Morris tribune., 1894-12-19

For the Week Ending Dec. II.

General rains fell throughout Ne
braska, the first time since July 8.
The Commercial bank at st. Joseph,
Mo-, failed for $27O, 600; assets, $685.
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DR.. John Lord, historian and lee
turer, died at his home at Stamford,
Conn.
The Office of the Denver Times was
destroyed by fire, the loss being
$4,000.
Three white men were shot and fatal.
ly wounded by negroes at Cabaniss,
Ga. in riot.
Philip Crow, a Kansas City bar
tender, killed his wife and then COM
mitted suicide.
The Kearney (Neb.) national bank
closed it's doors with liabilities of
about $125,OOO.
Two gold leads of fabulous richness
were struck by drillers at Iowa Gulch,
southwest of Lillian, Col.
A grand jury indicted thirty-six
prominent men of Murray county, Ga,
for white Gaping.
Ten men were injured, several fatal
ly, by an explosion of gas i'll the Vul-
can mine at Newcastle, O.
Lewis Z. Ives, the well-known por-
trait painter, died at his home n De-
troit, Mich, aged 81 years.
The damage by the recent earth
quake to the cathedral az the City of
Mexico was estimated at 100000.
A fire at Evergreen, Ala, destroyed
twelve stores, post Office, hotel and
livery stable, the loss being 100000.
Joe White, chief of the Naveosh tribe
OF Chippewa Indians, was fatally shot
by game wardens at Rice Lake, Wis.
Herbert Doggett, a prominent law
yer of Kansas City, committed suicide
by shooting himself through the heart
John Hall and his wife, New York
actors, were asphyxiated, Hall having
turned the gas on while he was drunk.
United States officers arrested mem
bers of a gang of counterfeiters in
Oklahoma and captured much spurious
coin.
An automatic telegraph transmitter
has been invented which, it is said,
will send 200 words minute over the
wire.
Trial of whitcaps in Georgia has de
veloped the fact that far-reaching
lsu-klux organization exists in the
state.
Judge Sewers, for fourteen years
member of the Iowa supreme court,
was stricken with paralysis at Osla-
looSa.
Jake Schaefer, the billiard wizard"
has issued a challenge to Ives or any
other player for series OF three
games.
The WConsocket bank, of Woonsocl1-
ct, S. D., has gone into voluntary liqui- |
dation. Depositors will likely be paid
in full.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
near Upper Sandusky, o., to wreck the
Pennsylvania New York and Chicago |
limited.
The remains of Count Ferdinand de |
Lesseps were inferred in the Church |
of ST. Pierre de Chaillot, just outside
of Paris.
The Easterly Harvesting company at
Minneapolis has made an assignment.
Liabilities are $3.50, TAP; claimed assets,
$3S5,0l3.
The republican state committee of
California will contest the election Of
James Ii. Budd as governor before the
legislature.
Rev. r. M. Dillon, Presbyterian
preacher of Greencastle, Ind, resigned
because his congregation gave fair in
an opera house.
Col. John Thomas, an intimate
friend of Abraham Lincoln, died at
Ill, where he had lived for
seventy-six years.
Two masked men held up Smyth
Taylor at Greenville, Tenn, and
robbed him Of 5000 which he had just
drawn from bank.
Frank Rowley, of Wisconsin, has
been granted u patent upon an express
car calculated to withstand the as
sa ults Of train robbers.
The shortage OF Cashier Mexican, OF
the Indian Head national bank,
Nashua, N. H., it is said, is $780, 900.
A warrant for him is out.
Conductor Collister and Brakemen
SiD!ey and Brown, of the Northwest
ern, were arrested at Boone, Ia, for
,obbing freight cars of bonded goods.
sE"~T~ Americans Get the Contract. /.
BETHLEHEM, Pa, Dec. 17.--The Beth.