Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1891-08-12
THE WEEKS EVENTS.


News of Importance Given Brief Mem
tion.
Letter carriers of the United States
are in session at Detroit
Ted Pritchard has agreed to fight Bob
Fitzsimmons in America.
In Kentucky the Farmers Alliance
have majority in the legislature. The
Democrats have the state Offices.
Dillon is to be the leader of the Irish
party when the British parliament reas-
sembles.
The three baronesses Horvath, sisters,
were drowned while bathing in the river
at Madras, Hungary.
AT Pawnee Ford, in Kansas, two men
who had stolen tifty-five head of horses,
were recaptured and the animals recov-
cred.
The famous Tokay vineyards in the
Hegyalja district, Hungary, have been
raVaged by phylloxera and almost en-
tirely destroyed
Seven leading Pittsburg daily papers,
The Dispatch, Commercial-Gazette,
Times. Chronicle, Telegram, and Leader,
and The Press, have all pronounced for
Blaine.
Mrs. Leila Robinson Sawtelle, an au-
thoresS and member of the Massachu-
sets bar. died at Amherst, N. H., from
an overdose of medicine taken inadver-
tently.
A passenger train on the Grand Rap
ids and Indiana railway was derailed by
train wreckers near Kalamazoo, Mich.
One man was killed and fifteen badly
injured.
William Green. aged ll2 years and 9
months, is dead at Joliet, Ills. De-
ceased was born in Ireland, and up to
the last retained his mind. He had been
blind several years
A party of government scientists
have arrived in Texas to make expert
ments as to the practicability of pro-
ducing rain by firing explosives in the
upper strata of the air.
A New Orleans dispatch says the
Olympic club has decided to give a
$4,000 purse for fight between Bob
Fitzsimmons and Ted Pritchard and to
allow the latter $500 for expenses.
Judge Ogden Hoffman, died at San
Francisco of paralysis of the heart. He
had been i'll for IL long time. Judge
IT, man had been a United States
ju,,.:e for over forty years, longer than
any ther United States judge in the
country.
Commissioner Carter, of the general
land office decided the case OF the town.
site settlers of West Guthrie, 0. T.,
against Mark S. Cohn and fourteen
other agricultural claimants. The COM
missioner decides in favor Of the town.
site settlers.
Edward Langworthy, one of the very
first settlers of Dubuque, has just cele-
brated his SD birthday. Among the
presents received by him was check
for $3.50, the amount of bill sold a
woman forty-seven years ago, when he
was in business.
Proctor Knott, the we'll known race
horse, dicd in his stall at Horse Haven,
Saratoga. His name and fame were
known to turfmen all over the country.
He cost his owner 1926 as yearling and
won for him more than 100000 in the
three seasons that he raced.
While Samuel G. Williams, manager
of the Union News company, in st.
Louis, was unpacking a box of pears
which he had received from Southern
Texas, tarantula leaped from the box
and fastened its fangs in the end of the
middle finger of the right hand. His
life is despaired of.
The Diario de Centre America, printed
in Guatemala. claims that the family of
the unfortunate General Barrundia,
who was killed aboard of Pacific Mail
steamship in the port of San Jose de
Guatemala by soldiers, has won their
their claim against the United States
and will be paid $4,000 indemnifca-
ton.