Morris tribune., 1884-06-04
boiling SOAP and his remains, when recov
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boiling soap, and his remains, when recov-
cred, were cooked to the bone.
Col. Thomas Guernsey, prominent law
yer of Boston, who died, was the inventor OF
the term "Copperhead," as used during the
war; He was leader of the Douglas wing
of the Democrats in his district.
Reports to Mr.. S. w, Tallmadge of Nil
wauIlee, say Tie cp4dyiD uf the wheat crop
in most districts has much improved From
uresent Indications Mr. Tallmadge estimate;
that the total y,ell in tho. country this year
will reach SOL S20, 900 bushels-an increase
of 1OU, 900 bushels over the crop of 1888.
Saturday, EEay 81.
Lester Wallack appears on the streets with
his mustache dyed black, though his hair is
snowy white.
According to the prophetic figuring of Miss
Ellen Chase, there will be three women tC
one man in Heaven.
The annual review of the troops in and
around Berlin was held by the emperor, who
appeared on horseback
Tncendiaries burnt the court house at
Florosyille, Texas the records, deeds, mort
cages and all valuable papers being con-
sumed
The marquis Of Normandy, who for six
teen wears has been governor general of Vic
toria, has arrived in Chicago with his family,
en route for England.
President France of the State Savings
bank, at st. Joseph, Mo-, has returned from
New York, bringing enough money and Sc
curities to enable tho concern to resume in a
short time
Right of way is being purchased for rail
road from Belvidero to Peru, Ills, eighty
five miles. Sixteen thousand acres of coal
land has been secured on the Illinois river,
six miles west of Peru.
Miss Constance Sweeney, of Rockford, Ills,
has Just recovered from serious illness, dur
ING which, it is stated, she was seven weeks
without food and five weeks without any
nourishment whatever.
In a shooting affray near CRANKY, Mo-, re-
sulting from an old grudge, John &.
Koontze, ex-postmaster, and Nathan Tabor,
a merchant, were killed, and George Hudson,
n deperado, seriously wounded.
San Francisco Democrats have passed
resolutions opposing the movement for the
nomination by the Democrats of Justice
Field for president, and declaring that his
nomination would result in the loss of Cali
fornia to the Democracy.
Insane at the loss of a bank book Mrs.
Caroline Schreifer killed five of her children
at Albany, N. Y, and, with another child In
her arms threw herself before train. She
was killed, while the little ones leg and arm
were crushed.
All the mechanics and laborers in the Wa
bash shops at Moberly, Wis, have struck fol
non-payment of wages. The business houses
which have been giving these men credit for
period, now refuse to give any more goods
unless cash is paid, and the strike was the
result.
Effie Cunningham, who lies dying at Edin
boro Pa, presumably of consumption, con-
fesses that she was outraged by her lover
Preston Goodrich, who enforced secresy upon
her, and that the giving birth to her child
placed her in her present condition. Good
rich has fled.
A Pittsburg woman has solved the prob
lem of how women are to gain admission to
the pulpit She proposes to reduce the sal
aries of ministers to Sl2 a week, and thinks
that will settle it, The Pittsburg woman
ought to recollect that there are hundreds
of mon in the pulpits who would gladly
accept her $12 week, and give half OF it fol
charity