Griggs courier., 1895-09-13
The News Condensed
important Intelligence From All Parts
DOMESTIC.


DOMESTIC.
TIE trial of William Henry Theodore
Durrant for the murder of Blanche
Lamont commenced in San Francisco.
JOSEPH B. NORTON was hanged at
Jasper, Fla, for the murder of James
Denmark on January last.
The receipts Of the government for
the two months of the current fiscal
year were s5s,o22, 1874. against SIS, $780,
945 for the corresponding months Of
the last fiscal year. Expenditures for
the like period were 81. .136, ,248, against
$es; s05, ,2ls for the last fiscal year. The
treasury deficit for the fiscal year, or
the excess of expenditures over re-
ceipts, was stated at $13,1l3,s54. Last
year for q like period receipts ex-
ceeded the expenditures $6,921,7 ,726.
THE visible supply of grain in the
United States on the I'D was: Wheat,
81, 5,4s0. 600 bushels; corn, 5,412, 900 BUSH
els; oats, 3,417,O0o bushels; rye, 445,-
600 bushels; barley. $4,000 bushels.
The livery stable of Fleming Bros. ,
at Petersburg. Ind, was burned,
twenty-eight valuable horses being de-
stroyed. A hotel was also burned,
the guests losing all their valuab bles.
AMBROSE E. DEAN and his wife while
driving were struck by Wabash train
near Montpelier, O., and instantly
killed.
The boycott of national bank notes
ordered by General Master Workman
> Sovereign, of the Knights of Labor,
was said by Washington officials to be
a failure thus far.
= The new flag law was observed at
most of the public school buildings in
Illinois.
The public debt statement issued on
the 4th showed that the debt increased
$c,S15,4 Alb during the month of August.
The cash balance in the treasury was
$;s4,039, 1856 The total debt, less the
cash balance in the treasury, amounts
to $942, s24, ,23e.
: A TREASURY statement shows q net
decrease of money of all kinds in cir
culation in the United States on Sep
tember of $40, CSC, 1858, making the to-
tai of circulation s1,603, $50, ,02s, or
$22.s7 per capita, based ON 70,127 900
population. AS compared with Sep
circulation of 100000.
A STORM of wind and rain did great
damage in Illinois, Iowa, Indiana,
Michigan and other states, while
southern states did not escape un-
scathed. The rainfall in some sections
amounted to inches in ten hours, the
heaviest ever recorded. Growing
crops and fruit were very seriously
damaged throughout q large section of
country.
The Farmers bank at Ladonia. NO.,
is again open and ready for business.
The trial of Rev. w. E. Hinshaw, q
Methodist minister at Belleville, Ind.
for the murder of his wife on January
10 last, commenced at Danville, Ind.
The Council of the American Asso-
citation for the Advancement of Science
selected the University of Cincinnati
as the location of its immense library.
b. s. WEBER. member of the Six
teenth infantry, travelled from Salt
Lake City to Washington on wheel,
covering 1927 miles in 374 hours actual
running time.
The twelfth annual exposition at st
Louis opened and will continue for
forty days.
FIVE employees of the Providence R.
~ Gas company met death in a cellar
by asphyxiation.
PIERRE LoRRILLARD, the New York
tobacco magnate, has tired of Amer
'ica, and, following in the footsteps of
William Waldorf Astor, will go to
England to live.
AUGUST SoNTwE1N, 10 years old, shot
and killed his brother-in-law, Paul
Miller, at Omaha for attempting to as
sault his mother. The boy gave him
self up.
A TOWER on the new machinery hall
building on the state fair grounds at
Springfield, ILL.,, fell, killing five work
men and injuring seven others, two
fatally.
J.. FIRE destroyed property at East Bos-
ton, Mass, aggregating $3.50, 200. No.
pier, belonging to the Boston & Al
bany railroad, was burned with all its
contents.
ALL the Hawaiian consuls in Amer.
lea were notified by telegraph that a
flibustering expedition would soon
start from this country with the
avowed purpose in view of overthrow
ing the present republican government
OF Hawaii and replacing cx-Queen
Liliuokalani ON the throne.
The Ohio Wool Growers association
In convention at Columbus urged the
Fifty-fourth congress to pass legisla-
ton favorable to wool protection.
c. w. RIPPEY, who shot John w.
Mackay in San Francisco three years
ago, is now pursuing Charles L. Fair.
Fairs friends were nervous.
A CYCLONE at Huntingdon. Tenn,
wrecked many buildings and did other
damage.
SIX men were sleeping in barn at
Earnest station, Pa, when the struc-
ture was burned and all were ere.
mated.
CoMPTRoLLER BOWLER, of the treas.
ury. in decision in. the sugar bounty
cases declared the act unlawful und
refused to pay the bounties
The crop of oranges in Florida this
wear was estimated NJ y,.t ,ua,. I'M mr.