Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-05-01
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

Blair at midnight and stabbed her to
death and then killed himself.
JAMES R. HOLLAND, cashier of the
Merchants and Farmers national bank
of Charlotte, N. c., was discovered
snort In his accounts to the amount OF
S75,0
A VOLUME issued at Washington
shows that the total appropriations by
the Fifty-third congress were $497, 00s,
b20, and that 1,773 new offices were
created.
DuRING the absence of Joe Robinson
and his wife their house at Quincy,
Fla, was burned and three children
were cremated.
In the New York assembly the bill to
make Lincoln's birthday, February 10,
a legal holiday was passed without a
dissenting vote.
The Dime savings bank at Will
mantle, Conn.,, closed it's doors with
$62o,591 on deposit and a surplus OF
about $33, 900.
THE Minnesota legislature adjourned
sine die.
MRS. WILLIAM hartley, of Harris
horn, o. T., took dose of arsenic and
forced her 7-year-old daughter to swal-
low like quantity of the drug. Both
are dead.
THE total receipts from internal rev.
enue for the nine months of the present
fiscal year ended March 81 were $780,
5,015, the net increase being 81, $780,
1853 over the preceding nine months.
THE United States supreme court set
May for hearing arguments on the
petition for rehearing of the income
tax question.
IN the Delaware conference of the A.
M. E. church at Philadelphia Bishop
Ruley decided that smoking is sin
FIRE in the manufacturing and
wholesale house of Lanpher, Finch &
Skinner in ST. Paul resulted in loss
of $125, 900.
1T was reported that seven Polanders
who were clearing land at Wild Rose,
Wis, were cremated by the burning Of
their shanty.
FIRE destroyed the entire business
portion of Chester, Neb.
LOUIS BUDENwITcH and Senior An
tonic Rem, citizens of Argentina who
are making an overland trip for their
government from Buenos Ayres to Chi
cago, arrived at Little Rock, Ark, hav-
ing walked the entire distance, 1O,145
miles. They left Buenos Ayres August
z, 1892.
THE carpet and plush mills of James
Dobson at Falls of Schuylkill, Pa, were
closed indefinitely, throwing 1000 en-
ployes out of work.
THE New York assembly adopted a
resolution favoring the annexation of
Canada to the United States.
A FOREST fire covering square
miles and consuming valuable pine
timber was raging near Lakewood. N. J.
INCOME tax returns in Alabama num-
bered $40, and it was believed the tax
in the state would amount to but
$50, 900.
The village of Perley, Wis, was
nearly wiped out by fire.
A STATEMENT shows that the total
western packing for the winter season,
ending March l, was 7,191, 900 hogs, an
increase of 2, 80, 600 over the preceding
year.
The Methodist Episcopal bishops of
the entire world met in convention at
Carlisle, Pa.
GEN. DARLINGTON Booth, of the Sal
walton Army, has renowned Queen
Victoria and will become an American
citizen.
CORA MCCAMLEY SMITH. who pleaded
guilty to poisoning her stepfather,
Michael Smith, a year ago, was SEN
fenced at Des Moines, La, to life i'm
prisonment.
The First national bank of Plain
field, N. j., was robbed of 1872, 765 by
burglars.
REPORTS indicated widespread dis
position ON the part of farmers to move
to the south.
If Justice jackson of the supreme
court is in Washington May 6 the court
will vacate the income tax decision
handed down April and open the
case for reargument
FOREST fires were raging in the vicin- |
ity of Phillips, Wis, doing immense
damage.
A NEGRO who assaulted Mrs Thomas |
Gray was hunted down by posse |
near Parsons, Tenn, and riddled with |
bullets
The safe of Noah Hertzler at Port !
Regal, Pa, was blown open and robbed !
of stocks, bonds and cash amounting |
to about $4,000.
ROBERT OWEN shot and killed his wife |
and DIR. j. F. Simmons at Houston,
Tex, and then blew out his. own
brains.
BILL Cook, the notorious outlaw. and
twelve companions were lodged in the
Albany On. " penitentiary.
4 The failure of Louis Schintz, real
estate dealer at Appleton, Wis, made
many old and helpless persons paupers
ABOUT 5000, 900 feet Of pine lumber in
the yard of F. B. Newton & Co. at
Cleveland was destroyed by fire.
THE governors of all the states and
territories will be asked to aid in Sc
curing money to erect a suitable monu-
ment over the grave of Francis Scott
Key, the author of the .'Star Spangled
Banner, whose remains are buried in
Nd.
FIRE destroyed the business portion
of Minnewaukan, N. D., the residence
portion having narrow escape.