Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-02-13

| to death.
THE big bingham mills of Walker a
Richmond in Philadelphia were totally
destroyed by fire, the loss being $4,000
For stealing jam valued at six dol
lars August Young was found guilty at
Sheffield, Mo-, and sentenced to twelve
years in the penitentiary.
The wife and 13-year-old son of Rev.
G. S. Gresham, Baptist minister, were
drowned in the Broad river by the
sinking of ferryboat at Fish Ferry,
S. G.
jim FRENCH and Slaughter Kid, the
last of the Cook gang, were killed
while trying to rob store at Catoosa,
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A BILL prohibiting prize fighting and
all kinds of sparring exhibitions, pub
lie or private, passed the New York as
sembly.
MRS. JOSEPH CHoPERINsKI and her 2
vear-old daughter Mary were burned
to death at Priceburg, Pa.
ALL the sugar refneries in Philadel-
phia cut the price of refined sugars one
sixteenth of cent.
five hours, nine men who went to the
relief of the men on the intake tunnel
at Milwaukee were given up as lost.
MAYOR STRONG, of New York, ac-
cepted the designations of all the Tam
many officials.
EXCHANGES at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 9th aggre-
gated $979, 3O5, O4O, against 942, 531, O65
the previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was 11.9.
SEvENTY-sIx men were killed and 233
fatally injured while mining coal in
the Wyoming Pa.) district last year.
THERE were 2S1 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the sth, against 1854 the
week previous and 1856 in the CORE
spending time in 1894.
JABEz WIGGINs, who murdered three
persons in Georgia while resisting ar
rest, was hanged at Augusta.
The home for friendless women at
Cleveland, O., was destroyed by fire,
and many of the inmates had narrow
escapes from death.
EUGENE BYARs, a well-knOwn ue-
tective who murdered his cousin, Sergt.
Eugene Walker, of the United States
army, at Behring Park January 6, 1894
was hanged at Birmingham, Ala.
MILLIONS of dollars worth of orange
and other fruit trees have been de-
stroyed in Florida by the intensely cold
weather.
NORTHERN and southern men were
said to have combined to press French
spoliation and war claims to the amount
of 81, 100000.
THE residence of Nels Hanson, set
tier near Brainerd, MINI, was burned
during the parents absence and two
children were cremated.
The steamer Cyclone blew up in the
St. Frances river at Forest City, Ark Z
and eight persons were killed.
MARGARET Cook, who died at Column
bus, O., was aboard Fulton's steamship
Clermont when it's initial trip was
made in 1907.
Four men digging out snow-bound
train near Lucknow, Pa. were run down
and killed by belated express train.
INTENSELY cold weather still pre-
vailed throughout the country and
many persons in various localities were
frozen to death.
J. K. CUMBERLAND, who killed James
Robertson and his son Jasper, was
hanged at Fort Madison, Ia.
A TIDAL wave swept the North At
lantic coast, carrying away hundreds
of houses and causing great loss of life.
UNITED STATES officers discovered
that Italians had flooded the coke re-
gions of Pennsylvania with bogus
NINE fires in one day in Newark, N.
j., caused a total loss of $125, ZOO.
The Union station at St. Joseph,
Mo-, completed in May, 1882, and which
was used by all the railroads entering
the city, was laid in ruins by fire, the
loss being $4,000
A EULoGY of Isaac M. Turner was de-
livered by his widow at the funeral at |
Grand Rapids, Mich.
CHARLES PAYNE and Richard Laws, |
young business men, were run down by
an express train and killed at rail-
way crossing near Brownstown, Ill.
For the first time in thirty years the |
Delaware river between Philadelphia |
and Camden was frozen solid from |
shore to shore.
Two CHILDREN of William Cassidy, |
living near Brazil, Ind, were burned |
to death, their clothes catching fire at |
a CRATE.
DISTRESS in the mining regions Of |
Ohio was said to be increasing, and |
hundreds of men, women and children |
were threatened with starvation.
OVER $1,20O,Ooo in stakes and purses
will be distributed by western and
southern race tracks during the COM
ing season.
JAMES GRAPHICAL was convicted at
La Porte, Ind, of killing William
Jones and his punishment fixed at
thirteen years imprisonment.
Two CoLoRED women, Sarah jackson
and Bette Fishback were convicted of |
vagrancy at Georgetown, KY, and sold
into slavery for the period of six