Morris tribune., 1883-09-12
THE NEWS CONDENSED.

The center of Brooklyn bridge hang
two feet higher in winter than in sun
mer.
Mr.. Dixon, acting mayor of Nlilwau
: kee, declares that the council has II
right to refuse saloon licenses to aI
plicants, and granted several to partie
who have hitherto been unable to oil
tain them.
The board of regents of the TeXe
State university are greatly embarass
ed with the cOlOred branch. There
are more negro applicants for cultur
ut the university than can be accom-
modated, and until they are special,
provided for the cOlOred young me-
and women are likely to claim th
same rights as the whites to enter thu
main university.
The Pittsburg Dispatch will publish
regular Sunday edition hereafter.
There are $4,000 plates of fruit dis
played at the Louisville exposition.
The total imports at New York, sX
elusive of specie for the week ending
Saturday, were $S,746,754, of which
$2,551 ,512 was dry goods, and $5,O05,
S64 general merchandise. The total
imports since Jan. l are 1920, ,730, l20
1856, 222 ,677 for last year.
J.D. Schevalier of New Brunswick
n. J., has discovered coating for tel
egraph wires underground. He calls
it an Isco insulator. 1t has no retar-
dation. 1t is recommended by Edi-
son.
\ pearl weighing seyenty-tive carats
the largest ever found, was taken re-
Gently from the shell of an oyster in
the Gulf of California.
Dr. Bullock of Alleghe ~ killed a
patient by mistake in DIR. gs, and
then took his victims dose to kill
himself.
The Superior Iron Paint company,
with a capital of 5000, filed articles
of association with the secretary Of
state at Madison last Saturday, the
object being the manufacture of min
eral paint at Appleton.
An educational convention will be
held at Louisville, Ky, on Sept. 9th,
the object of which is to consider the
question of popular education in the
South. Federal aid, it is said, is the
object Of the meeting.
Some boys fishing on wharfin San
Francisco recently caught five sharks,
measuring from four to five feet each.
Sir Henry Maxi, governor of New
foundland, died at the vice regal resi-
dence at st, Johns, n. f., last SatHr-
day morning.
The Typographical union of Cincin-
natl gave ball Monday night for the
benefit of the lady telegraphers, who
were out on the strike.
Delegates from various liberal lea
CUES in Pennsylvania met at Pittsburg
last Saturday, and formed State or
ganiaaCinn.
Mrs. Ole Rogn, Of Hawk Creek,
Benville county, jumped into a we'll
and was drowned. Her husband tried
to save her. In trying to pull her up
the rope broke, he went to get some
chains, and while gone her strength
gave way and she sank for the last
time in fifteen feet Gf water:
Lightning struck barn in Water
vile Sunday night in which three
men We're sleeping, The lightning
struck one Of the men named Fuller
in the hip, making a hole the size of
silver doller, passed down under his
trousers and out again near the ankle,
setting fire to pile of shavings. Be-
yond the effects of the shock Fuller
was unhure,
A sealed bottle was found by a boat
out from Duluth, in which was a
paper dated two years ago, saying
that a party left Chicago on a yacht
which foundered, five survivors talk
ing refuge in a boat.
Ralpk Johnson, foreman of the
Payne farm, twelve miles north Of
Crookston, fell from reaper, striking
thesickle, cutting his leg and other
parts Of his body, and will probably
result fatally,
The Evening Journal thinks Mr..
Willard u practical Joker. 1t says !:
On the Pullman car "Ganges," with
his expedition, he has arranged a
"happy family" a la Barnum, by
quartering together the following
named gentlemen Governor Pills
bury, Gen. Washburn, Loren Fletcher,
Thomas Lowry, Gen. Nettleton, from
Minneapolis ! Gov: Ramsey, Mayor
O'Brien, Pat Kelley, J. Ii. Baker, At
torney Clough and others from st.
Paul.