Griggs courier., 1895-05-10

Compiled From Late Dispatches. )
DOMESTIC.

HIN NIeSlU6NCc VI 0EOCRc OeuutSVOu
IN Crookston, Mimi, was burned and
his aged parents lost their lives in the
flames.
Two COMPANIES of the Fifth regiment
Michigan state troops left Houghton
for Marquette, Mich, to keep peace
between union and non-uDion laboiers
on the docks of the South Shore rail-
way. N
FIRE partially destroyed the plant Of
the Kehlor Milling company in East
St. Louis. the loss being $lO0.OOO.
A pRorRAcTED drought had seriously
injured oats, wheat and other crops in
Kansas No good rains had fallen for
over six months.
AT English. Ind, Edward Steeple-
tons 15-year-old son, who has been a
mute and almost deaf all his life. began
to talk like his brothers and sisters.
In raid on '',noonshiners" near
Huntington, w. Va, Lee Ward was
killed and 100, including twenty wom-
en-. were arrested.
A STRIKE in the Flat Top coal region
near Roanoke, Va, went into effect,
$1,000 miners in thirty-five mines going
out.
FIVE large -four milling plants in
Milwaukee were merged into COM
bination or trust with the object of re-
ducing expenses.
The home of Stamford Kimley, near
Atchison, Kan, was burned during the
absence of Mr.. and Mrs. Kimley and
their two children, aged years and Is
months, respectively, were cremated.
JOHN COLEMAN, a negro who lived
near Jacksonville. Fla, who shot and
mortally wounded his wife because she
did not make soup to suit him, was
lynched by a mob.
CROPS throughout the northwestern
states were reported to be in good con-
dition.
ARCHIE Brown, son of the governor
of Kentucky, was shot dead in a
bawdy house in Louisville by Fulton
Gordon. who also killed his wife, who
was with Brown.
CAPT. SLocUM sailed from Gloucester,
Mass, in his 40-foot sloop Spray ON q
voyage around the world.
AN old feud at Newbern, Tenn, cul-
minated in pitched battle IN which
Abbott and John Fulgham (brothers)
and Beauregard Townsend and his son
were killed.
ST. LOUIS authorities have begun
war on the 'smashers." One of them
was fined 500.
The treasury receipts at Washington
for the month of April amounted to
$e4,247, s36 and the expenditures to $32, :
952, 800, leaving deficit for the month
of $s. 7O4, 1854 and for the fiscal year to
date $54, ,247, ,OO6.
JAMES You've, janitor at the court
house in Brazil. Ind, shot and killed
his wife at Hoosierville because she
had left him and then drove to Brazil,
went to the courthouse and shot him
self to death.
The public debt statement issued on
the 1st showed that the debt increased
$40, 109, ,S5s during the month of April.
The cash balance in the treasury was
$50, ,s17,9.5. The total debt, less the
cash balance in the treasury, amounts
to S917. .S39.9 9O3.
w. I. LcPER, night manager of the
United Press in New York :ity. COM
rnitted suicide by inhaling gas. In
somnia was the cause.
REPORTS to the bureau of the mint
show coinage during the month of
April as follows: Gold, 81, ,639, 300; sill.
yer, $595,O0p; minor coins, $199, 772
Toral, S., ,364.O72.
THE government school building on
the Santee Indian reservation in Ne
braska was burned for the second time
within two years.
FIRE destroyed Wilkins, Ketcham &
Rothschild's furniture and upholstery
factory and warerooms in Chicago, the
loss being 100000.
Two MEN fatally shot and one Sc
rlously injured was the result of a
frustrated attempt to rob Burlington
train near st. Joseph, Mo.
GAIT. HARRY Il. McMAsTER, assistant
cashier OF the National bank of Eau
Claire, Wis. was arrested on war
rant charging embezzlement of $25, 900
from the bank, and Charles NJ. Greene,
city treasurer, was arrested on a
charge of stealing $4,000 from the
city.
TWENTY business buildings were
burned at Lorimer, la.
The st. Louis and Chicago express
on the Alton road was held up by rob-
bers half a mile north of Carlinville,
ILL. and Frank Holmes, the engineer,
was snot dead All three robbers were
caught
THE Appalachian bank at Big Stone
Gap, W., closed its doors.
HEAVY rains fell at various points in
Minnesota, Wisconsin,, Iowa, Missouri
and Texas. The dampness was just
what was needed to start crops grow
ing.
The treasury statement of receipts
and expenditures during April shows