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Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-05-01
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Published Wednesdays.
II. O. STEVENS,
Publisher.
Official Paper of Stevens County.
Published Wednesdays
RC. STEVENS,

P. T Barnum made speech to a Sum
day school in Brooklyn, Easter Sunday.
Among other gems was this: Children,
be cheerful. even if you do have your
shows burned up"
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-05-01

Petroleum from the new oil field in
Wyoming territory is pronounced to be
the real stuff It is said to smell as
strong as any ever pumped from the
bowels of the earth.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-05-01

In New York city there are always 3d.
600 people Of both sexes out Of employ
ment Many of them are skilled laborers.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-05-01

The Oklahoma boomers were wise
enough to take some undertakers and
ready made coffins along with them in
the rush. They. were needed the first
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-05-01

The new beet ootsugar refinery which
MIR. Claus Spreckles is building ut San
Francisco will cost S6.000.OO0.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-05-01

An excellent quality of paper is nov
made from the. saueezedeut stalks Of
the sugar cane.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-05-01

Iron crossties for railroads have been
tried, but they are not success.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-05-01

100 F. Crystal Lodge. NO.132, meets at its
hall on Monday evening Of each week.
], F. EDGCCOMB, N. G
J. \. JOHNSON, Rs
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-05-01

The body of Don Sebastian Lerdo De
Tejada, ex-president of Mexico, who
died on Sunday last, has been taken to
his native land for interment.
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Foreign.

THE Emperor of Germany has been advised
by his physicians to make trip to Norway
for the benefit of his health before visiting
England.
FIGHTING has occurred between French
ard Italian workmen in the Department of
Haute- Marine, France. Troops were sent to
quiet the disturbances.
AT meeting in London, the Prince OF
Wales presiding, it was resolved to erect
memorial to the late Father Damien, who de-
voted the last years of his life to the care OF
the lepers Of the Sandwich Islands. The
memorial will be erected at Molokai.
THE cab drivers strike at Paris IS over
end cabs are running as usual.
A FIRE in Montreal, Canada, burned over
fifteen acres of territory in the lumber dis
trict The loss is estimated at $500, ,0OO
MARTIN BURKE, fugitive from Chicago.
was held at Winnipeg, Manitoba, as one of
the men who murdered DR.. Cronin. Chief OF
Police Hubbard, of Chicago. notified the au-
thorities to hold Burke at all hazards. Burke
answers perfectly the description of the mai,
Delaney. He is undoubtedly the pan
wanted.
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Washington.

r. CAMPBELL COPELAND, of New York.
has been appointed the statlstlca expert OIL
the Census Office.
COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS tanner has
appointed his daughter, Miss Ada Tanner, to
be his confidential secretary, In place OF Mr.
George B. Squires, of Brooklyn. Miss Tan
ner recently graduated from the Packer In
stitute, in Brooklyn, and is the youngest
daughter of the Commissioner.
PRESIDENT HARRISON. accompanied by
Secretaries Blaine and Window, went down
the Potomac on PostElaster-General wanna
makers yacht. The vessel lay at anchor IN
Chesapeake Bay during Sunday, returning
to Washington on Monday.
CONSULAR appointments by the President:
Wakefield c. Frye, of Maine, Consul General
at Halifax: Joseph A. Leonard, of Mime
sofa, Consul General to Shanghai; Zachary
r. Sweeney. of Indiana, Consul-General at
Constantinople; Oliver II. Dockery, of North
Carolina, Consul ul-General at Rio de Janiero;
Oliver H. Simonds of Colorado, Consul-Gen-
eral at St. Petersburg; George W Roosevelt,
OF Pennsylvania, Consul at Brussels; Levi w.
Brown, of Ohio, Consul at Glasgow.
THE Acknowledgement has accepted the
designations Of George S. Peters, United
States Attorney for the district OF Utah;
Peter S. Knight. United States Attorney for
the Southern district of Florida, and E. M.
Boykin, United States Marshall for South
Carolina.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has appointed Royal
A. johnson, of Arizona, to be Surveyor-Gen-
eral of Arizona.
L. B. AGNEw was appointed Superintend-
ent of the Dead Letter Office, and e1.Gov-
ernor Lucius Fairchild, of Wisconsin, was
made member of the Cherokee Indian
Commission.
THE Civil Service Commission has asked
the President to extend the operations OF the
Civil Service law SO as to include appoint
ments to clerkships in the Census Office.
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THE TREATY SIGNED.
Work of the Samoan Conference in
Berlin Accomplished.

