Morris tribune., 1895-01-02
DAN MCDONALD and Will Carter (col

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nois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, In
diana, Nebraska, South Dakota and
Kansas held their annual meetings.
THE visible supply of grain in the
United States on the Goth was: Wheat,
S9,071, 900 bushels; corn, S,S3S, 900 bush
els; oats, 100000 bushels; rye, 452, 00O
bushels: barley, 100000 bushels.
FIVE white boys were fatally burned
in suburb of Richmond, Va, by an
explosion of gunpowder.
WILLIAM BLAKEsLEY, of Sacramento,
Cal, supposed by his parents to be
dead for thirty years, gladdened their
hearts at Trenton, N. j., by letting
them know he is alive.
MADELINE PoLLARD's attorneys pro-
pose to follow Breckenridge on his lee
ture tour and attach the receipts.
A PRAIRIE fire swept over large
area in the southern part of ''N'' coun-
ty, O. IT,, and number of farmers lost
everything they owned and barely es-
capped with their families.
The old capitol building at Atlanta,
Ga. was burned, the loss being 81 0O,0 900.
ALEX WILLIAMSON and Will Perry,
two young men living at Coalburg,
Ala, fought for the hand of Mamie
Bell and both were killed.
! THE worst blizzard in years swept
over the western and eastern states.
| Along the Massachusetts, coast many
ships were wrecked, causing great loss
of life, and in the cities of Boston and
New York much damage was done by
| the storm.
BURGLARS broke into the home of
Henry Fecker, at Piqua o., and car
ried off his savings, amounting to $4,-
75N
JOHN w. FOSTER, ex-secretary of
state, has consented to go to Japan to
aid the Chinese representatives in
bringing about peace.
FARMERS and robbers engaged in a
desperate fight near Salem, o., and
two of the former were shot and one
of the latter.
THE bank at Somonauk, Ill, was en-
tered by burglars, who robbed the safe
of So, 100 and large amount of valua-
bles.
JOSEPH B1DwEL1 and William Find.
ley, farmers of Union county, were
killed near Columbus, O., by a Pan
Handle train.
COLLEGE presidents of Indiana and
football games.
AUGUST PERMoNTIR shot and fatally
wounded Miss Meister, the daughter
of his landlady at New Castle, Pa, and
Robert Charles, another boarder, and
then blew out his own brains. He was
insane.
Iowa attorneys met in Des Moines
and organized state bar association,
A. J. McCreary, of Keokuk, was elected
president.
SIX horses and two mules were killed
in Philadelphia by coming in contact
with electric light wires blown down
by storm.
The dry goods and millinery firm of
j. Lichte nstein & Sons, New York.
failed for $4,000
The Illinois Teachers association
will urge the legislature to erect an
other normal school in the northern
part of the state.
THE women's council of the Nine
teenth Century club of Memphis, |
Tenn, voted to boycott Congressman
Breclirridge's lecture.
THERE were $50 business failures in i
the United States in the seven days /
ended on the 2sth, against $40 the |
week previous and 81 in the CORE |
spending time in 1898.
The president has approved the act |
rs 70 Il ieb ,,1-
at the battlefield of Shiloh.
FIVE men were killed and number
of others badly scalded by the explc-
sion of sawmill boiler at Bonayr, |
KY.
AUGUST SIEvERDING was stricken |
with paralysis at Galena, Ill, and fell
across buzz saw and his head and |
arm were severed.
JACOB SHANE, aged IS years, a
wealthy real estate man, was robbed |
by two highwaymen at Des Moines of |
Sic, 1000.
THE Spokane (Wash.) Commercial
savings bank, with capital of $50, 900, |
suspended payment
EXCHANGES at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 28th aggre-
gated 1886, 401, 1854, against $1,000, o4O,-
544 the previous week. The increase,
compared with the corresponding week
in 1898. was 81.
THE county treasury at Santa Rosa,
Cal, was robbed by a burglar of $4,000.
MICHIGAN teachers in session at Ian
sing declared in favor of free text
books and against teachers using to-
bacco.
TEMPERANCE societies in Indiana
were preparing to make determined
fight on the saloons before the legis-
lature.
AT Wellington, Mich. Matthew
Palmer cut his wife's throat and then
cut his own. Both were dead.
TWENTY-FIVE bakers in Cincinnati
reduced the price of bread from five to
three cents.
LEELER's hotel and other buildings
in Waterbury, Conn.,, were destroyed
by fire, entailing a loss of $1,000
COAL miners at Massillon, O., de-