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The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1883-11-29
The Casualty Record

James Armstrong, young man just re-
turned from British Columbia. via the Can
adj Pacific. arrived in Duluth recently on
the propeller lnges flom Port Arthur
"omirg from the boat he slipped and fell
into the hold, striking on his head and re-
csiving injuries probably fatal. He was
ia en t. the hnspital not able to SPEAK =.
Nothing is known of him. Officers OF the
boat say he is we'll educated and seemed to
be 'uAn OF means.
In Cavieer, OAK, fire destroyed Wilkin-
son & French's hardware store and a large
port on of the st OK, and also damaged Ben;.
son & Bros blacksmith shop. The loss to
Wilkinson & French will be about 81 200 on
the building and 81 5Ol on the stock. rne
damage to the blacks shop will proha-
bly, net exceed $50 Mr.. Wilkinson also
lost some IS 70 in household goods Insur-
ance on hardware store and contents, ST.
6U0.
The American ship Thomas Dana, Liver
pool to New York. landed at Foyal, on the
sth inst, twentv-one men, being a part OF
the crew and passengers OF the French brig
Vocaberg. from St. Pierre for St. Mao.
which was su>k by collsi IN Oct. g. The
remainder of the crew ana passengers, elgh-
ty-eight in numb r, persisted.
Erie Hoegel and Victor Ticholm, two
young Sxedes living in Stockholm, Wis,
skated over to Winena on the 18th and
started back that evening, since which time
they bad not been seen, and 1t is presumed
thar they broke through the ice and were
drowned.
Rev. ]. B. Thomas. pastor OF the Du-
buque Baptist chnrch narrowly escaped
death. Chloroform was given him for the
purpose of abstractiug teeth, but the
dose was so heavy that be was with great
difficulty resuscitated. He is now very i'll
At Ottawa, Kans., the shops of the Kan
sas Southern railroad, embr icing the ma
chine, blacksmith, carpenter and paint
shops, together with two locomotives and
two coaches, were burned. Loss, $75, 900 to
$l00, 000; insurance, $40, 900.
The residence OF J>hn Long at Dedham,
Mass, was badly shattered by the explosion
of keg of powder which John Ben way
placed on the piazza. Long was warned in
season to escape. Benway had been drink.
ing.
Frank Elliott formerly of Saltwater
MIMI. has been missing for some time from
De Grsf, and indications point to tou
play. He had $500 in his possession az the
time of his disappearance.
Three young men have been drowned
near Mount Vernon, Mo. One of them
William George, is said to be from o va
toDna.
Gaeat floods are reported in indiana
Illinois and Missouri, and much damage
especially to railroad.
a fire at Dixon, Cal, destroyed the bust
| ness part of the town The loss is reported
at $3.50, 900.
The Sumner Mining company of Caliente
Cal. loses $750,000 by fire.
John Wells is dying at Lockport N. Y.
OF hysemla fl ON fly bite.
Troy, New Y, had $50, 900 collar facto.
nv fire,
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Notwithstanding the edict of the Ger
man government and other nationalities
in Europe against American pork, the
exports of provisions and almost every
thing in that line of trade are largely in
excess of what it was year ago, and in
fact are steadily increasing. The in
crease in the exports of fresh beef is
nearly six hundred per cent. in excess
of what it was year ago, and nearly all
the same ratio of increase is noticeable
in other branches of the trade in provis-
ions and tallow and dairy products.
Altogether the OUTLOOK. for an active ex-
port trade in these commodities is very
promising. and with the heavy crops
ready for shipment will set the balance
oftrade decidedly in favor of brother
Jonathan.
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Amending Land Laws.

