Morris tribune., 1885-06-17
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox is writing hsr first

Ella Wheeler Wilcox is writing hsr first
novel
The town Of Sikucb, ih the eastern eau
casuS, has been wiped out BY an earthquake.
| PATHS European contract is made at iass
ons-half the figures for which she sang In
this country. $3.50:
The Rev. DR.. ]. Sullivan, Of Washington,
! has been appointed by the pope bishop Of
the diocese Of Mobile.
| The Bloomington, Ill, Presbytery has
under consideration the purchase Of the Pax
ton Collegiate Institute.
The steamer Joe Fleming, owned by st.
Louis brewing company, was burned at
Depue, Ill, Thursday night, the loss being
$4,000
Mrs. James A. Garfield will be given a re-
ception by the trustees and president of
Williams college, Williamstown, Mass,
June 80.
The Rev. John Walton, a Metho list min
lister, was convicted at Wadena, Mimi, FRI
| day of outraging the person of Hattie Web
| ster ID years old.
Clara Morris says that Mr. Tilden is the
best conversationalist she has ever met In
her opinion he is far too lovable to have re-
manned bachelor.
A grand regatta, open to the world; will
be held at Pittsburg in July. Teemsr is
making the arrangements, and the prisss
will aggregate So, 900.
The ravages Of the Hsssian fly will cause
an estimated loss of 10000 bushels In the
wheat crop of Richard township, Kalama-
zoo county, Michigan 3,
The Rev. Mr.. De La Matyre, the ex-
Greenbacker, and the venerable Thomas
Harrison the "boy prea her," are holding q
revival at Denver at a cost Of $50 q day.
At Tarentum, Pa. Friday, the explosion
of a car Of petroleum, to which ono Of the
lads applied lighted match, fatally burned
the three sons-aged 2, 5, and 2-of Henry
Altmeyer.
A young japanese noble was graduated
Friday from the Rutgers College Grammar
school, ut New Brunswick, n. J., receiving
| the prIzs for the best Grafton, and another
| for the cleversst work done in history dug
| ing the past year.
| League ball games Friday resulted: Chi
cago 6, Detroit 4; New York O, Boston A.;
| Buffalo 2, st. Louis o. Games were played
| as follows by American Association climbs,
| At MISUNDERSTANDING 3, Baltimore 2; at
New York Metropolitans II, st. Louis S.
s. e. Spencer, cashier for the firm Of
| Grant & Ward, testified at New York FRI
day that loans by the concern often reached
| 81 LOCO, 600; that they frequently paid more
| for the use of money than they received on
| loans; and that Fish drew on his private
funds to pay fictitious earnings to depos-
| itors.
The wife of William E. Montgomery
| (Mattie Palmer began suit at Louisville
Friday to have their marriage set aside, al.
| leging that she welded defendant thinking
| that he was white man, but has discov-
| cred that African blood flows in his veins.
She also petitions for the custody Of their
| children.
Miss Cleveland is the baby Of the Cleve-
| land family. She looks to be S. She is a
mediums sized woman, inclined to be petite,
| with square shoulders. short neck, and q
| face sallow in its complexion, but decidedly
| intellectual in its features From high
forehead little brown curls stand upward,
and going backward cover her whole head
| with innumerable ringlets.
James r. Osgood, tho Boston publisher,
has become connected with Harper q
Brothers' establishment, and. II Is stated.
will carry with him certain publication
business heretofore confdsd 10 Boston,
| notably Mr.. HowelI's productions and the
| illustrated gift books originated by Mr..
| Osgood, who, it Is believed, win Represent
the Haypers in England at q salary of
| SIC, 600 per year.