Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-05-08

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what was needed to start crops grow
ing.
THE treasury statement of receipts
and expenditures during April shows
receipts of 1914, 1876 and disburse.
ments of 49,, 900, 676.
ROBERT KLoTs, who represented the
Mauch Chunk (Pa.) district in the
Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh con.
crosses, died at the age of 76 years.
THE will of Aquilla J. Cheney, a
wealthy planter who lived near At
lanta, leaves 5000, 900 to Mercer uni
versity of Georgia for the education OF
poor young boys.
THE sixth annual national congress
of Sons of American Revolution opened
at Boston.
The first use of nickel steel boiler
plates will be made in the cruiser Chi
cago, which is getting new machinery.
j THE Utah constitutional convention
adopted an amendment declaring the
act to punish polygamy in force.
i WORK was suspended by the 10000
4 Ohio miners in the Massillon district
and would not be resumed until a scale
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A CYCLONE struck near the little
town of Patterson, Kan, and as re-
suit ten persons were dead, twenty-five
injured, twenty houses RACED and
many barns and buildings destroyed
and cattle, horses and hogs killed.
THE 3-year-old twins of Mr.. and Mrs.
| George Lowskowski were burned to
death near South Bend, Ind.
FURTHER particulars of the cyclone
at Newton; Kan, indicated that the
death list would probably reach fifteen
or twenty. There were about as many
badly injured.
SLAUGHTER KID" and glitter Creek, !"
two notorious outlaws who partici-
pated in the recent train robbery neal
Dover, Kan, were killed by officers.
OVER 5000 cotton mill employees were
on strike at Providence, R. l.
In Judge Maye's court at Tazewell.
Tenn, Grant Poore, notorious out
law, while on trial for larceny, shot
and killed Benjamin Carroll, witness
against him.
The report that the authorities at
Washington were about to remove the
EN- barge on Canadian cattle which has
been in operation for several years past
was denied.
w. &. MEGQUIER, aged 81 years, as
sistant cashier of the First national
bank in Omaha, committed suicide
through fear of becoming blind.
SIXTY buildings at La Porte, Mich,
were destroyed by fire.
THE prospect for the peach crop in
Delaware was, exceedingly good.
Mrs. Zoe LARH. wife of prominent
and wealthy farmer at Saltwater, O.
T., shot and killed her step-daughter,
Mrs. McHenry.
DIR. JEREMIAH S. B. ALLEYNE, one of
the oldest practitioners in ST. Louis,
was found dead of apoplexy in bed at
his home.
MRS. DEAN MIX and her son Harry
were instantly killed by lightning
while standing in the doorway of their
barn at Nashville, Mich.
The dead body of Tom Brownlee, a
negro, was found staked down in the
bed of creek in Butts county, Ga.
He was revenue informer and had
been murdered.
FOURTEEN hat manufacturers of Es-
sex county, N. j., representing an ag-
gregate capital of So, 500, 900, organized
trust.
A WIND and hailstorm at GAINESVILLE
Wis, did great damage.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the Sd aggregated
81, 094, 322, 1925, against 1895, $40, 1877, the
previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was 15.2.
Ar least fifty two persons were be-
ieyed to have been killed in a terrific
cyclone that passed through Sioux \
county, Ia, from southwest to north
east an hour before sunset on the Sd. |
Half score of prosperous little ham
lets were touched by the flying storm
and hundreds of farms were laid |
waste. The storm first struck the |
ground some miles southwest of Sioux
Center. in the Coombs district, and
from there to Perkins, a distance of 12 |
to Is miles, not a building was left |
standing in the path.
MCCALL BROTHERS, hat manufacture |
ers at West Orange, N. j. failed for
$239,OoO.
THERE were 231 business failures in |
the United States in the seven DAYS |
ended on the 3D., against $50 the |
week previous and 233 in the CORE !
spending time in 1894.
DURING April the circulation of all |
kinds of money in the United States in
creased $15,249, 100, making the total in
circulation on May 81, 500, 434, 1874, or
$22.97 per capita. AS compared with !
May 1, 1894, the total circulation has
decreased $92, 600, 900.
SETH STALLCUP, United States dep
uty marshal, and ]. N. Taylor, dd-time
enemies, metin duel at Sherer School
house in Cherokee county, N. c., and
both were killed.
DURING tornado at st. Joseph, Mo-,
many small buildings were blown to
pieces.
HE steamer George r. White, of
Seattle, was wrecked in gale in
Alaska and seventeen of the crew were
either drowned or frozen to death.
THE resignation of Charles Lyman,
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