Morris tribune., 1895-05-29
The News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.


young plant.
MRS. E. P. ROSE died at Mattoon. Ill
She predicted the time of her deati
two months ago.
The state department of education
ruled that nuns may not teach In the
public schools of Texas.
THE state department was officially
informed of the withdrawal of Mr..
Thurston, the Hawaiian minister.
MANY factories were DESTROYED by
fire at Cambridge, Mass.
THE resignation of Seneca Haselton,
United States minister to Venezuela,
was sent to the secretary of state.
WILLIAM CoNNELL, who killed Sheriff
George Durham, of Montgomery coun-
ty. Ca, was riddled with bullets by a
pursuing party.
A FREIGHT train ran into the rear end
of passenger train near Cheyenne,
Wyo., and Engineer August Gray and
Fireman Ed Fuller, both of Denver,
were crushed to death.
BURGLARS blew open the vault of the
State bank at Oneida, Kan, securing
about $1,000.
WHILE two young men were fishing
in the Neches river near Crockett,
Tex, their canoe was attacked by alli-
gators and broken up and the young
men were torn to pieces.
GOLD was struck in paying quantities
at Renville, Mimi.
Miss KATE JOHNSON, Miss Maud Ny
ers and Charles Wiley were drowned
at bingham, Ill, by the upsetting of
raft.
SIXTY horses belonging to the Chi
cago Carette company were burned to
death by a fire in the stables and ten
carettes were also destroyed.
G. II. TAGGERT, a wealthy farmer
near Warrensburg, Mo-, was induced
by two men to deposit $500 in a tin
box on an agreement to purchase his
farm and then fed with the money.
A HORSE took fright at the snorting
of an elephant in the parade of circus
at Fort Wayne, Ind, and dashed into
the midst of a crowd of women and
children. killing Mrs. Eliza Lemay, IA
tally injuring Mrs. F. Wehner and her
boy and bruising sixteen other per-
sons.
Snow to the depth of foot fell at
Creole, Col.
The Western Interstate Baseball
league has gone to pieces.
A TORNADO blew down the st. Mary
hotel and Catholic church and I'M
rooted and damaged forty other houses
at Lockport, Tex, causing a loss of
100000.
AT the encampment in Green Bav
ex-Gov. w. D. Hoard was elected de-
partment commander of the Wisconsin
G. A. R.
FOREST fires were raging through the
region east of Superior, Wis, and
great damage was being done.
INSURANCE losses this season up to
May Is were unprecedentedly heavy
on the lakes. The aggregate was $780,
600, as compared with losses last season
up tothe same date of $136,O
REPORTS from the vast wheat farms
of the northwest, in Minnesota and the
Dakotas, show that the wheat crop is
not only uninjured, but actually is in
better than the average condition.
A BILL passed the Michigan legisla-
ture making it unlawful for one per-
son to treat another to liquor in any
public place in the state. It also pro-
hibits the selling of liquor for such
purposes.
The Kickapoo 1neian lands in Okla
homa were thrown open for settlement
and it was estimated that not less than
10000 persons joined in the rush.
The Charles A. Wood company, ex-
tensive dealers in builders supplies at |
Cleveland, failed for 100000.
In a fit of jealousy Mrs. Anna An
nable shot and killed her husband in |
Chicago and then put bullet into her
own heart.
THOMAS IRVING, wealthy farmer
near Lebanon, Ind, mistook his eldest |
son for burglar and shot him fatally |
The sound money and better bank |
ing facilities convention met at Mem |
phis, Tenn, and was addressed by Sec |
rotary Carlisle.
The director of the mint estimates the |
production of gold by the mines of the |
United States during the calendar year
1894 at $39, 100000, an increase over
1893 of $3,5oo,oOo. The production of
silver was 1854, 900, 900, a decrease as
compared with 1893 of 10, 500, 900
ounces.
CLAUDE THOMPSON (colored) was
lynched at Dekoven, KY, for attempt
ed assault on a 13-year-old white girl.
The secretary of war was officially
informed that the Indians in Arizona
were restless and that a feeling of in
security prevailed.
A GASOLINE explosion in house at
Omaha, Neb., killed William Henry
and his wife and Mrs G. s. Osborn.
THERE were 207 business failures in
the United States in the seven DAYS
ended on the oath, against 211 the
week previous and 1873 in the CORE
spending time in 1894.
AT a meeting in New York of the
democratic editors of the state a letter
was read from the president in which
he depicts the danger of free coinage of
silver. -
A MOB took John Halls, Jr., and
William Royce from their cells in the
jail at Danville, H., and hanged them
for assaulting Miss Laura Barnett.
NEARLY $4,000 pupils took partin the