Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1884-03-26
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Monday, March ~.

forwarded from Saieln IN. ", Ill Soou slaIo
of preservation.
The first through train from the
| City of Mexico left on the 18th inst. bearing
A. j. Cassatt and General Manager Robinson
| in their private coaches. Limited traffic will
commence next month, and express trains
with Pullman cars will be started May /.
Tuesday, March As.
Gen. Graham issued proclamation
offering a reward of 81 900 for the capture of
Osman Digma.
Placards announcing the outbreak OF
civil war this month were posted at SIKH
bereen, Ireland.
At the taking of BAG Mini the French
captured 100 pieces of artillery, including
several Krupp guns.
Minister Sargent has accepted from
Bismarck an invitation to dinner the 22d
inst, in honor of Emperor William.
New York butchers inaugurated
movement having for its object the Ultimate
prevention of the shipping of dressed beef
from Chicago, which is destroying their bust
ness.
Mercedes, Holstein COW which took
prize cup at Chicago last fall, died of milk
fever at Iowa City. She and her calf were
valued at $4,000 Her butter record was the
greatest in the land.
Wednesday. March 10.
The Londoners consume about 49,
600, 900 pounds of meat each week.
Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, is
spending the winter in Florida with his
family.
Mrs. Cunio, an italian woman of Bos-
ton, has babe which at birth weighed 2415
pounds.
The governor general at Trieste was
surprised by the explosion of bomb in front
of his residence.
The son of Beadle, the dime novelist,
is in trouble because he has abandoned his
lawful wife for another woman.
Sarah Bernhardt refused the offers
of Abbey and Allison Brown for an
American tour. She wants higher terms.
Admiral Hewett explains that re-
ward of 81, 900 was offered for the head of
Osman Digma because he murdered two Brit
ish messengers.
The inventor of system of electric
lighting announces that he is about to use the
water-power at Niagara to furnish light to
sixty-ive cities
Thursday. March 20.
The house of representatives has
passed the postoffice appropriation bill.
The law abolishing contracts for con-
vict labor as fast as they expire has gone
into effect in Ohio.
The Iowa Gulch mines in Colorado,
for which citizen of Philadelphia paid $685.
600, were sold at auction for $500.
George F. Slosson formally chal-
lenges Sexton and Schaeffer to play series
of games of billiards, all the games to be
played in Chicago.
1t is now said that Tiller took $780,
600 from the Pacific Express company at st.
Louis when he decamped. About $4,000 is
still missing and unaccounted for
After the explosion of still in the
| oil-works of Merriam & Morgan, at Cleve-
lend, the escaping fluid submerged three en-
ployes, who were quickly burned to death.
The governor of Illinois has been adj
vised that twenty-four head of horses and
mules at Shannon, Carroll county, are
afflicted with CHAMBERS, and that several
others have died.
Andrew Peterson, an avOWed polyga-
mist of Salt Lake, is on trial in that city for
registering and voting in violation of the
Edmunds law. On the jury are seven polyg
mists, who swore that they would obey di-
vine law rather than statutes enacted by
congress.
Friday, March FL.
Whitefsh eggs to the number of half
a million have been sent from Canada to the
i marquis of Lorne. who will endeavor to stock
the English lakes.
Herbert F. Jackson, Of Plymouth,
Mass, was fined $40 for mutilating the mar
BILE tablet on the tomb of Daniel Webster,
after having paid for new stone.
The police of Boston captured fifteen
members of a gang of thieves ranging from
IL to 16 years of age. Their meeting. place
was an old cellar, and they had almost per-
fected a distinct language.
Many of the Arabs captured in the
battle OF Teb said they knew nothing of the
English forces, and never heard of their vic
tory over Arab, and never heard of Arab
himself, and had never heard of Tewfik.
Charles Langheimer, who recently
died in the penitentiary at Philadelphia,
after serving half century, is the convict
made famous by Charles Dickens. Not long
since he was set at liberty, but was permitted
to return and die in prison.
Mrs. Bertram Milford, who is a
| granddaughter of the DID, original, genuine
Commodore" Vanderbilt, has created sem
sation in Paris by giving party in which
| all the guests were in menagerie makeup as
beasts or birds, and where the cats and
monkeys were especially successful.
The Cincinnati Price Current has re-
ports from the winter wheat belt, indicating
good average condition in Ohio and In
diana, fairly good promise in Illinois, with
some damage by frost in Missouri, and by
dry, cold winds in Kansas; but the loss in
any district is not irreparable
The Ohio legislature passed the bill
declaring future" deals in stocks, oils, or
provision gambling, making the buyer or
seller guilty alike, and imposing fine on
the owner of the premises where the deals are
carried on. The penalties for margin" or
future" transactions are $50 to $1,000 fine,
and thirty to ninety days imprisonment.
Saturday, March 2e.
G.. w. Childs, of The Philadelphia
Ledger, walks ten miles every day.
A letter from Rome asserts that the
pope is again considering the ACCESSIBILITY of
leaving Rome. Malta is mentioned as the
place of the pope's future residence.
Opening his mail recently in Wash
ington, George Alfred Townsend found an
autograph letter from Baron Tennyson, per-
haps the first received in this country since
the poets erection to the peerage. It is said
that Tennyson had read through two books
of tales by Mr. Townsend and much enjoyed
them. "Gath" gave the letter to Mrs
William Walter Phelps, with whom he
breakfasted that day.
The Michigan Democratic state con-
vention will meet in Detroit June IS.
F. W. Whitaker, OF New York, was
given Judgment against the Harlem road for
$4,000 damages for the loss of an arm.
E. J. Bennett, the Milwaukee fire bug,
made second attempt to end his life, using
rope, but was cut down by the jailer. He
threatens to die before he can be taken to
Waupun.
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