Morris tribune., 1895-07-10
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
THE monthly statement of the pub
lie debt issued on the LIST shows thu
debt on June 80, the end of the fisca
year, to have been s., 096, 913, 100, an In
crease during the year of $s3, 517, a37
The excess of government expendi
lures over receipts during the fisca
year was shown to have been 81, S25,
O49. The cash in the treasury was
$195, 240, 153
A TORNADO near Waynesburg, Pa.
wrecked Methodist church and sew
eral houses and greatly damaged crops
FORTY miles east of Guthrie, o. T..
farmers caught two strangers riding
stolen horses, and, as horses had beer
stolen nightly for some time, they
hanged the men.
CLAY PUGH was hanged at Boulder
Mont, for the murder of Chauncey w.
West.
DR.. ROBERT w. BUCHANAN, of New
York, who poisoned his second wife
that he might be free to remarry his
first, was electrocuted at Sing Sing
prison.
AT Jeffersonville, Ind, Mrs. Nancy
Bennett poisoned her two children,
Lottie May, aged 12 years, and Omer,
aged years, and then poisoned her.
self. Mr. Bennett ended his life in the
same manner on September II, 1893.
THE Maine worlds fair building,
which has been reconstructed at Poland
Springs, Me-, was dedicated on the
Tooth anniversary of the settlement of
the town.
VALUABLE nickel ore lodges wer
found at the head of Indian river in
Alaska.
WILLIE MYERS, aged 10. of Atlanta,
Ga, was sentenced for the second time
to be hanged for the murder of Forest
Crowley.
JOHN RHODES and Chat Hammond
were shot to death by Abithal Colston
in Trigg county, KY, and soon after
the bodies of Colston and Mollie Smith,
his mistress, were found in the road
riddled with buckshot.
THE coinage executed at the several
minis of the United States during
June is as follows: Gold, 81, 75O, 900;
silver. $40, 044; minor coins, ST., 200.
Total, 81. 261, 244.
GEORGE SHEPPARD, of McKeesport,
Pa, retired in good health, and when
he arose in the morning he was deaf
and dumb.
THE cruiser Olympia on trial trip
at San Francisco demonstrated that
she is one of the worthiest of her class
in the feet comprising the United
States navy.
THE Nicholson temperance act be-
came a law in Indiana. It places all
saloons on the ground floor. abolishes
all musical features and separates the
saloon from any other business.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the I'd was: Wheat,
A, sci ZOO bushels; corn, 9,O55, 900 bush
els; oats, 7,o1s,oOo bushels; rye, 1885,
600 bushels: barley, $4,000 bushels.
EDWARD BRYAN, his wife and 3-year-
old child were struck by ligh thing and
instantly killed while sitting in their
home at Littleville, Ala.
THE boiler in the roller mills at How
ard, S. D., exploded, killing o. P
Walker, the engineer, and injuring five
other people, three probably fatally.
The safe in the county treasurer's
Office at Harrisburg, Ark, was robbed
of So, 400.
BY the upsetting of boat on Lake
Chautauqua at Jamestown, N. Y,
John Swanstrom and two girls named |
Hedwlck Lawson and Christine Hege-
len were drowned.
EIGHT years with hard labor in the |
Albany penitentiary was the sentence
imposed by Judge McComas in Wash |
ington upon Capt Henry w. Howgate,
charged with forgery and Justification |
of accounts while disbursing clerk of |
the signal service bureau
THE third annual convention of the |
Intercollegiate Prohibition association |
met at Cleveland, o.
The seventeenth annual convention |
of the Music Teachers National asso-
citation met in ST. Louis.
ISAAC BREWER, an eccentric farmer |
at Poplar Valley, N. Y, and his wife |
separated for the forty-second time.
G. c. KING was executed at Rusk, |
Tex, for murder.
THE Exchange bank of Sturgeon,
Mo-, closed it's doors.
THREE children of Archdelus Cook, of |
Rockhouse, KY, were poisoned by eat
ing mulberries that contained spider
eggs All died.
OFFICIAL figures compiled at the post
office department show the total num-
Der of stamps of all kinds issued to
post Offices during the fiscal year just
closed was 1923, 600. 900, valued at $685.
S85,41s. The amount is an increase in
valuation of 100000 over last year.
The total value of envelopes issued to
post offices was $12,036,O19, and of
postal cards 81, 96S. 161.
THE Southern Pacific overland north
bound train was stopped by three high
waymen near Riddles, Ore, and the
passengers robbed of over $4,000. The
mail car was also rihed.
MARSHALL E. PRICE, who assaulted
and then murdered Sal1ie Dean at Den
ton. Md. in March last, was taken
from the jail in that place by mob
and hanged to tree.
b. 0. SANDERS killed his young bride
and himself at Dallas. Tex. jealousy
was the cause.