Griggs courier., 1895-07-05


or badly wrecked.
In an old skirt belonging to the late
Mrs. Augusta Keller, of Lexington,
Mo-, members Of the family found $9,-
600 in greenbacks
AN appeal was issued by the Irish
National Federation of America for
money to carry on the home rule cam
paign in Ireland.
ANTHONY PAoLr and John Tursick,
rivals for the affections of Rosina Du-
bach, fought duel in the woods near
Shamokin, Pa, using clubs for wea-
pons, and both were fatally hurt
SENATORS VOORHEES, and Turpie pre-
pared papers to file in court to test the
last Indiana legislative apportionment.
The expenditures for the four years
of civilian administration of the wealth
er bureau are estimated at So, $685. 900.
FIRE destroyed four blocks in the
heart of the manufacturing district of
San Francisco, involving loss of ST.
100000 in property and sacrificing one
life.
Tom Bowen (colored), in Jail at Brook
Haven, Miss, charged with assault on
Miss Lizzie Britt, was taken from the
sheriff by mob and hanged.
The cruiser Columbia is to race
against time from Southampton to
New York under instructions from
Secretary Herbert.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 2sth aggregated
81, ,O1O, 4S2, ,O4l, against s., ,O76, 4l9, 46O the
previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was 1876.
The population of Jersey City, N. J.,
according to the state census just COM
pleted, is 182,9S1.
AT Bently, Kan, L. G. Kennedy and
Mise s. F. Helvie, two well-known
young people, were married by Rev.
Ella Thorp 1t was the first marriage
ceremony performed in Kansas by a
woman.
THERE were 256 business failures in
the United States in the seven DAYS
ended on the 2sth, against 22S the week
previous and 2l4 in the corresponding
time in 1894.
The National Association of Elocu-
tionists in session in Boston elected
Prof. w. B. Chamberlain, of Chicago,
president.
GEORGE s. s. Moore, assistant post
master at Mobile, Ala, was sentenced
to two years. Imprisonment for en-
bezzlement of public funds.
The supreme council of the United
Commercial Travellers Of America met
at Columbus, o.
FROST visited Dickey county, N. D.,
damaging corn, potatoes and fax.
In fight at Spartansburg, s. c., be-
tween State Constables Pettigrew and
Toland and two moonshiners named
Fisher and Durham the latter were
killed and the constables were fatally
injured.
DIR. ROBINSON, Of Camden. Mass,
died at the age of "a years. He dis
covered the use Of the spectroscope in
medicine.
The lumbermen of Saltwater, Minn..
were said to have cheated the govern
ment out Of $40O, 900 by fraudulent log
measurements
''BAD ToM'' SMITH, member of the
French faction in mountain warfare,
and the murderer of eight men, was
hanged at jackson. KY.
Snow fell for an hour at Cumberland.
Wis.
CONTRACTOR DAVID COPPER and his
father fell Is feet from a scaffold at
Messy Creek, Tenn, and both were
killed.
WINTER wheat does not make a verv
good showing in the June crop report
of the statistician of the department of
agriculture at Washington.
YALE won the varsity 4-mile race at
New London, Conn.,, by ten lengths,
beating Harvard by thirty-five seconds.
The official time was: Yale, 21:3O; Har-
ward, 22:O5.
The reservoir at Chatcher, Col, hold
ing 25,O0O,0O0 gallons of water, gave
way and swept over all the country, do
ing great damage.
Tom Bowen, negro who committed
an outrage upon blind white lady at
Brookhaven, Miss, was captured by a
mob and hanged.
ST. LOUIS city employees who have
failed to register and vote were being
dropped from the rolls for their negll-
gence.
THOMAS PoRvIER and his wife were
killed by a stroke of lightning at their
home near Lowell, Mass.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
DEMOCRATS who favor free coinage of
silver at 16 to / are asked to meet in
Washington on August IA to organize
for the purpose of controlling the
action Of the national Democratic con.