Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1884-10-08

St. Paul is to have the Northern Pacific
railway shops.
The population of the United States is
now 100000.
William T. Shaw, of Pittsburg, Pa, is
reported to be worth S25,000,o00.
For the week the imports of dry goods
at New York amounted to $2,324, 900.
Hans Makart, the artist, died Friday at
Vienna from inflammation of the brain.
Daniel Ort shot at his mistress, Emma
Starch, in New York, but missed his aim,
and then killed himself.
Ensilage is proving big success as feed
for stock, and farmers are giving it atten-
ton in many parts of the country.
William Halls family Give persons), re-
siding at Cameron, Mo-, ate canned corned-
beef and are dying of poisoning.
The Chicopee Falls (Mass.) mills will,
until further orders, be run only nine hours
per day for five days in the week.
An English firm has begun the manu-.
factrre of casks and barrels of steel. They
are lighter than wood and more durable.
In eighty-six days of license at :Des
Moines there were 276 arrests for all Of
lenses; in eighty-six days of prohibition, 262
arrests.
A certain Des Moines woman begs for
her blind husband. Her husband remains at
home and puts in his time reading the news
papers.
League ball game Friday: Chicago Is,
New York 5; Boston z, Cleveland 6; Phila-
delphia 5, Detroit 4; Buffalo II, Provi-
dence g.
In one of the mountain counties of Ken
lucky woman has held the office of justice
of the peace without legal authority for the
last ten years.
Capitalists interested will reorganize
the Toledo, Cincinnati & St. Louis railroad,
make it standard guage, and place it under
frst-clas5 management.
John D. Young managing editor of The
San Francisco Chronicle, was married last
Saturday to Georgiana M. Simon, sister of
Capt A. NJ Brown, U. s. A.
A balcony, filled with people, collapsed
Friday at an agricultural show at Almonte,
Ont A stampede resulted and several per-
sons were injured, a few fatally.
The arrivals of wheat at Duluth are
from 100, 900 to 10000 bushels daily. The
shipments last week by lake to Buffalo and
Montreal amounted to 100000 bushels.
A Pittsburg dealer says there is enough
lumber now stacked up in the country to sup
ply the trade for from three to six years, and
yet no attempt is made to check production.
Flasher s. McEachern, grocers at Eau
Claire, Wis, failed for $4,000. The prin-
cipal creditors are Gray, Burt &c Kingman,
of Chicago The assets are said to reach
s35, 900.
The hottest night on record for that
section was experienced Thursday night at
| ST. Paul, Mimi, the thermometer registering
| 80 at IL o'clock. The air was sitting and
| people feared that a disaster of some kind
| was imminent.
| A boy named Stevey Pero died at Fitch
burg, Mass, from the effects of being hit in
the head by an apple thrown by another boy
| two weeks before. He had been confined to
| his bed ever since, and was delirious during
| the last ten days.
For ten days past cattle have been dying
| rapidly of an unknown malady in Belmont
| county, Ohio. 1t was developed that only
stock fed on sorghum blades were affected,
| farmers being compelled to use this article
for fodder, a drought having killed all the
grass, and corn not being ready for use
| The dead bodies of Harry Percival,
wife, and child, and Hugh MAR, an employee,
were found Friday morning on their farm
near Fullerton, Neb., the premises having
been despoiled of valuables. Who the plum
derers are is unknown. PercivaIs remains
were found outside the house, and had been
mutilated by hogs.
Rt. Rev. Bishop Dwenger, Rt. Rev.
Mgr. Benoit, vicar general, and seventy
priests of the diocese of Fort Wayne, Ind,
are now at the University of Notre Dame,
| following the spiritual exercises of dio-
cesar retreat. For ten days the bishop and
| his priests will preserve actual silence, and
devote their time to prayer and meditation.