Morris tribune., 1890-10-01
RESUME OF THE WEEK.
A BRIEF RECORD OF IMPORTANT
HAPPENINGS.

Cream of Home and Foreign News
SKINNED From the Great Mass of Cur
rent Events and Dished Up without
Trimmings.
Tippoo Tib, the great Central African
slave and ivory potentate, is on a pill
grimage to Mecca.
The Democrats of the Eighteenth
Kansas district nominated Thomas
Moonlight for congress.
A revolution has broken out in NUM-
pin, India. The maharajah has fed and
his brother has assumed control.
The Courier Francaise, of Paris, says
President Carnot is expected to visit
Queen Victoria at Windsor next spring.
A dispatch from Algiers says that a
cyclone has swept over large portion
of Algeria, doing an immense amount
of damage.
Emperor William will pay another
visit to Field Marshal Won Moltke on
Oct. 26, the ninetieth anniversary Of ths
generals birth,
At Montichiari batteries of artillery
using smokeless powder kept up fire
for half an hour without their position
being discovered.
The Knights of Labor and the Pro
gressive union of the coke regions have
amalgamated. The new society has q
membership of 10000.
When the Comte de Paris started for
Liverpool on his wax. to America all the
royalist exile colony in England gath
cred to see the comte off.
The population of the village Of Wash:
burn, Wis, according to the recount
just completed, is 2,7S9. The count of
June showed only 1860.
The Italian government has caused a
sensation and a good deal of i'll feeling,
by prohibiting bands from playing the
Marseillaise and the Garibaldi hymn.
A cave-in of the Kelley Run colliery
destroyed the foundations of twenty
houses in Shenandoah, Pa, and caused
wide and deep cracks in some of the
streets.
A dispatch to The London from CAL
cutta says the government is inquiring
into the the question of age in Hindoo
marriages and will probably legislate on
the subject.
The celebration of the Tooth anniver-
sary of the introduction into this coun:
try of cotton spinning by power BY
Samuel Slater, in the City Of Pawtucket
began there Monday.
Secretary Kramer, of the Johnstown
flood commission, is making arrange
ments for the second payment of the
orphans annuity on Nov. 1. Each Or
phan will receive $50.
A majority of the South American
governments have signified their support
of the project for an international exhis
bition at Genoa in 1892 to celebrate the
discovery of America.
The gold medal awarded Michigan for
her educational exhibit at the Melbourne
exposition in 1883, has just been re-
ceived. It is Of Australian gold, and
weighs nearly two ounces.
The Caledonian Railway comns-=--
propose .S,i.,n so un y tunnel under the Forth
in Scotland, in order to place their road
in position to compete on equal terms
with its rival, the owner of the great
cantilever bridge over the estuary,
Secretary Quin, of the Milwaukees said
Thursday: "You can state positively
.iaass 5he MnfwacERes team, as it now
stands, will be put into the American
association next year. The deal has
been completed, and it is settled fact.
At Philadelphia, in the case of Charles
Areutzen and other peddlers of the
"Kreutzer Sonata" who had been ar
rested on the charge Of selling obscene
literature, Presiding Judge Thayer rem
dered an opinion in which he decided
that the prisoners had committed no
ofense, and therefore discharged them.
A dispatch from Shanghai says that
the Chinese propose sending their mag
nificent fleet, now under command of
Chinese naval officers, on a voyage
across the Pacific, to prove to the world
open sea. Heretofore Chinese war
ships have been content to cruise along
the coasts and islands with an occasional
venture into the Pacific or Indian ocean,
An application has been made before
Judge Gresham for writ of habeas
corpus in behalf of Michael Schwab, the
Anarchist, now serving life sentence
in Joliet. Schwab's counsel set forth as
the main reason that Schwab was not
present in the state supreme court when
his case was passed upon. A letter was
read from Gen. Butler, indorsing the
application. Judge Gresham will pass
upon the matter on Monday next.
The officials of the Rock Island road
have changed their minds, and will not
put the reduced grain rates into effect
west of the Missouri river as early al
Oct. /. They have decided to conforin
to the rules Of the Trans Missouri assoc
citation, and give notice five days in ad-
vance of the regular October meeting Of
their intention to reduce the rates on
grain and grain products from Kansas
and Nebraska points to tie basis fixed
bv the inter state commerce commission.