Morris tribune., 1902-01-11
ChtMfNAL NEWS.

The Brown dry goods store at De
Soto, Ia, was robbed of $4,000 worth
of goods last week.
The streets of Denver are to be pa.
| troled by 4ned citizens as aesult of a
reign of terror by criminals.
Clyde Moore. Il years old, was SEN
| fenced from Winfield, Kan, to 20 years
la the penitentiary for murder in the
i second degree. I'll
Homer M. Neff of West Union, Ia,
killed Miss Rose Falls, to whom he
had been paying attention wounded
Emmet Sullivan, his rival. and COM
mitted suicide.
Patrick Sullivan of Jennings, Mon,
shot his wife. his. grandchild and him.
self with fatal results to himself and
the child, while his wife is in a dan,
I gerous condition.
tt3F Seventeen of the mutineers of NOV
z are on trial at Fort LeavenWorth.
Four Of the prisoners and four. others.
now at large are charged with murder
in the first degree.
Eugene Hector, formerly financial
editor of a Chicago newspaper, shot
and killed an alleged highWayman in
that city. The man killed is supposed
to be Bostonian named Donovan.
Lieutenant James f. BeFan, Eighth
artillery, was found dead in bed at
Fort Candy. His brains were blown
out and by his side was found a revol-
yer. 1t is apparently case of suicide.
Orlando Lester, the negro on trial at
Oxford. Miss, charged with being an
accomplice in the murder Of the two
Montgomerys, was found guilty of
murder in the first degree. The jury
was out Is minutes.
Two men giving their names as Har-
" Williams and Charles Morgan have
been arrested by the Milwaukee police
charged with wholesale operating in
forged checks in northern lumber
camps. The men had in their posses
sion 500 blank checks of the Montreal
Lumber company.
At Pueblo, Colo. Lawrence Hex, col
ored, was sentenced to be hanged dur
ing the week of April IS. Hex was
convicted of killing William White and
Mrs. Lizzie Allie, both cOlored, two
months ago. This is the. first death
sentence since the restoration Of capi-
H H. Mclean of San Antonio, Tex,
a collector of old viollns and who own
ed a Stradivarius of 1921 make and a
Wilhelm Guthman violin, the first val
ued at $4,000 and the. second at sew
eraI thousand dollars, was robbed of
them by stranger who made off with
thenPwhile McLean's back was turne Il
The stranger had called at McLean's
house on the pretext of examining the
viOlins.
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS, |
The Denver fire and police board |
will allow no more prize fights in that |
city. ..,
The legislature of Massachusetts
convened New Years day and elected |
officers.
According to an X-ray picture Henry |
Of Chicago has snake in !
his stomach.
William T. Jerome took the oath Of
Office as district attorney Of New York.
county Thursday ~ r..
. One man was killed and four injured
In a wreck near Johnstown, Pa. Three
trains were mixed uD in the accident.
The New York Legislature convened
at Albany Wednesday, = Governor
0delI's> message was read the same
lay. -:...
Stephen L. Fessenden of Mississippi |
has been appointed assistant statis
.ician of the department Of agricul
,ure.
The general assembly of Maryland
elected officers and after a brief SEES
sion adjourned for week in order to
allow time to make up the committees,
W. Murray Crane took the oath of
,ffice as governor of Massachusetts for
he third term Thursday. The attend
lnce on the ceremony at the state
lOuse was the largest assembled for a
imilar occasion in many years. -
One million dollars has been offered
" Robert Lebaudy, French multi |
Millionaire, for the establishment of a 8
french industrial school in connection
With the University of Chicago. 1t will
e the greatest institution of it's kind
n the world.