Morris tribune., 1895-08-07

DEAD fish by the million were float
ing down the Missouri river, some
weighing as much as four pounds.
THOUSANDS of bushels of peaches and
apples will be lost in the vicinity OF
West Plains, No., for the want OF
means to take care of them.
! A LoUDBURsT at Adelaide, Col, de.
stroyed property and killed three per-
sons.
CHARLES E. Cole set $4,000 ems in
seven hours and ffty-four minutes on
a Mergenthaler nonpareil machine at
Cincinnati, beating the worlds record
of 60, 400 ems, set by Denver printer
named Taylor.
HAYWOOD, a pleasure resort in Michi-
gan, was destroyed by a forest fire.
FARMHoUsEs and crops were entirely
swept away near Socorro, N. M, by a
| cloudburst and seven persons We're
killed. The property loss was over
ST. 200, 900.
THE public debt statement issued on
the 1st showed that the debt increased
$SS, 435, 1913 during the month of July.
The cash balance in the treasury was
$1s7, 149, $50. The total debt, less the
cash balance in the treasury, amounts
to 81, 1877, 1858, AS.
The Colorado City State bank at Col
orado Springs, Col, closed its doors.
THE Standard Wagon company in
Cincinnati assigned with assets of
$500, 600 and liabilities of 100000. The
Davis Carriage company was carried
down by the failure with assets of
$3.50, 900, and liabilities of $500, 900.
Four business blocks were destroyed
by fire at Lima, O., the loss being
500, 900.
The monthly statement prepared by
the director of the mint shows that
during July the total coinage of the
United States minis amounted to
So, 235, 500, as follows: Gold, So, 9lO, 900;
silver, $277, 900; minor coins, $4s, 800.
WILLIAM HoGAN's residence at
Marion, O., was destroyed by fire and
Mrs. Hogan and her son Frank were
fatally burned.
A STATEMENT prepared by the comp
troller of the currency shows the
amount of national bank notes out
standing July 81 to have been $211,
1908, an increase for the year of
So, 1864 The amount of circulation
based on United States bonds was
$1s6, SIT, 4s3, an increase for the year of
SIS, 521, 400.
GEORGE PERKINS aged As, who until
year ago had been the leading edi-
torial writer on the Cincinnati En-
quirer, was found dead in his room in
that city.
A wATERsPoUT and hailstorm visited
Hardscrabble, Col, and completely de-
stroyed farms and orchards.
FIRE among shipping in New York
caused a loss of $4,000.
ROBERT j., the king Of the light har-
ness PAGERS, was defeated at Cleveland,
O., by Joe Patchin, the average time
for the four heats being 2:0411S, the
fastest race ever paced.
BISHOP PHELAN, of the Roman Cath
Ollie diocese of Pittsburgh, Pa, issued
peremptory orders to the clergy to pro-
hibit round dances by Catholics in that
diocese.
The receipts of the government dur
ing the month of July were $29, O69, 697,
against 1924, sO9, 339 for July, 1894, dis
s3s, 54s,O63, against $780,
64s, $50 for July, 1894.
By the breaking of cable at the |
''chutes" in Chicago twenty persons |
plunged with terrific velocity in a rum
away car down 25O-foot incline and |
thirteen were injured, one fatally.
MAYOR STARKwEATHER, of West |
Superior, Wis, was impeached by the |
common council on charge of extort-
ing money from policemen and fire.
men. Ss N@
REAME' tobacco warehouse and opera |
house, A Max. and Ellis & Stones dry
goods stores and several other business
houses at Durham, N. c., were de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, 100000.
DURING July the total ore shipments
from Duluth, Mimi, were $50, l4s tons,
the largest on record.
THIRTY life-saving stations on Long
Island were opened month earlier
than usual.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
The week ended on the I'd aggregated
SSlo, of1,ooo, dSdiuSU @ISo,oo0, IoU Cne
previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was 1876.
PAPERS were signed at Pittsburgh
which increase the wages of 100, 900
miners in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois and put stop to the con-
strike.
The Indian scare in Wyoming was
said to be at an end.
THERE were 261 business failures in
,he United States in the seven days
ended on the Cd, against POP the week
previous and 23O in the corresponding
lime in 1894
IT was feared that 100 residents of
Beaver island, located in Green bay, at
The entrance of the straits of Mack
nav, had been burned to death in the
orest fires which had desolated the
entire island during the last few days.
LEE THOMAS was hanged at Corsi-
ANA, Tex, for the murder of j. Nj.
Farley. The murder was the result of
game of cards
The Coulterville stage was held up 6
niles from Mercer, Col, by masked
obber, who secured the Wells-Fargo
lypraSS boy with IFS valua l,la oo,+A,,+r