Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1891-06-03
TIE WEEKS EVENTS.
News of Importance Given Brief Mem

Tommie Page, aged 10, killed mis-
mother with garden hoe at Benton,
Ark, while she was trying to whip him.
Queen Natalie, it is stated, will go to
q health resort, to recover from the
effects of the recent excitement at Bel
grade.
There are $50 families in the Penn
sylvania coke regions homeless and
penniless, who are living in stables and
coal sheds.
A dispatch from Ottawa says that the
Dominion government will undoubtedly
grant aid to the Hudson Bay railway
this session.
United States Treasurer Nebecker
has mailed 2,54S checks, amounting to
$439,215, in payment of interest on A 1-2
per cent. bonds.
Assistant Secretary Nettleton has
signed draft for Sc, 900, 900 for the pay
ment of juno pensions. This leaves a
net balance in the treasury of So, GOO, 0O0
An official denial is given by Spain Of
any secret clauses or any hitch in the
negotiations of commercial treaty be-
tween the United States and Cuba and
Porto Rico.
Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. Dimmick, Mrs.
Mckee and Mrs. Russell Harrison have
left for New York. Mrs. Mckee and
Mrs. Russell Harrison sail for Europe
on Wednesday.
Sir Henry Verney, now in his
Goth year, the father of Capt. Verney, is
in precarious condition of health, and
may succumb at any time, leaving his
son baronet in prison.
Lake linen, in the government of
Novgorod, has been the scene of terri
BILE hurricane. Nineteen timber vessels
were wrecked in the hurricane, and all
of their crews were drowned.
The Pope's encyclical is not altogether
satisfactory to the weather. class
among the German Roman Catholics,
who consider that it lends too much en-
enlargement to labor agitation.
\ Cape Town dispatch says that the
British South Africa company has
driven back the Portuguese all along
fhe line, and unless England interferes,
may drive them out of East Africa.
The Berlin Tageblatt says that forty
Russian colonists have been sent back
to Russia by the Brazilian government
at its own expense to encourage their
Brazil.
Capt. E. P. Ewens, Indian agent al
Tongue river, says the cattle men are
more to be feared than the Indians, as
| they want all the land they can grab fol
their stock. The Indians complain bit
| terly of these marauders.
J. A. Barnard, assistant general man
ager of the Big Four. whose headquar
tiers are at Indianapolis, has rendered
| his resignation. It is understood thai
Mr.. Barnard resigned voluntarily and
has another job in view.
The labor unions in London are much
excited over the prospect of the arriva.
of more Russian Jews, and there is rea
son to fear, that if the immigration |:
persisted in at its present rate, objection
may take the form of violence.
Reports from all over South Dakota
! North Dakota, Minnesota and Manitoba
indicate that Saturday nights rain was
the heaviest and most general this
spring. Farmers are said to be happy
all along the line, and predicting thu
biggest crop in many years.
England is rapidly devolping an effec
tive system of naval defense. Hereafter
every important seaport is to have wha'
might be called a naval garrison. II
accordance with recent regulations {
war ship is to be assigned to every por
of consequence.
The end of the London tailor's strik'
causes much rejoicing among the AZ
master tailors in the city and West enc
who were affected. The men, VIII,
| struck, about 1000 in number, are o
the frst-class type, who make clpthe
for the nobility and wealthy generally
The act recently passed by the Mani
toba legislature abolishing Roman
Catholic separate schools in the country
is now being argued before the suprem
court at Ottawa on appeal. Catholic
are making bitter fight, and judgin,
from the temper Of the court and ex
pressed opinions, the act will certainl,
be declared unconstitutional.