Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-04-10

WHILE MRS. InOmaS Jones was pre-
pairing her ballot at the polls in New
castle, Col, she tainted and fell. burst
ing "a blood vessel, from the effects O
which she died.
The Findlay Rolling Mill compan..
of Findlay, O., made an assignment
with assets of $3.50, 600 and liabilities o
1925, ZOO.
Miss AMY WEST was awarded $40, 90
damages at Pikeville, KY, agains
Moses Deskins and wife in suit TO
SANDER.
THE packet Iron Queen was burnet
ON the Ohio river at Antiquity and thu
colored chambermaid was lost.
WILLIAM L. WILSON took the oath o
Office as postmaster general.
In runaway accident near Soutl
Bend, Ind, two children of james
Hicks were trampled to death.
IT was discovered that employees o.
the United States Express company
had during the past year defrauded the
company out of nearly 100000
FREDERICK w. GRIFFIN, assistant
cashier of the Northwestern nationa
bank in Chicago, was arrested fol
stealing $4,000.
INSURANCE companies were canceling
policies on indianapolis saloons, fear.
ing the new temperance law might in
cite to arson.
NEWTON WALTERS, who shot and
killed the two Cox brothers and then
attempted to assault their sister near
Galena, Kan, was hanged by mob.
A BILL passed the Michigan legisla-
ture by which the county of Manitou
is disorganized and attached to Charlie
voix and Leelanaw counties.
THE post Office at Springfield, ILL.,,
was robbed of about $4,000 worth of
stamps.
The city council passed an order for
bidding glove contests in Chicago be-
cause aldermen were denied free adj
mission.
CAPT ROBERT ANDREWS, of the
schooner Sydney Jones; Washington
Andrews, his nephew, and John Phil
lips (colored) were drowned at Balti-
more.
SIX HUNDRED tramps created reign
of terror in the towns of Bivalve and
Port Morris, n. ].
Col" JAMES GILBERT. the giant of
Barnum, Forepaugh, and all the other
big shows of the country, died in New
York, aged 35 years. Gilbert stood z
feet inches in his stockings and was
big in proportion.
AFTER a career of twenty-five years,
during which it has become world
famed as a caravansary, the Grand Pa
cific hotel in Chicago closed its doors
permanently.
CHARLES GEsKA. young lad con-
victed of numbering his step-father and
afterward burning the body, was SEN
fenced at Elyria, o., to the peniten-
tiary for life.
Gov. STONE issued proclamation
converting the Missouri Legislature in
extra session April %.
SPEAKER MEYER, of the Illinois
house. ordered the preparation of a
bill to extend the principles of civil
service reform to the state depart
ments.
The First national bank at Rayenna,
Neb., the heaviest banking institution
of that city, closed it's doors.
II. c. ST. JOHN, son of ex-Gov. st.
John, of Kansas, shot and killed his
wife in their home near Oklahoma
City. o. T. He claimed the shooting
was accidental
LEADING western stockraisers were
considering plans for defeating the
dressed beef combine.
MAJ. ANDREW j. HAMILTON, who
planned the famous escape from Libby
prison, was killed by boon companion
at Reedyville, KY.
The annual report of Librarian Spot
ford of the Congressional library for
1894 shows that g., 762 copyrights were
entered, against 1886 for the year
1898.
A TRAIN on the Rock Island road was
held up by bandits near Dover, O. T.,
and the passengers were robbed of their
valuables.
WILLIAM Nolan, confidential book |
keeper of the Park Avenue hotel in
New York, disappeared with $50 900 of |
the hotels cash.
REPORTS from the tier of counties
comprising the Michigan fruit belt in
dictate phenomenal fruit crop this
year.
1T is expected by government officials
that at least 500, 900, 900 in income tax
will have been collected by June /, the |
close of the fiscal year.
The First national bank of Dublin,
Tex, was closed by the bank examiner.
WILLIAM LAKE was executed by cleo
tricity at Auburn, N. Y, for the muir
der of Emma Louisa Hunt, fellow |
servant who had refused his attentions. !
AT Coldwater, Miss. Thomas Jones, |
a sick man. asked for cup of coffee. |
whereupon his nurse killed him with a |
skillet.
THE Southern Pacific Railway COM
pany transferred all it's property to the
Central Trust company of New York,
the consideration being $5s, 1000, 900.
AN explosion in saloon in New Or
leans killed fifteen persons and others
were injured. 1t was supposed to be
Malta case.
THE sugar trust issued orders to job
bers to stop selling foreign sugar.
The Illinois supreme court says that
the law authorizing the destruction of
gambling implements seized under the
authority of a search Warrant is com