The agreement negotiated by the Commis-
sioners to the Samoan Conference for the
settlement of affairs in Samoa has been
signed by oil the members of the Confer
ence
America having abandoned her principal
objections to the agreement previously ar
rived at, the plenipotentiaries had only to
make unessential notifications in the word
ing of the draft The draft guarantees On au-
tonomous administration Of the islands under
the joint control Of Germany aud America,
England acting as arbitrator in the event
of difference arising. The Samoans are
to elect their own King and Viceroy,
and to be represented in Senate COM
posed Of the principal chiefs and Chambers
elected by the people. Samoa is to have the
right Of levying duties Of every kind. The
agreement also stipulatcs that the Germans
shall receive a money indemnity for their
losses. A special court will be appointed to
deal with the land question.
The Americans made their adhesion condi-
tional upon the ratification Of the agreement
by the United States Senate next December.
The status quo will, therefore, obtain in
Samoa until December.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-07-03
POSTAL CLERKS KILLED.
Four Lives Lost by a Railway Acct
dent in Ohio.

uCuU ollos
The New York and st. Louis mail train
met with disastrous accident at Cumber-
land Junction, three miles east Of Steuben-
vile, Ohio. Owing to imperfect connec-
tions with the Pennsylvania Rail
road, the Panhandle section was
nearly two hours late in leav-
ing Pittsourg, and had orders to make up an
hour of the lost time between PittsburS and
Columbus. Just east of Cumberland juno
ton is a steep down grade over a sharp re-
verse curve On this the train, consisting of
an engine, express and four mail cars,
plunged at the rate of sixty miles all hour.
The last car was whipped from the track
like the end of a whip lash and ploughed
along the embankment on its side
for distance of over one hundred feet
In leaving tho track it drew with it the
two mail cars in front, and the forward car
struck car loaded with steel rails, crushing
in the side and throwing both cars, which
were not uncoupled, down an embanktnent
twenty-five feet high and landing them, bot
tom up, in the ditch.
In these cars were the conductor and
brakeman and twelve postal clerks. Two of
the postal clerks were killed outright, and
nine injured. They were john G. Payne, Of
Indianapolis, and James Rinehart, of Filing
ham, ILL., Both had their skulls crushed.
Lee Burris, of Columbus, the conductor,
had his right hip crushed and his thigh split
open from the hip to the knee. John Mac
Farland, brakeman, had his left leg COM
pletely severed from his body and his right
leg crushed to jelly. Both men were
fatally injured and died during the night.
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SEVERE hail-storms prevailed In many
parts of Germany, interfering greatly with
railway traffic.
WHILE procession was passing through a
Silesan town five of the paraders were struck
by lightning and killed, and forty others in
jured.
The residence of Richard Wilson at Mano-
tick, Canada, caught fire, and Mrs. Wilson
and two young children We're burned to
death.
A DINNER was given by Andrew Carnegie
to the Rt. Hon. w. L. Gladstone at the Hotel
Metropole, in London. The dinner was en-
tirely private-no speeches, no formality. It
was given by Mr.. Carnegie to enable Mr..
Gladstone to meet Mr. Lincoln, the American
Minister, and Mr.. New. the Consul General.
MANY persons were buried under the fall
ing roof of market in the City of Mexico;
eight dead and fourteen wounded were taken
from the ruins.
LETTERS received at Zanzibar state that
Stanley, the explorer, is on his way to the
East coast of Africa with Emin Bey.
TEE Montenegrin Government has de-
nlanded satisfaction from Turkey for raids
on the Albanian frontier.
THE overhowing of the River Rhone has
done much damage in France.
ABOUT 100 houses in Naples Italy, will be
demolished in order to improve the city's
sanitary condition.
Mr.. STRAUSS, the retiring United States
Minister at Constantinople, had farewell
audience with the Sultan. He was after
ward entertained at a banquet in the palace.
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THE NEWS EPITONIZED.
Eastern and Middle Stateg.

