Morris tribune., 1885-04-29
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

a white woman at New Lisbon, Ohio,
eloped with negro because he had red hair.
The bill to concentrate all the Ohio hang
cgs at the penitentiary in Columbus has be-
come a law.
The Mormon bishop, Hiram j. Clawson,
was arrested Friday at Salt Lake City for
unlawful cohabitation. \
In the fifth game Of the New York balk-
line tournament Schaefer defeated Sexton
Friday evening, 500 to 265, making the best
average thus far.
The fruit crop Of Tennessee is said to be
more than usually promising, while further
south, in Georgia and South Carolina, the
frost has done serious damage.
John r. Mclean, editor of The Cincinnati
Enquirer, has been interviewed, and denies
most emphatically that he will be a candi-
late for United States senator
Signor CARDINAL, the handsome tenor Of
the Mapleson Opera company, it is an
nounced, will marry a daughter of Judge
Sanderson, of California, in June
Gen. B. F. Butler has presented to the
Essex Bar association, Boston, a fine Dor
trait of the late distinguished lawyer,
Rufus Choate, painted from life by Joseph
Ames
The Cincinnati and Pittsburg clubs played
o remarkable game of ball Sixteen innings)
at Cincinnati Friday, Pittsburg winning, z
to 6. But eleven errors were made during
the contest.
Business failures for the week number 1913,
against 1856 last week and 1874 in the CORES
ponding period in 1854. More than two
thirds of the failures arc furnished by the
southern, western, and Pacific states
To- lob
of Peter Brazil and James Flynn, stock
ranchers, were found near each other with
pistols and clubs by their sides. The suppo-
sition is that in fight they killed each
other.
The last session of the board of trade Of
Chicago in the old building will be ap-
propriately commemorated Tuesday by
special entertainment at the close of the
afternoons trading. The new building will
be dedicated Wednesday.
The story comes from st. Louis that Will
lam D. Winter, an officer of the Bank of
Commerce, and Bernard P Bogy, secretary
OF the wire company, settled personal
matter by a ring-fght in barn in Pine
street. The police appeared on the fourth
round.
A large bowlder, weighing about 10000
Hill Rock, near Bethel, Conn.,, by the frost
and rolled down the mountain side the other
day, sweeping large trees and everything
before it. The shock was felt for twenty
miles around.
In the delirium of typhoid fever, Martin
Perkins, Baltimore citizen, got out of his
room Friday morning, crept to the roof of
his residence, and, hanging by cornice, at
tempted to gain entrance to an upper room
by smashing a window. He fell sixty feet
to the ground, and was killed.
Health officers from seaboard cities held a
conference Friday at New York, and de.
cided upon the establishment Of rigid rules
to prevent the introduction of cholera. Rag
cargoes will be closely quarantined until
they are either boiled or steamed, the sui
phur process being voted failure.
Among the settlers on the Dakota lands
opened by President Arthur and closed by
his successor great activity prevails. Meet.
ings are being held, societies organized, and
funds secured to test the validity of the
governments position in the courts In the
whole district in dispute, it is claimed, there
are about 900 Indians, while the number of
Settlers is placed at 5000.
At New Orleans, Saturday morning, Mrs.
Amelia Evans, clairvoyant, the wife Of O.
policeman, and Casper Wenger, an unmar-
ried man, were found dead in bed together
with bullet-holes in their heads. The
woman's husband is in prison under suspic-
ion that, entering his house, he found the
guilty pair under the circumstances above
mentioned, and killed them.