Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1884-05-07

The United States training-ship
Portsmouth, from ST. Thomas, arrived ut
Newport with three light cases of yellow
fever on board--Commander Wise, one Of
the buglers, and boy
Clearing house exchanges last week
500, 1881, lOo-aro So, 533, Az greater than the
preceding week; and, when compared with
the corresponding period of 1888, show an
increase of 7.4per cent.
The British house of commons, by q
vote of 357 to 800, has adopted All amend
ment to Tie cattle bill stopping for two years
all lmportations of beeves from countries
where disease prevails among cattle
Thursday, May 1.
The mayor of Vienna has received q
donation OF l00,0O forms, and a sealed let
ter as to its ultimate distribution, which is
not to be opened till 1890
Twelve thousand men, usually en-
ployed i'll ship-buil linz on the river CLYDE,
are now out of work, and the wages of those
employed have been reduced % PER cent.
The Northern Illinois Merino Sheep
breeders held their sixth shearin5 festival at
Richmond, when prizes were awarded. At
meeting in the evening leading breeders
made speeches.
The directors of the board of trade of
Chicago have closed contract with the
Western Union Telegraph company whereby
the bucket shops are to be cut off from all
market quotations.
President Arthur once taught school
in an interior town in New York and boarded
with q private family. Afterward Gen.
Garfield taught the same school, boarded
with the same family, and occupied the same
room.
Lawrence Register Payne, most of
| whose life has been passed as q woman in
Frederick county, Virginia, under the name
of Rebecca Payne, and whose recent mar
riage was much commented upon in the
newspapers, has taken the platform, and
lectured in Hagerstown, Nd, recently.
Friday, May 2.
John Jacob Astor has given the New
York Cancer hospital 100000, which insures
the success of the new institution.
Miss Ella Wheeler, the Wisconsin
poetess, was married to Robert NJ. Wilcox,
of Meriden, Conn, where she will in future
resida.
Albert Withelme's 14-year- old
daughter Dr.. II Canton, Ohio, from tie
effects of jumping Il shipping rope 357 con-
| secutive times
The bill to establish crematories in
| England was rejected by the commons, the
vote being $40 to 70. Public feeling against
the bill is said to be strong.
Smallpox is epidemic at Charleston,
Ills The schools have been closed, and the
circuit court, just convened for the spring
term, has adjourned until fall
Gen. Weaver, the Greenback leader,
asserts that the south could not possibly have
any objection to Ben Butler as a presidential
candidate, and that the Massachusetts, states
man would carry Iowa by $1,000 majority on
the Democratic ticket.
-Four dynamite cartridges were found
in sections of the Parliament buildings at To-
ronto, Ont, Monday, with wire and fuses at
tached. The affair causes great excitement.
1t is believed the men were frightened off
before they had an opportunity to fire the
! fuses
| Saturday, May 5.
Most of the Unbelievable" letters
which reach Germany come from the United
States.
A Spiritualist temple, to cost $780,
900, is being erected in the back bay region
of Boston.
Two slaves formerly owned by JEFF
Davis now own his plantation, for which
they paid 100000
Twenty-seyen million dollars are rep
resented On tie passenger list OF one
European steamer which has sailed.
| The assignees of the Cleveland Pa
per company and OF President n w. Taylor
have discharged all obligations in full.
It is probable that the wheat crop Of
Dakota will yield from 81, 900, 900 to 40 00O,O0
bushels this year, about double last years
produce.
The extra session of the California
legislature is failure, the senate having so
amended the railroad bill of the house as to
defeat its purpose.
Five members of family named
| Werner, of Appleton, Wis, have been at
tackled with trichiniasis from eating I'M
J cooked pork sausage.
The Ontario cabinet has offered a
reward of 81, 600 for the conviction Of the
man who laid dynamite cartridges under the
parliament buildings
About half of the 100000 cotton
spindles in New England have agreed to re-
duce production. The Lowell companies
will shut down Saturday.
The cable chronicles the death at
Brighton Of Chevalier Wikof, whose adj
ventures for many years furnished food for
gossip on both sides Of the Atlantic.
Lucia Zarate, the Mexican midget,
while left alone for moment in a museum
at Cievelan !, was carried Off by two men,
| r, han rha,,
pursued.
The four Medicine Lodge, Kan,
bank robbers were captured and imprisoned
| Thursday. A mob broke into the Jail, shot
one of the bandits dead, and took the other
three out and hanged them.
A bomb was thrown on the porch of
the Crawford house at Colorado Springs,
Colo, Wednesday night, and exploding,
shattered the doors and windows of the hotel
and adjoining houses. A saloon-keeper is
suspected.
George Augustus Sala gets $4,000
year from The London Illustrated News for
| writing O page a week and occasional
dramatic criticisms. He gets another 10000
from The Daily Telegraph for an editorial of
a column long now and then.
Chicago detectives have three times
recently arrested a gambler named John
Mccullough, with the intention of driving
him out of town, it is alleged. He has now
commenced to retaliate by making complaint
before the grand jury against three we'll
known faro banks, and it is predicted that he
has laid his plans for a long series of raids
against his prosecutors.
| Fourteen Persons Roasted Alive.
KALAMAZOO, Mich, April 30.-Meager
advices from Hartford, Mich, state that the
Van Buren, county poorhouse, which is los
Gated near there, was burned to the ground
| during the night
From fifteen to twenty of the unfortunate
inmates are said to have persisted in the
flames, but at the present writing none of
the names of the victims can be learned, and
the actual number of lost is shrouded in I'm.
certainty. FSses'
The lack of efficient fire apparatus was
sorely felt, the employees of the institution