Morris tribune., 1881-05-19
NEWS SUMMARY.
RAILROADS..

Prospects are good for the speedy building
OF the first i 90 miles of Northern Pacific, Fer
gus Falls & Black Hills road
Z. Superintendent Prior, of the Milwaukee road,
informs the Austin Transcript that Superin-
tendent Egan has orders to prepare for running
Southern Minnesota trains into Austin as soon
as he disposes Of more pressing duties.
1t is reported that the decision in the suit for
permanent injunction brought by Henry Vii
lard to restrain the issue of $4,000, 900 of
shares of the Northern Pacific to the old stock
holders of the road, will never be rendered. 1t
is reported now, on perfectly good authority,
that there willprobably be a compromise agreed
hpon by the contending parties.
Further reports from the accident on the
Green Bay railroad last Saturday show that the
bridge was not fired by incendiaries, as alleg-
ed by Mr.. Case, but caught from forest fires
which have been burning in that vincinity for
the past week. TIL train consisted of twenty
five cars, and the ten destroyed were loaded
h With @ Sag hSte feAs fna f"Ai"ht
RECORD OF CRIME.
At Wilkeabarre, Pa, burglars entered the
residence of Rev. Father Donohue, and chloro
formed and robbed the priest.
At Atlanta, Ga, Mention Hart and Jesse Reg
lister fought duel with knives. Both are re-
ported dying. Register was almost disembow-
eled.
Agent Henderson, of the post Office depart
ment at Washington, arrested John Fuller, on
mails postal cards and letters of the most in
decent and scurrillous character to highly re-
spectacle young lady of that city. He was COM
maitted to Jail in default of So, 900 bonds.
At Batesville, Kansas, W. B. Marshall and
Joseph York, young men, got into a difficulty
about cotton planter. Hard words passed,
when York drew knife and stabbed Marshall
in the shoulder. Marshall drew knife aud
plunged it into York's side, from the effects of
which he died in four hours. Marshall gave
himself up.
United States Deputy Marshal Balm is under
arrest at Des Moines, Iowa, for killing f.. H.
Willis, of Akron, Mo. Balm and the sheriff of
Decatur county, Iowa, went over the line to ar
rest muonshiners They found Willis at work
in field, and unobserved Balm went to him and
remarked he hoped he would not run again, he
having escaped once before Willis uttered an
oath, and saying, "You'u never take me alive,
started to run, making zgzag course across
the the prairie. Balm followed, but find
ing Willis was getting away ordered o nm hum to to
he says, to intimidate him; but he lodged at the
instant and received the ball in his head, caus-
ing instant death.
FIRES AND OTHER CASUALTIES.
J. W. Stokes, at st. Louis, q freight conductor,
was knocked down by moving car and killed.
Ten men lost their lives at Scranton, Kansas,
by fire in coal mine belonging to WI. Green.
washington news.
The Niagara Falls paper manufactory at Burt
Island burned. Loss, $500, 900; insurance,
100000, Supposed incendiary.
The extensive sawmill of x-Mayor Geo. w.
Lusk, at Fond du Lac, Wis, was totally de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, $15, 900; insurance,
| 81, 900 in number of companies. The mill
| was fired by ncenaiaries.
CURRENT EVENTS.
The mercury stood at 88 in New York on
| Wednesday last.
John N. lngersoll, editor of the Corunna
Journal, 3 veteran journalist of Michigan. died
recently, after lingering illness.
The attorney for the Agricultural and Me.
| chanical society of western Maryland has filed
his declaration to the suit against Henry Ward
Beecher, for failure to deliver lecture accord
| ing to agreement, and claiming $10 900 dam
| ages.
Bishop Foss of Minnesota is assigned to his
conferences as follows: Wisconsin, September
21, at Whitewater; West Wisconsin. September
ii, at Sparta; and in Dakota, September %,
at Fargo.
The statute of Stonewall Jackson at New
Orleans was unveiled in the presence of large
throng of people. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee delivered
an address, The widow and daughter of Gen.
Jackson were present. At the conclusion of the
ceremonies, Jefferson Davis, in response to re-
peated calls to the stand, was enthusiastically
cheered, and made brief speech.
All the logs of the Upper Mississippi and its
tributaries are likely to come down. The
streams have big stage of water, enough to
bring down all the logs cut last winter, but if
the rains continue some trouble may be expe-
rienced in holding them in the booms at Mime
| apolis and other points above. Experienced
lumbermen are predicting high water as re-
suit of late rains in the northern portion of the
state, and are making preparations to meet the
anticipated emergency.