Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1884-01-30
THE NEWS In BRIEF.
Monday. january 81.


At a meeting in Paris it was decided
to raise monument to the Communists who
were shot.
p. j. Sheridan, of the revolutionary
wing of the Irish Nationalist party, has ar
rived in Chicago
The senate, in executive session, re-
iected the Mexican treaty. A motion was
made to reconsider, pending which the sem
ate adjourned.
The empress of Russia recently
ordered cloak of sable fur trimmed with
gold, and enriched with precious stones, the
whole to cost $4,000.
1t is said that George Munro has
built publishing house nine stories high,
and costing 81, 100000, out of his profits on
the reprints Of English books which have no
copyrights
Tuesday, January 2s.
Mr.. Barnum has decided to give his
white elephant the name of Tom Thumb.
The Round Lake Campaigning as
ISOLATION is menaced by proceedings to fore
close a mortgage for 100000.
The depressed state of the money
market, owing to the Tonquin excitement,
has caused several Chinese bankers to COM
NIT suicide.
Negotiations for the consolidation of
the National and Mercantile banks of the
City of Mexico, are progressing The COM
bined capital viii reach 100000
Professor Sumner addressed 1000
students of Yale college on Protective
Taxes" claiming that a sudden change to
free trade would not entail commercial dis
aSter, and that the country was manacled by
the tariff.
A grain firm in Chicago has advices
that very high average is maintained by
winter wheat, which is generally we'll
covered with snow. There appears to be
large percentage of soft and low grade corn
throughout the west, aud in Illinois the hogs
are evidently being held back to consumer it.
Wednesday. january IS.
Four seals were recently caught near
Morristown, on the ST. Lawrence river.
Of the 113 members OF the Iowa Leg
islature, but four are natives of the state.
About half the business portion of
Clio, Michigan. was burned, causing loss OF
$4,000.
The Merchants association of Mil
waukee is taking steps to secure the erection
of a hotel on the east side to cost 81, O0O, 600.
Gen. Hancock has arrived at ST.
Louis, and expressed himself as thoroughly
confident that the next president will be a
Democrat
Miss Sarah Alton, of Putnam, Conn.,,
claims to have been nearly cured OF spinal
disease by simultaneous prayers offered at
her home and in Boston.
Four hundred women of the Twen-
tieth ward, Boston, have signed a remon-
STRANGE to be sent to the legislature against
granting further suffrage to women.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States and Canada on the 18th in
slant: Wheat, Is, COS, 675 bushels; corn, TO-
O29,656 bushels; oats 1891, $50 bushels; rye
2,62S, 1852 bushels; barley, 3,165,61S bushels
Thursday, January "a.
The senate committee on public
lands has decided to recommend the repeal
of the timber culture act.
A raft was drawn into a whirlpool in
the upper Cumberland river, near Carthage,
Tenn, and nine men were drowned.
The New Jersey house has passed a
bill to provide for the burial Of honorably-
discharged soldiers who die in poverty.
Ex-Go7 Oglesby was initiated into
the Grand Army of the Republic at Decatur,
IT, He basaHe a member Of Durham Post,
No. al.
Twenty-one prisoners in the jail at
Indianapolis have been sent to the pest-house
with smallpox, and q dozen others are
affected to q slight degree.
A mock funeral was held at the
birthplace OF O'Donnell, who killed Carey
Derrybeg, County Donegal. Mass was said
Tor the repose of the avengers soul, and q
coffin was inferred in the family lot. An i'm
mense concourse attended the ceremony.
Mrs. Malone died suddenly while
inebriated at Kingston, Ont, and was buried
Tuesday The dead woman's daughter, Mrs.
Gray, who had been also on spree" re-
fused to have her mother decently clothed
for the grave, requested the undertaken to
s'chuck her in as she is, then danced on the
coffin-lid, and was forcibly removed by an
officer.
Friday, January 95.
The Virginia senate has passed a
Joint resolution asking Senator Malone to
resign his seat.
The viii of tbs late 61mina Rose, of
Onondaga, y. z, gives $25 a year for the
ca~ng @sslzlSwo pet cats.
An extension has been asked by
Young 6 Lask, Australian merchants of
London, whose debts are e2S0,000.
The English Churchman devotes a
detailed article to the consideration of the
writings of ''Mr. Gail Hamilton"
Joel Fowler, noted desperate, and
said to be worth 100000, was taken from
jail at Socoro n NJ, and hanged to tree
The coffee crop in Jamaica is an en-
tire failure in most parishes. The making of
sugar is retarded by the scarcity of laborers.
President Arthur and the governors
of the several states have been invited to at
tend the winter carnival at Montreal, begin
ming February 4.
J. J. Douglas, lottery manager, was
arrested at Louisville by the chief inspector
of the postal service for sending circulars
through the mails.
A bill for giving decent burial to the
remains of impoverished honorably dis
charged soldiers passed the New Jersey house
of representatives.
In the Clark river lumber camps so
far this season four men have been killed
and fifteen badly injured. On the Black
river and its tributaries the cut this year will
reach 200, 600, 900 feet
Ex-Judge Ernott, of New York, has
given an opinion that no lien Of contractors
or laborers on the West Shore road can OBJ
tain precedence of the first mortgage by
which the outstanding bonds were secured.
Shehan, one of the alleged murderers
of the young girl Amelia Olsen, came before
Judge Barnum on a writ of habeas corpus
and was admitted to bail in $4,000. There
have been numerous arrests in the case, and
four persons are still in custody.
Saturday, January &c.
During 1883 1870 miles of track
were laid in Illinois
Tt is estimated that there are now in
the United States 100000 mich COWS, and
that there are made annually 1,3O0, O00, 900
pounds of butter and $50, 600, 900 pounds Of
cheese.
Mrs. William B. Astor gave dinner
at New York in honor of President Arthur.
Three Gloucester fishing schooners,