Washington, Special Telegram, Nov. %
Early in the session bill will be introduced
by a northwestern member to amend the
presumption, homestead and timber culture
laws. II is not proposed to repeal the pre-
emptiou law, but to exclude from it's oper-
alton pine timber lands, and provide foI
the sale of the timber at public auction at
ter appraisement. In framing the provis
on the pri1 ciple of the Minnesota law re-
garaipg the sale OF school lands of the state
will be followed. 1t is argued that pine
| timber lands are unit for agricultural pur-
poses, and that the pre- empt'on law only
epeas up a way for speculators to obtain
| POSSESSION OF the valuable 'imoer on them
| for almost nothing. The member says:
| BY fixing minimum at which timber
can be sold and ffer,r & it at public auction,
| the government will receive fair price for
| the timber and remove the opportunity for
| fraud by land sh ,rks an seeculators. l.
| Will also do away with the necessity and
| expense OF sending out inspectors and
| special agents to investigate these frauds,
which are Only partially discovered and tx.
posed. Under the present law the special
agency system is necessity and has done q
great deal Of good; but ii has been and will
| be unable to entirely prevent fraud. l do
| not favor the entire repeal of the pre- emp
| ton law. By 1t g ,uan honestly attending
| to enter land and obtain a farm can do SO.
He may have failed through misfortune 10
| sec Ire his farm under the homestead law,
and the pre-emption law enables him to
carry out his intention; so if he had previ-
Gus entered a quarter section by pre-emp-
ton, and had ailed, through no fault Of his
! own, TO complete his entry, the homestead
| law affords him an opportunity to secure
his farm. [ think the timber culture law,
as it is opens the way to fraud. and l shall
embody in my bill a provision to either
! amend or re- peal it. l have personal Knowl-
edge that the law is being grossly violated
For instance, the provision which prohib-
its more than one enuy in a secficc, !
find on recent visit to Dakota, was in one
locality entirely disregarded; also fraudu-
| lent entry in one section prevents bona
fde one in the same section. [ have also
noticed that no trees are to be seen over vast
regions Of coHn'ry, where timber culture
entries have been most numerous. Fnl
these reasons this law should either be re.
peaed or m .terially amen Ted.
The same bill will probably also contain
q provision to amend the homestead laws
by incr- ng the notice ofintention to make
proof from thirty days to six months ire.
spective of alleged time OF residence prior &c
entry. This would De in accordance with
the recommendation of the commissioner
of the general lan.2 office.
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MINNESOTA NEWS.
BIENNIAL ELECTIONS AFTER 1884

Section 8. Article 8. of the State c. nstitu-
ton Amended so that Ii en- Ial e &c Ions
VIII be Legal, by q Vote of 74.375 to
24.350.
From the Pioneer Press, oath.
The fficial canvass Of the votes on the amend
ment to Sec 5, Art. 5, of the constitution took
place yesterday afternoon at the Office of the
secretary of state, in the presence of the gov
ernor, attorney general. state au itor, secre-
tary of state. and Chief Justice Gilhiian Inc
canvass was completed in little more tnan an
hour and showed the amendment to be carried
by majority Of 5O.O16 woes. This am nd
meut is the one which adds section to Art ",
providing that after November, 1884, State
elections shall be held biennal!y. The vote on
the other amendments will be canvassed IN The
arly part of Janua y, speci Al enao ments p-o,
yidirg for Yesterdays count OH the special
section referred 10. The vote by counties was
A. folloW5:
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A recently issued Irish bluebook con-
tains much interesting information about
the Emerald Is.e and its inhabitants in
dicatipg an improvement in the condi-
ton of the Irish people. The number
OF registered marriages during 1882 were
-, H49, the number OF births l22,64S and
OF deaths IS, 800. The number of births
in excess of deaths would seem to indi-
cate that the population had increased
"a, las, but there was an actual decrease
of 54,9SS for s9,l36 persons emigrated.
The low marriage rate is mainly due to
the emigration OF large numbers of
young men and women. The number
of inmates of work houses was 81, 252;
and the number Of persons receiving
outdoor relief was IS, SPIN both class-
es large decrease over the previous
year.
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Europe is in a turmoil and symptoms
of conflict are quite numerous. A
prominent official of the German War
Department is authority for the state
ment that Germany can put 100000
men in the field, exclusive of reserves.
within three weeks, and he adds. sig
ni6cantly: We shall have to do it soon."
OF course, this enormous army will be
brought out simply to preserve the
peace OF Europe. This is the false and
ridiculous pretense always offered by
despots to beggar and virtually enslave
the people.
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From the Old World.

