Morris tribune., 1895-06-26

Houston, Tex, and five persons were
seriously injured.
In a fire at Fail & Co.'S livery stable
in Pittsburgh, Pa, two men lost their
lives and forty-six horses were Gre
mated.
| AS result of his wife's unfaithful-
ness Gus Streitmater shot and instant
~ killed z. b. Kemp, at Toledo, O.,
and then shot himself.
| MEN and women raided the only sa-
loon in Basccm, O., and demolished
everything in sight.
THREE HUNDRED oil wells are to be
drilled at once in West Virginia.
AT meeting in Omaha of the Junior
Order of Mechanics it was resolved to
establish national home for widows
and orphans of members, to be located
at Tiffin. O.
| In a bottle picked up at Quintana,
Tex, was letter signed J. Rodgers,
mate of the Aggie g., stating that the
vessel was wrecked April 2, 1895, off
the coast of Yucatan and its crew of
eight and three passengers lost.
THERE were 22s business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 21st, against 241 the week
previous and PA in the corresponding
time in 1894.
A GIGANTIC conspiracy was discov-
cred in New York to burn houses, to
defraud insurance companies and to di-
vide the insurance money.
A HAILsToRM in Stevens county,
Nf;a- J;d rr~ao% 70 ororS
JUDGE M. c. SAUFLEY will try at the
next term of the circuit court in Louis
vile, KY, an action for breach of prom
Use before jury of women.
THE comptroller of the currency au-
thorized the Park national bank of
Cleveland, O., to begin business with
capital of $780, 900.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 21st aggregated
81, O76, 419, 400, against 81, 033, 01O, 496 the
previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was 800.
FIRE destroyed the business portion
of Odell, Neb., including the post of
fee.
HARRY KERvoz, station agent of the
Harlem railway at Philmont, N. Y,
killed his father-in-law, George jacob,
in the station and then blew his own
brains out.
MASKED men held up the cashier of
the bank at Rainy Lake City, Mimi,
and stole $50, 900 and escaped.
SEVENTEEN horses, two mules and all
the contents Of the White Sulphur liv-
cry stables at English, Ind, were de-
stroyed by fire.
HORACE COOPER (colored) was hanged
at Elkton, Nd. He murdered his sweet
heart, Maggie Pitts. Jealousy was the
cause.
JAMES MAHAN, big lumber dealer
of Hancock county, Tenn, murdered |
Loudon Collins. his best friend, be-
cause the latter asked to marry his
sister.
ANTHONY JOHNSON (colored) was
hanged at Dumas, Ark. He killed How
ard, another negro. Jealousy was the
cause. 4
NEAR Tunnelton, w. Va, lightning |
struck a dynamite magazine and an
explosion followed by which several
persons were killed and much property |
was damaged.
WILLIAM MEAsHINTUB was riding in |
d wagon with his wife near Talihina,
D. T., when his brother Jackson came |
up behind, shot and killed him and |
then drove off with the wife.
10 cfof
the excess of expenditures over re-
,eipts for the current fiscal year up to /
date has been $4s, 42e, 42s, and the I
deficit will undoubtedly exceed $780,
300, 600 by the end of this month, which |
finishes the fiscal year.
PERCENTAGES of the baseball clubs in |
the National league for the week ended !
On the 23d were: Boston $50; Pitts:
burgh, $50; Baltimore, .591, Cleveland, |
500; Chicago, .566; Brooklyn, .542; New
York, .531; Cincinnati, .52ll Philadel- |
phia, $50; Washington, AGO. St Louis, |
337; Louisville. LAO.
The boiler in the sawmm of A. Fl. !
Croker, near Byron Center, Mich, |
killing Arthur Barney and |
Martin Skinner and fatally 'njuring
Avery Croker.
IN quarrel over division OF prop
erty at Webster Grove, Mo-, DR.. Frank
Settle shot and killed Mrs. Jane Peter
son. his sister-in-law, Mrs. Peterson's
sister, Mrs. Horish, and then killed |
himself.
JOHN w. FOSTER, ex-secretary of
state, who went to China last Deem
Der as legal adviser to China in the
peace negotiations with Japan, re-
,eived from China a fee of $3.50, 1000.
In an experiment with electricity as
l motive power on the Nantasket Beach
Mass.) road speed of so miles an hour
vas attained.
By the explosion of steam-valve in
'he whaleback steamer Christopher Co
umbus off Waukegan, ILL.,, two men
we're killed and twelve others were in
jured.
A FIRE that started in III. T. Clarke's
drug house at Lincoln, Neb.,
.aused a loss of $15O,OO0
ALL the saloons in New York city
we're closed on Sunday by order of
President Roosevelt, Of the police
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