Griggs courier., 1893-09-29

JOHN BARTHOLOMEW, an eccentric
farmer of State Road, Del, incensed al
some financial grievance, has gone to
bed and declares he will not leave it fol-
seven years. Once in his early life he
did the same thing and kept his vow,
+, spending seven full years in bed.
BENT on hanging Thomas Smith. a
| negro who had assaulted Mrs Henry
c. Bishop, a mob and the soldiery OF
Roanoke, Va. clashed, and eleven OF
the mob were killed and nineteen were
hurt.
THREE gas well drillers near Kokomo,
Ind, Jesse Gordon, Jack Weir and Bob
Kern, were made blind by sulphuric
gas.
The directors have unanimously
agreed that the Columbian exposition
should be opened for the last time Oc-
tober 81.
THE New Orleans limited train on
the Illinois Central road was held up
just outside Centralia, I'LL, and in the
battle which followed between the
three robbers and the train hands one
of the robbers was mortally wounded
and three of the train crew were badly
hurt The thieves got nothing in the
way of booty.
NINETEEN fine driving horses perished
in the burning of L. w. Armstrong;
boarding stable at Columbus, o.
Mrs. BL1NN, residing north of Brazil,
Ind, gave birth to child that had no
arms and only one foot; otherwise the
child was perfectly formed.
d. L. JONES, Charles O'Dwyer and
James Harden, the three men who at
tempted to rob the New Orleans limited
express train on the Illinois Central
road near Centralia, ILL.,, have been cap
tured.
The eighty-first annual session of the
supreme council, thirty-third degree,
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite
Masons, was held in Chicago.
FIVE men were killed and six injured
by an explosion of gas in colliery at
Plymouth, Pa.
The Society of the Army of the Cum
berland at it's annual meeting in Cleve-
land reelected Gen. w. s. Rosecrans as
president. Ex-President Harrison was
chosen orator for the next meeting.
New gold reefs were discovered in
Itasca county, Mimi, the specimens
shown indicating that the new finds
are among the richest ever made in the
Rainy river district.
HEAVY damage was done ON the
worlds fair grounds by storm of wind
and rain. The loss was estimated at
$4,000. Portions of the roof of the Man
ufactures building. the Art gallery
and other buildings were broken ins
NEARLY a dozen charred bodies were
found in the wake of the Pawnee reser-
vation fire in the Indian territory.
THE negro Thomas Smith, whose
crime was the occasion of the riot at
Roanoke. Va, that resulted in nine
men being killed by the state militia
and nineteen wounded, was finally
lynched by a mob and his body burned.
RAIN has extinguished the forest fires
in Wisconsin.
The British schooner Windermere
was wrecked in a squall near Mobile,
Ala, and Capt. Charlton and his wife
and three sailors were drowned.
The five men who held up and robbed
the Mineral Range train in Michigan
have been arrested and the $4,000
stolen has been recovered.
FIVE HUNDRED laboring men who
We're absolutely starving arrived by
the Atlantic & Pacific road at Mojave,
Cal. The men claimed to be from the
Cherokee strip in Indian territory.
IT was reported that train on the
Newport News & Mississippi Valley
railroad was held up at Fulton, KY, by
robbers and that the engineer, fireman
and two passengers were killed.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 22d aggregated
$7os, ,s07, ,s99, against e792, ,s5s, 5S9 the pre-
vious week. The decrease, compared
with the corresponding week in 1892,
was $50.
FIRE destroyed the sash and door
factory of the Charles Betcher Lumber
company and large amount of dry
lumbersat Red Wing, Mimi, the loss
being SITS. 200.
BUSINESS failures to the number of
319 occurred in the United States in the
seven days ended on the 22d, against
3i6 the preceding week and 1ss during
the same time last year.
In dispute over land claim at
Waukomis, o. T., Joseph Williams killed
a man named Liddle and his two sons.
CATHOLICS and members of the Amer.
lean Protective association came into
collision in Kansas City and many heads
were broken.
AT Frederick. Nd, Daniel Jones was
given thirty-nine lashes on the bare
back for wife-beating.
In his annual report to the secretary
of the interior Pension Commissioner
Lochren says the number of pensioners
on the rolls of the bureau is 966, ,O12.
During the year 24,715 claims for in
crease of pensions and 81. 800 for addi.
tional pension were allowed, and in the
same time LIS, ,22l claims were rejected.
The amount of money paid for pen
sions during the year was s156, 74O, ,467.
TRAINS collided on the Wabash rail-
way near Kingsbury, Ind, and eleven
persons were killed and twenty-four
injured, some of them fatally.
The Oklahoma national bank of Ok
lahoma City, o. T., which suspended