Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1884-06-18

Last weeks clearir gs-$Ss6, 102, 160-are
$160, Ala, 0S5 greater THAI for the preceding
week, but when compa red with the figures
for the corresponding pTiod in 1885, snow d
decrease of 14.6 per cent.
The Republicans and G;reenbackers OF West
Virginia had agreed upon fusion tickets, pu6
since Mr.. Blaine's nomination leading Green
hackers have called u state committee TO
name straight ticket.
Gen. Augur has created the military dis
trict of Oklahoma, and assignedICol Edward
Hatch to the command. He will arrest all
persons unlawfully sojourning ON Indian
SOIL and will not hesitate to cut the wire
fences surrounding the cattle ranches.
Gen. Abe Buford, OF Kentucky, killed
himself at the residence of his nephew, IN
Danville Ind, Monday morning. He left
statements that financial embarrassment,
family troubles, and the condition OF his
brother Tom, who was returned to the An
chorage asylum last week led to the act.
Thursday, June 12.
Cloud.bursts in the Thunderbolt range In
Nevada have delugeQ the country and
washed out miles of the Central Pacific
track.
The Protective Liquor Dealers association,
of Chicago, has decided to look after the in
terests of liquor dealers by making the ques-
ton one of politics.
One of Gen. Grants Arabian horses kicked
over milkman's cart not long ago, and last
week a New York jury gave the milkman
verdict for S., 900 damages.
The special grand jury made a return at
New York that an equitable assessment OF
personal property was impossible, and that
the taxation of personal property should be
abolished.
tariff reform league was formed at New
York, w. B. Anderson, of Rochester, being
made president. George William Curtis,
Henry Ward Beecher, and Ex-Governor
Robinson are among the vice-presidents.
Madame Kalomine the Emorganatic wife of
the grand duke Of Hesse consented to the an
nullment Of herSmarriage on condition that
she receive e2500O, with the title Of Countess
Won Romrod, and reside outside of Germany
or England.
Friday, June IS.
The Parpellites, rejoice over the election of
a son of Justin Mccarthy in Athlone.
Senator Conklipg denies that he is going
into the Democratfctcamp, and scores Judge
Noah Davis for making such charges.
The leading Democrats Of California are
quite unanimous in their preference for Allen
G. Thurman as the nominee for president.
Hester Clymer,: who died at Reading, Pa,
served for years III the state senate and in
congress, and was oncetthe Democratic can
didate for governor.
The Wesleyan Female college at Cincin-
natl conferred the degree OF, doctor Of philos-
ophy on Mrs. Elizabeth Boynton Harbert
and Sarah Amelia Soul.
Gen. Butler has, written a letter to the
Colored Democratic association of New
York, advising colored men to vote for their
friends and neighbors and obliterate the
color line.
Tawhia, the Maori king, and his ten at
tendant chiefs were taken to the British
house of commons, where one of them in
obliged in foreign oaths because he could not
use his pipe.
The declination of Mr.. Tilden has made
Maryland solid for Senator Bayard. The
New York Democratic convention at Sara.
toga, next week, wi1fsettle thedisputed point
whether Cleveland or Flower is the stronger
IN that state. Senator VOORHEES, thinks the
leading candidates are Mcdonald in the west
and Cleveland in the east.
Saturday, June ii.
One powder company in Pennsylvania &C.
cepted $4,000 from another for suspending
manufacture for year.
Among the most rapid speakers in congress
PIE Senators Hawley, Beck, Plumb, and
Morgan, and the average is about $50 words
per minute.
The Italian government will avoid a COT.
flict with the vatican by erecting a tablet in
stead of monument to Victor Emmanuel in
the pantheon at Rome.
George E. Spencer writes to Represen ia
tive Springer denying the statement of s.
W. Dorsey that Spencer demanded $1,000
from Elkins to secure Dorsey immunity in
the star-route trials.
Thomas Stevens has bicycled from San
Francisco to Cheyenne, Wy. T., distance OF
1900 miles, and is determined to push on to
the east although he has lost twenty-five
pounds in two weeks
The bank of West Virginia, at Charleston,
W. Va, has closed its doors, northumberland.
ing that it, had received deposits up to
o'clock Wednesday. It is doubtful whether
it can pay 20 cents on the dollar.
kerosene lamp explosion fired the build
ing at New FORK occupied by Ogilvie & Co.,
publishers; Street & Smith,: the New York
Weekly firm, and g. W. Talcott, varnisher,
the flames spreading so rapidly that the &C.
cupants barely escaped, and causing loss
of 100000.
The Rev. DR.. R. A. Holland, formerly of
Chicago, has been wakingxup the people of
New Orleans to the condition Of their city.
The drainage is entirely on the surface and
all the foulness is exposed to view The
public is thoroughly aroused and united
effort is to be made to clean up,
A clubs being formed III Cincinnati to
urge Thurman's nomination beforetthe DEM
ocratic national convention.
New York spent S7;0O0;OO0 for operate and
dramatic entertainment last season, and
nearly all the managers ,have1ost money.
The Wabash road will next Sunday COM
mence running passenger trains between Chi
cago and Kansas City, viatPeoria, in twenty
hours.
The trunk-line pool had decided to advance
freight rates in the seventh and eighth
classes to Is cents per 100 pounds on
June "a.
At Key West, Fla, FREDERICK Gil Marrero,
a Cuban, was arrested from steamer from
New York as being a dynamiter, and fuse,
decorating caps and books of instruction for
the manufacture of explosives were found
among his effects. He was held in $4,000.
1t is thought the Cuban dynamiters have
been bringing the component parts of e.x-
plosives to Key West, and then secretly man.
ufactured them.
Hts --latest Freak.
WHEELING, w. Va, June IA terrific
cyclone passed over Marshall county, thirty
miles south of this city. The town of New Mar