Morris tribune., 1883-06-09
THE NEWS CONDENSED.

The Northern Pacific in May sold
81, ,;l7 acres for $35S, 725.
While eating breakfast at Winnipeg
yesterday, Frank King dropped dead
of heart disease.
The Wisconsin State Grand Lodge
of /. o. o. +. convened ut Milwaukee
on Wednesday.
Gen. Grant thinks that both Blaine
and Logan are strong men for the Re
publican nomination for the presi-
dency in 81.
On "Wednesday last i'll Chicago six
hundred union brick layers had a
meeting. and after IL long discussion
it was decided that the men could
work wherever they chose at III day,
provided they refuse work mdera non-
union foreman. This practically ends
the strike, andis regarded as collapse
of the union.
A Welch coal miner in the Belle
vile, H., district, fifty-tive years old,
driven TO desperation by inability to
support his wife and nine childred by
reason of the strike among the miners
hung himself yesterday in an orchard
near Relleville.
The Bismack Tribune irreverently
says: While doing her spring house
cleaning the other day, jamestown
woman discovered that the family
Bible had been stolen. She cannot
possibly locate the date Of the theft,
but thinks it was in its place when
she cleaned house last sbring.
Fred Fifield, son of ID. c. Fifield, of
the Milwaukee chamber Of commerce,
has been lost in the woods of Penokee
range, near Ashland, Wis, for five
days, having strayed from Engineer
Sewell's surveying party while doing
work for the Wisconsin Central rail-
road. The party have given up work !
and are securing the woods with dogs. |
The third annual meeting of the
National Council of Education will be |
held at Saratoga. New York, in con-
nectiOn with the National Education
III Association. and will commence on |
Thursday, July 5, continuing, by adj
iourned sessions. through Friday. Sat
urday. Monday Tuesday. and WedneS-
lay avoiding interference with the ses-
,ions of the National Educational
John W. Mackey, the bonanza king,
md his wife attended the coronation
1t Moscow. and the statement has
cached the Cincinnati Enquirer that
the Empress. when about to be
took Mr.. Mackey apart and
lSked him some questions about Cal
lfOrnia. This was an opportunity to
unload some mining stock that we
lave no doubt Mr.. Mackey took adj
'antage of.
Cabelgrams received at Fort Wayne
how that Rev. Julian Benoit, vicar
general of the Roman Catholic diocese
# Fort Wayne. has been named Mon
eigneuT, and appointed prelate of the
'apal household at Rome. Father
5eniot came from France as mission
ry forty years ago, and Is the seventh
'riest i'll the United States upon whom
he honor has been conferred.
The London Daily News CORES !
at Berlin says the mayor of
foscOw has gone to his estate in Lam ]
nner, or in other words has been !
for having expressed the I
ope in ii speech at Il banquet to the ,
layors Of the cities during the corona
ion festivities that the ear would in /
ti;utc II constitutional regime.
Arrangements are being made for
the driving of the last
pike in the Northern Pacific railroad
pnie time in August. \ party Of !
,ngli>h and other prominent gentle a
zen have been invited especially to
t. present, special palace car hav-
Ig been provided for them from New q
''rk. The rourd trip will cost the i
,n!pany some $,S,G0n. I
The Methodist Book Concern of this !
ity is publishing il volume known as
re Peoples Encyclopedia of Uni=
cr~al knOwlege. On the llth of
Iarch they made an agreement with n
ames River to act as agent in intro n
ucing the work. He Immediately {
roceeded, but afterwards received /
office that the contract had been res !;
nded. He has brought action in the !,
-ings county court for 100000 for Il
iolation of the contract, and the case i
now Oh trial in Brooklyn. >