Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-11-07
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Foreign flower seed are not consid-
cred dutiable goods by the secretary of the
treasury.
H. L. Essen & Co., of Milwaukee,
have made an assignment. Liabilities about
$50, 900.
Glasgow, Scotland, suffered a fire
which destroyed one block, the property being
valued at about s., 100000
There is q sensation in Trenton, N.
j., over the statement of Republican poll.
tician that Senator Mcpherson bought his
seat in the United States senate.
John Jarret says tariff of p cents
on tin plate would put $50, GOO into its
production in this country and employ %, 900
men.
Gen. Sherman refuses to be candi-
date for president, but remarks when
''pressed": There's brother John, take
him"
l.. M. Tate, arrested at Washington
City on charge of collecting political assess
mentS. he being a government eLnpllye, has
been acquitted.
Rowand, clerk of the courts of Pitts
burg, Pa, who is alleged to be short $4,000
the county owe, him just s.. 50 instead.
The question of liability of telegraph
companies will come ~ in Pittsburg, Pa,
soon, where &. A. Daily will enter suit for
81, 200 damages against the Baltimore & Ohio
Telegraph company. The plaintiff alleges
that by the n0n-deiivery OF message Ell
trusted to that company, he lost q good situa-
ton.
A riot occurred at Danville, Va, at a
political IneeIIny, at which five negroes aid
one white man We're killed and a number of
others hurt more Or less seriously. The
trouble grew out al the warmth Of the roiti-
cal campaign 1t is said that arms have been
purchased ali over Virginia in unusual quan-
titles by both whites and blacks.
". I. Eensel, chairman of the Demo-
cratic state central committee of Pennsyl-
wanna has lean suel by detective for the
81 coo reward offered last year for the arrest
and conviction OF any person violating the
election laws. The detective went to work
AMI got one OF two men convicted and then
tie chairman was surprised when the bill
was presented saying, he only offered the
reward as a ''bluir to scare off any one
intending to vote Illegally. The matter is i'll
the courts now.
The suicide of Johnson of Utica, n
Y, last week, had some sensational features.
The deceased was q friend Of ex-senator
C0nl1ling, AMI a prominent Republican poll
tician. He was the uncle OF Lynch who was
shot dead at Batavia by Rowell iur seducing
RowelIs wife. He was a man of wealth,
with family moving in the best circles. But
he kept q mistress who acted as his book
keeper and drank heavily. 1t is thought,sthar
his shame at the position he occupied socially
weighed on his mind and drove him to sui
eide.
Mary Churchill, the St. Louis girl
who so mysteriously disappeared from her
home a few weeks ago, has been discovered
at the Insane hospital, Indianapolis, where
she was at work in the ironing-room. She
says she left home because she wanted to earn
her own living, and declares she is going to
return to her work as soon as she has paid
her mother visit, which it required consid-
cradle persuasion to get her to do The only
thi that seems to have troubled her was
the report that she had run away with her
former school teacher, Caldwell, whom ..-1
declares she hated when going to hi, schoo1.
1t was TO correct that report that she wrote
her short letter to her father.