Griggs courier., 1895-09-06
The News Condensed,

The News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.
A MEETING of the largest steel con-
Germs in the country was held at Pitts
burgh, Pa, and preliminary steps were
taken to form an organization to con-
troll prices.
RAINS throughout the northwest
greatly improved pasturage and crops.
CRACKsMEN blew open the safe in the
post Office and general store of E. e.
Phillips at Rush, NO., and got away
with money. stamps and papers valued
at over 81 ZOO.
AS THE result of quarrel Frank
Hurst and Belle Levi were fatally
wounded by Charles Williamson and
William Broshears near Rockport, Ind.
The annual encampment Of the Ma
tional Spiritualist association COM
menced at Liberal, Mo.
JOHN D. SCULLY, who for the last
fifty years has been president of the
First national bank at Pittsburgh and
its predecessor, the Pittsburgh Trust
company, resigned because Of failing
health.
The twenty-fourth annual conclave
of the grand commandery of Colored
Knights Templar opened in Cleveland.
The president reappointed Matt w.
Ransom to be United States minister to
Mexico.
CONFIDENTIAL advices received at the
department of state in Washington
were to the effect that Spanish rule. in
Cuba could not last much longer, pos
sibly three or four months at the out
side.
FIGHT members Of gang of counter
feiters were captured near Perry, q. T.
MASKED men stripped and tarred and
feathered William Sprill and his wife
at Burnettsville. Ind, and ordered
them to leave town.
IT was announced that Secretary
Olney had made a peremptory demand
on the British government for settle
ment of the Venezuela boundary dis
pute.
FOURTEEN states were represented at
a meeting of the Western Editors as
sociation at Salt Lake City.
The weather bureau in Washington
will hereafter place on its charts read
ings of sensible temperature-thata ac-
tually felt-and make it prominent
feature.
AT Lewisburg. Tenn, Jerry johnson
(colored) was lynched by mob for
making an insulting proposal to white
girl.
FIRE in Louisville, KY, destroyed
the building occupied by Lampton.
Crane & Ramey, dealers in paints, var
nishes and oils. Loss, $1,000
The feature of the second day of the
Knights Templar encampment in Bos-
ton was the competitive drill The
grand treasurer's report showed cash
resources of $50, 302.
c. A. BRowNELL, aged so years, the
Oldest photographer in Cincinnati, was
found dead in his studio from heart
failure.
SPELMAN Bros, importers and deal
ers in fancy goods in New York for
fifty years, failed for $4,000
A FUTILE attempt was made to wreck
an east-bound night express on the
Nickle-P Plate road near McComb, o
In the Montana Methodist conference
at Helena the question of admitting
women to the general conference on
the same footing as men was decided
in favor of the women by vote of "a
to4.
A TORNADO at Syracuse N. Y, de-
stroyed large amount of property
an6 IN o1 ha
The barn of Foxhall Keene at Lex
ington, KY. was burned and his i'm
ported stallion Kallacrates, valued at
$4,000 and the American stallion Hy-
derbad perished in the flames.
WILLIAM HAYGooD, while profaning
at High Shoals. Ga, declaring there
was no God, no Heaven and no hell,
had his tongue paralyzed.
A BOAT upset in a squall on the St.
Clair river near Marysville, Mich, and
Mrs. Michael Derufg, Frank Derufg,
her brother-in-law, and Miss Celia
Choniski and Miss Edith Connors were
drowned.
The resurvey of the boundary line
between California and Nevada result
ed in giving California strip of coun-
try aggregating several hundred
square miles.
''ToMMY" CONNECT, an amateur rum
ner, broke the worlds record for a
mile at New York, going the distance
in 4:1h 3-5.
AT ttasca, Tex, John Brown, %
years old. cut the throat of Miss Boone,
aged IL, and then killed himself. Re-
fusal of the girls father to marriage
was the cause.
AT the twenty-sixth triennial con-
clave in Boston of Knights Templar
w. La Rue Thomas. of Maysville, KY,
was elected grand master, and Pitts
burgh was chosen as the meeting place
In 1885,
AT Central City, Col, the Americus
and Sleepy Hollow mines were acci-
IDENTIFY flooded and thirteen miners
were probably drowned
THE third annual convention of the
National Spiritualists' association of
the United States and Canada will be
held at Washington October Is, le
and II.