Griggs courier., 1893-05-19

The News Condensed.
lmpovtant Intelligence From All Parts
DOMESTIC.
HUBERT H. WARNER, the patent
medicine manufacturer at Rochester, N.
Y, failed for 100000.
j. Fl. ERNEST WoTEN, one of the best
known mining engineers in the world,
was found dead in his bed at Denver,
Col
THE Pennsylvania legislature has
passed q bill prohibiting the selling,
giving away or otherwise disposing of
cigarette and cigarette papers to
minors. &G-M8
Gus ScHuLER and Miss Martha Kline
were crossing bridge near Akron, o.,
when the structure gave way and they
fell distance of 100 feet and were in
stantly killed.
The supreme court of North Dakota
has decided the state prohibition law to
be constitutional and valid.
E. M. DURANT and Slater Howard, Of
Atlanta, Ga, arrived in Chicago, having
ridden from their home to Chicago on
bicycles, distance of ss9 miles, in four
teen days.
THREE negroes were lynched by q
mob at Bearden, Ark, for the murder
Of Jesse Norman. prominent young
business man of that place.
A HURRICANE swept the New He
brides and the whole settlement at the
port of Sandwich was obliterated and
half of New Caledonia was submerged,
leaving the natives homeless and desti-
tute.
DAN STUART, a horse trainer, killed
himself in Des Moines, Ia, after having
assaulted and probably fatally wounded
Mrs. Webb Moon, young married
woman in whose house he resided.
THE large dry goods store of j. B
Wells & Co. at Utica, N. Y, was burned,
the loss being 100000.
The ninth biennial meeting of the
supreme council of the Catholic Knights
OF America met in Chicago.
LARGE numbers of negroes were said
TO be leaving Tennessee for California.
BRuEDER & WOLFF, manufacturers of
carpets at Vienna, failed for 1000, 900
6orins.
SEVERE earthquake shocks were felt
at Madison, Howard and Carthage in
South Dakota.
ONE-cENr pieces. are being introduced
In Oakland, Cal, for the first time. The
smallest legal tender formerly used was
fve-cent pieces.
FELIX SCHWEIsTHAL. an ex-cashier in
the Cook county Nll.) treasurer's office,
was said to be $4,000 short in his &C
counts with the office.
TWINS were born to Mr.. and Mrs 8.
E. Wishard, of Clinton, Ind, the father
being "a years old and the wife 6a years
of age.
The British squadron and nearly all
the other foreign vessels at the great
review in New York harbor have sailed
for home.
In o libel suit in New York court
brought by Edward S. Stokes against
w. r. Martin the fact was made known
for the first time that on December 1,
1884, Mr.. Stokes was granted pardon
by Grover Cleveland, then governor, re.
leasing him from all consequences of
his crime of killing Jim Fisk.
The death of G. c. haywood, cashier
of the Bank of Santa Clara county at
San Jose, CAL, disclosed the fact that
he was short in his accounts $3.50, 600,
and the doors of the fa?k were closed.
NEARLY thousand sons and daugh-
ters Of the Green Mountain state wit
messed the dedication of the Vermont
state building on the worlds fair
grounds.
The State Investment & Insurance
company of California has failed, caus-
ing loss to many persons.
Gus THoMAsTON, Cornelius Wagner
and Andrew Olson were killed by the
cars while crossing a railway track in
Chicago.
AT the thirtieth international conveu-
ton in Indianapolis of the Young Mems
Christian association G. N. Pierce, of
Dayton, O., was chosen president.
JOHN l.. LAMB, of Scranton, Pa,
grand treasurer of the international
organization of machinists, decamped
with &. 600 of the funds belonging to
the order.
AT the annual meeting in Toledo, O.,
Of the Order of Railway Conductors
Grand Chief Conductor Clark, of Cedar
Rapids. Ia, was reelected by acclama-
tion.
TEE shrinkages in values since the
panic on the New York stock exchange
shows losses of over $so, ZOO, 600, and
most Of this represents total annihila-
tion of fortune.
W. 4. DREwEY, an attorney at Nor
folk, Va, was under arrest charged
with securing large number of fraud
ulent pension claims, the steals aggre-
eating over 800, 900.
A NEW counterfeit Is United States
silver certificate is in circulation. It lis
Of the series Of 1885, check. letter Is B.
bearing the signature of w. s. Rose.
Grams, register, and E. H. Nebeker.
treasurer, and has . small, scalloped
seal. The portrait of Gen. Grant is
poorly engraved, having a scratched ap-
pearapce, and some of the lettering is
irregular.
Tns Washington crop report for Nav
shows n decided fa11ino off IN tho ..o,,