Morris tribune., 1895-04-17
The News Condensed,
important intelligence From All Parts
DOMESTIC.


man Lewis Emerson were fatal,
scalded.
DURING dense fog train on thu
Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh road
ran into washout near Sykes, Pa.
and Engineer Taylor, Fireman She's
and Conductor Bruce lost their lives
PRESIDENT JOSEPH b. GREENHUT, o.
the whisky trust" was charged II
Chicago with diverting $225, 1000 from
the company's treasury into his owl
pockets.
The Kentucky grand lodge Knights
of Honor unveiled q monument Al
Louisville to the memory of James A
Demaree, the founder of the order.
FIVE Seventh-day Adventists, CON
victed in Rhea county, Tenn, of work
ing on the Sabbath, were pardoned by
Gov. Turney.
OVER 5000 coatmakers in Cincinnati
Covington and Newport were on strike
TRAINMEN arriving at Cheyenne
Wyo., reported that there were hun
tlreds of cattle lying dead alongside
the railroad tracks, where they drifted
during the recent storm and died.
JUDGE JOHN II. SAHLER, j. j. Jones'
lawyer of note, and NJ. c. Bailey, q
union veteran, all committed suicide in
one day at Omaha, Neb.
THE president was being importuned
personally by men of highest influence
to convene congress in special session
for the repeal or correction of the in
come tax law.
JOSEPH Buck shot and killed Mrs.
Tessie Williams in Newark, N. j., and
then took his own life. No cause was
known for the deed.
AT Washington, N. j., during storm
sixty-ive houses were damaged by
lightning, and Jacob Harring was
struck and fatally injured
SADIE STRINGER, IL years old, and
William Bradley, a year older, were
killed by lightning in Philadelphia.
SENATOR HILL, of New York, an
nounced that as soon as the Fifty
fourth congress convened he intended
to offer bill in the senate to repeal
the income tax.
GRANT GRIFFIN (coloredl, who MUIR
dered William Tibbs, negro gambler,
at La Crosse, Fla, November 6, was
hanged.
HEAVY importations of Japanese rice
to Savannah, Ga, was causing southern
planters much uneasiness.
TWELVE persons found guilty of riot
ing during the recent strike on the
trolley lines in Brooklyn, n. Y, were
sentenced to prison for terms ranging
from sixty days to fifteen months.
JOHN w. ScHARPE & Co.'s grain ele-
vator at St. Louis was completely
Quilted by fire, the loss being 800, 900.
A STORM of wind, hail, thunder and
lightning Of unprecedented severity
did great damage at Seattle, Wash.
TIE biggest freshet since the mem
orab1e one of 1862 was raging in the
Delaware river.
The annual reunion of the Army Of
the Potomac will be held at New Lon
don. Conn, on June IS and 10.
CREMATION services have been Off
cially declared by masonic authority
in Philadelphia not to be Christian
burial
CHIEF HAZEN, of the secret service.
has issued circular of warning against
a new counterfeit of five dollar treas
ury note of the series of 1891. The
counterfeit is Photographic produc-
ton, touched up with pen and ink, and
bears the treasury number B3776724.
Ell. DARWIN MCILRATH and his wife
left Chicago for a tour around the
world on bicycles. They go under the
auspices of the Inter Ocean,
The April report of the statistician
of the department of agriculture makes
the average condition ofwinter wheat
on April s1.4, against se.7 last year.
THE new American steamship St.
Paul was successfully launched at
Cramps shipyards in Philadelphia.
CHARLES HART, aged Is, was hanged
in the Ohio penitentiary at Columbus
for the murder of little Ashley and
Elsie Good in Paulding county, Novem-
Der 4, 1894.
In the business center of Covington,
KY, John T.. Sanford, cashier of the
Farmers and Traders bank, was shot
and killed by State Senator William
Goebel An old feud was the cause
The Savannah (Ca.) rice mills were
ouA hOo, soAlC 1oSS3 UCluS p1S'f,OOU.
FOUR inmates of the state asylum
for insane criminals at Mattewan,
N. Y, including Oliver Curtis Perry,
of Syracuse, the train robber, made
their escape.
Snow to the death of inches fell in
portions of Wisconsin
Two MAIDEN sisters, Miss Mary J. and
Eliza oeth A. Bryant residing alone,
were burned to death at Haverhill
Mass
A NEW national organization of street
railway employees was founded at Cleve-
land, o.
ALBERT H. HORTON, chief justice of
the supreme court of Kansas since 1877, |
resigned, and Judge David Martin, of |
Atchison, was appointed to succeed him.
POSTMASTER, GENERAL WILSON thinks |
that the increased business of the post |
office department is a barometer of bet
ter times throughout the country.
THE funeral of Gov. Joshua III. Marvil |
took place at Laurel, and it was the |
largest and most impressive ever held |
in Delaware.
Miss MARY B. CRoUGHAN died at !
Lynn, Mass, after suffering from |
for five months