Griggs courier., 1895-09-13

600 and assets ofsonly el5, $3.50.
GEoRGE BLACKBURN. who had been
In the penitentiary almost continuous
ly since 1853. escaped at Columbus, o.
SIX business dwellings were burned
at Carrollton, KY, the loss being
500, ,OoG.
THE twelfth annual convention of
the Association of Agricultural Chem.
lists, representing agricultural colleges
in more than thirty-five states, met at
Washington.
The exchanges at the leading clear.
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended ON the 9Th aggregated
1914, SAC, 800, against &ss5.55l, S54 the
previous week. The increase. COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was 1871.
JUDGE PEABODY, Of St. Louis, rem
dered decision far-reaching in its
effects on future strikes and lockouts.
He holds that the distribution of boy
colt circulars is Unable offense.
EARTHQUAKE shocks were felt in
Montana at Butte, Helena and Great
Falls. -rt .a...
j. j. O'LEARY & Son. packers at St
Paul, failed for $200,0O0.
STELLA JOHNSON, the 16-year-old
daughter of widow who lives near
Amilla, Fla, was kidnapped and out
ragged and then murdered by unknown
fends.
FRANK ScHoRPE, aged 81 years, and
Miss Mary Sarah Simpson, aged IL.
were married at Manchester, Tenn,
the parents of the girl having given
their consent.
A STATE convention of silverites,
without reference to party, has been
called to meet in Birmingham, Ala,
November 13.
Dock KING (colore0 was hanged by
200 white men near Fayetteville, Tenn,
for assaulting Mrs. Charles Jones, a
white woman.
AT Grand haven, Mich. Mary L.
Pierce, aged 13 years, on trial for the
murder of her mother, was found
guilty and sentenced to the reform
school until she is 21 years old.
THERE were 1856 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 9th, against 1856 the week
previous and 2l9 in the corresponding
time in 1894.
A FIRE that broke out in Browinsli's
drug store in Carrollton, KY, de-
stroyed nearly all the business portion
of that city, the loss being 100000.
MAYOR WEBB MCCARTHY, Chief of
Police Frank Frellichowsky, C. A.
Tally, president of the school board,
and a score of keepers of concert halls
and saloons of the disreputable women
order at Lemont, ILL, were arrested by
Chicago officials
IT was said that the big advance jim
the price of steel had killed the tin
plate industry, and that in few
months every mill in the country turn
ing out that product would be closed,
throwing 10000 persons out of work.
The tenth annual session of the ma
tional encampment of the Union Vet
eran Legion of America will be held in
Buffalo, N. Y, the third week in Oc-
tober.
JAMES WARD killed Aaron Hunter,
his father-in-law, and John Hunter.
his brother-in-law, and then took his
own life near Hymera, Ind. Family
differences were supposed to have led
to the crime.
THE Westminster Presbyterian church
at Minneapolis was burned by an in
cendiary fire, the loss being $10o,o
In the municipal court in Boston Joe
Wolcott and Dick O'Brien, pugilists.
were held in $1,000 bail for the grand
jury on the charge of engaging in
prize fight.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 31st ult. were: Balti-
more, .65l; Cleveland, .632; Philadel-
phia, .5as; Brooklyn, $50; Boston. .555;
New York, .53e; Pittsburgh, ss4; Gin
cinnati. .53s; Chicago, .5l3; Washing
ton, .31s; St Louis. .31O: Louisville,
.257.
THE Sioux Indians at Rosebud
Agency, in South Dakota, under
the leadership of Hollow Horn Bear. q
powerful and influential chief, warned
Indian Agent Wright and the employees
to vacate the agency within twenty
four days The Indians also threat
ened to burn the agency buildings.
JOHN SLossER, fireman, and James
Hendricks. trainman, were killed. and
Engineer Roberts was fatally injured
in collision on the Cincinnati South
ern railroad near Blanchet. Ky.
| The office of the Adams Express COM
pany in Terre Haute, Ind, was robbed of
cash amounting to probably $4,000 ].
D. Farden, cashier of the express COM
any, and j. r. Barnett, city ticket
agent of the Vandalia line, were ac-
cused of the robbery.
A REPORT had reached Brownsville,
Tex. that the schooner Gurlock of
Lake Charles, La, had been lost with
six men aboard.
The first of the three races for the
! Americas cup was sailed in New York
bay and the Defender, the American
yacht, won, defeating Valkyrie ILL.,,
the English boat, by eight minutes and
forty-nine seconds.
| BURGLARS entered the Bank of Kim
l<aid, Kan, blew open the vault and
took all the money, some 5000
A FIRE in the Osceola copper mine
near Houghton, Mich, entombed forty
two miners, and there were no hopes