A dispatch from Hong Kong gays the
news from Hiaphong is that 5000 Chinese
attacked Hal Dung on the 18th. The
French garrison, supported by gun boat.
maintained its position. The engagement
lasted from q. M, till p. NJ when The c NJ
nee 1etreated. The loss of the French land
forces Is twelve killed and wounded.
All the English journals express pleasure
at the election of Mr.. Lowell to be rector
of st. Andrews university, and the ST..
Jsmes Gazette compliments him by saying
that. though all American by birth, he Is
one Edgliabm 20 most esteem.
Ottawa was excited over the reported as
sassine.ion of Landsdowne on the evening
of the Oath. 1t proved te be soothing worse
than an exploding jar of hydrogen in the
Laboratory of an alleged professor of chem
istry.
The crown prince OF Germany had an en-.
thusiastic reception at Madrid. From the
depot to the royal palace. a distance OF two
miles, the streets we're lined with shrubs,
flowers and Spanish and German flags.
Up to the.present time nearly 9l,oOo,Oo
sterling have been paid to Irish landlords
under the terms of the Irish arrears act, in
-
tenants, amounting to $2,0O0,O00
Biehop William Fitzgerald died in the
Episcopal residence at Killasoe Ireland.
ged sixty nine years. He was long pro-
fessor in Trinity college and well known
writer.
The French chamber of deputies adopted
an amendment Of Roche, Radical, reducing
the salary OF the Archbishop OF Paris from
45, coo francs to Is 900 francs year.
Messrs. Raux, Fraissinel & Co., merchants
at Marseiles, have failed with liabilities OF
10, coo, 600 francs. The housrhas been estab-
lished for fifty years.
Bernhardt has bought dairy farm near
Havre. 1t produces fashionable kind Of
cheese sold as the ''petit Sara Bernharet.'
Marquis Tsang gives Minister Ferry
bad character.
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Personal Gossip.

Senstor Melon Id, the prominent demo-
cratic presidential candidate. is a man
above the average in size. being of the Da.
vid Davis type. His face is clean.shaven,
but a little tuft of g1eyish hair protrudss
frrm under his chin. His gray eyebrows are
noticeable because of tn ir extending from
his forehead halt an inch or more, and ere
in marked contrast w1lh his shining blue
eyes. There is no hair on the top Of his
head, but from its sides there hang gray
locks having a tendency to curl at their
end. The senator's dress is plain black,
and he wears generally tall hlacK silk hat.
The Philadelphia Musical association
gave a banquet the 21st TO Solomon MiloD,
| survivor of the old guard of the first Napo-
| leon, in honor of the ninety-sixth aaniver-
sarv of his birth. Million remaiaed with
Napoleon or the isle OF 81. Helena until hiJ
| death, then went to S)uth America. where
he spent several years. From there he
went to Philadelphia. The old soldier has
his commission on parchment, yellow with
age, as second lieutenant in company of
the old guard.
e. 8. Mar in, late manager of the Ideals
has sued Miss ODER for breach of contract
She charges him with embe zzlement OF
funds, and with visiting chorus singer in
her room and paying her undue attention.
The trial in Cleveland. and testimony was
| introduced tending to show that Martin,
| Just before his discharge, had entered into
| scheme with Foster and Barnabee, both
of WI ON are still with the Ideals, tc organ
izs another opera company.
Commodore John M. Berrien, retired of
foer United States navy, died of paralysis.
Commodore Berrien was about seventy five
years of age. He became midshipfnan
March /, 1925: passed midshipman, June
4, 1881; lieutenant Feb. 8. 1887; commander
Sept. IA, 1865; captain July 16, 1852, and
| commodore Sept. 49, 1866. He was placed
on the ,etired liss Dec. ~ of the year last
named.
J Walter Emerson, the solid cornetistlof the
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1883-11-29

