Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1884-05-14

tory in Ayrshire England, ten women were
blown to pieces, and two others were
wounded.
The trial of "Ras" Wheeler for killing
"Print" Matthews has been begun at Hazel
hurst, Miss. A jury was secured, but the
trial will last several days.
The Massachusetts, Prohibition state
convention was held at Boston, the resolu-
tions declaring for the suppression Of the
liquor traffic by constitutional and statutory
measures.
The Austrian Socialist Democrats
have issued manifesto. Among other things
it declares an economic crisis is imminent
and that America must put stop to Euro
pean immigration.
Eleven models and thirty-two draw
ings for the Garfield monument at Cleveland
have been received by the Monument asso-
citation. The first examination will be made
by the trustees next Wednesday.
The American Tract society held it's
fifty-ninth annual meeting at New York.
The donations and legacies for the year were
$1OS,S69, and the expenditures 1854, 0S2.
Sixty-three missionaries distributed 133, 463
volumes.
The steamer City of Portland, with
seventy passengers, was deceived by buoy
which was out Of position, and went on
ledge of rocks near Owls Head, Maine A
sloop answered the signals of distress and
took off the women and children, and the
steamer Rockland soon arrived to rescue the
other passengers and their baggage The
wrecked vessel is rapidly breaking up, under
heavy gale. She is valued at S125, 900.
Her cargo will be total loss.
Kate Bryant, of Rockford, Illinois,
has secured $4,000 damages for Islander
against farmer named Charles FL. Marsh.
She and her sister left his employ, and he
sent postal-cards wherever they went de-
nouncing them as thieves.
The tariff bill now being prepared
by Representative Hewitt will doubtless be
introduced in the house next Monday. 1t
will put iron ore, carpet woods, tin plates,
wire rods, and coal on the free list, and leave
wool where it is He desires to reduce taxa
tion about $40, 600 per annum.
Saturday, May 10.
Barbed-wire manufacturers, in ses-
sion at ST. Louis decided to advance the
price Of wire ID cent.
A little daughter of G. G. Wing, Of
South Bend, Ind, dropped the baby on the
floor, crushing its skull.
The steamer Faraday has landed the
Bennett-Mackey cable On the coast of Nova
Scotia and started for Cape Ann.
The Illinois department of agriculture
finds the prospects not encouraging for over
"a per cent. of an average yield of winter
wheat.
The late William King, of London,
the proprietor of a curiosity shop, left $780,
600 to his physicians, and 100000 to ST.
Georges hospital.
Gen. Swayne, counsel for Jay Gould,
asserts that there is no foundation for the
report that the Wabash road will be placed
in receivers hands.
Cordial relations between Prussia
and the Vatican have been established on ac-
count of the confirmation Of the successor Of
Cardinal Lodochowski at Posen.
The latest liar in the Sharon divorce
case is Harry L. Wells, who burst into tears
as he confessed that he was promised $780,
900 for the false testimony which he recently
gave for Miss Hill.
Joseph Cook has a pen made from a
telegraph pole rddled By the bullets from the
gattling gun at the time of the Cincinnati
riots, which he uses as an illustration Of the
perils of America in his lectures on the SUBJ
ject.
Gen. Gordon will not listen to a
proposition to bride the natives to secure his
safety. It is said that on the Egyptian ques-
ton the king of Italy has commissioned the
ex-khedive to confer with representatives of
the other powers.
A sanguine inventor has secured per-
| mission to lay a seventeen-inch pneumatic
tube along the canal from Chicago to La
| Sale, for the transmission of grain and small
packages by compressed air at the rate of
a mile a minnie.
Colonel Mapleson has been so mixed
up in his statements as to how much money
he carried away from San Francisco thatThe
| Call comes to his assistance and says all his
| stories are untrue and his net profits were not
| less than 1000, allowing $90,000 for ex-
| penses.
| The shipment of insane persons to
| Chicago from all parts Of the country is be-
coming a grave wrong upon local taxpayers.
: Twenty-Five cases were examined into on
two days recently. Five Of the last batch
have no residence in Cook county, but were
placed on trains at distant points and left to
/ e picked up by the police. The Jefferson
as YUM is overcrowded, and the county's
GU ota in the state hospitals is more than full
I'm Recognition of Fremont's Services.
NEW YORK, May 1.-THE Associated
Pionee rs of the territorial days of California
,ad special meeting at the Sturtevant
h, ouse he. re, and resolved to petition congress
to pass TIN bill now before the United States
the restnra tiar, to md tho 1atira.