Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1884-05-14
THE NEWS In BRIEF.
Monday MAY s.

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the Bartholdi pedestal fund.
England has new scare. It is now
surmised that nitro-glycerine is being con-
veyed into the United Kingdom in American
spirit TASKS.
The Western Union Telegraph COM
pany has enforced the rule relating to mar
ket quotations, and cut off all the bucket
shops in Chicago and elsewhere.
In the fourth court of common pleas
at Philadelphia, Judge Thayer admitted Mrs.
Carrie G. Kigore to Practice after every
other court had denied her the right
The Pullman company has contracted
to furnish the West Shore road with num-
Der of passenger and other cars for ten
years at an annual rental of S2,447,624.
Tuesday, May 6.
There were thirteen deaths from
yellow fever at Havana for the week ended
May 3.
Attorney General Brewster says: IT
nave kind of conviction.in my own mind
that President Arthur WEI be no: minated"
Last week the specie exports from
New York amounted to $3,14S,6 3, and since
Jan. l, Sal, 10000 in specie ha,s been sent
out.
The Mineral Belt Railroad company
of Arizona asks the privilege of pu releasing
from the government, at $1.25 per acre, a
square mile of land for every mile Of track it
may lay.
Joseph Allen, arrested for the anur-
Ger OF the Crouch family at Jackson, Mi ch.,
against whom some sensational developmel ITS
were promised, has been discharged, and it
IS said his trial has resulted disastrously t.
Henry Holcomb's claim Of innocence.
When offered a compromise by his
Chicago creditors Saturday, Moses Fraley,
the st. Louis speculator, said he desired no
settlement save on the basis of 100 cents OH
the dollar. and this he expects to achieve in a.
very short time.
Wednesday, May Y.
Carl Schurz and his daughters have
sailed for Germany.
Gen. Grant has sent $3.50 to the
iund 1or the proposed Confederate home.
A marble bust of Little Phil"
Sheridan has been unveiled by the Chicago
Veteran club.
An expert in the Sharon-HilI scan
oal case has testified that the alleged mar
rage contract is forgery.
The lower section of Davenport,
Iowa, was swept by a cyclone, number Of
STRUCTURES being demolished. One person was
Killed and many others wounded.
Michael Davitt denies the rumor that
ne has lied with Parnell, and says he is
gong to Au stralia to fill course of lecture
engagements, in the hope of restoring his
health.
Chairman Sabin says that those who
aeslfe to know anything about the distribu-
uon CT tickets to the June convention must
writ, to John G. New, at Indianapolis, for
information
Gen. Trevino stated at Monterey,
Mexico, to a reporter that he was in receipt
OF kilograms from the United States indicat-
ing great anxiety for Americans and their
interests in the sister republic Mrs. Gen
Ord has rendered him place of safety for
his Child. He desired to assure the Americans
thaf the reports of revolutionary movements
are wholly unfounded.
Thursday, May 8.
Miss Emma Nevada, the young
American prima donna, intends to sing in
this country next season.
Richard A. Proctor, the astronomer,
has decided to make his home during the rest
Of his life at st. Joseph, Mo.
A consignment of 100000 pounds of
tea from Japan, billed to j. w. Doane & Co.
was condemned at Chicago by Tea Inspector
Barnard.
1t is reported that Henry Willard will
return to his old profession, journalism, and
become one of the editorial writers OH one of
the New York dailies.
Governor Robinson, of Massachusetts,
denounces fashionable drink ug," and hopes
to see the time when it will be abolished at
all social entertainments
The condition of wheat. in Ohio at
present averages IS per cent, and the prob
able yield, with good weather till harvest, is
placed at 80, 531 ,S32 bushels.
M. Washington, French ambassador
to England, never goes ~, Where, it is said,
unless accompanied by his wife, who is an
American lady, and who is both his secre-
tary and treasurer
Chi cago detectives recently learned
that Joe Clough the leader OF u gang of bur-
glars would arrive in that city by s, Lake
Shore train, in a huge trunk. The baggage
came promptly on time, and was con-
signed to a brother of The crook, on Went
worth avenue. The officers followed it to its
destination, where they broke the lock- and
took out their man.
Friday, May 8.
A gun thirty feet long, weighing
Sl2,o0o pounds, was cast at I'osJon for the
government
A Mormon missionary who attempted
to secure converts at Vienna was condemned
to a months Imprisonment.
Judah p. Benjamin, formerly United
States senator from Louisiana and ex-mem-
Der OF the southern Confederacy, died at
London.
BY an explosion Of dynamite in a fac