Griggs courier., 1895-09-13

retary Reynolds ruled that troops
called into service during the war by a
state governor were not pensionable.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
GEORGE PARKER, the skiing of faro
men," died in Washington. He leaves
$500, ,O0O.
BRIG. GEN. A. v. Kautz, on the re-
tired list of the United States army,
died in Seattle, Wash, aged 81 years.
ALFRED JUDD, aged 90, a hero of the
Mohawk war, died at Lacon, ILL He
had lived in Marshall county since 1881.
The democrats of Nebraka who are
supporters of the administration
financial policy, opposed to free silver
coinage and fusion with popuiists, met
Mahoney, Of Omaha, was nominated
for supreme judge.
The Utah democratic convention at
Ogden nominated John T. Caine for
governor and B. II. Roberts for con.
gress. The platform declares for the
free coinage of silver. .-....-s.
PETER STYERs, the oldest locomotive
engineer in the country, died in Beth
lehem, Pa, aged IS.
WILLIAM A. SAcKErT, aged "a years,
dropped dead at his home in Saratoga
Springs, n. Y. He was member of
the Thirtieth and Thirty-frst con-
crosses.
JABEz CAPPs, the founder of Mount
day.
AUGUST GEMUNDER, founder of the
great violin manufacturing house of
that name and one of the most noted
violin makers in the world, died at his
home in New York, aged 81 years.
FOREIGN.
The Toronto industrial exhibition
was opened by Lieut.. Gov. Kirkpat-
rick.
The Formosan insurgents were con.
Quoting successful warfare against
the japanese, in which women shared
equally with the men in determined
resistance. "8;'
THE villages of Abasolo and Rodri-
quez in Mexico were entirely washed
away by a rainstorm.
The British parliament adjourned
UnCll november 10.
SIX HUNDRED Spanish soldiers and
eight officers were killed and many
were wounded by the insurgents in q
battle near Santiago de Cuba.
AN anarchist, who refused to give
his name when arrested, threw bomb
into NJ. Rothschild's banking house in
Paris but no damage was done.
The Spaniards recaptured the city
of Bairc from the insurgents and mas.
sacred thirty-seven inohensive Cubans
mostly women and children.
WILLIAM II. HuRLBERr, at one time
editor-in-chief of the New York World,
died in Cadenabbia, Italy, aged es
years.
In Moscow and st. Petersburg 900
nihilists were arrested and large guam
titles of bombs, firearms and dynamite
were found in their lodgings.
A FIRE destroyed the greater part of
Liverpool, n. S.
CHOLERA was raging in China and
1000 deaths occurred daily in Peking.
LATER.
The storm that struck Kansas the
night of the sth was much more severe
than first reported. At Gridley several
business houses and residences were
wrecked and number of people in
jured. At Neosha Rapids five business
houses and a number of dwellings were
carried away. At Fredonia the fair
ground was two feet under water.
The Canadian ship canal at Sault Ste.
Marie was formally opened the 9th.
EMIL DoRNER, an employment agent
OF Pittsburg, Pa, was attacked and
robbed by crowd of 500 infuriated coal
miners and left on the ground for dead.
They beat him with clubs and stones,
and after robbing him. of his money
and revolver. threw him into a ravine.
The Goth encampment of the G. A. R.
at Louisville, KY, was opened with a
parade on the arrival of Commander
in Chief Lawler and staff. at 1880 a. m.
the 9th. Gen. Lawler and the Colum-
bian post of Chicago and other organi-
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