Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-06-05
The News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

UOWES tSs
w. C. STIvERs. a Lancaster (Ky.) tt
bacco raiser, sued Miss Catherine West
a pretty 23-year-old school teacher, TO
breach of promise, demanding $15, 90
damages.
THE Providence Or. L. Shade Role
company failed for 100000.
A DISTINCT earthquake shock wa
felt at Brattleboro, vt.
THE eighty-frst anniversary of tn
American Baptist union was held il
Saratoga Springs, N. Y.
SETTLERS on Indian lands near Pen
der, Neb., threatened stubborn resis
Etance to any attempts of federal sol
diers to dispossess them.
HoT winds blowing 40 miles an hou
did great damage to growing crops il
Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska.
LAFAYETTE PRINCE, who murdered
his wife October 10, 1894, in Cleveland
was hanged in the penitentiary at Co
lumbus, o.
OVER twenty persons lost their lives
by floods in the DEVILS river country
in Texas.
A. WAYNE MILLER, wealthy ano
prominent livery man at South Bend
Ind, died suddenly in bis buggy.
Roth & FRIEDMAN's knitting factory
at Toledo, O., was destroyed by fire,
the loss being $165,OoO.
NAPOLEON WHATCoM, chief of the
White River Indians, fell dead at Ia
coma, Wash, after drunken spree.
THE thirty-eighth session of the Mich
igan legislature adjourned sine die,
having been in session since January Z.
T. P. MCFADDEN and his son Howard,
aged IL, were drowned in the St. Urain
river near Lyons, Col.
Mrs. MARION CURTAIN, aged As, MUIR
dereo her 14-year-old daughter Mamie
at her home in Baltimore and after
ward committed suicide.
The safe of w. w. Brown, Indian
trader and postmaster at White Eagle,
o. T., was robbed of $4,000.
THOMAS MCGUIRE and his brother,
Erie county pa farmers, were held
up and robbed OF $1,000 by masked
men.
ROVER & ALIENS -four mill at Gin
cinnati was burned, the loss being
100000.
MRS. JAMES L. STRAUGHN and her
daughter were fatally injured in run
away near Kokomo, Ind.
TRAMPs and police fought at Fort
Wayne, Ind, and Deputy Sheriff Har-
rod and William Walrath, one OF the
tramps, were fatally shot.
ELISHA d. MoRRELL, at one time
prominent in politics and the richest
grocer in Brooklyn, N. Y, was buried
in pauper's grave.
MEMORIAL DAY was generally OBJ
served with appropriate ceremonies in
all parts of the United States. In Chi
cago, aside from the usual exercises, a
monument to the confederate dead was
dedicated in Oakwoods cemetery.
). w. KIRK, state superintendent of
prisons, was fatally shot by A. J.
Vaughan at Nashville, Tenn. The
shooting was accidental
The largest passenger steamship
ever built in America, the St. Louis.
of the American line, proved success
on her trial trip.
THE grand jury at Danville, Ill, re-
fused to indict the lynchers of Halls
and Royce, the men who assaulted a
young woman.
AS THE result of drunken spree at
st. Louis Henry Terrick fatally shot
Charles Zoner and then killed himself.
A BICYCLE road-race from Chicago to
Evanston and return, a distance of 1897
miles, was won by Homer Fairmon over
476 competitors in 1896. George EN-
erson won the time prize over the same
course in 52:13.
GRAIN in many northwestern states
was blighted by the heat.
THIRTY-sIx business and dwelling
houses were completely wiped out by
fire at Pattonsburg, Mo- Loss, $780,
600.
WILL OWEN, who murdered his wife
at Noble Lake one year ago. was
hanged at Werner, Ark.
-FOUR negroes arrested for various
crimes in Polk County, Fla, were taken
from the sheriff and three of them were
lynched.
DEPUTY SHERIFFs ED EDWARDS and
Willis Baxter, of Little Rock, Ark.
shot each other fatally by mistake
while cunning for culprit
MICHAEL DERNBEhG, of Syracuse, N.
T., rode miles on bicycle in 1851 "a,
breaking all previous records
FARMERS in the central part of Iowa
were much alarmed over the appear
ance of small swarms of seventeen
year locusts.
FUNERAL services were held in Oak
woods cemetery in Chicago over the
remains of the late secretary OF state,
Walter Quinton Gresham President
Cleveland and all the members Of his
cabinet stood about the bier while every
possible respect was shown the dead
by civil and military organizations.
A CYCLONE 1 mile wide struck Chap
man, Ncb, and demolished everything
in its path. The home of A. Bailor
was blown to pieces, fatally injuring
Mrs Bailor and two children.