Morris tribune., 1895-06-19

& session db milwaukee, elccUcu hC'
Ebert, of Ironton, o., as president.
THE formal transfer of the island o
Formosa to Japan was announced in
Z cablegram from the Japanese foreign
!. office to the legation in Washington.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND signed an or
der prepared by the civil service com
mission whereby 1000 positions in thu
! government printing Office are pu
within the classified service.
THE Western Manufacturing com
n pany at Lincoln, Neb., failed for 500,
600. N
; A TRUST was formed in New York
having for its object the entire contro
of the wood pulp papermaking indus
try of the United States.
HAL POINTER (2:O41) and Mascot
(2:oD will pace two races, best three
heats in five, at the grand circuit
meeting in Buffalo. N. Y, in August.
| A. S. MOORE. former employe of In
man, Swan & Co., of New York, was
said to be defaulter to the amount OF
$102, 900.
OVER forty houses and barns were
blown down by cyclone near Carney,
O. T., and Alfred Dodge, a farmer, was
killed.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 18th aggregated
1908, O10, 1876, against $1,131 ,6s5,552 the
previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was 21.s.
| THERE were 241 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 14th, against 1875 the week
| previous and 232 in the corresponding
| time in 1894.
LIGHT OF THE WEST, an imported stall
| lion valued at $4,000, owned by Bur-
CESS Bros, died at Lacon, Ill. The
horse took first premium at the Worlds
Columbian exposition.
BY the explosion of the boiler in
Henry ). Langley's loom and harness
factory at Fail River, Mass, four per-
sons were killed and two fatally hurt
PHILLIP GOODWIN (colored) was
hanged at Mobile, Ala, for the murder
of John Poole.
NEARLY all the timber on the Craw-
ford, Hart and Harrison tracts near
Elkins w. Va, was destroyed by for
est fires, the loss being over s3oo,Ooo
OWING to a lack of commercial bust
ness the bank of Sisson, Crocker & Co.,
of San Francisco, retired from bust
ness.
w. H. JOHNSON, the defaulting ex-
auditor of Muscatine county, Ia, who
absconded after robbing the county
funds of 100000, has been located at
Honolulu, Hawaii.
j. PIERPoNr MoRGAN's prize dog
Roslyn Wilkes, valued at $4,000, de-
iberately committed suicide at West
Point, N. Y, by drowning himself. 1
The director of the mint, R. E. Pres
ton, estimates the worlds production
of gold for the calendar year 1894 at
$1s1, $4,000, against $15s,s36,ooo for
1898, showing an increase during the
year of $22, 674 900.
The Golden Fleece Mining company
at Denver, Col, said that it had been
robbed of hundreds of thousands of
dollars at its mines near Georgetown,
the thieves having Systematically pill
fered rich sortings from the washings
for months.
The Thirty-ninth general assembly
of Illinois adjourned sine die.
CLAY WILLARD, Will Cowie and John |
Eldred were drowned by the capsizing |
of sailboat at West Superior, Wis.
Four persons were drowned in the |
st. Louis river near Duluth, Mimi, by !
the capsizing of sailboat. One was |
the boatman and the other three were !
father and two sons. j,
The 118th anniversary of the adop- |
ton of the stars and stripes as the en-
blem of the United States was observed |
in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago
and other cities.
PERCENTAGES of the baseball clubs in |
the National league for the week ended
on the 18th were: Boston, .641; Balti-
more, .6O5; Pittsburgh, 900; Cleveland.
500; Chicago, .553; Cincinnati, .534; Phil
adelphia, .523; New York, .511; Brook
Ign, 800; Washington, .463; St. Louis,
1876; Louisville. .166.
FRANK WILLIAMS, a farmer at Francis,
Kan, while in jealous rage attempted
to murder his wife, Miss Alice Smith
and William Smith. He then beat the
brains out of his two children and
then killed himself.
GEORGE HARRIS (colored) was lynched
and riddled with bullets at Pendleton
Creek, Ca, for an attempted assault
IN white woman.
The treasury receipts at Washington
rom customs and internal revenue SO
'ar during the month of June show no
during last month, while
The disbursements remain practically
he same.
SEVERAL business buildings, besides
hree printing offices, the Methodist
Episcopal church and number of
houses were burned at Greenville, O.,
he total loss being $15O,OOO.
Fl. R. JACOBS theater in New York
.ity was burned, the loss being $780,
100.
In railway collision at Ycmasee,
J. c., several cars were wrecked and
our colored tramps who were stealing
ride were cut to pieces.
A RUNAWAY car near Elkins, w. Va.
an into hand car and killed John
Daily, Michael Katterman and Felix
Row