The progress of the south in material
prosperity has been SO rapid and solid
of late as to become one OF the marvels
of the time. The Postoffice report
showed us the other day that in the ex-
tension OF the postal service the south
ern states exceled even those of the
rapidly growing west. This growth rep
resents and springs Dom the remark
able development of late years ofthe in
dustrial and mineral wealth of that Sec
ton. Nature has been kind there from
the beginning, and now that labor is no
longer branded with dishonor and know
ledge regarded with suspicion, We may
look for notable progress. Indeed, the
advance within the last FIVE years is
truly wonderful. Careful semi off :ial
statements prepared by the governors
OF the several states show an increase in
taxable property upon the assessment
rolls of thirty-three per cent. since the
last taken and yet unpublished GEN.
sus. Within four years, Arkansas,
Florida, Louisiana and Texas have
doubled their railroad mileage. Since
1880 Alaba ma, Georgia, North Carolina
and South Carolina have increased their
cotton spindles and looms sixty per
cent. and with profit of from Is to 20
per cent. annually to the manufacturers.
Alabama is looming up as one of the
great coal fields of the future, its store
of that precious mineral being estimated
at the inconeeivable total of seven hum
dred billion tons. The iron deposits of
Alabama are also large, and offine quail
ity, so that its inhabitants are justified
in believing that their state is destined
to become the Pennsylvania of the south.
Arkansas is one of the great lumber
states of the union, and has moreover
enormous deposits of coal and iron.
Even in Mississippi, that stronghold of
conservatism, manu- fact lrers have doub-
led in five years. Reports from all over
the south tell the same tale OF thrift and
enterprise In this prosperity the whole
country has common interest, and IN
1t rather than in legal restrictions all
classes will find protection and happi.
ness
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A special agent of the General Land
Office has found that nearly one-half Of
the public lands dis. osed of in any one
year are irregularly taken. The lands
thus obtained, he says, eventually fall
into the hands of the settlers, but they
are obliged to pay ''sweat money" in
order to get them, and this puts the poor
man at disadvantage and retards settle.
ment. This winter the matter will be
submitted to congress and ii is not i'm.
probable that the presumption law may
be repealed, or made much more strin-.
gent for the purpose fpreventing fraud
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Poor Anna Dickinson's company has
stranded at Detroit and soon after dis
persed, Miss Dickinson goingt to Chicago.
John Mccullough, the tragedian gener-
ously loaned her $500 in her extremity.
Strange it Is. but true, that Anna thinks
public taste and not herself is at fault for
her numerous failures on the stage.
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Gov. Ordway in " ashineton

Washington Special Telegram, Nov. d.
Gov Ordway of Dakota was quite pleased
to-day to get telegram from Bismarck,
telling him that the west wall of the CAPT.
tol building is halt way to the third or last
story, and the east walls only one day be-
hind, and growing absolute assurance that
the building will be completed and rooted
by the LIST OF January. 1t has been sugges
ted that Gov. Ordwsy came to Washington
Dakota. His term will not expire till next
June. The governor says he will not &C.
cept the Office agaiD, but that he has nc
thought of doing anything looking toward
reappointment, and has not made up his
mind al present that he will accept it If it i,
rendered him.
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An army officer stationed in the west

An army officer stationed in the west.
but now in Washington, commends high
ly the recent criticism on General Sher-
idan's statement that numbers of young
men enlist in the army In the east in or
der to then desert after getting free
trans 70 ortation to the western states.
The criticism that the men desert because
they are not treated as soldiers but as la
borers, this officer says is strictly true,
and that the privates are beginning to
find that they are treated better in the
military prison than out of it, and that
consequently desertons are of very COM
mon occurrence. This officer says that
Secretary Lincoln was greatly astonished
when informed that the deserters in the
military prison at ort Leavenworth
were better and more humanely treated
than the soldiers in the field. The rem
edy is to be found in not compelling the
soldiers to do mental work, but confine
them strictly to soldiers duties.
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The Trouble With the Boys.

"The trouble with the boys nowadays
is that they don't want to work" The
speaker was one ofSpring6eId's su5stan-
tial business men, and he fwas address
,ng young fellow who had just hap
pened into the store. in answer to an
inquiring look from the young man, who
feal ed that the remark was aimed at
himself, the cage continued: II was
speaking ofthat spruce looking chap you
he hasn't done enough work to earn his
board. Ten to one he owes for the
clothes on his back, and he has just
been asking me to give hum credit. No
sir; as | said before, the trouble with
the boys is, they don't want to work."
and The oracle brought out the last word
with sledge hammer force. Now,
when I was your age." he continued, 81
had to serve three-years' appren-
ticeship. All got the first year was
my board. The second year / got
500 besides, and the third year sly a
month. Ii wanted any extra money
had to work over hours iol 1t. Blu now
the boys think they can learn a trade
in Is minutes. Humph!" And an ex-
preston of disgust passed over the
speakers face. EVERY young fellow
has TO have his girl and take her to the
theater once or twice week; has to go
to every dance and fair that comes along;
believes that he must wear a stand-up
collar and dude bat as II pledge of his
respectabi ity. In short, he wants TO
appear like man OF society So he
thinks he must get big wages the min
ute he begins to do anything, and If he
can't get them he won't work at all.
The result is he never gets start in
business and is always hanging round
waiting for a fat job. ! tell you if you
ever intend to amount to much il this
world, you had better make up your
mind to start small. Now. when l was
your age" But the listener had to hur
ry away, carrying with him, however.
the idea that the children of this gene
ration may not know so much more than
their grandfathers did. after all.
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The Washinxton Monumcnt

