Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1884-07-02
THE NEWS In BRIEF.
Monday, June 23.

The great tunnel under the RiveEtMeTsey,
England, will be three and one-eighth miles
in length. Work on it is progressing rap
idly.
The savings bank at st. Joseph, Mo-, which
suspended payment: because Of the failure of
its New York correspondent, will resume
business.
Joseph Scharf, who was acquitted in Hun
gary of the charge of having murdered a
Christian warden as a sacrifice, has been
compelled to flee to London.
Mayor Whitehouse, Of Augusta, Me-, says
that Blaine is aCongregationalist in religion.
His mother was Roman Catholic, and he
has too much respect for her'religion to at
tack that faith, although e thorough Protest.
ant himself.
The Norman press and leaders claim that
| the bill just passedathe United States senate,
! governing affairs in Utah, is cruel, revolu-
tionary, and unconstitutional, and formu-
lated for the purpose of destroying their re-
ligion." They ASSERT that existing circum-
| stances do not call for such law, but that
| false reports have incensed the public mind
Tuesday, June "a.
An explosion of gas caused the destruction
{ of tie oil refinery of, George Allen & Son, at
Frynl1in Pa, and ruined the railway track
| fol: 100 yards.
A schooner which arrived at New York
| from Savannah reports having passed through
[ school of wales extending on all sides as far
/ as the eye could reach.
I The cracking Of a gallery in Methodist
church at Anglesea, England, caused a STAN
pede, in which many persons were trampled
upon and severely injured.
| A tornado unroofed twelve buildings al
Fort Madison, Iowa. A field Of 100 acres OF
corn, near Cerro Gordo, Ills, was flooded tt
the depth of six feet by a cloud-burst on Sun
day afternoon.
A gas-weu has been struck at Steubenville
| Ohio, whose roar can be heard for a quarter
of mile, and which is expected to save thu
Jefferson Iron company an expenditure O.
$1,000 per month for coal.
De Lesseps says the Panama canal will b.
completed by 1888; that he is not any NOR
troubled over the position of the United
States in regard thereto than he is over tina
of England in regard to Suez; that he intend
to be present at the opening of the canal, ant
that he has promised his numerous children
to take them along.
Wednesday, June 25.
Minister Wallace and wife, from Turkey
have arrived at New York
Speaker Carlisle is said to favor Cleve
land for president on the Democratic ticket
with Morrison for vice president.
Joseph Palmer, the accomplish of Der
, ner, the verdict in whose case occasioned tn
Cincinnati riots, was found guilty of murde
in the first degree.
-Four Italian laborers were fatally in
jured by the caving of Gould's tunnel, on tn
Panhandle road near Steubenville, Ohio, an
five others were badly bruised.
William H. Vanderbilt offers $1,000 70
each share of stock in which he is intereste
that he has sold in six weeks, as an answer t
t the report that he is unloading.
,. Clearing exchanges the past week-$765
/ 952. OOO-are SAG, 962, 423 in excess of the IL
s turns for the preceding week, but when con
g pared with the figures for the correspondent
Y week in 1888, show reduction of 22.S pc
d cent.
d The claimant, Sir Roger Tichborne, wi
I soon be out of prison. The date will be b.
y fore his full term of sentence expires, and b
will 90 forth on "a ticket of leave" 1t
/ stated that he has been offered good SUI
o by one of the Surrey managers to appear 6
s Bob Briefly in the drama of that name
g Lynch law claimed five men as victims
;, besides the Vincennes Ind, case. In VIII
e e ney Tex, Ike Laddy, a cowboy, was hange
I to a tree for long career of crime, prime
= palIy consisting of assaults on women, and
= Mepan county, d. T., Jacob ONen We
y hanged for horse stealing, and his gang pu
" sued, one of them shot and three hung
l, Thursday, June 90.
'e Shawneetown, Ills, is the first place
!, the west to report wheat cutting.
- Governor Adams, of Nevada, is
= natural faster,n sometimes going a wee
- without food.
st About 5000 palace, sleeping and hot