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

vote of "a to IL. The bill was then enrolled
and signed by the governor.
A cablegram from Havre announces
the presence OF thirty rish-Americans, and
says close watch is kept over dynamite fac
tory between Amiens and Boulogne.
Twelve members of the Canadian
parliament have expressed themselves in
favor Of the widest reciprocity in CONNER
cial relations with the United States.
Friday, March a.
After four months boring oil was
struck in paying quantities at Vinton, Iowa.
Spurgeon, the popular preacher, has
fallen heir to large fortune left him by an
admirer.
The majority of Funston, Republican
candidate for congress in the Second Kansas
district will be nearly 5000.
Some eastern banks, finding that they
could not obtain small greenbacks in return
for mutilated currency, have offered to ac-
cept standard silver dollars.
The American bell punch has been
discarded on the London tramways 1t was
considered nuisance, and failed to prevent
knocking down by the conductors.
The entire clerical force of the census
bureau, $50 in number, will be suspended
March 10, owing to the exhaustion Of the ap-
preparation for the maintenance Of the
bureau.
Michael De Young has caused to be
erected in San Francisco cemetery memo
rial statue to his brother, Charles De Young,
and it was unveiled last week. The tomb
and monument are of granite and the statue,
which is of heroic size, is of bronze.
A few days since, in the work of
making some holes for planting trees around
the new fort constructed outside the Porte
San Lorenzo, In Rome, fine statute of
| Apollo, one meter eighty centimeters in
height, was discovered in good state Of
| preservation.
Coroner Sheftall, of Savannah,
| stopped negro funeral, and, pulling off the
| shroud, showed nine serious wounds on the
| corpse. The doors Of the house were locked,
jury and witnesses were summoned, and a
verdict of murder was rendered against the
colored man in whose cabin the obsequies
were being held.
W.B. Cash, who killed two unarmed
men in the streets of Cheraw, s. c., is said to
have fortified himself in barn near his
fathers mansion, and keeps a party OF
negroes constantly on picket duty. Col.
Cash is said to have threatened to burn the
town if his son be shot. The governors in
dignation is at white heat, and the military
of Columbia have rendered their services
Saturday, March 8.
A Boston man correctly guessed the
number of beans i'll bag.
The house of representatives has
passed the navy appropriation bill
There have been 125 bills introduced
in the present congress affecting the Distric
OF Columbia.
At meeting of representatives O
| barbed- wire manufacturers at st Louis j
was agreed to advance the price a cent PEI
pound.
Gen. Grant is at Fortress NJ onroe
for sojourn of a month or more.
ALI the gambling establishments al
Hot Springs, Ark, have closed, and thu
sporting fraternity have evacuated the town
Boston capitalists have invested $685..
S91. 500 in the Mexican Central road, the gov
eminent granting g subsidy of $4,000 pei
mile.
In residence in suburb of Vienna
opposite the mansion of Baron Rothschild
was found quantity Of dynamite and nitro
glycerine.
Nellis, who protested to reveal tn
names Of the murderers of the earl of Leitrin
to the police at Greenock, Scotland, has bee
adjudged insane, and sent to an asylum.
Parnell and his followers intend t,
| ro,l-r1 ~, T,a1o ND fl,, ~,
amendment of the land act, and to open SUI
scrptions toward a special agitation fund.
A syndicate of eastern capitalists ha
purchased HOLSTERS tack mandatory a
Pittsburg, and will take the machinery east
where they propose to establish works for tn
monopoly of Matchmaking.
The Consolidated Paper company, o
Chicago, with liabilities OF $97 900, made a
assignment to Harlan P. Tracy. 1t hold
100000 pounds of wrapping paper, whic
will not at present be thrown on the market
Citizens of Wichita and Sedgwicl
county, Kansas, will send to the Ohio foo
sufferers forty carloads of corn, besides
large amount of money. The Santa Fe roa
and its connections will carry this donatio
free to Cincinnati.
i The stockmen of Texas are said to b
moving for division of the state on tn
Tooth meridian, as their interests are total
different from those of citizens in the east
ern portion. The adjutant general is &C
vised that fence-cutting has nearly ceasee
and that Enclosures are being rebuilt.
With reference to exp ostmaster Ger
eral James statements before the Syringe
committee Wednesday, conveying the in
preston that the star-route prosecutions lie
to Garfelds assassination Charles 81. Reee
Guiteau's counsel, asserts that in private Col
versation, the last one taking place the da
before his execution, Guiteau solemn
} averred that no one but God and himse
knew of his purpose to murder the presiden