Morris tribune., 1895-05-29

The exchanges at the leadlng clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the cath aggregated
Sl,111, s44,13 against 81, 161, 1884, 500 the
previous week. The increase, com
pared with the corresponding week In
1894, was 3O5.
EX-PoLICE JUDGE CHARLES E. NORRIS
who stole $4,000 from the Citizens
Building and Loan association AT
Springfield, o., pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to six years in the peniten-
tiary.
THE Langley flying machine flew a
distance Of 1000 feet at a test near
Washington.
| RATHER than endure the reproach OF
living off his wife's earnings Louis
Kracman, of Chicago, killed his little
girl, years of age, and then took. his
own life.
AT Louisville, KY, the grand jury
dismissed the case against Fulton Cor
don, who killed his wife and Archie
Dixon Brown, son of Gov. Brown, sew
eral weeks ago.
AT Huron, S. D., G. ID. Houghton's
stables, with many valuable horses,
| were burned.
The friends of free coinage gathered
in force at Memphis, Tenn, to hear ex-
Congressman w. j. Bryan, of Nebraska,
reply to the sound money speech of
Secretary Carlisle before the anti-free
silver convention. Mr.. Bryan con-
trasted Mr.. Carlisle's silver attitude
now with his views in 1878.
FREDERICK w. GRIFFIN, the assistant
cashier of the Northwestern national
bank of Chicago, who was short $50, 900
in his accounts. pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to five years in the peniten-
tiary.
THE miners strike in the Pittsburgh
pa district was ended, the strikers
going back to work at the operators
terms, sixty cents per ton.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 25th were: Pittsburgh,
ia; Cincinnati, .677; Chicago, 1888;
Cleveland. 1856; Philadelphia, $50;
New York, $50; Boston, 500; Balti-
more, 500; Brooklyn, 1886; st. Louis,
1867; Washington, .S46; Louisville. ZOO
CHARLES c. CoUDRAY was arrested at
Flint, Mich, charged with having
three wives in Indiana, one in Illinois
and one in Flushing, Mich.
GEORGE REED, aged 60, committed
a criminal assault on the 11-year-old
daughter of Rev. Clarence WEIGH at
Lakeview, Mich, and when arrested
took his own life with poison.
AT the Troy Presbyterian church in
the Nicholasville (Ky.) district George
Montgomery and Arch D. Riley killed
each other with pistols.
JOHN A. MORRIS, the celebrated turf
man of New York, died suddenly at his
ranch near Knoxville, Tenn.
OFoREsT fires were raging in all parts
of the upper Michigan peninsula.
Rev. WILLIAM F. HINsHAw, pastor of
the Methodist church at Belleville,
Ind, was arrested on the charge of
numbering his wife on the night of
January IL.
The Fifth national bank of San An
tonic, Tex, went into voluntary liqui-
dation.
A STEAM yacht named Trilby cap
sized in the Hamburg canal at Buffalo,
N. Y, and three men were drowned.
THE new Waverly hotel at Hot
Springs, Ark, was destroyed by fire
and William Burke, night porter, was
cremated. All the guests escaped.
EVERY business building at Galien,
Mich, but two stores and the post Of
fee were destroyed by fire.
WHILE fishing on Maharr lake three
young men of Cambridge township,
Mich, Bert Salisbury, aged 20; Will
Doolittle, aged 80, and Nina Patterson,
aged II, were drowned by the upsetting
of their boat.
GRAIN men at st. Paul, Mimi,
thought that the visible supply Of
wheat in this country was millions of
bushels less than appeared by pub
lished statements.
DISASTROUS forest fires were raging !
in some of the heavy wooded districts |
of northern Wisconsin.
A TRUST of the manufacturers of |
wire nails throughout the country was
at Pittsburgh, Pa.
PROF. j. MADISON WATSON. widely |
known educational man, being the au-
thor and publisher of series of school
books used throughout the United |
States, was sent to an insane asylum |
1t Elizabeth, N. J.
HENRY MCKINNEY, near Nashville. |
Tenn, accidentally killed two sisters.
A rife discharged prematurely.
The first regular session of the ma
5ional conference of charities and cor
'ections opened at New Haven, Conn.
A JOINT committee of members of the
asst congress was sitting at the capitol
20 assess the personal damages sus-
aimed by clerks in the Ford's theater
disaster of June. 1893.
M. V. LoNGswoRTH, leading bust
1ess man of Delphos, O., eloped with
Mrs. Mona Thorp, wife of one of his
employees.
The Iowa Federation of Labor in
session at Ottumwa defeated an effort
% commit the federation to free silver
,r socialism.
PAUL TAUsTIN, aged %, employed in
! local swimming school at st. Louis,
eaped from the center arch of the
1ads bridge into the Mississippi river,
20 feet below, and was not injured.