Morris tribune., 1883-06-20

copper spent Ulle evening III SulohiHS
and walking about. He has always
been regarded as Il crank and for
while was confined to Jail as danger
Gus lunatic.
At the meeting of the Presbyterian
general assembly, held in Saratoga
last month, l. ministers and an equal
number of elders were selected from
the churches ofthe country to organize
board to aid in the work of building
up colleges. These delegates will
meet in Chicago on Tuesday next to
appoint the board diand select Il secretary
. The arrangements are now-eompie-
ted for the annual gathering of the
Methodist people of the state at their
favorite resort, Red Rock. The gro, n
has been improved by the pure chase of
a large tract fronting the river, by the.
erection of commodious hotel, and
in other ways. The meeting which
opens June y, and continues until
Jnly 3, will he conducted 10y Rev. Drs.
Van Anda and Marshall. Thos.
Harrison, the boy preacher, is engaged
for the entire meeting. The New
Orleans Jubilee Singers will also add
to its interest and profit. y grand
temperance celebration will take place |
on the 4th of July.
Postoffice Inspectors J. II. Brown /
and w. w. Perry, of Cleveland, last
Friday morning arrested Geo. Morri- /
son, night distributing clerk i'll the |
postotfice at indianapolis, charged .
with robbing the mails. For more .
than a year past various business
firms have lost valuable letters, and
it became evident that some one was
opening the letters and dcs troying
them, ,appropriating the monied CON
tents. Suspicion fell upon Morrison,
and Friday morning he was detected
in the act, and upon being arrested
made a full confession of his guilt.
He was committed to await eNamina-
ton before the United States commits
sioner. The amount of his peculations
is not yet known. :
There was no scene when the verdict
of the jury in the dynamite conspiracy
cases was announced in London last
Friday. They found DR.. Gallagher,
Wilson, Whitehead and Curtain
guilty, and Ansburg and Bernard in
nocent. The convicted men were at
once sentenced to life imprisonment.
They received their sentences quietly,
but were considerably moved when
the parting with their friends occurred,
Curtain declared that he was innocent,
and had been made the victim of .
81 know l shall not
be permitted to remain long in
PRISON. he said, ''for am guilty of
no crime.n The cOnvicts were con- {
veyed at once to Milbank prison in ii
van, escorted by a strong force to pre- .
vent rescue. The Times says the
sentences of the dynamite conspirators
are severe, but considering the helm
BUSINESS of the offense they have not
received more then their deserts. All
the London journals approve Of the
sentences
The firm of McGeoch, Everingham :
& Company of Chicago were compelled
to suspend last Saturday. The im-
mediate cause of the McGeoch, Ever
ingham & Co. failure was the refusal
ofDaniel Wells, Jr., the Milwaukee
and Phil. Armour of
Chicago and others to furnish any
further capital for the running of the
July lard corner, which has been ell
10y Peter McGeOch for a
month or more. The firm was also
in margins, and when
lard broke from $11.17lla-the closing
price ofyesterday-to$ $1,000 this morn
ing, their margins were entirely eN-
hausted and they were unable to re-
spond to the call for 800, 900 additional
margins, and were compelled to sus-
pend. The corner had been losing
$50, 900 per day, and the hackers be-
came frigh tened and deserted Nc
Geoch in the trying hour. The firm
held 100000 tierces of all options, and
own 1000 tierces of cash stuff, and
there was in the market. AS prices
have been higher than at other points,
large quantities have been shipped
from Kansas City and elsewhere.
After the break had reached the lowest
point, Armor, Fairbanks and others
bought every tierce oflard offered, and
July was crowded up to $685..
Attention is turning again to the
isthmus of Panama and it's railroad
and canal projects. Some shrewd
New York capitalists are it is said,
pulling all sorts of strings to get the
cabinet to decide to open the coaling
stations there, authorized by the act
of congress two years ago. And the
cabinet is seriously considering the
question, Zoo nOG DecauSe Tie wall
street people want it done, but because
congress authorized it, and because
tits believed by many to be a wise
policy. But there are grave inter-
national questions likely to be affected
by it, and the subject must be very
carefully studied before a.
conclusion is reached. The reso-
luton is reached. The resolution
passed in 1880 authorized the establish
ment Of two naval stations and depots
OF coal for war ships, one at the Gulf
DuIcc, III the Pacific coast, and one
st Lake Chiriqu, on the Atlantic side.
Secretary Hunt, however, did nothing