Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1884-05-21
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Monday, May IL.

The crop outlook in Iowa is of most
cheering character.
The grand stand on the Chillicothe,
Ohio, base ball grounds collapsed during a
game, twenty persons receiving injuries.
A bronze statue of Chief Justice
Marshall, resting on n terrace stairway on
the west front of the capitol at Washington
was unveiled by Chief Justice Waite, in pres
ence OF a large aSsemblage.
Harry L. Wells, who testified recently
that he heard Sharon introduce Miss Hill as
his wife, tearfully confessed at San Francisco
Friday that in doing SO he swore falsely,
and that bribe of $100, 200 was held out to
him.
Tuesday. May IS.
Another party of filibusters have left
Key West and vicinity for Cuba.
A harness maker in Syracuse has just
tanned a piece of human skin which a physi-
clan is going to have made into q pair of
slippers.
Ell Madhi is said to have demanded o
ransom of 50, 100000 for Gen. Gordon. AS
his excellency has not yet caught his prey it
seems that his demand is rather previous"
The Wabash road, with $s7, 1858
placed in the hands of temporary receiver
until the mortgage bonds can be exchanged
for preferred stock.
Wednesday,, May IA.
The German parliament has adopted
| the anti-Socialist law.
Mr.. Vennor, the weather prophet
predicts cold weather for the first few days
in July.
The elevated short route railway
| along the river front AZ ~HisvIlle, h.,lV by
| c. P. Huntington at a co5C of 1000, 900 has
| been formally opened.
Baker Pasha, for twenty years an
exile from England, has arrived in London,
and was loudly cheered by the people for his
gallant work in Egypt.
Health Commissioner DeWolf, of
Chicago, produces statistics to show that
Chicago has the lowest death-rate of any
city in the world, being 1885 per 200. This
is reckoning the population at $4,000
Thursday, TFay is.
The editor Of The Century Magazine
receive ed POO poems last month, of which oI.y
| one was accepted.
Che pastors of Peoria, Ill, churches
day base bali playing.
The house of commons rejected the
censrle motion by a vote Of 303 to 275 The
| Parnerites voted with tie minority.
Lew. Wallace, United States minister
to Turkey, has left Constantnople on q four
months leave of absence in America.
Tho extra session of the California
legisls ture has been concluded leaving IN
done the business for which it was called.
| Col. Fred Grant said at New York
that his father, brother, and himself had been
fools in their connection with Ferdinand
Ward and that at present, nothing was too
stron g to say against Ward.
The tobacco-growers of New England
have started a movement to secure the repeal
! of a Il internal revenue taxes on their product,
and. they expect aid from southern and west
7 erIl politicians and tobacco men.
| Friday, May l6.
The louisiana Democratic state con-
vention is called for Baton Rouge June II.
Tin in large quantities has been
found in Mason county, West Virginia, caus-
| ing much excitement.
The national Republican committee
has received thus far only two notices Of con-
/ tested seats in the Chicago convention.
| A deed registered in Wyandotte,
Kan, called for the transfer of certain
| lot to one civilian Henry Harrison Tyler
| Tippecanoe Coon"
Dealers who have been selling cider
by the glass at East Tawas, Mich, have been
notified to stop. 1t is believed that whisky,
in some way, gets into the apple-juice.
The State Savings bank at ST.
Joseph, Mo-, closed upon the suspension of
Dunnell, Lawson & Simpson at New York,
owners of the concern. Statements are made
after it had been telegraphed from New Y ork
to close. 1t is feared that if the concern is
not in a good condition number of business
ho,i SOS will be affected.
The Anti-Monopoly convention which
met ii Chicago Wednesday is tie list
of six national conventions for the nomina
ton of candidates for the presidency. The
next will be the Greenback Labor convention
at indianapolis May 2S, and the others the
. Republican, at Chicago, June 3; American
party, at Chicago, June 10; Democratic, at
Chicago, July s. and Prohibition, at Pitts
burg. July %.
Saturday. May IL.
A Florida fisherman has seen a swamp
, snake thirty feet long, so he says.
A cablegram from Vienna chronicles the
destruction Of the Stadt theatre by fire.
Early vegetables in southern Wisconsin
have been greatly damaged by a heavy frost.
The Mexican senate Thursday confirmed
the reciprocal treaty between Mexico and the
United States
Queen Victoria is negotiating for the pur-
chase of the villa at Cannes in which Prince
Leopold died, with the intention of convert
ing it into a convent and chapel.
Orrin A. Carpenter, who was tried and &C
quilted of the murder of Zura Burns at Lin
coin, Ills, a few months ago, is settling up
his business in that place preparatory to re-
moving to Dakota.
Frank W. Smith, ex-secretary of the To-
ledo Railroad Y. M. c. A., will visit Ander-
sonville and hold services at the National
cemetery on Decoration day. He proposes
to decorate the graves of the 1901 soldiers
buried there, and will place flags at the head
of each.
At Rockford, Ills, when the remains of
Mike Connors were about to be lowered
into the grave, his brother Tom tried to take
from the coffin the silver plate which the
wife and her brother had purchased through
many sacrifices. The wife protested against
the outrage, and her brother promised to
break Connors' head. The plate was buried
with the remains.
While Mr.. Anderson, the treasurer of a
school district near Bisnark, D. T., was in
this town for the purpose of drawing $500
from the bank, his house was attacked by two
men. They pried open the door, and point
ing reviewers at the frighted wife demanded
what money she had The little son, with
) commendable pluck, grabbed the shotgun
and fired, killing one of the desperadoes.
The temperance workers of Chicago met in
Farwell hall to provide means for carrying