Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-09-02
ThE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Ihroe pilotboAts hailing from Beaufort 3
G.. were wrecked In TuSsday's hurdcanA
fourteen lives being lost
Statistics show that there arc 5,OOo,O0p
acres Of land under crops In ireland, an ID.
crease Of 81, 900 acres over 1884,
League ball games Friday resulted: New
York, 3; Boston, I. Philadelphia, 2; Provi.
ience, 1. Buffalo, 2; st. Louis, 4.
Gen. Sherman told Gen. Joe Johnston
that school commandments were block
and half ahead of military glory.
The work Of the United States coast sur
vey was heartily commended Friday by tho
scientists in session at Ann Arbor, Mich.
1t is said that ship that recently sailed
from Boston to western Africa carried 1884,
BOO gallons of rum and three missionaries.
Telegraphic dispatches from various por-
lions of the northwest indicate that the
crops suffered little or no damage from tho
frosts. .-...-
Henry Foulds, the Lanark Qlls) postmas-
ter, who hanged himself Thursday evening,
was short in his accounts with tho govern
ment $500. "
The losses by the recent storm at Charles
ton and Sullivan's island, s. c., are now
placed at 81. 600, 600 Tho work Of repairs Is
rapidly progressing.
Owing to disappointment in love affair,
son of Gen. O. O. Howard shot himself in
the breast in tho Yellowstone park Friday,
inficting probably fatal wound.
The descendants Of John Smith, who set
tied at Peapack, n J., in 1741, held re-
union at the place Wednesday which was
attended by several thousand Smiths.
Clingstone and Guy were driven three heats
at Springfield, Mass, Friday to beat 2:17,
but 2:23 was the best time made. Fidss
won the gas class, and Jose s. the 2:30
class
Southern Wisconsin tobacco-growers will
petition congress to protect their interests
against the Sumatrs product, and ask that
imports from the latter island be made to
pay the full duty of rs cents.
The memory Of Jerry McAulsy, the ex-
convict who founded tho celebrated McAu-
Icy Mission in New York, is to be kept
green by drinking fountain over his grave
in Woodlawn cemetery. The fountain will
cost $1,000.
bull on the track wrecked train Fri
day morning near McGrsgor, lTex., one per.
son being killed and several wounded; and
an open switch near Rome, Tenn, caused
another wreck, killing a section-hand, and
MORALLY injuring three mon.
At Erie, Pa, Friday night, the 15-year-
old daughter Of Lieut.. Hanks, Of the United
States steamer Perry, attempted to poison
and drown herself, and seems bent upon
self-destruction, mania for which has ex-
listed in the family for nine generations
Dan Rice, the old circus clown, has set up
a claim to the whole island on which stands
the city of Galveston, Tex. Mr.. Rice has
in his possession an old Mexican land grant
obtained from Daniel McLaren, an orig
inaI Spanish settler, which covers the
claim.
In an address before the American Sol
entists at Ann Arbor, Mich, Friday even.
ing, Capt. E. L. Corthell, of New York,
favored the Tehauntepec railway across the
American isthmus in preference to ship
canal, and adduced interesting facts and
figures to sustain his views. go, ef.lft :
An Arab living in London who was at
one time Ell Mahd's secret agent, or who
at least claims to be, asserts that Olivier
Pain was in no danger in Africa, and the boz
lief has grown that Pain is still alive. A
meeting of Frsnchmen was held in London
Friday afternoon to dsnounce Rochsfort
for his recent articles tending to incits
feeling against England because Of PAINS
death