Morris tribune., 1890-07-30
NEWS BRIEFLY told.
Important EHappeninssf from All
Parts OF the World Com
cisely ChrOnicied.
A Complete Resume Of Crimes,
Casualties and Current Events
fer the Week.


North Dakota elevator men say nc
combine has been formed to refuse to
store wheat.
There have been ,967 notices of evic-
ton filed in Ireland during the past
three months.
Fire at Spokane Falls destroyed prop
erty valued at nearly $250,000. Consid.
cred incendiary.
An explosion in East st. Louis iron
works caused the death of one man and
the injury of five others.
The czarewitch of Russia will start on
tour Of the world Aug. l, returning by
way of the United States.
T. NJ. B. Cook, prominent Republi.
can politician, of Jasper county, La,
was assassinated Wednesday.
The population of Wilmington, Del,
as determined 10y the census, is 81 1888,
an increase of S,910 since 1880.
A general tie-up of all building trades
has been inaugurated by Brooklyn
unions to aid the striking roofers.
A bill will be reported to the United
States senate shortly to cut lottery com.
panies off from the use of the mails.
The new Northern Pacific line to
Crookston is completed, shortening the
distance to Winnipeg twenty miles.
The Ashland mill mems strike has
been ended by compromise of ten and
a half hours pay for ten hours work.
Thirty Arabs were killed during the
recent attack upon the Spanish convict
settlement of Metillo, on the Morocco
coast.
At st. Paul, Charles Price Drained a
cook named Manchester. Saturday night
and Sunday gave himself up to the
officers.
The supreme court of Georgia has re-
fused new trial for Tom Voolfolk,
who murdered nine persons in Bibb
county.
A strike of Union Pacific railroad men
is seriously threatened. The men claim
the road is not keeping its agreements
with them.
Herndon Morril, the we'll known
Washington tenor, has accepted the first
tenor part III the new opera, "The Red
Hussar."
By the fall of pavilion at Ironwood,
Mich, 600 persons We're precipitated to
the ground. Several We're injured but
none fatally.
By disastrous washout the Colorado
Central was damaged to the extent of
$3.50, COO. Twenty miles of track were
washed away.
Steamer Egypt, with its cargo of $40
cattle, was abandoned at sea on fire. The
crew were in boats forty-eight hours be-
fore being picked up.
At the Duluth yacht race Wednesday,
the yacht Roamer was capsized and its
owner, G.. P. Linder, and a friend, J.
Clark, were drowned.
agitating the subject of another conven-
ton. Many of them object to the pro-
ceedings of the late convention.
A Mexican named Vitola, his wife
and 5-year-old daughter, were found
murdered in their home near Hutton,
Tex. Cause supposed to be revenge.
The railroad situation is beginning to
assume serious phase. The switch
men in the Cincinnati Southern yards in
that city have joined in with the strik-
ers, and no trains are being handled.
The excursion steamer Louise and the
Bay line steamer Virginia were in col
lision near Fort Carroll, on the Chesa-
peake. -Four people are known to have
been killed and seventy-fve injured.
A disastrous wreck occurred on the
Kaukauna division of the Milwaukee,
Lake Shore and Western, near New
London. Two freight trains collided on
curve. -Four trainmen were killed
and four fatally injured.
The emperor of Germany is expected
at Cowes on the Sd or 4th of August and
in st. Petersburg, on his visit to the
czar, about the 10th of August. Grand
preparations are being made in Russia
for his reception.
A dispatch from Geneva says that
the federal council has about decided to
expel the Mormons from the republic.
The number of persons protesting Nor
monism in Switzerland has increased
five fold in less than two years.
A party Of moonshiners made de-
scent on the village of Pocahontas, Va,
and terrorized the town for several
hours. The citizens rallied with arms
and a battle ensued, in which the
moonshiners We're routed. Four We're
wounded.
Nathaniel r. Locke, the venerable
father of the late D. II. Locke, better
known as Petroleum V. Nasby," died
at Toledo, Ohio, Friday, at the advanced
age of 81 years. He was native of
Deerfield, Mass, and served in the war
of 1912.
At Buffalo, N. Y, Mrs. Wade, who
keeps boarding house on East Market
street, Mary Sylvia, aged Is years, and
her brother John, aged ID, were arrested
charged with attempting to poison Annie
Silkes, dissolute woman, who lived
with the childrens father.
The Washburn B mill, at Minneapo-
lis, was started up Thursday, after an
idleness since March. The Pillsbury A
was placed in operation Monday and is
now running at full blast. The mill
was shut down just three weeks-the
longest time it has been idle in several
years.
At Lynn, Mass, a story-and- d-a-half
dwelling, partially completed, fell in.
completely wrecking the building and
instantly killing Mary McCabe, aged Ia;
probably fatally injuring Katie Griffin,
aged IA, and slightly injuring three
other children. The children took ref
uge In the building from the rain.
Ball by Electric Light Failure.
HARTFORD, Conn, July 2a.-The att
tempt to play ball by electric light was
turned into burlesque. A soft ball
was used and the batters only bunted it.
All the fielders played within the base
lines. A large crowd was present.
Only four innings were played. No
score was kept.