Morris tribune., 1883-01-20
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GOSSIPFROM WASHINGTON.
Assistant Secretary Joslyn has prepared a
modified form of lease of the Yellowstone
PARK. 1t is understood that it is acceptable
to Rufus Hatch and colleagues. 1t has
been sent to the senate committee on terri
tories for their approval. There was no
lease under the other contract, there being
only a contract to make a lease. The lease
will be executed If congress agrees to 1t.
The new contract does not contain the mon
opoly feature of granting the exclusive
right to Hatch & Co., to use the park. They
are to be grant d the use of one section OF
land at the great eeyser, and a halt section
at six other springs, making four sections
in all, for which they are to pay a rent not
to exceed SO per acre. Nothing is said
about stages in the compact, that being LETT
open for future settlement. The chief feat
ure of the new contract is that the control
of the park is still kept in the hands of the
secretary Of the interior and NO one is given
exclusive privileges.
The senate appropriation committee has
amended the postofice appropriation bill,
so it provides that 2 cent postage will begin
July i, 1888. They strike out the house
provision regarding compensation OF sub
sidized railroads for carrying mails, insert
an appropriation of $lS5, 600 for necessary
amt special features on trunk, with the view
of continuing the fast mail service, and in
creas $500 the item for the steamboat
service.
The nomination of ]. F. Olmstead as Dis
trict of Columbia commissions has been
withdrawn by the request ofOlmstead, who,
in a fetter to Arthur, said he did not want
the office in view of the opposition against
him. &
The secretary Of the interior, in a COM
munication to congress-, states hat no lands
have been patented to and grant roads for
any uncompleted road since March q, 1882,
except in case of the Wisconsin Central.
Mai. Strait to-day had Ole Tugleskjol ap-
pointed postmaster at Sacred Heart, vice 0.
E. ReiShuSh, appointed route agent in the
railway mail service.
CRIMES AND CRIMINALS.
Scranton, (Pa.) special: For some time
past a man named Quinan and wife have
MADE family quarrels, in which the woman
usually proved the victor. Quinan resolved
ON revenge, and on Wednesday last he pur-
chased whisky for her, causing her to fall
into drunken stupor, while in this condi.
tOh he lGdiSO Stove luis 10 dISO uSab, Will
which he burned her body in q horrible
manner, also piercing her limbs with red
hot pokers. When the police went TO ar
rest him the wife protested, declaring that
she would intiet worse punishment on her
brutal husband than she received as soon as
able.
A Youngstown Cleveland special to the
Leader reports that recently a man named
Malouey, who keeps a place with a bad rep
utatioH, threw Moliie Dewitt out of doors
with great violence. 1t afterwards trans
pired that her skull was broken. As she
lay on the grou d unconscious, a man
named Lawson, supposing her druak, raw
ished her. He was discovered in the act and
arrested. The woman was made as COM
fortabie as possible in the police station,
where she died. Maloney and Lawson and
a woman named May Brothers are in pris-
on charged with the murder.
At St. Louis Dan Taylor, CO ored, went
home Friday morning, took a revolver from
the bureau and presented it at his wife.
''Give me time to pray!" she exclaimed.
mot a minute" he replied, and fired three
times. inflicting three wounds, which are
mortal. He then gave himself up to the DO
lice. Jealousy INT domestic Q1arrels were
the cause.
The body of W. H. Pratt was found lying
on a bed in a rude house in Wayne Neb.,
with a bullet hole thro gh his neck and a
revolver lying close by, a note on the table
reading: Farewell to all on earth. The last
day of the year" His horses were found in
a barn nearly starved to death.
Kitty Marsh; the thirteen-year-old school
girl of Middlebury, Vt. who ran away with
q colored man has been captured with her
sable love. She declares she will marry
him. but will probably have to wait unit
be serves a term for stealing the team with
which to carry her off.
At ST. Paul, Friday, as the result of a
simple joke, wherein William T. March ac-
cused Ennis Sullivan his friend of stealing
his lunch and had his skull beaten ~ q
truck stakei in the hands of Sullivan. Both
were good boys, in the employ of the Elk
press company at the Union depot.
A man named William Foster, held for
rape, broke Jail at Morris, Stevens county,
and the sheriff advertised a reward for his
~rearrest. Thursday evening when the time
arrived to feed the prisoners Foster wa:
found in the Jail quietly waiting for his sup.
per.
Reeder Moore of Waterford, Pa, who
killed himself a few days ago, made a con.
Eession before death that his false testimony
convicted Charles Stafford, eight years ago,
OF rape for which be is now serving a TWEEN.
ty years term.
Reeder Moore of Waterford, Pa, who
killed himself a few days ego, made q con-
fession before death that his false testimo.
ny convicted Charles Stafford, eight years
ago, of rape, for which he is now serving 6
twenty-one years term.
Efforts have ceased to compromise the cas-.
of Samuel Ruth, cashier, and DR.. R. ]. 8
Thompson, accomplish, charged with thu
embezzlement of $4,000 belonging to tn,
Sayings bank, at Washington, Pa.
Vandecker in Jail at Waupaca, Wis.
charged with the murder of Banker Mead
was for a long time in Jail at Owatonna on
charge of burglary.
1t isnow believed that Polk, the defraud
ing Tennessee treasurer, is safe beyond pur
suit in Mexico. .-.r
THE CASUALTY RECORD.
As Eddie, the fourteen-year-old son of E
r. Keplinger of Hudson, was going to Osa
kis on horseback, one day last week, a lvn.
jumped up and caught the horse by tn
nose, decorating it somewhat. The hors
raiso5 on its hind foot opd Strr1oH tho Iyny