Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1884-03-12
THE NEWS In BRIEF.
Monday, March q.

Secretary Lincoln still holds $40, 900
of the congressional appropriation for the
relief of the flood sufferers.
It is Stained that Virgins predicted
the recent blizzard in the eastern section and
throughout Canada, and he foretells greater
storm on March 26.
The divorced wife of Adirondack"
Murray will practice medicine in New
Haven, and will start with some of the first
families in the city as patients.
A bust Of Longfellow was unveiled
at Westminster abbey, in presence Of Earl
Granville, Minister Lowell, and the Misses
Longfellow, and placed in the poets corner.
The Hon. James Russell Lowell, our
minister to England, was the first of the for
eign ministers to receive a copy of the
queens book from the hand Of her secre-
tary.
Tuesday, March A.
The Rhode Island Republican. con-
yention will be held at Providence March 20.
A serious financial panic has occurred
at Pekin, where many banks and merchants
have failed.
Last year 1, $3.50, 1894 net tons Of steel
rails were produced in this country, reduc-
ton from the previous year equaling 20 per
cent.
A mass meeting in the opera house at
Youngstown, Ohio, protested against Nor
rison's tariff bill and any reduction Of the
tariff.
Owing to the fire in the chemical
works. quinine at Philadelphia jumped from
$1.40 to $1.s0 per ounce, while the foreign
article advanced from ST. 10 to $1.50.
Judd Crouch and Dan Holcomb were
arrested for the Crouch murders, perpetrated
near Jackson, Michigan. November 81 last.
Officials claim that the circumstantial evil
dence against the men warrants the arrests.
Wednesday. March 5.
1t is said that the Salvation army is
making many converts among the negroes of
the south.
The peach buds throughout Ontario
were completely destroyed by the recent
severe weather.
The Philadelphia street car COM
panies paid last year dividends ranging from
10 to 62 per cent.
The characterization of 20,000,000 sill
yer forms has been authorized by the lower
mouse In Cne NeGnerlandS.
The stagnation In the shipping in
terest in England is shown by the fact that
1874 vessels lie idle in the Tyne.
The Hon. Thomas Cornell has headed
subscription with 1000 for monument
to be erected to Lieut.. Chipp, of the Inflated
Arctic steamer Jeanette, in Rondout, N. Y.
Nine. Minnie Hauk, who has become
the most popular prima donna in the south,
opened the New York theatre, Jacksonville,
Fla, with aFaust' last week, During her
visit In that city she bought forty little aliga-
tors, which have since been wandering
through the mails as gifts to her friends in
the north.
Thursday, March Q.
Anna Dickinson is about to lecture
on Wendell Phillips.
Nine, Modjeska supports at her own
expense school for Polish children In New
York. . .
Professor J.. L. Smiths private col
lection Of meteorites, the largest in the world
has been bought by Harvard college for
$4,000. =
Whisky men in Louisville, failing to
get their relief bill through congress have
paid $4,000 in taxes. The whisky was
made in 1880,
On the 4th inst the amount of grain
IN Chicago was 23.541, 6Ss bushels, very nearly
half Of the visible supply of the continent,
which is 81, 95s, 652 bushels.
In the Iowa legislature the senate
nassau the Kennedy nrohihit;nn hin hv .