Morris tribune., 1890-07-23

N"oAAoOh, aiii lif6 were drowned.
Legal complications may prevent the
worlds fair association from using the
lake front at Chicago for the fair site.
The employees of three large Wash
burn, Wis, saw mills have struck for
eleven hours pay and ten hours work.
A petition was read in congress asking
Tor an appropriation of $4,000 to help
destitute Sisseton and Wahpeton Indi-
ans.
An Indian convict in the Ohio Peni-
tertiary chopped open the heads of sew
eral companions. He is thought to be
insane
An English syndicate is said to have
bought the elevators owned by Gregory
q Son. The elevators are mostly sit
uated in Iowa.
Morris Sullivan and his wife were
both fatally shot by their 16-year-old
son, at Goreville, Ill. The boy wanted
their property.
The reported outbreak of war between
Guatemala and San Salvador is denied
by Consul General Baize of Guatemala,
now in New York.
The Illinois board of agriculture is op-
posed to the location of the worlds fair
on the lake front. They claim the site
is entirely too small
The United Mine Workers of America
have decided to institute suits for $40 900
damages in the case of each victim of
the Farm Hill mine disaster.
Cyclone struck Pacific Junction, Iowa,
Sunday, wrecklng two business blocks
and several residences. None of the
buildings destroyed were occupied.
Cornelia Ward Whipple, wife of
Bishop Whipple, died at Faribault
Wednesday, from illness the result of q
railroad accident last November.
Not one island has risen or sunk in the
Pacific ocean for thirty-four years, and
biologists declare that the earth is rest
ing for some mighty effort in the future.
John Hart, of Ballyneale, Ireland,
killed his mother and chopped her head
off. When discovered the monster was
lying beside the corpse eating the flesh.
The recount in eleven census districts
of Minneapolis shows total of 1919
names, against total of 1889 names
turned i'll by the first enumerators in
their daily reports.
About $50 negroes quit the plantation
of A. Hehner, near Oak Ridge, La, and
started west. They were pursued by a
party of whites and surrounded. A fight
ensued i'll which five negroes were killed.
Delegates of twenty-seven dairy and
breeders associations are in convention
at Chicago to take action as to the best
means of representing the dairy inter-
ests of the country at the Worlds fair.
The remains of the Peruvian heroes
1<Se@ = ,os,, L. Ia
with Chill were landed at Lima Tues
day and deposited in the Pantheon. The
procession was the largest ever seen in
Peru.
The interstate commerce commission
has decided that it will issue an order
making a reduction in grain rates from
Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri
to st. Louis and the Mississippi river
and to Chicago.
The Virginia Natural bridge property
has been sold to Massachusetts, and
Virginia syndicate for 5000, It was
purchased from Col. Parsons and James
q. Blaine, who have owned it for a
number of years.
Cheyenne, Wyo., was flooded by
cloudburt Monday. Water from four to
six feet deep swept through the streets.
Easements were filed and street car
railway tracks covered. Many thousand
dollars worth of merchandise was dam
aged.
Minnesota alliance delegates met in
convention Wednesday at st. Paul to
nominate state ticket. Speeches were
made by Donnelly and Bill Irwin. Only
one ballot was taken at the first days
session. There were fourteen candi-
dates for governor voted for of which
Knute Nelson received 104 votes, Don
nelly SO. Buck 81.
The coroner's jury investigating the
Tioga disaster, found verdict holding
the officers of the Genesee Oil company
guilty of murder. The naptha which
caused the explosion had been shipped
in violation of law and not properly
marked. Indictments will be issued
against the officers and requisition pa
pers asked of the New York authorities.
A terrific explosion of 1900 kegs of
powder occurred at King Station, Ohio,
on the Little Miami railway. The depot
and all the adjoining houses were de-
molished. The cartridge factory was
shattered. A mass of earth was thrown
from the cut into the river, completely
damming the river and causing flood
of the bottoms above Thirteen bodies
have been recovered, and twenty people,
many of them girls from the factory,
rescued seriously injured: