Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-04-24
The News Condensed.
Important. Intelligence From All Parts
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
REV. GEORGE CLARK, one of the pio-
neer Methodist preachers in Iowa, aged
6s years, fell dead near Oslxaloosa.
FLOODS were still doing great dam
age in New England. At Concord, N.
H., fifty families were homeless, and
at Haverhill, Mass, the shoe shops
were all shut down, the business part
of the city being practically under wa
ter. At Bellows Falls, VT, three per-
sons were drowned. The loss of prop
erty will be enormous.
REV. Mr.. Icing said at the Metho-
dist ministers meeting in st. Louis
that the admission of colored branches
would destroy the Epworth league.
The balance sheet of the whisky
trust fled in Chicago shows a shortage
of 81, 100000.
SEVERAL farms near Cherokee, Kan,
were swept by a cyclone and a number
of persons were injured.
STATE SENATOR WILLIAM GoEBEL had
hearing in Covington, KY, for kill
ing Col. John L. Sanford and was ac-
quilted.
OLIVER G. PERRY, the train robber
who escaped with four others from the
Matawan IN. j. asylum, was captured,
and the five are now all in custody
again.
The United States was requested by
the Chinese government to take under
it's protection the Chinese residing in
Guatemala.
WILLIAM HENDRICK, wanted in Ohio,
North Carolina, Tennessee and Ken
lucky for bigamy, was arrested at Mid
dlesboro, KY. Seven deserted wives
were one his track.
AcYcLoNE passed across Washington
county, Ala, and all the houses and
fences in its path were swept clean.
The war department at Washington
has found in three months that of every
1000 men enlisted from civil life thirty
one were identified by new system as
convicts, deserters or otherwise unde-
sirable characters.
The secret service officials have dis
covered a new counterfeit ive-dollar
national bank note. 1t is on the Black
stone canal national bank of Provi-
dence, r. l., check letter B, series of
1882; A. w. Wyman, treasurer; B. K.
Bruce, register; treasury No. E19027O99;
portrait of Garfield.
SEVERE shocks of earthquake were
felt at Burlington, VT. and Moodus,
Conn.
The vicinity of Meridian, Miss, was
visited by hail and windstorm and
houses were demolished and the fruit
crop injured.
FROM advices received at the Office of
the commissioner of internal revenue
in Washington it was believed that
about 10000 persons had filed income
tax returns with district collectors.
Col. r. M. KELLY, editor of the Louis
vile Commercial, has been elected state
commander of the G. A. r. of Kentucky.
ROBERT CENTER, wealthy, and one of
the best-known sportsmen in America,
was knocked off his bicycle and crushed
to death under the wheels of coal
wagon in New York.
PETROLEUM ran up to $2.7o per bar
rel in the Pittsburgh market and then
fell to So. II. x5s
AT Morgan City, La. Adolph Schen-
erick shot and killed Matte Francisco
and then killed himself. He leaves a
wife and four children.
ALEXANDER TURK, % years of age,
shot and killed his sweetheart, Miss
Julia Fallon, at Cleveland, o., and then
killed himself. Jealousy was the
cause.
LESS than inches ofrain have fallen
!. in Texas since january and deplor-
o1, "a 1o of
were received from all parts of the
state.
The Association of Iron and Steel
Sheet Manufacturers met at Pitts
burgh and advanced prices of their |
product two dollars ton.
JOSEPH B. GREENHUT was retired |
from the presidency of the whisky
trust at its annual meeting in Peoria,
Ill. Jg4
The annual convention of the Wom- !
ans Baptist Foreign Missionary So
ciety of the West met at Fort Wayne,
Ind.
> A BLIZZARD near Charleston, IS. c.,
did damage to truck farm interests to !
the extent of 100000.
DR.. JOHN p. TALL, Of Tampa, Fla, a |
physician of national reputation, while |
reading a paper before the Florida
State Medical association at Gaines
vile suddenly gasped and fell dead.
ROBBERS secured only $23 from the
home of Mrs. Hanlihan, aged IS, near
Cory, Pa, after burning her fatally
with a lamp.
The entire plant used in manufactur-
ing the counterfeit two-cent stamps
which were discovered in circulation
was found in Chicago.
SEvILL, ScHoFIELD &c Co., .proprietors
of the Economy WOODEN mills at Mana
yunk, Pa, failed for $3.50, 0oO
A. SCHIEITER, owner of large gen.
eral merchandise store at Ida Grove,
Ia, shot and killed his wife and then
killed himself. Domestic trouble was
The cause.
A. T. WILLIAMS, the defaulting treas
urer of Bayfield, county, Wis, was ar
rested in Duluth, MINI.
The remains of James w. Scott, late
proprietor of the Chicago Times-Her-
aid, were buried in Graceland GENE
terry.
Tur North na1-ofo f;11;por occ<,o;.