Griggs courier., 1894-05-18
DOMESTIC.

THREE convicts in the state prison
at jackson. Mich, overpowered a guard
and tried to blow down the wall with
dynamite. A catastrophe was narrow
ly averted.
AT the annual meeting in St. Louis
OF the National Union of Chiefs of
Police President Seavy, of Omaha, was
reelected.
MRS MoLLIE PAGE fled bill for di-
vorce in Chicago from her husband in
the morning, and meeting him in the
afternoon was reconciled.
THE National Temperance society at
its annual meeting in New York elected
Maj Gen. o. o. Howard president
The patents on type distributing ma
chimes, seed planting machinery and
fare registers have expired.
FIRE in the little village of Norway,
Me-, destroyed seventy dwellings and q
number of business places, the total
loss being e5oo,ooo
COMMISSIONERS of the district of Co.
lumbia declared the commonweal camp
q nuisance and ordered its abatement
within forty-eight hours.
COLORADO commonwealers who stole
Missouri Pacific train got around OBJ
s:ructfons placed on the track at two
points, but were stopped by an engine
and two cars piled up in cut near
Chivington.
KELLY's army of commonwealers
left Des Moines, Ia, on flatboats.
Gus WEIsBRoDT, treasurer of Middle.
town, O., was said to have used $50, 600
of the city's funds in trying to beat the
races.
AT Sharon Springs. Kan, William
Mckinley and his son, Lewis, were
lynched by mob for inciting young
er son to murder Charles Carey, his
brother-in-law.
ALBERT WooDLEY, q painter, in fit
of jealousy shot and killed Mrs. Jennie
Buchanan at her home in Allegheny
City. Pa, and then shot himself in the
head.
RATE cutting in the transatlantic
steerage business has reduced the price
OF passage from London to New York
to $12.5O.
A BATTLE occurred at Yakima, Wash,
between deputies and commonwealers.
in which two deputies were shot, one
fatally.
AT the hotelmen's convention in Den
yer the United States Hotel association
was disbanded and the Hotelkeepers'
National ASSOCIATION was organized
with D. c. Shears, of Cincinnati, as
president
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers me: in biennial session at st,
Paul.
A STORM of unprecedented severity
swept over Saltwater. Minn., and side
walks and street pavings were torn up
and q number of houses were under
mined.
The general federation of women's
clubs met in Biennial convention at
Philadelphia
The report on mineral resources in
the United States for 1893 shows an ag-
gregate valuation for the product Of
5000, 5S6. 0S3. a decline of over SITS, 1000, :
300 from the previous year.
The twenty-three members of Gal
wins commonweal army who were ar
rested for attempting to capture a
freight train were sentenced Mt Pitts
burgh to twenty days in Jail each.
A CARELESS man sitting on an oil
barrel and smoking pipe caused the
destruction of 100000 worth of prop
eriy ON dock in New York
JOHN PORTER, an lizard county (Ark. J
farmer. tried to ford Strawberry river
with wagon and his wife and three
children were drowned.
PASSENGER and freight trains collided
at Menomonie junction. Wis, and En-
gineer James Jetfreys was killed and
four other men badly injured.
BUSINESS houses and residences in
Indianapolis were unroofed by vic.
lent storm. and child OF s. j. Hunts.
man was killed by flying debris.