kinds issued during
the fiscal year ended June 80, 1898, was
121, ,628, against 222, ,297 during the pre-
ceding year. The net increase to the
rolls during the past fiscal year was 91,-
62S, against 199, ,S0S for the year before.
THOMAS CRAIG and William Shan
non. two well-known explorers, were
drowned by the capsizing of their boat
in Rainy lake, Minnesota.
ANNA WAGNER, the Indianapolis
servant of the Koesters, has been in
dicted for poisoning five of the family.
FIVE persons were killed and score
more injured by an accident to West
Shore express train at Newburg, N. Y.
THREE highwaymeu rode into Mound
Valley, Kan. bound the cashier of
Dank and secured 5000 in money.
ROLFE N, with record of 2:26, val
ued at $4,000, dropped dead on the
track at Saginaw, Mich.
APPLICANTS for pensions must here
after file their military and medical
history, according to Commissioner
Lochren's order.
WHILE drunk William Cook, of Penn
berville, O., made murderous assault
with club upon his four children, in.
juring three of them fatally. .,.>.,
ANNIE NORRIS has been masquerad-
ing as Frank Blunt for fourteen years.
Her arrest at Milwaukee revealed her
identity.
The third annual meeting of the Bap-
tist Young Peoples Union of America
commenced at Indianapolis with nearly
1000 delegates and visitors present.
HENRY HOWARD, q farmer near Pu-
eblo, Col, SO years of age, was mur-
dered for his money and his body
thrown in well. He was unmarried
and hermit.
In freight wreck at Henryville,
Ind. George Shirley, engineer, and
Brakeman Brookbank were mortallv
wounded.
OrTo RE1NEcK, Tillie Williams and
Annie Watson, noted Chicago gang of
thieves, were sentenced at Denver to
ten years each in the penitentiary.
ALLEN BUTLER. wealthy colored
man of Lawrence county. Ind. was
found hanging by the neck dead near
Vincennes, and it was believed he was
hanged by mob for performing a
criminal operation upon young white
girl.
The National bank of Kansas CITY,
Mo-, failed with liabilities of 81, 600, 900
and assets of s3,OOO,OOO. The failure
caused the Franklin savings bank of
the same city to close its doors.
ANTICIPATING a raid by robbers off,
cials of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas
road placed armed guards on trains.
By vote of "a to the local directory
of the Worlds Columbian exposition
passed resolutions resembling the ac-
tion of the meeting of May Is and or
dered the gates closed on all Sundays
after the 10Th.
The head chief of the Sioux nation
of Indians, Young-Man-Afraid-of His
Horses, dropped dead at atNewcastle, Wyo.
IT was reported at Ishpeming, Mich,
that the Schleisinger syndicate, the
largest operators in ore in the world,
had failed with millions of liabilities.
BUSINESS failures to the number Of
S74 occurred in the United States in the
seven days ended ON the 14th. During
the week previous the failures num-
bered 1924. against l6S in the correspond
ing time in 1892.
w. H. BUSH and N. NJ. Tabor, lessees
of the Brown Palace hotel in Denver,
made an assignment with liabilities