Morris tribune., 1895-02-20

Labor. IL starts out Win 2U,OUO mem
bers.
PHILIP MARTIN, negro boy of Il
years, was hanged at Kansas City fol
killing Eli Stilwell, laborer who
jostled him while drunk on the street
on the night of July 4, 1898. ssaass.s s,,.spp
FIVE men were seriously injured by
the collision of trains in a tunnel or
the Castle Shannon road snear Pitts
burgh, Pa. 80
| GEORGE B. HARPoLE and Casey Greg
DRY, of Fairfeld~ III, were asphyxiated
by gas in a hotel at Springfield, Ill.
4 CHURCH women who began crusade
by singing and praying in Sioux City
Ga saloons were roughly used by the
hangers on
The Black diamond coal mine at Be-
vier, Mo-, was flooded with water, and
the $50 miners narrowly escaped with
their lives.} iii
| MRS. FRANK JONES and two children
were burned to death in their house
near Drennon Springs, KY
THOMAS X. GEORGE, of Eckerty, Ind,
died of heart disease. His 6-year-old
daughter died of grief, and both were
buried in the same coffin.
THE heaviest snowstorms ever known
in Texas, Louisiana and Alabama were
reported.
Il A CAPITOL removal bill was killed in
the South Dakota senate by a vote of
/ 30 to 10.
BEN WARD (colored) was sentenced at
Newark, O., to twenty years impris-
onment for criminal assault on a
woman.
CHARLES ANDREWS, aged ~ years, was
SO worried over failing to pass the ex-
aminations in Cincinnati school that
he took paris green and died.
TENNESSEE, Alabama, Mississippi and
Arkansas were experiencing the most
severe and protracted season of cold
weather ever known in that part of
the country. ~ xa So or 40
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 18th aggregated
1924, 416, 4sO, against $979, 3O5, O4O the
previous week. The increase, compared
with the corresponding week in 1894,
was 81.
A RANcHER named August Rem shot
and killed his wife and then killed
himself near Terry, Mont.
The Minnesota house has adopted
resolution looking to the removal of
the state capital from st. Paul to Min
neapolis.s ~ s- ~
The navy department was advised
that the war ships Charleston and York
town were rescuing American mission
aries at Che Foo. tSsE
THERE were 270 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the, 18th, against 2s1 the
week previous and 323 in the CORE
spending time in 1894 *
THOUSANDS of cattle and sheep have
been frozen to death on the Montana
ranges and it was feared that many
human lives had also been lost.
PRINCESS PAULINA," the smallest of
women known as the ''living doll"
died in New York, aged 10 years. She
weighed but eight and a half pounds
and was only II inches tall. az
THE Bank of Lexingt ton at Richmond,
Va, closed its doors with liabilities of
81, 900. 49, 81
The Westchester temporary home
for children near White Plains,N. Y,
was burned, the 200 inmates escaping
in scant attire. {if.l n e.
A BoILERlexploded in "a sawmil1 near
Towanda, Pa, killing Theodore Pencil,
fireman, and John Mack, teamster.
AsLocoMoTIvE went into the river at
Rhineciiff, N. Y, and Engineer ]. D.
Donohue and Fireman Reed were
killed. #@$ k#8 d
THE aters-Pie Oil companys'
warehouse, containing 100000 gallons
of oil, was burned at Dallas, Tex
Ex-MAYoR GILRoY and other city Of
fcials were indicted by the grand jury
in New York.
The grand jury in Brooklyn, n. Y,
returned twenty-seven indictments
against strikers for rioting, throwing
bricks at cars, cutting wires and for
other acts of violence. g.
DIR. WILLIAM G. DYAs, aged az, for
thirty years leading practitioner of
Chicago, stepped in front Of an engine
on leaving suburban train and was
killed. a.
~. Ii. OdAfMAN, .uOuOCTdUlC leCndl- l
lenger, was found guilty of conspiring |
to keep voters from the polls in Chica-
go and sentenced to one year and six |
months in prison. III
i WILLIAM MCKINLEY, of Duluth,
Mimi, owner of large tracts Of mining
and timber lands, failed for $780, 900.
WHILE Eli Seymour and wife, Of |
Lewiston, Mich, were at dance their
house took fire and their three chill I
dren were burned to death. a.
A LONE highwayman, armed with a
shotgun, held up stage near Oroville,
Cal. The treasure box:was taken and
the passengers relieved of their val
uables. M
A. B. NEWsoN, member Of the Ten
nessee senate, resigned. assigning the
extravaganza of the legislature as a
reason. }sf3 A +
The Smith Point lighthouse at the
mouth of the Potomac river was car
ried array by the ice.
JAMES FRAZIER and A. B. McQuis-
ton, of Rockford, Pa, were killed byl
the explosion of boiler at an oil
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