Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-03-06
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the Week Ending March 4.

Property valued at upward of $780,
900 was destroyed by fire at Salina,
Kan.
A boiler in distillery at Itzkany.
Roumania, exploded, killing twelve
persons.
Four men were killed and two others
injured by an explosion in a sawmill
at Adelphia, O.
It has practically been decided to
hold an international mining exposition
in Denver in 1895.
George Magee, who killed a guard in
the Kentucky penitentiary, was hanged
at Frankfort Friday.
The Holdredge (Neb.) national bank
failed to open it's doors The bank has
capital stock of $4,000.
Sir Godfrey T. P. Hornby, admiral
of the feet and first aide-de-camp to
Queen Victoria, is dead.
Refreshing sleep has come to David
Jones, of Elwood, Ind, after 152 days
and nights of wakefulness.
Both houses of the Oklahoma legis-
lature passed a divorce bill which is
uuc4udlc 1OT us 1lUeTdlILy.
Five million feet of lumber in the
piling grounds, on Gatineau river, Ont,
were burned. Loss, $150,000.
Daniel Hairstrom and wife, of Alton,
I. T., were fatally injured by white
robbers disguised as negroes.
Ice gorged in the Susquehanna river
at Port Deposit, Md, and the residents
were forced to flee to the hills.
Ismail Pasha, ex-khedive of Egypt
and father of the present ruler, died at
Constantinople, aged 65 years.
Prof. John Stuart Stuart Blackie,
the Scotch author and scholar, died in
London. He was SO years old.
Two masked men held up a train
near Antelope, Cal, but were beaten
off by the engineer and fireman.
Harry Hill, the murderer of Matthew
Akeson, Cass county (Neb.) farmer,
was hanged at Plattsmouth Friday.
Howard Yocum. an Adams Express
company driver at Alliance, O., disap-
peared, leaving shortage of 81 1000.
]. Hamburger & Co., of New York,
importers of leaf tobacco, made an as
signment with liabilities of 100000.
Mgr. Khrimiran, the Armenian pa
triarch, says 11,OOO of his countrymen
were butchered in the Sassoun district.
Henry Studebaker, one of the we'll
known firm of wagon builders, died at
his home near South Bend, Ind, aged
6s years.
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whole insurgent band in Cuba. The
prisoners have been taken to Matanzas
for trial.
Joe Dean, negro murderer of A. B.
Leigh, of Campbell, Ga, was hanged
twice Friday, the rope breaking the
first time.
At Weems Station, Ca, locomotive
boiler exploded. Engineer T. A. Nc
CURE and Fireman William Reeves
were killed.
At Franklin, Ind, James Truelock,
Thomas Kirk and Lee Martin were SEN
fenced to six years imprisonment for
grave robbery.
Tissue paper garments, of all sizes
and colors, were pinned on show bill
figures which had offended Port Huron
(Mich.) ministers.
The inspector general of the army
has reported to congress that national
soldiers homes are overcrowded to
dangerous degree.
Fire destroyed the Kaestner build
ing in Chicago, occupied by numerous
tenants, and several adjoining houses,
entailing loss of $4,000
The physicians of Washington were
discussing a phenomenon offered by
young colored girl who was having the
smallpox for the second time.
Cornelius s. Sweetland, assignee of
Sheldon & Biney, bankers of Provi-
dence, Z. l., announced the liabilities |
of the firm as 81, 166, 536 and the assets
1873, 615.
The Interstate Baseball league was |
formally organized at Bloomington,
Ill, the cities represented being Joliet,
Aurora, Bloomington, Terre Haute,
Fort Wayne and Lafayette.
The coinage executed at the minis of
the United States during the month of
February was as follows: Gold, &c.
143, 800; silver, s491, ZOO. minor coin.
$57, 300; total coinage, Sc, 692, 100.