Morris tribune., 1884-04-09
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Monday, March 81.

:: MONDAY, NAarcn Oh
Rugg, the Long Island murderer, is
now believed to have been the murderer Of
Rose Amber, at Stamford, Conn.
In Montana the law prohibits a
woman from marrying until she is Is years
old, and a man cannot marry until he is 81.
Mooney, the Illinois convict, who
killed his cel.'-mate in Joliet, has just had a
him to the gallo VS.
Land-seekers are gathering in
Blackbird county, Nebraska, to secure pof>
tions of 81, 900 acres OF the Omaha reservation,
which are to be sold to actual settlers in
June.
Holland, it is said, has only one poet,
who is also woman. This is N ISIS Stratenus,
who is now visiting London, and VINO Is de-
scr1bed as charming both as poet and as
woman.
Tuesday, April I.
In room of kleptomaniac in Lon.
don were found over 900 umbrellas
The Mexican National Railroad COM
pany announces its inability to pay the
coupons now maturing on about S25, 000, O00
of bonds.
For seventeen performances at San
francisco by Mapleson's troupe the receipts
were SS05,O0O. Mapleson's net profits are
estimated at $4,000.
Peter Carrigan, foreman of the brick
layers on the new open board Of trade build
ing in Chicago, fell eighty-five feet to the
ground and soon expired.
The twenty-second anniversary OF
the battle of Shiloh will on Thursday and
Friday next be celebrated on that field by
representatives of both armies Relics of
the conflict are said to be still abundant on
the grounds.
Wednesday,, April e.
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris will spend
the summer at Newport.
The stings of buffalo gnats caused
the death of 200 mules in the vicinity of Gren-
ada, Miss, in two days.
The governor of Michigan has named
April "a as Arbor day, and suggests that
special effort be made to beautify rural ceme-
teries.
Authorized agents of the Turkish
government are attempting to close the
schools in Asia Minor conducted by Ameri-
can missionaries.
The police of Vienna report that in
two recent cases assassins acted under orders
issued by Herr Most and his central commit
tee of anarchists at New York
Dun reports 1926 failures the past
three months, with $40,0 600 liabilities,
against 2,SO6 in the corresponding period of
1883, and liabilities amounting to $50, 000, 900.
Thursday. April 3.
jay Gould expects to build q winter
dwelling house at st. Augustine, Fla.
Four million three hundred and forty
thousand boxes of sardines were packed in
Lubec, Me-, last year.
William Jones, of Washington, who
shot at Guiteau through the prison van in
1881, is to be tried April %.
Twenty-nine persons convicted Of
various crimes in Indian territory have been
shipped to the house of correction at Detroit.
Capt. w. N. Robinson, Democratic
candidate for congress in the Eighth Alabama
district, killed himself at Scottsboro by driv-
ing pen-knife into his breast.
Edmund Yates, editor of The London
World, was condemned to Imprisonment for
four months for libeling the earl of Lonsdale,
but Judgment was stayed by an appeal
The postmaster at Chicago has re-
ceived from Washington package Of water
stained letters found in mail-sack picked up
by English fisherman in the North sea, hav-
ing been lost in the steamer Cimbria
Hortensia Mason, a colored school
teacher of Shelbyyille. Ken. has sued the