A DOUBLE six story tenement house In
New York city was Quilted by fire, and an
aged woman, Mrs. Kirschman, and her
grandchild were roasted alive.
HENRY JOHNSON, farmer, aged eighty,
committed suicide at Silver Springs, N. Y,
He became respondent, and going to his barn
fixed a gun attached to rope and blew out
his brains. The appearance of the corpse
was frightful.
BURT HARVEY, afourteen-year-old boy,
recovering from the measles, committed
suicide by hanging himself with halter
at Gilbertville, Mass.
WILLIAM SEMPLE, the millionaire dry
goods merchant of Allegheny City. Penn, has
Just died at the age of sixty-two.
AN electric storm swept over large sec
ton of the East, doing much damage. A
number of buildings were struck by lightning,
and several persons killed
HEAVY charges of dynamite were used in
breaking up the immense mass of wreckage
at the Johnstown railroad bridge. In con-
sequence many windows were broken,
chilnneys blown down and the strongest re-
naming houses badly shaken. A protest
was sent to Governor Beaver, and the heavy
blasting was ordered to be discontinued.
JOHN HENRY MILLER, well-known far
mer of Holliston, Mass, committed suicide
by hanging himself to tree.
OTHNIEL EAGER, the old Town Clerk of
Norwich, Conn, is dead, aged ninety six.
JUSTICE ANDREWS, of the Supreme Court,
ordered the release of Moroney and Mcdonald,
held in New York city for alleged completely
in the murder of DR.. Cronin: three Chicago
witnesses failed to identify them.
JOHN GIBBS GILBERT, the famous Ameri-
can comedian, died of pneumonia in Boston,
at the age of seventy-nine. He was ali actor
for sixty-one years.
The Hon. William E. Chandler has been
reelected IS United States Senator for New
Hampshire.
EMIL EBERT, of Waterbury, Conn, COM
mitted suicide in Central Park, New York
city, leaving most pathetic letter addressed
to his wife, who, he said, had forsaken him.
MICHAEL ANDREWS, Simon Novolk, John
Kutski and Joseph Taylor were fatally burned
in mine explosion at Plymouth, Penn.
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ANOTHER BROKEN DAM.
A Kansas Village Flooded and
Several Lives Lost.
Bridges Swept and the Growing
Crops Greatly Damaged,

The bursting of dam at Uniontown, Ken,
flooded the towns of Uniontown and Bell.
town, and several lives were lost. Union
town is about fifteen miles west Of Fort
Scott on the Wichita and Western Railway.
Two women and four children were drowned
The place has 600 inhabitants. It is in the
midst of thickly settled country.
The storm struck the western part of Bour-
bon County late at night, coming from the
west, where it had played great havoc. At
Augusta it assumed the form of cloud burst
In Fort Scott it commenced raining about
7o'clock in the morning. Old residents say
it was the hardest rain in thirty years. The
water commenced rising in Buck Run at A.
NJ. Lamb g. Mead's ice dam, on Sixth street,
burst about 10 A. NJ, causing the water in
Buck Run to rise at the rate of about three
feet an hour, carrying away several houses
and the bridge across Sixth street. The part
Of Fort Scott known as Belltown was entirely
under water. People were taken out with
boats.
Several bridges were washed out, and trains
were stopped on both sides Of Fort Scott.
The Kansas, Nebraska and Dakota track was
under water for about nine miles out. The
Memphis road was badly damaged for about
1000 feet ten miles north Of Fort Scott. All
the people in the bottom in east Fort Scott
moved out.
The upper valley of the Walnut was flooded
from excessive rains. The river came up so
suddenly that family named Graham start
ed from their home to the highland. The
mother and babe were drowned the father
and one child escaping. Grain fields are food
ed, and much damage must result.
Allen County, Kansas, has suffered severe
ly from floods in the Neosho River and its
principal tributaries. The streams have been
unusually high all spring, and heavy
rains brought them out of their
banks, flooding the bottoms for mile or
more on either side. Hundreds of acres Of
wheat, which was just ripening and promised
very large yield, are almost a total loss,
while the submerged corn and other
crops will be greatly damaged. The
St. Louis, Wichita and Western Railroad
bridge across Rock Creek, east of lola, has
been undermined, and is only held by the iron
track from going down stream. Nearly
a quarter Of a mile Of track has been
washed from the. bed, while the road
bed has been seriously damaged. Near the
river west Of lola large number of
small bridges and culverts along the wagon
roads have been washed out.
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South and West.

