Morris tribune., 1884-06-04
THE NEWS In BRIEF.
Monday. May 20.

The Bank Of Montreal sent SS,OOO,OOO IN
gold to New York during the panic.
Leland Stanford has invited Gen. Grant
and family to go to California and live at his
expense.
The handsome building Of The Toronto
Mail took fire and was damaged to the ex-
tent of 100000.
In the United States the past week there
were 1877 business failures, against 155 in the
corresponding period of 1888
Jack Hanley has been convicted of prize
fighting in Saunders county, Nebraska, and
will serve term in the penitentiary.
Tuesday. May 27.
The wife of Robert j. Burdette, editor of
The Burlington Hawkeye, died at Ardmore,
Penn.
The sultan has refused to send 10000
troops to the Soudan to cooperate with the
English.
By railroad collision at Savannah, N. Y,
Sunday, three persons were killed and num-
Der seriously injured
William Sharon, ex-senator from Cali
fornia, testified in Miss Hills divorce suit
that he paid her $500 per month to live
with him, and that he never proposed maj.
rage to her.
A special train left San Francisco Monday
for Chicago, bearing the delegates to the ma
tional Republican convention and 200 excur-
tionists The Nevada delegates will also be
taken on board. The train is due in Chicago
Saturday morning.
Wednesday, May %.
A ship with smallpox on board is quaran
tined in the lower bay at New York.
Senator Edmunds is said to be the owner
of love ION for in
mont.
The Empire buildings in New York have
been peen purchased by a London syndicate
for 81, 100000.
Two masked men, armed with Winchester
rifles, halted the Fort Benton coach twenty
five miles from Helena, robbed the passen-
gers, and rifled the mail bags.
A farewell mission of three weeks has been
begun by Moody and Sankey in an iron tab
ernacle on the Thames embankment in
London. They will return to the United
States in July.
Saturday, oath inst, was the anniversary
| of the opening of the Brooklyn bridge. Dur
| the year nearly 100000 of people have
| patronized the structure, and the receipts fol
| tolls were little less than 100000.
Thursday, May 80.
The premiums for races at the Iowa state
| fair, beginning at Des Moines Aug. 30,
amount to $4,000.
Since the suspension and reopening of the
| Metropolitan bank of New York deposits
have been diminished $9,0O0,00O.
The Rev. I. H. Terrence, secretary of the
| Pennsylvania Bible society, proposes to pros
ecute Robert G.. Ingersoll for violating the
law against blasphemy.
The midgets, "Gen. Mite" and Mile Ed.
| wards, were married in public hall at Man
| chester, England. The band Of the Third
| dragons played the wedding march.
The race for the Derby stakes resulted in a
| dead heat between st. Galien and Harvester,
| and the money was divided between their
owners. William II. Vanderbilt was spec.
| tator.
The schooner George Sherman reports
| having ridden out the gale on Lake Michigan
this week by pouring on the water twelve
| gallons of linseed oil, which Gained the
waves for a distance of half mile from
the ship.
| The Methodist general conference adopted
| a report by the committee on the state of the
| church that divorces should only be granted
for adultery, and that the guilty party
| should not be married again by any minister
| OIL Cu6 CHURCH. LII was also ueClaTeQ GlaU
distinction should be made in the churches
or colleges on account Of race or color. The
conference has adjourned.
| Friday, May 80.
| The International Lodge of Good Tenn
plars, in session at Washington, elected the
Hon. James B. Finch, of Nebraska, right
worthy grand chief templar.
| Georges De Toulgnes De Nera, the scion OF
noble French family, attempted suicide al
New York by stepping the heads of matches
in water and drinking the fluid. He will re-
| cover.
Discussions have occurred among the mem.
bers of the whisky pool which threaten dis.
solution of the organization. 1t is charged
that some members are not living up to their
agreements.
Frost of more or less severity appeared III
various localities from the Atlantic to the
Mississippi. The grape regions of New York
and Michigan seem to have suffered the
greatest damage.
Among recent accidents was most horri.
BILE one resulting in the death of Mr.. w. III
Scoyille, of Chicago who fell into vat Of