Morris tribune., 1895-01-02
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

$t1, 600, 900, was sold at auction fol
100000.
ROBERT BIRD and John Spann were
killed and three men fatally hurt by
the explosion of the boiler of grist
mill at Bonayr, KY.
RINGLEADERs of the gang which
robbed David Slocum and wife of Erie
Pa, of $4,000 after torturing them
were captured.
The funeral of ex-senator Alcorn al
Eagles Nest, Miss, was attended by
500 negroes. the majority of whom
were his former slaves.
SNEAK thieves entered barber shop
in st. Louis and stole a pocl1etbook be-
longing to Michael Doran containing
$2S, 900.
Four concerns doing business in
Milwaukee failed with liabilities ag-
gregating $685. 900.
CHRISTMAS editions of the San Fran
cisco Examiner and the Rocky Noun
tain News of Denver were issued by
society women.
AT Vineland, n. J., a fast express
train collided with carriage and
killed three OF the occupants
WHILE skating in a park at st. Paul
three students of the st. Paul college
broke through the ice and were
drowned.
The original manuscript of "Amer-
lea" was sent to the pope by David
Pells Secor for deposit in the vatican
library.
SAMUEL c. SEELY, who stole 1854, 900
from the Shoe and Leather bank of
New York, was sentenced to a term of
eight years.
The body of ex-Sherif James R.
Curry. who had died from some pc
culiar disease, was stolen from it's grave
at Greenwood, Ind
JOHN E. BITTELL and his wife were
arrested at ST. joe, Mo-, charged with
being the leaders of a band of counter
feiters.
Mrs. KELLER, of English, Ind, in
burning some old letters destroyed
81, 400, the total proceeds of the sale OF
her home.
AT Huntsville, Ala, Mrs. Ida Ross
was given a verdict Of $1,000 against
the Western Union Telegraph company
for failure to deliver message to her
husband
Mrs. MYRTLE SIMPSON poisoned her
self at Peoria. Ill, because of her hus-
bands fondness for 6-year-old daugh-
ter by a former wife.
EUGENE V. DEBs and other members
of the American Railway union were
granted stay of sentence in Chicago
until January s.
Gov. PENNoYER, of Oregon, sent an
appeal 10 President Cleveland to with
draw his opposition to the free coinage
of silver.
GEORGE ROBERTS, given life SEN
tence at Terre Haute, Ind, for train
wrecking, says he was promised i'm
munity for aiding the authorities to
convict his associates.
A NEGRO named Benjamin was
lynched by mob at Ocala, Fla, for
assaulting white woman.
On the ground that the act is illegal,
the income tax law will again be
fought in the United States senate.
WEARIED of waiting for a lover who
had deserted her years ago on Christ
mas day, Miss Miller. of Johnstown,
Pa, ended her life.
JUDGE WALL. of Leadville, says that
there is no law in Colorado prohibit
ing man from burning his own honse.
WHILE eating Christmas dinner at
the home of friend in Rockford, ILL.,,
Henry r. Evans was taken i'll and died
within few hours.
CuApJ FDyrApn nrrFErur Tho ho1
player, better known as "Home Run
Duffee," died at Mobile, Ala, from con-
sumption.
NEARLY 1000, 900 feet of lumber and
twenty loaded railway cars were de-
stroyed by fire at Burlington, VT, the
loss being $780, 0O
MANY farmers and merchants were
financially ruined by the failure of the
Citizens stock bank and Slater savings
bank at Slater, Mo.
The state normal college for girls at
Livingstone, one of the most prosper
Gus institutions in Alabama, was
burned
A HEAVY snowstorm ragged from Ne
braska to the Atlantic coast.
EDWARD r. CARTER, for twenty-nine
years a clerk in the National bank of
commerce of New York, confessed to
emhezzling $4,000.
WILLIAM S. WHITMAN, of Winoosl1i, !
Vt, shot and killed his wife and two
boys and then committed suicide. Do
mestic trouble was the cause.
A. w. ALTON, of New Jerusalem,
Tex, when arrested in New Orleans
upon the charge of insanity said he
was on the way to Washington to kill
the president.
EIGHTEEN persons were seriously in
jured in a collision between passenger
trains at Waxahachie, Tex
ALIX failed in an effort to lower her |
record at Los Angeles, trotting mile |
in 2:o5I. The 2-year-old Directly
paced mile in 2:0S
The largest single mail ever brought
across the Atlantic arrived i'll New |
York on the steamer Majestic. 1t was
in 1872 bags.
ANNIE FREEZE, 15-year-old girl. was
abducted from the home of her grand
father near Hicl1sville, O., by unknown
persons.
E1CAPT. STEPHENSON, of New York