Griggs courier., 1895-03-08

death of Mrs. Eliza HI. Lord.
CHARLES MORGAN, the Acquia Creek
train robber, was convicted and his
punishment fixed at eighteen years
imprisonment.
MEMBERS of the w. c. T. U. sang the
doxology when the vote repeating the
bottle law was announced in the Della
ware house.
REPRESENTATIVE democrats from f1f-
teen states signed a manifesto calling
for vigorous campaign for silver.
WHILE Thomas Meadows and his
wife, of Glenville, Ala, were attending
q dance their four children were
burned to death.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 1st aggregated
$77O, 1OO,Gs3. against 1924, 4,4lG,4sO the
previous week. The decrease, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was Ia.
THE treasury receipts at Washington
during February were $s2,sss,O57 and
the disbursements were $25, COG, OBS,
leaving deficit of $a,sO7,97s for the
month, and for the eight months of the
present fiscal year $50, ,395,771.
The inspector general of the army re-
ported to congress that national SOL
diers' homes were crowded to a dan
gerous degree.
The public debt statement issued on
the 1st showed that the debt decreased
$34, ,O33, 1928 during the month of Feb
ruary. The cash balance in the treas
ury was SITS, ,5s6. The total debt,
less the cash balance in the treasury,
amounts to $500, ,412,9 $40. The decrease
in the debt during the month is ac-
counted for by the receipt of gold on
account of the last bond issue, against
which no bonds had been issued.
SHERMAN & RILEY, bankers at Provi-
dence, R. l., failed for s1,166, ,53G.
The coinage executed ut the mints
of the United States during the month
of February was us follows: Gold, &c.
143,sO0; silver, S49l,O0O, minor coin,
$57, 300; total coinage, $G,692, 100.
THERE were $50 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 1st, against 3O2 the
week previous and 28l in the corre-
spending time in 1894.
FIRES throughout the country during
February caused a total loss of $12,-
532.510, against $12,91s,225 in Febru-
ary, 1894.
AMOS and Wiley Knott, of North Car
olina, were terribly beaten by white
caps for reporting illicit distilleries to
officers.
DuN's trade review states that there
is very little activity to be discovered
in any line of business throughout the
country.
THE Holdredge (Neb.) National bank
failed to open its doors. The bank has
a capital stock of $5O,OO0.
JOE DEAN was hanged at Fairburn,
Ky, for numbering A. 3. Leigh; George
Magee was executed at Frankfort, KY,
for killing Charles Thomas, and Harry
Hill, the murderer of Matthew Axe
son, was hanged at Plattsmouth, Neb.
Two BUILDINGS in New York city fell,
causing the death of five men, and
twenty-one other employees were seri-
ously injured.
Ice gorged in the Susquehanna river
at Port Deposit, Nd, and the residents
were forced to flee to the hills.
HUGH T. GALEN, aumillionaire mine
owner and politician of Helena, Mont.
was secretly married to q Seattle
school-teacher.
Two MASKED men held up train near
Antelope, Cal, but were beaten off by
the engineer and fireman.
DANIEL HAIRsrRoM and wife, of Alton,
!. T., were fatally injured by white
robbers disguised as negroes.
BOTH houses of the Oklahoma legisla-
ture passed divorce bill which is un-
equaled for it's liberality.
AT. Franklin, Ind, James Truelock,
Thomas Kirk and Lee Martin were
sentenced to six years imprisonment
for grave robbery.
A REVIEW of the session of congress
shows that a few of the important
measures debated were enacted into
law. The total amount of money ap-
propriated is S497, ,994 ,6O4.
Two MEN were killed and two injured
by the explosion of tank of sulphuric
acid at McKeesport, Pa.
1HE chicago lines anu CnlcagO her
aid have been consolidated and will
hereafter be issued under the name of
the Times Herald.
Four men were killed and two others
injured by an explosion in sawmill at
Adelphia, O.
PROPERTY valued at upward of $780,
600 was destroyed by fire at Salina,
Kan.
GEORGE HOWELL, of Elkhorn, w. Va,
in fit of jealousy killed Miss Alice
Gibson and then took his own life.
JAMES FITZPATRICK, who had lived
the life of hermit for fifty years, and
who for forty years had not spoken to
a woman. because of diSanpnintment