Griggs courier., 1894-08-24

Ar the joint convention of the popu.
list and labor parties st Columbus, O.,
Q state ticket was nominated headed
by Charles 3. Martin for secretary Of
state. & a. 81
TITUS broke two worlds competitive
bicycle records at Denver, riding mile
in 2:1O 3-5 and five miles in 1910.
A COTTON expert estimates, after q
trip over the entire state, that the crop
in Texas will be about $500, 600 bales,
or one-kalf million bales over last year.
DIR. JOHN SEAToN, one of the most
prominent physicians and specialists
Of Indiana, was found dead in bed at
his home at Fort Wayne.
BANK EXAMINER MILLER, while tenn
porarily insane, shot himself through
tho temple at Altoona. Pa.
DAVID HALL. of Jonesville, Va, was
shot and killed by Tom Denny, 1s
years old. BALL had Denny indicted
for abusing his child and Denny took
his revenge in the murder.
The Commercial & Savings bank of
Ludington, Mich, suspended business
by order of its president, Antoine E..
Cartier.
The body Of Col. Lang c. Winston.
of Passadena, Cal. who was lost in q
snowstorm last November while with
a hunting party up tho San Gabriel
canyon, has been found.
| CHARLES ROBINSON, first elected rov-
ernor of Kansas, died at his home in
Leavenworth.
w. G. TAYLOR was hanged at New
burn, Va, for the murder of his wife.
| THE Cunard line steamer Campania,
which arrived at New York from Liv-
erpool, made the passage in days Q
hours and % minutes, the fastest time
on record.
THERE were 226 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 251 the week
previous and 455 in the corresponding
time in 1898.
The first bale of cotton of this years
crop, from Eagle Point, Miss, was sold
at auction in Memphis for ten cents a
pound.
BEN REED, arrested on suspicion at
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robbery of man named Henderson,
has confirmed his guilt. Six dollars
and half was all the money he found
on his victim.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 18th aggregated
9O.6ss. .1s5, against STA, ,45l, 1855 the
previous week. The decrease, com.
pared with the corresponding week in
1898. was so.
NEW JERSEYS legislature is to be
petitiored to permit ths consolidate
of Jersey City, Newark, Hoboken,
Orange, Paterson and Passaic.
AT soldiers reunion at Oblone,
ILL.,, David Eaton wantonly killed Don
aid Mcdonald and wounded John
James.
In speech before the bimetallic
conference at Washington Congress-
man Bryan recommended the dropping
of all other issues but that of free
coinage.
UNITED STATES JUDGE CALDWELL has
ordered the Santa Fe receivers to pay
employees promptly. borrowing money
if necessary.
A DOUBLE wedding was celebrated at
Pana. ILL.,, in which Edward Munday
and Thomas Ellison were married to
each others divorced wife.
APPROPRIATIONS made by the present
congress are $49. S09, 169 less than those
of its predecessor.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the national league for the week
ended or the 10th were: Baltimore.
$40; Boston. .e4e; New York, sos;
Cleveland. .564; Philadelphia. .54s;
Pittsburgh, .515; Brooklyn, $40; Chi.
cago. .474; Cincinnati, .45S; st. Louis.
Ala; Louisville. $40: Washington, 800.
AFFECTED by her sons conversion,
Mrs. Jane Newberry dropped dead at a
church revival at Surveyville, Tex.
RATHER than be censured for reck.
less driving, John c. Peck, a member
of the Philadelphia fire department,
killed himself.
THOMAS HEWITT, an iron molder of
Kearney, n. j., stabbed his wife and
children and killed himself by leapinp
from window.
MRS. SIMMONS, once a noted belle of
Lexington, KY, was arrested at Wich-
ita, Kan, charged with murder.
AT Sherburne. Mimi. Lee Walker
seized the trailing rope of an ascend
ing balloon and was killed by the fall.
MAJ. WILLIAM WORTH, court-mar-
tailed for ordering target practice on
Sunday, was acquitted and released
from custody.
GEN. FELIX ANGUS. of Baltimore.
proposes to secure q Maryland lake
and fill it with salt water for scientific
cultivation Of the oyster.
FoUB powder houses of the Speer
Hardware company, located at Fort
Smith, Ark, blew up, killing three
persons and doing great damage.
HERBERr r. HESS, brilliant young
lawyer of Chicago. was found dead
with bottle of morphine by his side.
He had been respondent over the
death Of his wife and child.
!, RICH gold discoveries were reported
along the Rio Grande in New Mexico