Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1884-01-05
rAE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Gen. Grant was able to be out New
Years day, but used clutches.
Gov. Ordway arrived in Washington,
and denies all the charges recently nadt
against him.
The property of the New York &
New England railroad has boon placed in the
hands of receiver.
BY the sinking of o government
steamboat near Opossum Point, on tho Mis-
sissippi, three men were drowned.
The art loan exposition in favor OF the
Bartholii statue PEDESTAL fund, which has
closed at New York, realized net receipts OF
$4,000.
The Thorndike (Miss.) company's
new cotton mill burned. G. Wilson, one OF
the corporations agents, fell dead while
fighting the flames.
The brain of Conway Brown. a Har
ward student, who killed himself at Pfovi-
dence, was so diseased that he had no
power to control his actions.
In quarrel between q New York
saloon keeper named Jonn Regain and his
son Conrad, young Regain crushed his
The forthcoming congressional direc-
tory will state tiat Thomas T. Ochlitree, OF
| Galveston, is the first native Texan ever
| elected to the congress Of the United States. "
United States Judge McCrary, OF
the Eighth ju>tic,al district, has no. Yet re-
signed His quitting the bench, however,
hinges upon the settlement Of certain business
matters.
Capt. Pike. the principal witness in
the Proueus court of inquiry. says that il
Lieut.. Greeley remains in his winter quarters
| he will be safe The danger is that he will
move south, expecting to find supplies.
The legal comp .ications in the estate
of tie lale s. B. Page, OF milwaukee,, VINO
left property valued at 100000, are so many
| that thus far his widow has received but
| $500, and is almost destitute of means.
The oldest news paper carrier in
| Philadelphia has just retired from business
| at the age OF Is. He has sold his route which
| he held for forty-eight years. In summer
| and winter he never missed day in all this
| time.
Large crowds attended the Orange
| and Nationalist gatherings at Dromore, ire
lani, New Years day. Numerous soldiery
| and police prevented collision between the
factions, but not without bayoneting two
| men, wounding them mortally.
A report reached Easton, Pa, that
| Ephraim bartholomew, farmer, had been
| found deaf, with his clothing, which has
been saturated with oil, burning A denia
came later, saying that Bartholomew wa:
not dead, but that his wife had been killed
! by her step-daughter.
Walter E. Kidder, recently brought
| to Peru, Ind, upon a'requ.sirion, OIL .hs
charge of bigamy, has married four wives
| and recently came nea: aiding a fifth to tn:
| list at Harold, D. T. One Of his spouses il
| dead, and the last one whom he married
| Miss Eva Todd, of Peru, Ind. secured the
| arrest of the culprit.
Near Salem, Ohio, the dead body Of
| L. N. Griffith, a farmer, was toun, wiGi 6
bullet-hole through the heart and a revolver
! by his side. The dead mans son Stanley
| aged Is. gave the alarm that his father hat
| committed suicide, but Immediately disap
| peared and the general opinion is that thu
| youth murdered his parent.
At the White House reception New
! Years the question was decided as To whether,
| in the absence of Mrs. President or Mrs. Vic,
| President, the wife Of the speaker, ranked ths
| wives of the secretary OF state and CHIEF
| Justice as the first lady of the land. A prece
| tent was established, for when the hour fol
reception arrived Mrs. Carlisle came in upo1
| the presidents arm and took her place
at his right.