Morris tribune., 1895-08-14


I C. f, g. G. w. EDDY, commission mer
chants OF Boston, failed for over 81,
Oo0, O00. They overspeculated on corn
in Chicago.
THE Merchants national bank O.
Rome, Ga, which suspended payment
1April 81, 1895, was authorized to re-
sumo business.
HELIoGRAPH communications were
exchanged between the summit o.
Pixies Peak and army headquarters IL
Denver, distance of 60 miles.
REV. E. c. WHEELER, Baptist evan
tgelist, who had been in California with
his car Emanuel, was killed in rail
way wreck near Denver; Col. Several
other persons were hurt.
THE United Typothet@ in session al
Minneapolis elected E. R. Andrews, OF
Rochester, N. Y. president and de-
cided to meet in Rochester in August,
1896.
HEARST, DUNN & Co., a large agri-
cultural implement firm at Peoria, Ill.
failed for $l23, 435; assets, $115,649.
REPORTS to the post Office depart
ment for the three months ended Au-
gust show that the total receipts at
| the twenty largest post offices in the
country were So, 1914, 900, an increase OF
$499, 900 over the corresponding quar-
ter in 1894.
The G. F. Guyon company, commits
sion dealers in hardware and bicycles
IN New York. failed for $15O,O00.
THE Bank of Buckner, at Buckner,
Mo-, went into the hands of a receiver.
Mrs. HENRY JOHNSON and her three
children were struck by an engine at a
railway crossing in Decatur, Ind, and
one child was instantly killed and the
others were fatally injured.
In head-on collision at Plymouth,
N. III, between the cannon ball ex-
press and freight train, Engineer
Frank Stevens and Firemen George S.
Merrill and w. II. Glines were instant
ly killed.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 9th aggregated
S976, O32, 215, against $915, SAT, 6S9 the
previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was 25.9.
The total equalized assessed valua-
ton of the state of Iowa is $3.50. 9S5, 292.
The foundry and pattern house of
the Knowles steam pump works at
Warren, Mass, were burned, the loss
being S175,000
THERE were 225 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 9th, against 261 the week
previous and 264 in the corresponding
time in 1894 @
MATTsoN & MAGE, wholesale grocers
in Philadelphia, failed for 100000.
BUSINESS continued unusually active
throughout the country for midsum-
mer and, though there was perceptible
relaxation, there were no signs of re-
action.
A HORSE became frightened and
plunged off of a 3O-foot embankment
near Decatur, Ind, and three prom
inent society women, Mrs. Mangold,
Mrs. j. C. Paterson and her mother,
Mrs. Erwin, were fatally injured.
FREMONT SMITH was hanged in San
Quentin prison, California, for the
murder of two fishing companions.
C. C.. CLARK was appointed receiver
of the Lockwood Manufacturing COM
pany at South Norwalk, Conn. The
liza bilities were $2so,Ooo.
A BIG Newfoundland dog capsized
boat on the lake at Highland Park, Ill,
and M. T. Green, president of the Chi
cago Lumber company, and Sorn Sor-
enson were drowned.
THE Bank of Palouse, at Palouse |
City, Wash, closed it's doors with liza
bilities of sos, 900.
MRS HELEN c. STEWART, of Spring
field, Mo-, was appointed sheriff of |
Green county, to succeed her deceased |
husband. Mrs. Stewart, as far as is :
known, is the first woman sheriff in |
the United States. ~
SEVEN persons were killed in New
York city by the collapseYo a new
building on Broadway.
ARTHUR and G.. j. johnson (brothers) !
and A. Z. Anderson were killed by |
lightning near Odebolt, Ia, They |
had taken refuge under tree during |
q storm.
"1AL1AM AAooON, I'LL GIElu duu
William Stanley were killed in troll
ley car and railroad accident in Phila-
1elphia.
JOHN BUCHANAN, mill-worker at |
Pittsburgh, Pa, killed himself after
fatally injuring his mother. His wife
was missing and it was thought he had
killed her.
FIRE in the lumber piles of the Skill
ngs, Whitney & Barnes Co. at Ogdens-
burg, N. Y, destroyed property valued
1t $4,000.
By her will Mrs. T. Dewitt Talmage
caves $166, 900. Her husband is the
sole legatee.
THIEVES entered the Connecticut
state prison at Wethersfeld and got
lway with articles valued at 1890
DIR. LAWRENCE ANDERSON. aged 81
vears, one of the best-known veterin-
Try surgeons in the west, committed
uicide at Cincinnati because of falling
'yesight.
AT the national bicycle meet in Chi
ago Eddie Bold, of Buffalo, N. Y,
made mile in 1:5s1S, new worlds
ecOrd.