Morris tribune., 1895-04-03
The News Condensed.
important intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.


liam Smith. retired.
The commission sitting in Washing
ton in the claims of American citizen
against the Venezuelan government
decided in the formers favor.
MINISTER THURsToN. of Hawaii, de
cided to depart from Washington be
fore his government could officially re
call him.
JOHN r. TUCKER, aged 81, an attor
new at Jacksonville, Ind, was killed
in an encounter with William Taylor
aged 20.
MAGGIE TILLER, convicted of the
murder of Freda Huntington in Chi
cago, was sentenced to be hanged
This was the first time that woman
had been condemned to death in the
courts of Cook county.
ANOTHER shortage of 100000 was
found in Chicago in the accounts of the
whisky trust.
The seventeenth annual encampment
of the G. A. r. department of Michigan
commenced at Mount Clemens.
Gov. ALTGELD issued a proclamation
designating Friday, April 10, as Arbor
day i'll Illinois.
Two MEN were killed and three others
badly injured by the explosion of a
sawmill boiler near Van Vert, O.
CLOSING arguments were made in the
Debs case before the United States SUI
preme court in Washington. An early
decision was expected.
FRANK SUTLER, an assayer, shot and
F. La
cisco and killed himself.
A FIRE in the Bell clothing store in
Chicago caused loss of $4,000.
IT was said that a prominent citizen
of Jacksonville, Fla. was under con-
tract with sympathizers of the Cuban
patriots to engage 10000 negroes from
Florida to go to Cuba to aid the pa
triots
GEN. S. B. DABoLL, of st. Johns, was
elected department commander of the
Michigan G. A. R. at the annual en-
campment in Mount Clemens.
THE Commercial bank at Cincinnati,
a state institution long regarded as
financially solid, closed it's doors with
liabilities of 81, 100000
A SETTLEMENT of the Davis will con-
test was effected by the heirs of the
Montana millionaire.
A RESOLUTION fixing May 2 as the
date for final adjournment was adopted
by the Illinois senate.
IT was stated in Chica go that the
prices of all kinds of meats would be
higher this summer than they have
been for ten years past.
Ten horses and twelve cows persisted
by the burning of Charles Jarrett's
barn near Fort Dodge. Ia.
FIRE at West Superior, Wis, de-
stroyed J. Z. Nelson's property and his
wife and three children were probably
fatally burned.
Minot, n. d., was burned, and five of
his nine children were cremated.
THE State bank of Stanton, Neb.,
went into voluntary liquidation.
JAMES KEELAN, a celebrated confed-
crate spy, died in hospital at Kansas
City and was buried as pauper
AT jefferson, Ia, the thermometer
registered 80 degrees in the shade on
the 9th.
Madison, Ill, were found guilty of
malfeasance in Office for permitting
gambling house to run.
BURGLARS, in an attempt to find hid
den money, cruelty tortured Mrs. Mary
Berger, aged Sc years, at Springfield,
Ill.
Four counterfeiters, Jefferson May
and John, James and Chauncey Boyer,
were arrested at Rockford, Ill.
The Clarence bank at Clarence, Mo-,
suspended with liabilities of $4,000
ATTORNEY GENERAL OLNEY says that
the printing of facsimiles of foreign
postage stamps is a violation of the act
of 1891, which prohibits the counter
feiting of foreign obligations or Sc
curities.
The Auburn state bank, located at |
the village of Auburn. ILL.,, was robbed |
of something over $1,000 by burglars.
OFFICERS of the Queen & Crescent |
railroad intercepted train robbers at |
Greenwood, KY, and killed two of |
them.
Miss AMY TH1LL, an actress, aged "a,
was murdered in New York by John
Bigelow, an actor, who then ended his
own life
MRS. FRANK AIMS persisted in her
burning home near Fenton, Mich.
The firm of Malcolm & Waterbury.
of Chicago, which did an extensive
bucket-shop business in Illinois, Mis-
souri,, Nebraska and Iowa, failed for
100000.
STATISTICS show that 1913 railroad |
companies in this country are now
building, or contemplating doing SO
soon, 20,547 miles of new road
BY the bursting of reservoir near
Newcastle, Col, several bridges were
swept away and many farms were
ruined.
A FIRE at ST. Augustine, Fla. de-
stroyed forty-nine residences aud bust
ness houses, besides several smaller
entailing loss of 100000
AT Jackson. Miss, negro who in
sisted upon riding in wagon with
three white women was shot to death.
MRS. REACH, an eccentric character,
died at Oshkosh, Wis, aged 100 years.
Twenty years ago she purchased
coffin, and at her own request she was
buried lin it after she had need II q