Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1884-04-02
THE NEWS In BRIEF.
aannlny. March "a.

Anna D1CKlnSOu WILL Soon oe"io loI
California to fulfill lecture engagements, and
will not return before July
A train of Pullman cars, bearing fifty
distinguished Americans and Mexicans has
left the city of Mexico direct for Chicago.
Sarah Bernhardt was recently COM
PEELED to suspend performance in Paris. On
leaving the stage for the second time she
tainted and vomited blood.
Capt. Waddell, who commanded the
famous Confederate cruiser, the Shenan-
doah. has been elected commander of an
oyster police-boat on the Chesapeake.
The eighty-seventh anniversary OF
Emperor William was celebrated In Berlin
as full holiday, the city being brilliant with
flags. Queen Victoria's congratulatlon was
the first one received
Tuesday, March Is.
The counterfeit $40 silver certificates
now being circulated in Ohio and Kentucky
hear either the numbers 81, 49,, Ask or
B1, 407X.
Mr.. Fl. W. Zachry, of Heard county,
Georgia, has an egg which is in clrcumfer
ence the short way six inches and the long
way eight inches
A subscription has been started at
INDEPENDENCE Mo-, to enable Mrs. Frank
James to attend the trial of her husband in
Alabama for the Mussel Shoals robbery
Fire in the Newcastle coal mine, in
Washington territory has been raging for
eighteen months The fact that it obtained
mastery over the management has been con
cealed.
Frank L. Chamberlain, sportsman
of Cleveland, Ohio, has invented a machine
capable Of charging 800 shotgun cartridges
per hour. A company with S25O,OOO capital
has been organized, and will establish man
ufactory at Cleveland, Ohio
Wednesday,. March 80.
European canal laborers at Panama
are being frightened away by yellow fever.
Hebrew settlers in northern Dakota
are reported to be suffering for clothing and
| the necessaries of life
Yellow fever is reported to have
broken out Oh the United States steamer
Iroquos, now on its way to Alaska.
The governor Of Louisiana has APP
pealed to the secretary of war for rations for
| sufferers by the breaking of the levees.
The marquis who is to marry Mrs.
| law
board, and he writes poetry with the greatest
| ease.
A raiah in Sumatra demands a
ransom of e62, 900 for the crew of the British
steamer Nisero, wrecked in Malay archl-
pelago last November
Peru, before the late disastrous war
with Chill, guaranteed her debts with her
guano resources. The treaty of peace stipu-
lates that Chilli will pay Peruvian bondhold'
ers one-half the proceeds of the guano exports,
and the representatives of five European
powers have made formal protest against
the adoption of the proposition.
Thursday, March "a.
Jay-Eye-See now has new sulkJ
that only weighs forty-six pounds.
There are 500 geysers and 500 hot
springs in the Yellowstone National park
Counterfeit 25-cent pieces of lead art
exasperatingiy plentiful in Boston and vi,
entity.
French silk manufacturers expect
great things of large spider, lately discov
cred in Africa, which weaves beautiful
web.
Mark M. Pomeroy, the "Brick" O.
years gone by, lives quietly in New York
what he writes going by post westward t.
his Denver paper.
In the second trial at Washington
Halett Kubourne was awarded damages O.
$37. 500 for false Imprisonment by John G
Thompson, ex-sergeant-at-arms of the hous
of representatives.
Two earthquake shocks, one lasting
fifteen seconds, occurred at San Francisco
The people rushed from their houses in ter
ror, and several structures near the waite
front were severely damaged.
The battle-fags of Illinois regiment
have been formally transferred from tn
hall admirably fitted for their preservation
and display. Gen. Sherman was in attend
ance at the ceremonies.
Friday, March %.
Mrs. Stratton, the mother of the lat
Gen. Tom Thumb, diei at New Haven.
The police of Leipsic found dyna
mite boEnbshell in building crowded will
people.
Raw flesh from one hog in Prussia1
Saxony, last year, made 403 persons seriousl
i'll, and caused the death of sixty-six Of then
from trichiniasis.
Telephoning between Boston an
New York was successfully carried Oh, owe
aline built of small copper wires and wit
an ordinary transmitter.
The bill prohibiting the buying O
selling of grain OF other produce on fictitiou
contracts OF margins passed the Iowa house
The act had already passed the senate.
Governor Robinson, of Massachu
, setts has signed the act making it imperativ
upon cities and towns in that state to suppl
free textbooks to children attending the pull
lie schools.
J A street-car conductor in Philadel
phia has made an estimate of the amount {
money lost in that city by dropping nickel
! in the hay of cars, and he finds that it
$4,000 year.
Carl Schurz, in letter expressin,
his gratitude declines to accept the purse {
100000 which was being made up by h
friends in New York, and requests that a
contributions be returned.
One of the jurors in the Kirk murde
, case at Cincinnati has been driven from b
home, for giving verdict of manslaughte
against murderer who confessed his crim
Another juror was severely beaten by a nun
Der of his acquaintance.
) A mass meeting at Lincoln, ILL.,, d.
nounced the acquittal of o. A. Carpenter c
the murder of Zura Burns. The resolution
adopted expressed the belief that Carpente
is guilty Of the crime, and demand that
leave Logan county without unnecessary d
lay.
Saturday, March go.
Matthew Arnold made 1900 by b
lecturing tour in America.
The park commissioners of New Yor
! city have excluded bicycles from the Rive
S side driveway.
A hurricane prevailed for twenty-for
hours at Denver, Col, the city hail an
some of the finest blocks in the city being u
rooted, while signs and awnings were sea
tered in all directions For hours togetht
the wind blew at the rate Of sixty miles q
hour Several persons were injured, br
none fatally
OrEip S. Todd, a farmer of Tollan,
Conn has died from oIapders cr,nn,unictaf