Morris tribune., 1884-04-09
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Friday, April A.
Thomas A. Edison, the electrician,
caught shark during his stay at st. Augu-
tine Fla.
After spirited debate the Canadian
house passed a measure restricting Chinese
immigration to the Dominion.
The police at st. Petersburg have
arrested Prince Androuskoff and the overseer
of the powder-mills, on charge of being
nihilists.
The cotton-mill owners of the south
met at Augusta Ga, in large numbers, anA
resolved to curtail the production of yarns
and cloth.
In the Ohio legislature bill has been
introduced that citizens may recover from
the state damages for property destroyed dur
ing the riots.
What is called lake whale has just
been caught in Lake Michigan. 1t is nearly
twelve feet long and is five feet in circum-
ference, weighing over 1000 pounds.
The Ohio house of representatives
has passed bill reducing the number Of per-
| emptory challenges of the defense in Grim
| inal trial to six and increasing the peremptory
| challenges of the prosecution to four. The
| defence now has twenty-three, and the
| prosecution two.
In boring for water near Snake river,
about forty-fve miles from Dayton, Oregon,
recently, a stratum Of frozen earth was en-
countered at depth Of forty-6ve feet. Pass
ing through this for five feet, numerous cavi-
ties were found, from which cold air came
in gusts. The escaping air at the bottom
of the well can be heard roaring at some
distance.
Saturday, April D.
A white robin was shot at Racine, by
DR.. P. R. Hay.
Charles Reade, the novelist, is lying
dangerously ill in London.
Within four years the Methodist
Episcopal church has expended Sc, 455, 900 for
| religious publications, and the Methodist
Book concern has supplied $500, 600 worth
of literature.
At the close of the year the Western
Kansas Stock-raisers association, now in con-
vention at Dodge City, had membership of
ninety-five, who owned $50, 900 head of cattle,
valued at SIC, 900, 900.
During March $s,250,000 worth of
property was destroyed by fire; and for the
first quarter of 1884 the loss was S27, 250. 900,
So, OOO, 900 in excess of the record for the cor
responding period Of 1859.
A meeting in the New York produce
exchange adopted q memorial to congress
asking for suspension of the coinage of sill
yer dollars until readjustment is made be-
tween the relations of gold and silver coin.
The steamer Rebecca Everingham
burned to the waters edge in the Chatta'
hoochee river at Fitzgeralds Landing, Ga.
Thirteen persons lost their lives, and of the
passengers who escaped in their night clothes,
many were severely burned. The boat, val
ned at $24, 600, is total loss; 307 bales Of cot
ton and other freight were consumed.
William Proctor, the soap and candle
manufacturer, and Alfred w. Burnett, the
caricaturist, died in Cincinnati.
The police of Madrid arrestedthe oc.
cupants of house in the suburbs when tel
| rifles and fourteen bombshells were dis,
covered.
Forest fires are doing vast damage
among the plantations and pine trees in the
Carolinas The flames extend over six
counties in each state.
G. n. Hoist, private banker at New
Holstein, Wis, who offered S per cent fol
deposits, has reached the end of his rope,
owing $4,000 to working people.
At the funeral Of Mrs. Oswald Often
dorfer, in New York, Carl Schurz delivered
an address and the Liederkranz club sang {
hymn. Samuel J. Tilden was in attendance.
Charles Ell. Robinson, of Lincoln
Ills. has made affidavit that he saw o. A.
Carpenter driving with woman after
o'clock on the morning Of the murder of
Zura Burns.
John Bland, q respectable bank
cashier in Leeds, is the lastsuryivorof twelve
children, one of whom was the late Adelaide
Nelson, whose plain, prosaic name off the
sage was Elizabeth Ann Bland.
; The postal service was last year self
supporting only in fifteen states and two
territories-the latter being Alaska and
Dakota Ohio showed deficit of $780, 1853
while Illinois paid profit of $685.
The remains of the duke of Albany
were escorted from Portsmouth to Windsor
by the prince of Wales, the crown prince O.
Prussia, and the marquis of Lorne. From
q the station to the castle the coffin was borne
on gun-carrage drawn by eight horses.
The British government claims to
3 have unearthed plot by Irish Invincibles
a to blow up Mountjoy prison. Letters found
i in a cell showed that the wardeus were to be
bribed to place an Internal machine in thu
prison. and that a noted conspirator was tx
I,o throvv,, over q balcony ami killed