Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1884-12-03
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The steamship Great Eastern will sall
Ter New Orleans Dec. Is.
The First National bank of Carlinville,
Ills, has gone into liquidation.
Henry NJ. Stanley has just''receiveti the
IN. d. degree from the University Of Hella.
Six hundred thousand pounds of fish
were taken in the Milwaukee fisheries this
season. .-'.
Edward H. Ludlow, the veteran real
estate dealer of New York, passed away
Friday.
Fire al Boswell, Ind, Thursday night
,%>pC away six business buildings, creating
" los, Of 100000.
Heavy rains fell Friday in the st. Pc,
ooti.iUe.I drought.
y Woods, Perry & Co., lumber merchants,
,uI.-d Olit at Cleveland two months ago,
.,avp resumed business.
IF the farmers in Iowa gathered 5,000,-
bushels Of corn per day, it would take
i.-tE-iiyc days to gather the crop.
The average hotel bill of the cowbows
al the st. Louis convention was $275, of
which $l91. Is was made at the bar.
Numerous flatboats, with cabin attach.
ments and families on board have passed
Burlington, floating down to New Orleans
and the big show.
The Lafayette Journal property, with
its franchises, will be sold at auction to the
Wilson, mortgage.
An Indiana man bet his sweetheart on
Blaine. and when, after the election, she
went over to the other fellow, he accused
her of playing him false. Some men are
never satisfied.
Private letters from English officials in
India state there is dangerous condition OF
affairs il that country, as the feelings Of the
natives were never so excited against Eng.
land as at present.
At San Rafael Cal. Thursday night, a
buggy containing six persons was struck by
a locomotive at a crossing, two being killed,
one fatally injured and the fourth having an
arm broken. The others escaped.
Herman Lindc, the Shakesp earean
reader claims to have discovered at Louis
vile Rembrandt's picture of the slaughter
Of the Innoccnts," and purchased it for 500.
Art cOnuOisseurs have been seeking for years
for this painting.
The wife of Eli Boiling, q respectable
colored man Of Egg Harbor City, Pa, who
began to turn white twenty-five years ago, II
now, to all appearances, a white woman, the
only traces of her African origin being found
in her kinky hair.
In settlement of an election wager Mr..
Lang undertook to ride q bull around the
public square of Kirwin, Kan He was
thrown off three times, and finally gave q
coWbow So to finish the circuit, which he did
in spite of the violent disapprobation of the
bull.
Because of advances made secretly by
President King, the Middletown IN. "
National bank closed it's doors Friday morn.
ing Its capital was 100000, and the sur
plus $4,000, and the statement is made that
the depositors will be paid in full. Senator
directors of the broken bank.
Beliefs are expressed that the "long
strike" in the Hooking valley will soon end
Some twenty of the persons indicted for out
RACES have been arrested and will be tried
for conspiracy. The railway bridges burned
have been replaced and traffic has been re.
sumed. The output from the mines, it 10
expected, will soon reach its normal pro-
portions. 1870
A man calling himself Charles NJ. Mer.
ryman has just decamped from Wayne town.
ship, Ohio, taking with him tho pretty
daughter of q wealthy farmer and $1,000
fralldulently obtained. He claimed to be q
relative of an influential family in the dis
tlict, said he was an attorney, and procured
loft by English cousins