Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-09-04

SPELMAN BROS, importers and deal
ers in fancy goods in New York for
fifty years, failed for 100000.
A FUTILE attempt was made to wreck
an east-bound night express on the
Nickle- Plate road near McComb, 0
In the Montana Methodist conference
: at Helena the question of admitting
, women to the general conference on
; the same footing as men was decided
. in favor of the women by vote of 81
> to 4.
A TORNADO at Syracuse N. Y, de-
. stroyed large amount of property
; and caused the loss of several lives.
THE barn of Foxhall Keene at Lex
. ington, KY, was burned and his i'm
ported stallion Kallacrates, valued at
ss5, 900 and the American stallion Hy-
.. derbad persisted in the flames.
A BOAT upset in a squall on the st.
Clair river near Marysville, Mich, and
Mrs Michael Derufg. Frank Derufg,
her brother-in-law, and Miss Celia
Choniski and Miss Edith Connors were
drowned
THE resurvey of the boundary line
between California and Nevada result
ed in giving California strip of coun-
try aggregating several hundred
square miles.
TOMMY" CoNNEFF, an amateur rum
ner, broke the worlds record for a
mile at New York, going the distance
in Ais 3-5.
AT Itasca, Tex, John Brown, 90
years old, cut the throat of Miss Boone,
aged -, and then killed himself. Re-
fusal of the girls father to marriage
was the cause.
AT the twenty-sixth triennial con-
clave in Boston of Knights Templar
w. La Rue Thomas. of Maysville, KY,
was elected grand master, and Pitts
burgh was chosen as the meeting place
| in 1885,
FRosTs were reported atmany points
in northern Minnesota.
| JAMES STEWART, the famous swim
mer, better known by the name of
Paul Webb, died in Spokane, Wash,
from injuries sustained July last in
sliding down 1900 log chute in a
barrel
AT Central City, Col. the Americas
IDENTIFY flooded and thirteen miners
were probably drowned.
The Wait Savers association in ses-
sion in Detroit elected ex-Gov. R. j.
Oglesby, of Illinois, as president.
The third annual convention of the
National Spiritualists' association of
the United States and Canada will be
held at Washington October Is, 16
and II.
AUGUST SELNoU and two sisters
named Holtzhuler were killed by the
cars at Deerfeld, Wis
JOHN SKINNER, prominent business
man at Bloomington, Ill, died while
the funeral of his father was taking
place.
A COMPANY was organized at Denver
to operate the first steamboat line on
the Colorado river.
For criticising the United States
courts in the mint cases FL. A. Lemon,
editor of the Carson New Tribune,
was fined $50 and sent to Jail for ten
days.
On the Fleetwood track near New
York city Robert J. defeated Joe
Patchen and John r. Gentry in three
straight heats, the best time being
2:O4%.
HEzEKIAH ROBERTS, young farmer
at Butler, KY, cut his wife's throat |
and then cut his own. He was sup
posed to have been insane.
A CALL was issued for convention |
of free silver editors at Little Rock, |
Ark. September Z.
AT the session in Detroit of the Amer
lean Bar association Justice Brewer, of |
the United States supreme court, urged |
better education for lawyers.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the both aggregated
1886. 55l, 1854, against 5000, 518,416 the |
previous week. The increase. COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was 1879.
FIRE destroyed fourteen buildings,
comprising the business section of Lib
ertyville, H., the loss being 800, OOO
FOURTEEN men persisted in the mine
disaster near Central City, Col
ALoNzoJ. WHITMAN, formerly mayor
of Duluth, Mimi, ex-member of the
Minnesota legislature, ex-banker and
millionaire, who dissipated fortune
in a few years, was sentenced at San
Francisco to nine years Imprisonment
for forgery.
The gold mining company at Hefin,
Ala, was incorporated at Chattanooga,
Tenn, with a capital stock of $500, 900.
THE circuit court at Parkersburg,
W. Va, in decision held doctor was
entitled to his fee whether he cured or
not.
THERE were 1856 business failures in
the United States in the seven DAYS
ended on the both, against 222 the week
previous and 1876 in the corresponding
time in 1894
AN excursion train was wrecked be-
tween Homan and Pope's, Ga, and
fifty people, among them many Pyth-
ians, were hurt. and Mrs. G. W. Han
cock and J. A. Kennedy were killed.
AT the closing meeting in Detroit of ;
the American Bar association More
field Story, of Massachusetts, was
elected president.