Morris tribune., 1895-04-17

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and the advantage of potatoes as q
profitable crop.
| WILLIAM JACKSON was sentenced al
Greenup, KY, to ninety-nine years
imprisonment for poisoning his wife.
THE Aurora (Mo) State bank closed
it's doors with assets of $25, 600 and liza
bilities of $11, 0O0
HENRY GIBSON, aconvict in the prison
at Michigan City, Ind, stabbed and in
stantly killed Edward King, "a fellow
prisoner, without any provocation.
| The Atlantic mills at Providence, R.
l., shut down to- prevent a strike,
throwing 1850 persons out of work
The exchanges at the leading clear.
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 18th aggregated
1858, TAI, 379, against $1,O13, TIT, 1858, the
previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894. was TT.
j. d. HERS Rochester brewery at
Kansas City made an assignment with
assets of $500, 900 and liabilities of $167,-
600.
NELSON CALHOUN (colored) was shot
to death by a mob near Corsicana,
Tex, for criminally assaulting Mrs
Rosa Hughes.
Four men were killed and others
seriously hurt in riot among railway
laborers at Sloan Springs, Ark.
THERE were 2O7 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 220 the
week previous and 21S in the corre-
spending time in 1894.
MRS. GUY GEER, aged 20, a bride of
eight months, fell from her buggy
near Somerford, O., and was instantly
killed.
A NEW organization among negroes
was being established in North Caro-
lima to secure equal rights" for col
ored people at hotels and all public
places and the right for colored men to
marry white women.
THE Fresno (Cal.) loan and savings
bank suspended business.
RICHARD BURELsoN was hanged at
| Houston, Tex, for the murder of j. G.
McKinnon on May 2, 1894.
FIRE swept away nearly the entire
business portion of Dorchester, Wis.
The Etna Fire association of Cincin-
| natl, one of the Oldest of the mutual
assessment concerns in Ohio, went into
the handsaof receiver.
The Seaman & Smith company, one
Ohio, made an assignmentat Cleveland.
LOUIS FRANK and Kate Kolb were
found side by side dead on Jacob
Duffy's farm a few miles west of st.
Louis. The girl left note saying they
were going to kill themselves and as
cribing love as the cause.
The barn of Robert Burns, proprie-
tor of the Clear View stock farm at
Edgefeld Junction, Tenn, was burned
and thirteen valuable trotters persisted
in the flames.
( A HUNTING party of three unknown
men are believed to have drowned near
Oshkosh, Wis. Their boat was seen
upturned on the lake.
A PHOTOGRAPHIC counterfeit of the
five-dollar issue of the American ex-
change national bank of New York
city, series of 1882, check letter f, por-
trait of Garfield, has made it's appear
ance.
JUDGE STEVENSON BURKE, Of Cleve-
land, who ranks among the foremost
of Americas railroad lawyers, said that
it was his opinion that the government
could not compel the railways of the
country to pay the income tax.
Two BROTHERS named Andrews killed
two brothers named Stokes in fight
at Morgantown, Ga.
MANY rivers in New Hampshire and
Vermont were on the rampage, and re
ports from everywhere indicated that
the freshet was the worst in a quarter
of century.
LATTER DAY SAINTS closed their con-
vention at Independence, Mo-, after
declaring that no person could hold
any position in the church who used
tobacco in any form.
FIRE destroyed ten business buildings
in Elkhorn, Neb.
HENRY LONG saot his wife and broth
er-in-law, Joe Wilmington, and then
blew out his own brains at Purvis
Miss. jealousy was the cause.
LoTTIE and Annie Applegate, two
little girls who were returning from
an Easter festival at bethlehem, Pa,
were killed by the cars.
TWENTY SIX street laborers at Toledo, |
O., were arrested on a charge of vio-
lating the ordinance prohibiting man
ual labor ON the Sabbath.
/. The mutilated bodies of Minnie Will
liams and Blanche Lamont, both 81 |
years of age, were found in a church |
in San Francisco, and w. Fl. T. Durant, |
a young man, was arrested as the muir
derer.
THE large warehouse of Beabollido |
& Co., sugar dealers, was burned at |
Tampa, Fla, the loss being 100000.
IN a letter to Chicago committee
President Cleveland takes a firm stand |
against silver and points out the need
of a thorough understanding by the
people of the currency question.
JOHN SEJHAR, Bohemian laborer in
Cleveland. shot and killed Carl Richter,
fatally wounded Albert Richter, a
brother, and two hours later killed |
in police station.
The ST. Louis press brick works at
Glen Carbon, Ill, were partially de-
stroyed by fire, the loss being $500, 0Oo