Morris tribune., 1884-03-05
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


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THE NEWS In BRIEF.
Monday, February 25.
The state department is officially
barge on American pork.
In the matter of the explosion of the
West Leisening coal mine, at Uniontown,
Pa, the coroners jury rendered verdict
censuring the company and the Inspector for
not having an examination made daily for
fre-damp The heirs of the nineteen victims
will now bring suits for damages.
At conference in New York of INDIE
pendent Republicans from several states, it
| was resolved that the character, record, and
| political associations of the future nominees
! for president and vice president should be
such as to justify confidence in their civil
service convictions, and that interference
with the free choice of delegates to- the ma
| tional convention by districts should not be
tolerated.
Tuesday, February 80. r.-,...
A national convention of woolgrow-
ers has been called to meet at Chicago on the
9TH of May.
Sergt. Bates, who has just made a
pedestrian tour through the south, arrived
at the national capital Sunday morning.
The king of the carnival has made
his entry into New Orleans. The Krewe Of
Proteus paraded the streets at night, and
will be followed by the Mystick Krewe Of
Komus.
Eighty-three per cent. of the popula-
| ton of the United States is composed of white
natives and the immigrants from Germany
and Great Britain, leaving four per cent
| from other countries and thirteen per cent
for those of African descent
Notwithstanding the suferings and
exposure occasioned by the flood, the deaths
in Cincinnati last week were fewer than for
the corresponding week Of 1888. Last week
the deaths numbered ninety-seven, and for
the corresponding weeks of 1883 and 1889
there were las and 102 respectively.
Wednesday, February e..
Faillieres has ordered medal struck
in honor of the eighty second anniversary of
Victor Hugo's birth.
Measles has this month carried of
over 100 children of the Zuni Indians in New
Mexico
The Chicago Red Cross society has
received contributions of $21 5000 for the
flood sufferers, most of which has been for.
warded to Cincinnati
At the Beach park in Galveston, Mrs.
Nellie Burke rode one hundred miles in four
hours and fifty-five minutes, making forty
changes, winning purse of $1,000.
Mrs. Gaines, the famous litigant, de-
MES that she is rich. She says that during
fifty years of effort she has not recovered
enough property to pay her lawyers.
The banks of New York have since
the Goth drawn So, 100, 900 in gold coin
from the sub-treasury, evidently in the be-
lief that the yellow metal is soon to leap to
premium.
In two barbed-wire suits at Keokuk,
Ia, Judge McCrary decided that the Glidden
Kelley patent is also invalid as to its fourth
claim, and found for the defendants, Walter
& j. E. Rhodes, who were charged with in.
fringement. ..,s
Thursday, February 2&
The Princess Louise at a recent wed.
ding wore muff and boa made of skunk fur.
The national bird show, for which
1000 entries were made of all varieties
known in America, is open at Boston.
The mysterious fever which rayaged
northern Mexico last fall has reappeared al
Mazatlan and Manzanillo.
By the consent Of nearly all the
creditors, the city of Helena, Ark, has com.
promised its debt of S2s0,00o at so per cent
Gen. Kilpatrick's widow, who is now
in Washington, is said to be in very reduced
circumstances and her friends will petition
congress to grant her suitable pension.
Gold has been discovered near Erin,
Tenn, and hundreds of miners and Others
are flocking to that place. The discoverer
has Sc, 900 worth Of nuggets on exhibition.
The Hebrew Relief society of Mil.
waukee reports 200 Russian refugees neal
Bismarck in condition bordering ON star.
walton and nakedness, and win endeavo1
to raise $1,000 for their relief
Gen. Rosser, of Minneapolis, Mimi,
at the request Of opponents of De Lesseps
to make an inspection. He has been offered
the position Of chief engineer. @a.,
The Mardi Gras display at New Or
leans Tuesday night included representa-.
ton of the Semitic race in twenty-one
tableaux, by Rex; Fashions and Frills of the
day, by the Priority Phunny Phellows, and
pictures from an ancient history of ireland,
by the Mystic Krewe An attack by hood
lums on the Merry Eight, dressed as minstrels
resulted in the fatal shooting of one Of the
latter and injuries to several persons.
Friday, February 30.
One tenement house in New York
shelters 800 families.
The Indiana Democratic state con
vention will be held at Indianapolis, June 25.
III is rumored at Paris that arrange
men its are re- making for new Russian loan OF
200, 600, 600 rubles.
/ Farmers in the vicinity of Vandaiia,
! Ills, are nearly unanimous in the opinion
] that late-sown wheat has been seriously dam
aged
The United States consul of BIZ
mingham reports that the foot-and-rnouth
disease in cattle exists in nearly every county
in England. =
The Womanis Christian Temperance
association Of Chicago proposes to secure
charter and issue bonds for $3.50, 600 to erect
> sevenssto building.
The police authorities Of Paris are
convinced that the Irish revolutionists have
made that city the headquarters in Europe
for the perpetration Of their dynamit
schemes.
A clerk in the Massachusetts, State
| library was so deeply Interested in the auto
graph craze that he cut the signatures IL