Morris tribune., 1883-10-10
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Frederick Matthews, of New York,
q suicide left 500 900 to his sweetheart.

Frederick Matthews, of New York,
a suicide, left $50, 900 to his sweetheart.
Loewenstein & Bros dry goods
store, Memphis, Tenn, burned; loss, $780,
The newspaper war has extended
to Philadelphia, and the Press is sold for two
cents.
Work on Garfield hospital at Wash
ington has been begun, and it is the intention
to have everything under roof by winter
Fourteen citizens of Washington
City met in mass meeting" to demand the
establishment of suffrage in the district.
Jay Gould and others have bought
piece of land near London, Conn to mako
into rival of Newport, as watering place.
Twenty. five persons were injured,
two fatally, by collision between wild
street car and a freight train, at Pittsburg,
Pa
Out of 4, 154, 125 males in the south
ern states above the age Of 81 years, 41O, $50
whites and 944, 424 colored can not read OF
write.
It is rumored at New York that Ex-
Governor Tilden will take an extended cruise
in the south Atlantic this winter, in the yacht
Yosemite.
The Northern Pacific directors have
decided. subject to ratification by the stock
holders, to raise $40, 900, 900 in second mort
gage bonds.
Geo. Strong, of South lockwood,
Mich, drove three burglars away from the
store he slept in, by a lively fusilade with
couple Of revolVerS.
Bonanza" Flood proposes to build a
palace on Mob Hill, San Francisco which
will be unique in being built of brown stone
imported from New York,
It is charged by the Chicago papers
that local butchers are purchasing cattle con.
demned on account of cancerous atfliction,
and siaughtering them for the home market,
It is stated that the Haytien rebels
are being supplied with arms and munitions
of war from the United States, and the Hay
ten consul at Philadelphia has put detectives
at work
Fire at Dallas, Texas, destroyed
Howard e Co.'S elevator, the city cotton
compress, and a number of other buildings,
the total loss reaching about 10000, With
1926, 900 insurance.
A large stone was thrown at Sir
Stafford Northcote, while he was on train
en- route between Dungannon and Omagh.
The stoner missed the knight, but struck
Lady Crichton, inficting dangerous wound
A mob of Roman Catholics attacked
an Organemen's procession at belfast, and
many heads were broken before the police
managed to quell the riot. The lady superior
of a convent close by was so frightened that
she died.
Cattle thieves threw q dynamite
bomb into the midst of the family of the
man who gave the information which led to
their discovery, wounding one person sc
badly that he cannot live. The house was
wrecked
At meeting of Massachusetts, Inde.
pendents it was decided not to nominate can
dates for state offices, but to vote the Republl-
can ticket except for Ames, using their utmost
efforts to defeat Butler: An Independent
Democratic movement with the same object
is threatened.
In a quarrel between a white and a
colored man at the fair grounds at Et Scott,
Kas bullet fired by the white man passed
through the negros' hands and entered the
back of Judge Bueherhoff, a prominent
lawyer, injecting serious and probably
mortal wound
Miss Hill, claiming to be ex-senator
Sharon's wife, says the marriage was kept
secret at Sharons request; that the contract
was signed In his Office at San Francisco; that
she had him arrested because she heard that
he was going east to marry young lady,
and that she proposes to maintain her rights