UNITED STATES troops were sent to the
! scene of the reported outbreak among the
Chippewa Indians in Minnesota.
GEORGE and Charles Sherwood, aged re-
spectively fourteen and seventeen years, sons
of a railway conductor were drowned In the
Calumet River near Chicago.
ALEXANDER SULLIVAN, charged with the
murder of Dr. H. Cronin, in Chicago, was
released from prison on $50, COO bail.
ALEXANDER HENDERSON, colored, was
hanged at Bainbridge, Ga; Will Dibell. col
ored, at Thomasville, Ca, and John Pickett,
colored, at Leesburg, Ga. All were executed
for murders.
JUDGE McLAIN, President of the Savannah
(Mo.) Savings Institution, which failed, was
arrested for receiving deposits, knowing that
the bank was insolvent. The liabilities of
the bank reach SS50O0. Only $S0,50 was
found in the safe.
The Virginia Prohibitionists will hold q
convention for the nomination of candidates
for Governor and other officers at Lynch
burg on July II,
GENERAL W. T. WRITER'S, of Kentucky,
a Mexican and Confederate war veteran, and
a noted breeder Of trotters, is dead, in his
sixty-fifth year.
WOODRUFF, the man implicated in the
Cronin murder case at Chicago, made new
and revised confession duplicating Alexander
Sullivan, Detective Coughlin and two other
men.
FRANK L. WOODRUFF, late Assistant
Postmaster of Lawrence, Kan, has been
arrested on a charge Of embezzling $1,000 from
the funds of that office.
Two daughters of John Leavitt, aged eight
cen and eight who lives in Seward County,
Neb, were found dead with their throats cut
from ear to ear. No motive is sknown for the
crime, and there is no clue to the perpetra-
tors.
A VERY heavy storm passed over the south
west part Of Berkeley County, w. Va. The
hailstones lay in some places three or four
inches deep. Crops and trees were ruined.
Live stock were badly bruised and in some
instances killed. Several houses and barns
were wrecked by the wind.
HEAVY forest fires were burning on the
east side of the Cascade Mountains, in Wash
ington Territory. Large quantities Of fir
timber have been destroyed.
JOHN MAPLE, a farmer living near
Wabash, Ind, attempted to ford small
stream, which was greatly swollen by hard
rains. He was accompanied by his wife and
three children and servant girl. In the
middle of the stream the wagon upset and
Mrs. Maple and two of the children were
drowned.
A FEARFUL storm visited the southeastern
portion Of Indiana. 1t extended over scope
Of country ten miles long and one mile wide,
and ended in regular cloudburst. Fences
and bridges were washed away and barns
torn down. Growing crops in the storms
path were destroyed.
ISAAC WAATI and William Kangas We're
instantly killed by cave-in in the Cleveland
Iron Mine, at Ishpenling, Mich.
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AN ocean steamer which sailed from New
York few days since carried over 300 dele
| gates to the Worlds Sunday-school Conven-
ton in London. They represented every sec
ton and every Protestant denomination in
this country.
| GEORGE DIVER, the fifteen-month-old
| grandson Of Septimus Turner, farmer iv-
| ing near Bristol, Penn, was drowned in
wash boiler filled with butternilk.
STATE ATTORNEY B1sBEE, of Barre, Vt,
was thrown from his carriage at Williams
town Gulf and fatally injured.
PRINCETON COLLEGE, Of New Jersey, has
| conferred the honorary degree LID. on
President Harrison.
GOVERNOR BEAVER, Of Pennsylvania, &C
| companied by the members Of the Relief
| Committee, visited Johnstown. On reaching
general headquarters the party mounted
horses and made tour Of inspection which
lasted over three hours. The Governor ex-
pressed qualification at the progress made.
THE remains of John Sewer, first Governor
! of Tennessee, which have lain for seventy
| four wears in North Alabama, were reinterred
in Knoxville with imposing ceremonies. A
twenty ty-thousand-dollar monument will be
erected over his grave.
SENATOR MANDERsoN, Of Nebraska, has
just resolved $1,000 back pension money for
an increase of pension on account OF gun
el ,t mound rocavod in tho war
The postofice at Waycross, Ca, was bro
ken into and robbed of S11, 900 and a number
of registered mail packages.
P. O'SuLL1vAN, Detective Coughlin, Frank
Woodruff and Martin Burke, who was re-
Gently arrested in Manitoba, have been in
dicted by the special Grand Jury of Cook
County, ILL.,, for the murder of DR.. P. d.
Cronin, in Chicago.
HARDY HAMILTON has been hanged at
Rome, Ca, for the murder of Joe Lee, a
Cninaman.
The Secretary Of State has received tele-
gram from Mr.. Straus, the United States
Minister at Constantinople, saying the Sultan
Cl uCh6y uOuItCco S1OOo Iva oAAS 1S~~N ~ ~~~
Johnstown food sufferers.
The President has appointed John 4.
Lewis Postmaster at Atlanta, Ga, vice
John W. Renfoe, resigned.
WILLIAM J. VIcKEIY, Of Indiana; Charles
H. Clarke, of New York, and Lewellyn Jor-
dan, of Mississippi, have been appointed by
President Harrison Postofice Inspectors on
mail depredations.
ToRRENT1AL rains, accompanied by thun-
der, have swept over Hesse, South West
phalia, Nassau and Thuringia. The storm
extended east to Saxony and south to
Bavaria. Serious damage was done to
corn, hay and fruit crops. Several persons
and large number of cattle perished.
A REVOLUTIONARY manifesto from Servia
has been circulated in Bosnia and Herze-
govina announcing that Austria intends to
annex those territories. The populace was
greatly excited.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

