Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-09-04
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

DUNES IL.
WHILE counting his hoard of $500
at Hamilton, Ala, Ben Stillman upse
a lamp, which set fire to the house, an,
the money and building were con
sumed.
A. ). GABLER and Mrs. Ada Vennum
Elkhorn river at Waco. Tex.
WINDOW GLASS manufacturers from
Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Hi
nois met in Cleveland, O., and organ
ICED combination, the purpose O
which is to advance prices.
AFTER almost five years of work anC
the expenditure of over $4,000, 600, Nj
agara has finally been harnessed anc
the monster 5,O0O-horse power dynamos
of the Cataract Construction company
are now sending out electricity fol-
commercial uses.
PROBATE JUDGE WHITE decided al
Cleveland that Will J. Mcconnell, the
well-known temperance lecturer, is in
sane.
ENGINEER NEAL MCKINLEY saved the
lives of many passengers IN railway
wreck near Richmond Beach, Wash,
but was killed himself.
THE visible supply of grain in the
United States on the Goth was: Wheat,
5000, 900 bushels; corn, $751; 900 bush
els; oats, 3,719,O0o bushels; rye, $780,
900 bushels; barley. $4,000 bushels.
SOLOMON HUGHLErT, one of the most
prominent democratic politicians in
Missouri, killed himself with a gun at
Wellsville.
SOME $50, 600 persons saw the parade
of over $4,000 Sir Knights Templar in
Boston. At the business meeting
Grand Commander McCurdy delivered
his address. The report of the grand
recorder, William B. Isaacs, Jr.,
showed that there were 961 regular
Communicates, and thirty-nine under
the jurisdiction of the grand body.
The membership of the former is 1Oa,-
SAL and of the latter 3,119.
THE charred remains of the body of
Howard Pitzel, the one remaining miss
ing child of Benjamin Pitzel, were
found stuffed in chimney in the Gel
lar of a house which H. H. Holmes oc-
cupied two or three days last October
in Irvington, Ind.
A MEETING of the largest steel con-
Germs in the country was held at Pitts
burgh, Pa, and preliminary steps were
taken to form an organization to con-
troll prices.
AT Wapakoneta, o., a strike on the
waterworks trenches developed into
tragedy and three men were fatally in
jured.
RAINS throughout the northwest
greatly improved pasturage and crops
CRACKsMEN blew open the safe in the
post office and general store of E. E.
Phillips at Rush, Mo-, and got away
with money, stamps and papers valued
at over 1000.
SECRETARY CARLISLE returned to
Washington after a months absence
spent mostly in tour of the great
lakes.
AS THE result of quarrel Frank
Hurst and Belle Levi were fatally
wounded by Charles Williamson and
William Broshears near Rockport, Ind.
The annual encampment Of the Ma
tional Spiritualist associate COM
huChCCu DIV AlucIdl, MO.
JOHN D. SCULLY, who for the last
fifty years has been president of the
First national bank at Pittsburgh and
its predecessor the Pittsburgh Trust
company, resigned because of falling
health.
The twentyfourth annual conclave
Of the grand commandery of Colored
Knights Templar opened in Cleveland.
THE president reappointed Matt w.
Ransom to be United States minister to
Mexico.
CONFIDENTIAL advices received at the
department of state in Washington
were to the effect that Spanish rule in
Cuba could not last much longer, pos
sibly three or four months at the out
side.
FIGHT members of a gang of counter
letters were captured near Perry, .. T.
MASKED men stripped and tarred and
feathered William Sprill and his wife
at Burnettsville, Ind, and ordered
them to leave town.
1T was announced that Secretary
Olney had made peremptory demand
On the British government for a settle |
ment of the Venezuela boundary dis
pute.
FOURTEEN states were represented at
meeting of the Western Editors as
ISOLATION at Salt Lake City. M |
THE weather bureau in Washington
will hereafter place on it's charts read
lngs of sensible temperature--that ac-
tually felt-and make it prominent |
feature.
AT Lewisburg, Tenn, Jerry johnson
,colored) was lynched by a mob for
making an insulting proposal to white
girl.
FIRE in Louisville, KY, destroyed |
the building occupied by hampton,
Crane & Ramey, dealers in paints, var
nishes and oils. Loss, 100000.
THE feature of the second day of the
Knights Templar encampment in Bos-
ton was the competitive drill. The
grand treasurer's report showed cash
resources of $40, 3O2.