Morris tribune., 1884-08-13
THE NEWS IN, BRIEF.

In attempting to beat his record, JAY
Eye=See at Buffalo Friday trotted without 4
skip in 2:1054.
Texas fever is killing cattle at Lemars,
Iowa, the disease having been brought thefe
by cattle shipped from Kansas.
An assignment was made Friday by
John Degraw & Sons, lumber dealers at st.
Paul, their liabilities being $4,000.
Business failures in the United States for
the week numbered 276, against 241 last
week, and 16G for the corresponding period
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The National Dental association at Sara
toga, elected George H. Cashington, of Chi
cago, president, and decided to meet next
year at Minneapolis.
All the cotton factories at Petersburg,
Va, save two have shut downbecause of dill
trade, and two in operation will suspend
work in a week or so.
Mccormick, pitcher, Briody, and Glass
cock have Quilted the Cleveland league team,
Ind will play the remainder of the season
with the Cincinnati Unions.
Mr.. Thomas Jacks, an octogenarian,
living in Parksville, Kan, went to Kansas
City last Tuesday and ordered. his coffin. His
sons assisted him in selecting the article and
all went home satisfied.
The drug trade in New York has been
unsettled by the failure in London of Meier &
Co., dealers in quinine. The foreign article
has fallen off 10 cents per ounce, but Amer
lean quinine is steady.
Miss Hill, who is suing ex-senator
Sharon for divorce, began suit against The
Alta California for publishing Lawyer Neil
sons statement, charging her with forging
the "my dear wife" letters.
Alta Sunday-school picpinc near Move
aqua, Ills, Miss Emma Bond the victim of
the Taylorville outrage, was in attendance,
and attracted general attention. She walks
with difficulty, but otherwise is gaining
strength rapidly.
Mr.. J. G. S. Harrison, the broken Indi.
annapolis banker, has lodged petition in the
Indianapolis circuit court requesting his re.
lease He sets forth that he has been guilty
of no crime, and his financial troubles have
been the result of errors of judgment.
Thomas Jefferson's tomb, on which the
United States government recently spent
$4,000, suffers again at the hands of relic
hunters The breaking Of the lock and the
defacing of the railing of the inclosure, as
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toned in a Charlottesville paper.
An application has been made to the
governor of Indiana to reprieve Charles w
Butler, sentenced to be hanged in the Whit
ley county court for wife-murder. The date
of the execution is fixed for Oct 10. The
reprieve is asked for in order to allow extern
uating evidence to be produced.
The punch and binding Sheds in Roach's
shipyard at Chester, Pa, with the valuable
machinery, were destroyed by fire, involving
loss of 100000 Five hundred men are rem
dered idle, and work in the yard will be vir
tually suspended for some time. The loss is
said to be fully covered by insurance.
John Levey enlisted for the war al
Xenia, Ohio, in 1862, and since then his wife
had not heard from him until last week
when she discovered lie had been!l living within
few miles of their old home ever since
the close of the war. Mrs. Levey has an
other husband now, having been married il
1870.
League ball games Friday: In the morn
ing Buffalo defeated Detroit IL to g. but il
the afternoon Detroit won in twelve inning
/ to 0. Providence defeated Philadelphia
to 0; and Boston and New York played til
game Of eight innings, scoring eight run
each. Philadelphia protests the Providence
victory because Gilligan left the field withou
being hurt; and at New York the crowd as
saulted the umpire, Cunning Ia member O
the Boston club, because he called the game