Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1890-07-16
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
Important Happenings from All
Parts of the World Con-
cisely ChrOnicled.
A Complete Resume Of Crimes,
Casualties and Current Events
for the Week.

st. Louis has formally demanded a
recount.
st. Louis latest estimate of popula-
ton is $4,000.
The panic in Argentine republic is in
creasing. Gold jumped from 214 to 321
Friday.
Hon. Benjamin Butterworth has been
elected secretary of the Columbia
worlds fair.
Stevedores ON the Lehigh Valley
steamship line at Chicago, have struck
for higher wages.
John Fosberg, wife and baby were
killed by lightning at their home near
Jamestown, N. d.
Fatal race riots occurred near Griffin,
Ga, in which four negroes were killed
and six injured.
The Pennsylvania railway is said to
have gained control of the Chicago
Union Stock yards.
Arkansas Republicans endorsed the
Union Labor ticket headed by Rev. N.
B. Fizer for governor.
Armsted Jones, lad of 16, was
hanged at Columbia, S. c., for the MUIR
der of his step-mother.
Collision on the Memphis and Little
Rock railway, near Memphis resulted in
the death of four negroes.
French papers assert Gen. Boulanger
has asked the government to pardon him
and allow him to return.
New wheat has appeared in the mar
ket at Marshall, Ills, the opening price
being Is cents per bushel.
The Texas fever is said to be playing
havoc with cattle in Southern Kansas.
Some 300 cattle have died so far.
Business failures for the United States
for the last week were 175. For the cor
responding week last year 1911. &ssF
DIR. John Monroe, of Days Gap, Ala,
murdered his four children and commit
ted suicide. Religious insanity.
The territory acquired by England in
Africa by her treaty with Germany is
estimated at $50, 900 square miles.
Tuesday, July s, was the hottest day
since July s, 1876, in New York City,
the thermometer registering 100.
A pitched battle occurred at Yselta,
Tex, between local political factions for
the town government. Six were killed.
The Knights of Pythias encampment
at Milwaukee came to close Saturday.
The conclave will continue through this
week.
Spectators have brought I'D nearly
all Of the land on the litfle island OF
Heligoland that is available for habita.
ton.
Monday, the centenary of the fedora.
ton and the anniversary of the fall OF
the bastile was celebrated as holiday
in France.
A woman of the town at Devils Lake
murdered her paramour and chopped uI
the corpse. She and female companion
were arrested.
Another gigantic lockout, due to the
cloakmakers' strike, took place Friday in
New York. Twenty thousand workers
were effected.
Switchmen and brakemen on the
Louisville and Nashville railway oe or
a strike. No freight trains are running
on the short line.
A split in the Order of Railway Con
ductors is reported, those opposed tc
strikes forming new association al
Chicago Sunday.
By the disregard of orders five people
were killed and one fatally injured in a
collision on the Louisville and Nashville
railway. near Birmingham, Ala.
The mammoth summer resort hotel al
Lake Elmo, near st. Paul, burned
Thursday. Several guests lost heavily
Aggregate loss estimated at 100000.
A Fair Haven, VT, mother killed hel
two children, fred the house and com
mitted suicide. Probably insane ove1
the accidental death of her husband.
John Hart, of Ballyneale, Ireland
killed his mother and chopped her head
OFT. When discovered the monster was
lying beside the corpse eating the flesh
Mrs. Leslie, in an interview at Queens
town, admitted she had once promised
to marry Marquis de Leuville, but his
persecution of her has made that inn
possible.
The National educational convention
at st. Paul adjourned Friday. Most OF
the teachers have returned home, but
many have remained to enjoy a longei
vacation in the Northwest,
/
The sessions of the Spanish cortez have
been suspended until Christmas, when
the body will be dissolved in order that
a general election on the basis of univer.
sal suffrage may be had in February.
Henry M. Stanley was married Satur
| day to Miss Dora Tenant, at London
The presents were more numerous and
varied than were probably ever before
received by bridal pair. ''-
P, D, Wigginton died at his home IN
Oakland, CAL, Monday, after short
illness. He was at one time the candi
date OF the American party for the pres.
idency. He served two terms in con.
gress as representative of California.
Details of the fire at Fort De France
on the island of Martinique, state thai
an area of ninety acres was burned over
and 200 houses and contents DESTROYED
The loss was $4,000,00 Twelve bodies
have been recovered from the ruins.
The following is statement of United
States bonds purchased from Aug. 3,
1887, to date inclusive: Amount pur.
chased: Fours, 1886, 9l7 $50: Ais, $f4l.,
353, $50; total, $277, 200, 800. COST Fours,
$172, 631 500; 43s, $152, 075, 800; total,
1924, 7Q7 ,259, Cost at maturity: Fours,
$3.50, AZ, $780, As, $15a,172,aha total
S Sss aai LOG. Savings Fours, $6s,si5,'
9S1; 3ss, 81, O97, 1866; total, s ~aa als.s4e.
The cargo of oil on the steamer Tioga
caught fire Friday while the boat was
lying at the dock in Chicago. A large
number Of the crew and stevedores was
busy unloading the vessel and MANY
We're caught by the flames and either
burned to death or fatally injured.
Nineteen bodies have SO far been ra-