Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-05-08
The News Condensed
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

Frederick Snyder and Wllllam Mltchel
persisted in the flames
A CYCLONE swept through Omaha ant
vicinity and seven persons were in
jured and a large amount OF damage
was done to property.
Emil. FURRER, farmer, and jacob
Katt were burned to death in barr
near Milford, Conn. The fire was O.
incendiary origin.
THE Cleveland (O.) police authorities
ordered all poolroooms, policy shops
gambling houses and every place
where games of chance are run te
close. Nickel in the slot machines
were not exempted.
AS result of trivial quarrel, W.
w. Ellsworth, noted swine breeder
at Woodstock, Ill, killed his hired man
George FllIwebber, and then blew his
own head off.
The sixth negro was lynched in But.
Ter county, Ala, for the murder OF
young Watts Murphy.
THE Lloyd, Late & Thompson Dry
Goods company at Kansas City, Mo-.
failed for 100000.
The interior department at Washing
ton was taking steps to have the nu-
merous abandoned military reserva-
tions scattered over the country opened
for settlement.
JOSEPH DENMAN, 45years old, drowned
himself at Cleveland because he had
been charged with forty-6ve crimes of
which he declared he was innocent.
The residence of George Denniston
In Crookston, Mimi, was burned and
his aged parents lost their lives in the
flames.
Two COMPANIES of the Fifth regiment
Michigan state troops left Houghton
for Marquette, Mich, to keep peace
between union and non-union laborers
On the docks of the South Shore rail-
way.
FIRE partially destroyed the plant of
the Kehlor Milling company in East
st. Louis, the loss being 100000.
A PRoTRAcTED drought had seriously
Injured oats, wheat and other crops in
Kansas. No good rains had fallen for
over six months.
AT English, Ind, Edward Steep1e-
toms 15-year-old son, who has been a
mute and almost deaf all his life, began
to talk like his brothers and sisters.
IN raid on ''lnoonshiners" near
Huntington, W. Va, Lee Ward was
killed and 100, including twenty wom-
en-, were arrested.
A STRIKE in the Flat Top coal region
near Roanoke, Va, went into effect,
$4,000 miners in thirty-five mines going
out
FIVE large -four milling plants in
Milwaukee were merged into COM
bination or trust with the object of re-
ducing expenses.
THE home of Stamford Kimley, near
Atchlson, Kan, was burned during the
absence of Mr.. and Mrs. Kimley and
their two children, aged years and Is
months, respectively, were cremated.
JOHN COLEMAN, negro who lived
near Jacksonville, Fla, who shot and
mortally wounded his wife because she
did not make soup to suit him, was
lynched by mob
CROPS throughout the northwestern
states were reported to be in good con
dition.
ARCHIE Brown, son of the governor
of Kentucky, was shot dead in a
bawdy house in Louisville by Fulton
Gordon, who also killed his wife, who
was with Brown.
CAPT. SLocUM sailed from Gloucester,
Mass, in his 40-foot sloop Spray on
voyage around the world.
AN old feud at Newborn, Tenn, cul-
minated in a pitched battle in which
Abbott and John Fulgham (brothers)
were killed.
ST. LOUIS authorities have begun
war on the Washers One of them
was fined 500.
THE treasury receipts at, Washington
for the month of April amounted to
$24, PAT, 1886 and the expenditures to S32,-
952, 800, leaving deficit for the month
of SIS, 7o4, s54 and for the fiscal year to
date $54, 247, OO6.
JAMES You've, janitor at the court
house in Brazil. Ind, shot and killed
his wife at Hoosierville because she
had left him and then drove to Brazil,
went to the courthouse and shot him
self to death.
The public debt statement issued on
the LIST showed that the debt increased
$40, 109,657 during the month of April.
The cash balance in the treasury was
$3.50, 817,916. The total debt, less the
cash balance in the treasury, amounts
to $917, 500 9o3.
w. T. Lopez, night manager of the
United Press in New York city, COM
mitted suicide by inhaling gas. In
somnia was the cause.
REPORTS to the bureau of the mint
show coinage during the month of
April as follows: Gold, 81, 63o. 300; sill
yer, 1896, 900; minor coins, Slo9,772. |
Toral, S., 364,O72.
THE government school building on
the Santee Indian reservation in Ne
braska was burned for the second time
within two years.
FIRE destroyed Wilkins, Ketcham &
Rothschild's furniture and upholstery
factory and warerooms in Chicago, the
loss being 100000.
Two MEN fatally shot and one Sc
r1ously injured was the result of a
frustrated attempt to rob Burlington
train near ST. Joseph, Mo.
CAPT. HARRY B. McMAsTER, assistant
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