Morris tribune., 1884-10-15
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Professor John E. Comstock died su d.
denly Friday at Galena, Ills, in his Goth year.
The Georgia mosquito attacks canaries
and mocking birds, and even kills chickens.
Ice half an inch thick formed in the
Montgomery and Kingston On. " districts
Thursday night.
A Kansas farmer realized over $70O
from an acre of watermelons which he
shipped to Colorado.
Business failures for the week number
213, against 1SS last week, and 166 in the cor
responding period Of 1888.
Dr.. c. c. Graham, of Louisville, was
100 years old Friday. He was personally &C
quainted with Daniel Boone.
A Fort Keogh, NJ. t., dispatch says a
horse tumbled 1900 feet down the side of
of Sheep mountain, and walked off uninjured.
A twenty six pound mountain trout is
the latest production of Eagle river, Colo.
The monster is forty-seven inches in length
and is on exhibition in Denver.
The American board of commissioners
for foreign missions, at Columbus, and the
Episcopal congress, at Detroit, completed
their business Friday, and adjourned.
One large tobacco factory at Petersburg,
Va, has shut down, and others are doing but
little work, because of the scarcity OF
tobacco for manufacturing purposes.
League ball games Friday resulted
Chicago i, Philadelphia 3; Providence II,
Cleveland g; Boston Is, Buffalo 7-seven in
nings; New York-Detroit, tie game, 2 each.
A physician of New London, Conn, has
patient who experiences blood sweating. The
disease is not fatal OF serious. The patient
sweats bright, healthy blood from the arm
pits.
In five mile race at Boston Friday
evening F. D. Stunicke, on bicycle, de-
feated K. A. Skinner, on roller skates,
Stunickle making the distance in 1920, beat
ing the record by 81 seconds.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary soci
ETY. of the Methodist Episcopal church for the
northwest, in session at Jacksonville, Ills.
Friday, elected Mrs j. I. Hit, of Evanston
and Mrs T. A. Hill, of Chicago, president
and recording secretary, respectively, and
will meet next year at kalamazoo.
One hundred men were discharged Of
left the shops of the Missouri Pacific road al
Sedalia, Mo-, and clerks in the departments
have been notified that their wages will b.
reduced. The scheme, it is understood, is tt
make good showing of light expenses u
London, where efforts are being made to lis
the bonds.
The fastest trip from Sandy Hook tt
Queenstown has been made by the Oregon il
| six days, eight hours and thirty minutes anc
the next fastest trip by the America, in si1
days, fourteen hours and eighteen minutes
The Oregon burn 337 tons Of coal day un
der full steaming power, while 1872 tons sup
ply the Americas furnaces.
Katie Spencer, miss of Is years, frou
| Waterloo, Iowa, who had been visiting he
sister, Mrs Brott, in Albert Lea, MINI.
slightly cut one of her thumbs about TIVE
weeks since, and to heal the wound sh'
wrapped it in cloth wet with carbolic acid
The acid became absorbed by the blood, ant
the girl soon became i'll, and finally died il
about week on account of it.
The national agricultural report TO
| October shows the general average of corr
to be 49, The drought has not been suficien
to reduce seriously the fyield, and very littl
injury by frost. The wheat crop confirm
the indications of the former report. L
cotton the average condition has been re
duced from 50 to "a as result of the drought
The corn crop is the best for five years, AM
there will be 100, 600 bushels more whea
| than last wear,