THERE are in London sixty five theatres.
DUBUQUE, Iowa. is building $40, 600 opera
house.
LYDIA THoMPsoN's manager lost SIS, ,0OO
last season.
CoNrRALTo EMMA JUcH says she is just
twenty y-seven.
PoSSART, the German actor, WILL play Id
New York city next fall.
PHILADELPHIA will have eighteen theatres
full blast next October.
MRS. DALLAs-GLyNN, once celebrated
English Shakespearean actress, is dead.
HARR1GAN, the Irish author-actor,is is to dis
band his company and leave New York.
COLONEL JOHN A. McCAULL has engaged
Geraldine Ulmar as his prima donna for next
season.
BUFFALO BILL is more pronounced sue
cess in Paris than ever BoulanSer was before
he ran away.
MADAME ADELINA PATTI is not drawing the
crowded houses at Buenos .tyres that greeted
her on the occasion of her first visit.
Gus WILLIAMS, the German dialect come
dian, has been engaged for Herrmann's Trans
atlantic Vaudeville Company next season.
The first company of genuine negro"
minstrel is said to have been organized in
Macon, Ga, during the closing years Of the
war.
EDWIN BOOTH says that if he had been per-
mitted to follow his own bent he would
have been a circus performer instead OF an
actor.
OUR gifted countrywoman, Miss Marie Van
Zandt, was invited to sing before Queen
Victoria at the state concert given in Buck
ingham Palace
In Paris the Italian opera season is next to
tabooed by fashion and the house Is halr
empty every night-another nail IN the coffin
Of italian opera.
OMAHA boasts of young lady, not yet
twenty, who has composed an opera, written
the libretto and led the orchestra at the first
production Of her work.
MRS. LANcTRY smokes continually on a
lounge; Mrs. Brown-Potter smokes betH cen
the courses of dinner, and her dressing
rooms are redolent of tobacco.
In the whole history Of opera in England,
Carl Rosa appears as almost the only mana-
ger who always paid hundred cents in q
dollar, and who died worth handsome for
tune.
BOOTH AND BARRETT have cleared some
thing near slOo,0O by their months engage
ment at the San Francisco Gal Theatre. and
will enjoy their vacation together, cruising
idly during the hot months along the coast
between Bar Harbor and Newport.
ANOTHER musical prodigy, Miss Hanna
Maria Hansen, q Norwegian girl, aged four
teen, is announced to appear In London as
pianist Miss Hansen played before the King
and Queen Of Sweden, at the age of four end
half. Her mastery and power of technique
are said to be remarkable.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-07-03
A RAILROAD WRECK.

Two Men Killed and One Hundred In.
jured in a Smash-up.
A railroad wreck, resulting in the death Of
two men and the injury of 100 others, oc-
CURED about o'clock in the morning near
Pratt mines at Birmingham, Ala. The Ten
nessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company
runs train every morning to carry the min
ers from Pratt mines to the different shafts
The train carrying about 200 men, was
running backward at the rate of ten miles an
hour when it struck two COWS lying on the
track. Six of the cars were thrown down an
embankment and piled on each other.
Henry McCauley and Walter Beaslcy, car-
pcnters, were instantly killed. On one of
the cars were about thirty convicts chained
together, and strange to say they were about
tie only persons who escaped injury. The
worst injuries were broken legs and arms.
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Themonument over General Arthur's grave
was designed by Mr. E. Keyser, of Albany,
and the work cost $40, coo. A broad fight Of
five granite steps leads from the path to the
turf which covers the burial plot, while
around the enclosure are granite pillars, be
tween which are suspended heavy chains of
bronze. In the centre of the plot is the
monument sarcophagus Of dark granite,
perfectly plain and highly polished. The
sarcophagls stands on two piers Of lighter
colored granite, also highly polished. The
piers rest on broad base of granite, and the
base is supported by a smoothly dressed gran
ite plinth ten feet long and six feet broad.
At the foot of the sarcophagus stands q
figure representing the Angel Of Sorrow.
The figure is of bronze, and is Of heroic size.
It stands with folded wings leaning against
the sarcophagus, one wing being thrown out
ward by the pressure in the most animated
and picturesque manner. The left arm Of
the figure is extended along tine sarcophagus
laying on the tomb palm of bronze. There
is no Inscription on the sarcophagus, but on
the base is the word 'Arthur" in letters
raised in high relief, and also tablet of
bronze sunk into the base with the inscrip-
ton: