Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-09-11
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Ark, and then took his own life.
LABOR DAY was generally celebrates
throughout the United States. e49.
ED DONOVAN, of Natick, ran 1ooyard
at Brockton, Mass. in nine and three
ffths seconds, breaking the world
record for that distance.
THE forty-fifth annual Ohio state fail
opened at Columbus.
HENRY H. WOLFE & Co., of Louis
vile, KY, one of the largest clothing
firms in the south, failed for $780,
THE wholesale clothing store o,
Shell, Rosenbaum s. Steefel was burned
at Rochester, N. Y, the loss being
100000. 2
on the New York & Sea Beach railroad
and ran into an excursion train near
Bay Ridge, injuring sixty-eight per
sons, some probably fatally.
O. B. HACKENBERGER won the 25-mile
bicycle race at Denver and beat the
worlds record, his time being 1:04:4-7,
the old record being los As.
WILLIAM BUTCHER, a desperate negro,
was taken from Jail at Hickman, KY,
by mob and his head was shot off
and his body riddled with bullets.
THE American Association for the
Advancement of Science met at Spring
field, Mass
The twenty-frst annual convention
of the Railway Postal Clerks Mutual
Benefit association began in Chicago.
THE coinage at the minis of the
United States during August amounted
to $4,517, 600, as follows: Gold, $3,672.-
200; silver, $74s, 900; minor coins, $97,-
400.
THE prevalence of cholera in Homo
lulu and the orient has created a scare
at San Francisco and Portland, Ore. !,
and the local boards of health were
adopting stringent measures to repel
its invasion.
COUNTY JUDGE BULLOCK, of Lexing-
ton, KY, will appoint women for cleo
ton and registration officials. This
will be the first instance of the kind in
Kentucky, if not in the United States.
ANGELO ANDREW, the largest wall
paper and paint dealer in Akron, O.,
assigned to James V. Welch.
FIRE at Evansville, Ind, destroyed
the Hellman -four mill, an elevator
and 1O0,o 900 bushels of wheat, the loss
being 100000.
A TOTAL eclipse of the moon was OBJ
served at many places in the United
States.
THE tug L. D. Smith was the first
American craft to pass through the
new Canadian ship canal
Mrs. JOHN B. GRIFFIN and a. little
daughter were the only survivors of
family of six at Little Rock, Ark,
three children having died of starva-
ton and the father of alcoholism
THE annual convention of the lum-
bermen of the United States opened in
Buffalo, n. Y.
NAFoLEA C. RATE, his wife and
three daughters were poisoned at
Akron, O., by paris green in boiled
cabbage. Mrs. Rate and Alice, aged
Is, could not live.
RAND & GosHoRN, the large retail
dry goods and shoe house of Charles
ton, W. Va, failed.
THE trial of William Henry Theodore
Durrant for the murder of Blanche
Lamont commenced in San Francisco.
JOSEPH B. NORTON was hanged at
Jasper, Fla, for the murder of James
Denmark on January last.
The receipts Of the government for
the two months of the current fiscal |
year were 5000, 1914. against SIS, 1885,
945 for the corresponding months of !
the last fiscal year. Expenditures for |
the like period were $71. 1856, 24s, against |
$6S, 305,2l for the last fiscal year The |
treasury deficit for the fiscal year, or |
the excess of expenditures over re-
ceipts, was stated at s13, 1la,s54. Last
year for a like period receipts ex-
ceeded the expenditures $6,931, T26.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the Sd was: Wheat, |
IS, 100000 bushels; corn, 5,412, 900 bush !
els; oats, 3,417,0o0 bushels; rye, 445,-
600 bushels; barley, $4,000 bushels.
The livery stable of Fleming Bros
at Petersburg. Ind, was burned,
twenty-eight valuable horses being de-
stroyed. A hotel was also burned,
the guests losing all their valua bles.
AMBROSE E. DEAN and his wife while
driving were struck by Wabash train
near Montpelier, O., and instantly
killed.
The Boycott of national bank notes
ordered by General Master Workman
Sovereign, of the knights of Labor,
was said by Washington officials to be
a failure thus far
The new flag law was observed at
most of the public school buildings in
Illinois. ~
The public debt statement issued on
the 4th showed that the debt increased
2,815, Alb during the month of August.
The cash balance in the treasury was
$1s4, 039, 1885, The total debt, less the
cash balance in the treasury, amounts
to $942, 1924 1882.
TREASURY statement shows a net
decrease of money of all kinds in cir
culation in the United States on Sep
TENDER of $40, 950,95s, making the to-
tai of circulation s1.6o3, 5s3, OPS, or
$22 81 per capita, based on 20, 1877 900
population AS compared with Sept
TENDER 1, 1894, there is decrease in
of $40, 900, 900.
A STORM of wind and rain did great
damage in Illinois, Iowa, Indiana,
Michigan and other states, while ]
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