Morris tribune., 1895-01-09
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
THE total number of persons wht
committed suicide in the United State.
during 1894, as reported by mail ant
telegraph, was 4,312, against 4,43e il
1898, 1850 in 1892, 1881 in 1891, 2,640 il
1890 and 2, 1874 in 1889.
A TRAIN struck sleigh half-milt
east of Willard, N. Y, containing Mrs
Hughes, her SOD, and Miss Larkin, anc
all the occupants were killed.
SIXTEEN servants and one guest lost
their lives by the burning of the Della
van house at Albany, N. Y.
DANIEL ]. TRUMBLEY, Of Bay City
Mich, cut his wife's throat and set fire
to the house, suffocating his baby
daughter. He was believed to be in.
sane.
WILLIAM L. STRONG took the oath as
mayor of New York. He is the first
executive not a democrat in twenty
two years.
FIVE of the seven children of Jacob
K. Levan, of Obey, Pa, died within
twenty-four hours of diphtheria.
LEVI P. MORTON was inaugurated
governor of New York at Albany.
KATHERINE PATTON was killed and
Jennie Harvey and William Thompson
fatally injured by the cars while driv-
ing at Bath, Me.
The state legislatures of New York,
Massachusetts, Maine, Delaware, Mich
igan and Missouri convened, the re-
publicans in the latter state having
control for the first time in twenty
five years.
THE Pittsburgh Railroad Coal Oper-
ators' association refused to arbitrate
the wage question and declared rate
war.
The home of Daniel White (colored)
near Williamson's Station, KY, was
destroyed by fire and four children
were burned to death.
INSTRUCTIONS were issued to post
masters at all delivery offices to pre-
vent further overtime claims of letter
carriers.
A CENSUS Office report shows that
owners of farms and houses possess
more than 90 per cent Of the wealth
of the country.
LENA LEHMAN and her two children
were suffocated in tenement-house
fire in New York.
The monthly statement of the re-
ceipts and expenditures Of the United
States shows receipts during December
amounting to $2l, S66. 1856; disburse-
ments, S27, 1876, 46O, leaving deficit for
the month of IS, 269, 1874 and for the six
months of the present fiscal year $27,-
564, 465
DURING carousal on the old Sisse-
ton reservation in South Dakota the
building took fire and two Indians and
a white man were burned to death.
THE Massachusetts, supreme court
decided the sale of oleomargarine col
ored in imitation of butter to be
illegal, even though no attempt were
made to hide it's character.
THE Crystal Ridge and Cranberry
collieries at Hazleton, Pa, shut down
for an indefinite period, throwing /, 600
men out of work.
A PARTY of Polish Jews camping
near Brazil, Ind, were charged with
cutting up a dead child's body and
feeding it to bears.
A HALF-wITTED son of August Beasly,
who lived near Port Washington, Wis,
locked his parents in barn, to which
he then applied the torch, and they
were fatally burned.
AsYNDICATE composed of New York
and Boston men purchased $50, 900
acres of timber lands in Nova Scotia.
WHILE Henry Clements and Miss
Lille Deils were skating at Lima, o
they went into an opening and were
drawn beneath the ice and drowned.
They were to have been married in
few hours.
Gov. LEwELLING pardoned Hugh Gill
liland, aged 70, who had been in the
Kansas penitentiary on life sentence
for twenty years.
The Riverside Water company at
Riverside. CAL, failed for 100000
JOHN B. BERGAAnNI, aged so years,
and his wife, Kate, aged 20, were
found asphyxiated by gas in their
home in New York.
The public debt statement issued on
the Cd showed that the debt increased |
$31, 1921, TS6 during the month of Deem
Der. The cash balance in the treasury |
was $153, 49,, $40. The total debt, less the |
cash balance in the treasury, amounts
to 500. 903, 800
Bob MOORE and George East, Okla
homa outlaws, were killed in an en-
counter with deputy marshals, one of |
whom they wounded.
PRESIDENT HARPER received $175, 900
from John d. Rockefeller, of New
York, as a New Years present to the
Chicago university.
THE main building of the Illinois
southern hospital for the insane at
Anna was burned, the loss being
100000.