Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-02-27
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the weeI. Ending Feb. e3.

For the Week Ending Feb. 23.
Washington's birthday was generally
observed throughout the country.
Pioneer William Scott celebrated
his 99th birthday anniversary at Del
phos, 0.
The funeral of Isaac p. Gray, late
minister to Mexico, took place at Union
City, Ind.
Ex-Gov. Benjamin f. Prescott died
at Epping, N. H., after long illness at
the age of SO years.
For the first time in it's history Mis-
sissippi has "a surplus of corn and it was
being shipped to the west.
Police raided secret society hall in
Chicago where prize fight was in
progress and captured $50 men.
Twenty-Five French soldiers were
killed and thirty-four wounded in col
lisions with pirates in Tonquin.
Officers at San Francisco captured a
gang of pirates which had been oper-
ating on a large scale for months.
Senators Mills and Pease, of the Col
orado legislature, came to blows dur
ing session over a trivial matter.
Kolb was said to be preparing to
carry into execution his threat to seize
the reins of government in Alabama.
A resolution advising the abolition
of football was adopted at meeting
of the faculty of Harvard university.
William Walsh, an aged man of st.
10, HI 6xy
robbers who thought he was boarding
money.
Woman suffrage was defeated in the
North Dakota house, the vote being 81
to 25. The new divorce bill was also
beaten.
A west-bound Frisco train was held
up by three robbers near Aurora, Mo-,
who failed to open the safe in the ex-
press car.
Mrs. Minerva c.. Taylor, a seam
stress of Guthrie, o. t., shot and killed
William Henry Harrison, who had an
noyed her.
The people of Montgomery and
neighboring counties in Kansas were
eating horsefesh, not being able to get
other food.
Five grown members of family at
Brampton, Ont, became insane and
were sent to an asylum for assaulting
their mother.
Prohibitionists of Rhode Island in
state convention at Providence nomi-
mated Smith Quimby as their candidate
for governor
Brig. Gen. John 81. Breach, who has
squandered fortune of 1000, has
been sent to jail in New York for
drunkenness.
The town of Koutchal, near Astra
bad, Persia, was swallowed up by an
earthquake and several thousand per-
sons persisted.
C. w. Knapp, of the St. Louis Repub-
lie, was elected president of the Ameri-
can Newspaper Publishers association,
at New York.
Three unknown men blew the vaults |
of the savings bank at Thomaston,
Conn.,, with dynamite and secured a
small amount.
Icaria, the community established |
near Corning, Ia, by French socialists |
a century ago, has passed into re-
ceivers hands.
Recent violent snowstorms have rem
dered citizens of eastern Colorado des-
titute and they have appealed for i'm
mediate relief
An eyewitness of Mooshir Pasha's
s'march of blood through Armenia
says 1903 lives were sacrificed and
many villages burned.
John Geiger, pioneer resident of
Norfolk, Neb., has become possessed of
q fortune of $1,5oO,OOO through the
death of brother in New York.
Miss Conlin, aged %, was fatally
shot at Creston, Ia, by her younger
brother, who was playing with gun
which he thought was not loaded.
William G. Murphy, aged rs, the last
IF Gen. Sam Houston's army in the war
'or independence for Texas, died in
Philadelphia. He was one Of the party
hat stormed the Alamo.