The masons stopped WORK on the oath
on the Washington monument. leaving the
shalt for the winter at height OF 41O feet.
At this elevation it is the Hottest artificial
structure on the condnent, and with very
few exceptions, In the world. Col. Casey is
now preparing bis report covering the years
work. At this time be cannot give the re-
suits in detail from an engineering stand
point, At the conclusion Of the work last
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News of the Railroad.

Through travel along the Northern Paci-
fic is rapidly increasing. The bulk of west
bound travel is made up of the emigrsnt
class but that coming from the coast are all
frst-class.
The 5000 men in the Boston locomotive
works are paid one after another. 1t take
but half an hour.
]. W. Kendrick is chief engineer of the
st. Paul s. Northern Pacific.
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fall, when the monument had risen to q
height Of $40 feet, the to al pressure borne
by the bed Of the foundation was IA 81
tons. The settlement up to Deem Der,
1882. was on an average about one inca
aud q quarter for the structure.
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Mrs. ]. G. Aver has inherited tie ST.
co., 900 which her husband made in pat
emit medicines. Her daughter. Lillian,
is reigning belle in Paris at the present
time.
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The Hon. A. A. Sargent, American
Minister to Germany; has an article in
the Overland Monthly for November
entitled The Mute Councillor"
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DOings of CRIMINALS.

Montreal Special: A Hungarian adven-
urer calling himself Prof. Wallewski,
claiming to have recently left Chicago,
came here some weeks ago and took Offices
on 8 James rect. giving ont his profess
sion as metallurgist and chemist. He fit
ted up a room with furnace and crucibies
and chemicals. Getting acquainted with
some fast brokers, be launched scheme of
increasing the weight Of gold by a mixture
of chemicals, which he said his father, q
professor in a Vienna college, had discov-
cred. He got lot Of dupes to subscribe
.soDey to bis scheme, but Mr.. Fancy, head
of the dominion detective bureau, heard of
the adventurer's plans, and the professor
finally absconded, leaving Lis tools behind
His victims are considerably out OF pocket.
The humbug gave an exa uple to his proc.
ess at bis rooms which satisfied his dupes
that he was able to do what he professed.
At the farm of John Helgesop, near Ey-
ansville Mirn., Jens HeIgesop, Hans Kor-
UNI, Hans sinlonson, and Hans Olson were
all more or less under the influence of lio-
uor when a dispute arose between Jens
Helgeson an Hans A. Korum. Helgeson
got hold of the necky oke, hut it was taken
from him, when be followed Korum into
shed, and as he stepped in the door Kor-
um struck him on the head with club.
crushing bis skull, from the effects of which
he died the next morning. Korum was
held to the grand jury.
One of the most horrible murders that
ever occurred in New Hamsphire was com.
mitted at Laconia about 4 O'Clock on the
morning of the 25th. The names OF the
victims are as follows: James Ruddv. Mrs.
John Ford and Frank Rudy, infant child
Il James and Rosa Ruddy. A man named
Thomas Sampson has been arrested.
W. H. Dunno OF Brooklyn, N. Y, who
has 9been operating in land on the line of
the Northern Pacific, was arrested on
Robert street st. Paul by Detective Walsh,
at the instance of A. G. Vanner, who claims
to have been swindled out of 5000 on q land
purchase at jamestown, D. T. vanner is
registered at the WINDSOR as James CARING
ton, Chicago
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Dickens family object to the printing Of
bis letters, Ii