Morris tribune., 1895-06-19
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

DUNES ia
FOURTEEN negroes have been lynche
in eight months in Lafayette county
Fla, for assaults upon white women.
ALEX WHITE and John Cherry (ne
groes), charged with murder, wer
lynched at Keno, Tex.
yBE fifth annual convention of tn
International League of Press Club
met in Philadelphia.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND issued proc
lamation admonishing citizens agains
interference of any sort in the CubaI
revolution.
MRS. LENA BRIDENBAUGH, of Gibral
tar, Pa, who had taken no food fol
seven weeks, died of starvation. He1
weight was reduced from 100 pounds tx
IS pounds.
EIGHT persons committed suicide il
st. Louis during the first ten days Of
June.
AT the annual meeting in Philadel
phia of the International League Oh
Press Clubs Louis N. Megargee, OF
Philadelphia, was elected president
The United Society of Christian En-
deavor, the general body which has
directed the growth of Christian En-
deavor throughout the world, held it's
annual meeting in Boston. The old
officers were reelected.
JEALOUSY prompted Walter Leary,
so years of age, and wellknown resi-
dent of Canaan, N. H., to shoot and ia
tally wound his wife and then shoot
himself.
The oldest bank in Metropolis, ILL.,,
Brown & Bruner, made an assignment
with liabilities of 800, 900; assets, $780,
600.
THE village of Geneva, Ind, was al
most entirely wiped out by fire.
L. T. DoTsON, the .wealthiest mer-
chant in Scott county, Va. was drowned
while in bathing.
EUGENE V. DEBs, president of the
American Railway union, and M. J.
Elliott, the Pennsylvania director of
the union, were taken TO the jail at
Woodstock, ILL.,, to serve their SEN
fences of six months.
FRIENDS of silver representing TWEEN
ty states of the south and west began
a two days convention in Memphis,
Tenn, with Senator Turpie, of In
diana, as chairman.
SIeMUND SCHNEIDER, SO years of age,
shot his wife fatally in New York and
then killed himself. Jealousy was the
cause.
A COMPARISON of the clearances on
the Erie canal during the first months
of navigation of '94 and '95 shows de-
crease of As per cent. in business.
LIGHTNING struck one of the tents of
the Methodist camp meeting ut Ra-
VIENNA, Mich, instantly killing Mrs.
Burleson, of Wayland, and injuring
sixteen other persons.
The senior class of cadets, ffty-two
in number, graduated at West Point
n. Y.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND announced the
appointment of Attorney General Olney
to be secretary of state and of Judge
Judson Harmon, of Cincinnati, to be at
torney general.
c. L. WOODBRIDGE & Co.. importers
of dress trimmings. buttons, ETC., in
New York, failed with liabilities of
100000.
The Milford savings bank at Nashua,
Nh, closed its doors.
- A WASHINGTON dispatch says that
the exports of breadstuffs during May
amounted to 81, sos, 697, gain of ST.
ooOoO over May last year. For the
last eleven months, however, there has
been falling off of over $50, 100000
The chief of police of Youngstown,
o., issued orders for the closing of all |
places of business hereafter on Sunday.
JAMES BROCK, aged go, and his wife,
aged 80, passed through Pineville, KY,
on foot, en- route from Harlan to Jack
son county, tramp of 100 miles. They
have been married seventy-two years.
LEE HARRIS and Ben Mitchell, col
ored highway robbers and murderers.
were hanged at Birmingham, Ala, for
killing Pleasant Merriwether, a gro
ceryman.
AT Mankato, Mimi, the Cassidy
Packing company made an assignment
with liabilities of 500, 900.
SEVERE hailstorms swept the central |
and northern parts of Iowa, doing |
great damage to crops.
IHE silver convention completed it's !
labors at Memphis, Tenn, by the |
adoption of a series of free-coinage
resolutions and providing for ma
tional campaign of education 2
GEORGE ANDREWS, a negro wife MUIR
derer, was hanged at Belvidere. N. J..
The United States cruiser Raleigh
left New York for Key West, Fla, to
take up patrol duty on the Florida and
gulf coasts in the endeavor to prevent
Cuban filibustering expeditions.
1IHE Distilling & Cattle Feeding
company, known throughout the
length OF the land as the whisky trust,
was declared by the Illinois supreme
court to be illegal
ROBERT McCALLUM, aged 10, left New
York for Queenstown in a 19-foot boat.
with a dog for his only companion.
He will receive S., 900 if he gets across
in forty five days.
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