Morris tribune., 1895-07-17
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

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The Cloverdale Qnd.) bank closed its
doors.
Robert J. paced mile at La Crosse,
Wis, in 2:O4.
| A fire among business houses at Os-
ceola, Ia, caused loss of $4,000.
| Duluth (Minn.) ministers will start
a crusade against Sunday amusements
The Catholic Total Abstinence union
has opened it's rolls to all denomina-
| tions.
George Montague & Co. and f. A.
Hubbard &, Co., Chicago grain dealers,
! failed.
Six lives were lost by cloudburst in
the. mountains above Talaupantia,
Mexico.
The business portion of Manchester,
N. Y, was wiped out by fire. Loss,
100000
A grain elevator at Indianapolis was
burned with it's contents, the loss be-
ing 800, 600.
Fifteen of the finest buildings at
Clayton, N. Y, were burned, the loss
being 100000.
Fire in Oswego, N. Y, destroyed
business and residence property of the
value of 100000.
The Lincoln monument at Spring
field, ILL.,, was tran sferred to the Gus
tody of the state.
Lena Groh and Stella Schlaudecker
were run down and killed at Cleveland
by an electric motor.
A sailing party of thirteen was cap
sized near Wauchapreague, Va, six of
them being drowned.
Rev. DIR. McAnally, senior editor of
the Christian Advocate, died in st.
Louis, aged rs years.
Owing to improved business and big
crops all the western railroads were
putting on more men.
The new city directory of New York
contains 399, 1913 names, an increase
from last year of II, TIT.
Advices indicated an alarming in
crease in yellow fever in Cuba and
other West India islands.
Official returns show that $50, 900 i'm
migrants landed in this country dur
ing the last twelve months.
William F. Weeks, postmaster at
Hartshorne, I. T., is short in his &C
counts between SIS, 900 and $4,000.
The steamer Kite sailed from St.
Johns, N. F., with the Greenland scien-
tifc expedition to relieve Lieut.. Peary.
The bodies of eight Cinnamon were
found in the San Joaquin river near
MADEIRA, Cal Foul play was suspected.
Appraisers of the assets of the failed
Commercial bank of Cincinnati say it
can pay sixty-five cents on the dollar.
The West Virginia & Southern rail-
road, to traverse the coal belt, has
been chartered with capital of $780,
600.
Four negroes at Guanajayabo, Cuba,
murdered a grocerynlan and his wife
and three daughters and brother-in-
law.
Daniel Alderman. a resident of
Smith Mills, N. j., stabbed his wife
and himself fatally with his pocket
knife.
Capt W. O. Wyckoff, head of the
Remington Typewriting company, died
suddenly at his summer home on Garlic
ton Island, N. Y.
A train struck a velocipede hand car
near Fostoria, O., killing Mrs j. N.
Goodrich and her son and badly injur-
ing Mr.. Goodrich.
N. C. Dougherty, of Peoria, Ill, was
elected president of the National Edu-
cational association at the annual
meeting in Denver.
E. L. Cassatt, president of the
wrecked First national bank of Pella,
Ia, has been indicted on a charge of |
embezzlement of $4,000
The national division of the Sons of |
Temperance finished its annual meet
ing at Cleveland, O., and adjourned to
meet in Washington next year.
At the annual meeting in Saratoga
of the New York State Bankers asso-
citation resolutions were adopted OPP
posing the free coinage of silver.
John Hoch, an ex-convict, killed
Ingersoll, aged 16, fatally shot
N. P. Strife, and shot himself at Chapel
Hill, N. Y. Minnie refused to receive
his attentions.