Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-05-22

starving condition. ~ ~ s
The United States treasury defci
has passed the $4,000, 900 mark, the ex
act amount of the excess of expendi
lures over the receipts since July /
1894, being $50, 4O4, ss7.
THE Sons of Veterans in annual ses
sion at Bloomington, Ill, denounced
the proposed dedication of confed
crate statue in Chicago on Decoration
day.
HERMAN WHIPPLE, of Scion, Me-, a
well-known lumber operator, was
swindled out of $4,000 by the gold
brick" scheme.
CAPT. j. w. MORRIS started from San
Francisco on tour around the world
in boat As feet in length. He was
accompanied by his wife, two seamen
and a cabin boy.
WILLIAM PECK and Matthew Peck,
brothers whom the fortunes of war
separated thirty-four years ago, met in
Chicago
Two BROTHERS, Frank and Harm
Schaumburg, living near Milford, Ill,
were killed while adjusting a belt on a
circular wood saw.
The twenty-ffth annual convention
of the grand division of the Order of
Railway Conductors met at Atlanta,
Ga. 49, 2R4 vs.
FIFTEEN boats were wrecked during
recent gale on Lake Michigan and
nearly dozen persons were drowned.
OWING to lack of funds Judge Coke
adjourned the United States court at
Rochester, N. Y, and among the pris
oners compelled to be discharged were
four weIl-known counterfeiters.
THE schooner Kate Kelley was re
ported lost on Lake Michigan with her
entire crew of seven men.
A soUTH-BoUND passenger train on
the St. Louis & Hannibal railway ran
ON broken rail near Slick, Mo-, and
ment. c. Meyer, of Warrenton, Mo-,
was killed, and twenty-five other per-
sons were injured.
BY the explosion of boiler in
sawmill near West Bingham, Pa, eight
men were killed.
CLAUDE STEVENSON shot and XII ed
John Moore at Noblesville, Ind, for
insulting Mrs. Stevenson. The men
had been intimate friends for thirty
five years.
INDIANS were on the warpath in Ari-
IONA and miners and settlers were in
danger.
The board of managers of the Carne-
gle Steel company decided at Pitts
burgh to advance the wages of its 25,-
600 men 10 per cent.
A FIRE in the yards OF the Dwight
Lumber company at Detroit, Mich,
caused a loss of over 100000. n
AT the annual meeting in New York
of the Hotel Mems Mutual Benefit as
ISOLATION B. FL. Yard, of Spring Lake,
n. Y, was elected president.
- FIVE men were injured, three of
them fatally, by the giving way of the
inside work of cotton mill in process |
of erection at Atlanta, Ga.
W. N. CowELL, an attorney at Ke-
nosha, Wis, was arrested in Chicago,
charged with being concerned in one
of the most extensive land swindles
operated in this country in years.
ELI WILLIAMS, of Philadelphia, frac-
tured his wife's skull with an ak and
olACh OACW LIO GOp VI LIS u0dO OIL Will
an old army musket.
APACHE KID" and band of rene
gade Apaches had a fight in Arizona
with Indians on the reservation, killed
one squaw, injured several others and
carried one away,
AMOS B. HosTETTER, leaf tobacco
dealer at Lancaster, Pa, failed for
$3.50, 600. sssg S e
DURING the ten months ended April |
80 last the imports of merchandise
amounted to 1902, $50, 654, against $780,
73o,221 in 1894, and the exports
amounted to $676, 900, 337, against 1854,
4e9,072 in 1894. The exports of gold
amounted to 1854 Ala, All. which is $780,
209, 700 in excess of the imports.
AT Loveland, o., Frank Hill and
George Myers collided while going at !
full speed on their bicycles, fracturing
each others skulls Both were not ex-
pected to live
CHARLES MURPHY and two other rail
road men were burned to death in q |
boarding house at Osterburg, Pa.
GOVERNOR, the historical home of |
the poetical sisters, Alice and Phoebe |
Cary, near Cincinnati, was sold under
foreclosure. The Briggs-Swift estate
bought it to be preserved as an histor-
ical literary center.
In the great Brooklyn IN. Y.)lhandi-
cap race Hornpipe won by a length,
with Lazarone second and Sir Walter I
third. Time, 2:11I.
The number of immigrants who ar
rived in the United States during the
last ten months amounted to 1913, 621.
FRED HAUKoHL, city treasurer of |
Manitowoc, Wis, committed suicide by |
shooting. He was said to be short 81
600 in his accounts.
GEN. w. Fl. POWELL, of Belleville, I
was elected commander of the Illinois
G. A. r. at the annual encampment in
Bloomington.
BURGLARS blew open the safe in The
bank at Anderson, w. Va, and carried
off $4,000.
Ex-PREsIDENT HARRISON was present
at the fiftieth anniversary in Newark
OF the New Jersey Historical society
and was presented with gold medal.
Ex-MAYoR BEN RUSSELL, of Licking
ton, Mo-, committed suicide. by shoot