The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-02-21

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Kentucky negroes own "a, 380, 400 worth Of
/ property.
stovemaking fell or IA per cent last year in
| this country.
A Bay City, Mich, factory makes 2, 400 wash
| boards daily
DR.. Marshall, Mary Anderson's blackmailer,
/ WAS acquitted .-saess..sss sss.a.-.sasss.
The Ohio legislature appropriated s9ooOG
| for food relief.
Letters sent by courier from coer dAlent
| cost so cents each
| The first state election of the year viii bt
| that OF Oregon June 2. 81
| Boston man has portraits Of his family
| painted ON his china.
N. r. Bullock, Dallas, Ga, has lost three
daughters by clopement this winter.
The house in which Gen. Grant was borp, al
| Point Pleasant, Ohio, was taken of in the Hood
At New York, George Parsons, toy dealer
! 600
Solomon Isaacs and Jacob Samuels, clothing
New York. give liabilities as $5l GOO; actual as,
! sets, So, 600
| Edward Pilsbury"s Sons, cotton commission
| merchants, New Orleans, have failed Liabili
| ties, $4,000
| Gen. 10 Shelby of Missouri, the noted ex con.
federate, has just been fined $50 for carrying
concealed weapons. a9H&
| River road near Seattle, struck because
of a reduction from 81 to so cents day
John Hadley, Albany, N. Y, left 10000 II
| Miss Louisa Whipple, a young lady of good
name in Troy. Hadley's divorced wife objects
| The amount of relief funds thus far forward
| ed from Philadelphia is Sc, 80. The Pennsyl
wanna railroad company transports all goodi
| free.
James e. Scripps, the publisher of the De
/ troit Evening News, has paid to DR.. Donald
Mclean $4,000 judgment awarded Mclean il
| libel suit
A Hartford, Conn, drum major can toss his
baton over an electric lamp wire forty feet mp
and catch it again without breaking step IN the
| procession. = -
Two handsome negroes attended fashion.
able white folks masquerade in Stamford
Conn, and two pretty white girls tainted wher
they unmasked.
| In Atlanta there are 81, 0o0, 600 worth of new
buildings in the hands of contractors and arch
itects, besides the new capitol, which viii be
started during the spring. d
| In Savannah, 81 Coo coo has been expended
during the past year in improvements much
of which has gone into the river front and
much into private residences.
Treasurer Wyman received from an Ohio
bank two packages purporting to contain
81 600 each One was found $3.50 short, and
| the other contained two pieces of flannel
The Etna Life and Travellers Insurance
companies of Hartford have each subscribed
$500 for the relief of the flood sufferers making
total of about 81 $50 subscribed there.
Executor Townsend finds difficulty in set
Ting the affairs of Rev. DR.. Mercer, the mill
Gonnaire clergyman of Newport, Z L, because
he cannot supply $500, 600 bondsman
l. d. Mowry & Son, cotton factors, Charles
ton, S. c., have suspended Liabilities, $780,.
000; nominal assets, s225, eco. The suspen-
sion is due to bad crops and investments.
I'll,
Co., clothing dealers, New. York, show iabil
tiles of s211 ,000: actual assets, SIS, 900. Tive
other firms, headed by john Paret, also as
signed
The will of Col Hunt, millionaire lumer.
| man of Roscommon county, Mich, contains be.
\ quests of 1000 to Caroline Brown, mother OF
| Artemus Ward, and similar amounts to Eli Per.
kins and Josh Billings.
The committee of citizens in Philadelphia
raising fund for the sufferers has decided to
| make Gallipolis the distributing point for sup
plies. The chairman announced contributions
to date amounting to s5,64S
Louis ]. Jennings is engaged in writing life
of John Wilson Croker, prominent politician
OF generation ago. He wiltglve letters from
| the duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel
written during the early reform agitation
Judge Dickey, of the supreme court of Iii
nois, has granted a super sedeas in the case
of Frederick NJ ker, sent to the pealtentiary
for ten years for stealing So, 600 from Preston,
Kean & Co, Chicago bankers, which neeessi-
tates new trial
| In case before the Michigan supreme court
| where the point in controversy was whethe,
the elopement of wife from her husband
with another man, bars her from claim te
| her rights in her deserted husbands estate, the
| court claimed that it did
| Ex-Gov. Butler has profound disregard fol
petitions ''You could get in Massachusetts, To-
00O men to sign petition to have meshanged,
| he says, "and half the number would sign q
| petition to have themselves hanged without
knowing what they were doing.
Mr.. Douglass, who has had charge of this
district as special agent of the treasury de-
partment for some time past will hereafter
have his headquarters at st Paul, MINI. Hi,
district now includes Minnesota Dakota, Mon.
tana and Idaho and the port of La Crosse.
The Virginia senate and house, by a strict
party vote, passed hill redistricting the stats
for representatives in congress. The bill was
Immediately enrolled, signed by the presiding
officers and sent to the governor. The reds
tricting shows eight districts democratic and
two coalition
Mayor King, of Philadelphia, has forbidden
the collection of political assessments from
members of the police department, and de-
clares that he will discharge any policeman
who pays one II have never permitted as
sessments, he said, ssand no man shall be as
sessed for political purposes"
At Buffalo Mrs. Prendergrast has sued Mrs
Anna 81. Fargo, the former wife of W. G. Far
go, and now of F. F. Fargo, to compel her to
surrender the possession of the twin children
of W. G. Fargo Jr,, and wife, both deceased
The twins are. both bright children and ars
said to be equally fond of both grandmothers
At Kansas City, Glessner Ross, cracker
and candy factory, was closed by the sheriff
ON an attachment suit of SIS, 900, for money
loaned by Nathan Hill The firm has not yet
assigned. The Liabilities are supposed to be
$40, COO; assets unknown. A receiver has been
appointed The liabilities are $50, goo, and as
sets about $4,000.
Ice, which went out on the 18th gorged just
below the city of Albany. A rapid rise of the
river was checked by cold weather. Many Of
the-lower streets are flooded, and much incon-
venience is caused the railroads, merchants,
and others Many business houses are flooded,
but the damage is not heavy. The lumber dis
trict is completely under water
DR.. George Marshall, charged with attempt
ing to blackmail Mary Anderson, was acquitted
in the United States district court at Pittsburg
recently. The court ruled that the offense did
not come within the provisions of the law pro
viding penalties for using the mails for the
purpose to defraud, and, under instructions OF
the court verdict of not guilty was rendered.
George W. Cable recently told friend, who
warned him that he travelled too much, that he
would rather be in the cars than at a hotel.
His reason was that in the former case he
wasn't bothered by visitors. All sorts of peo-
PIE, ne SAID, hunted MN Outlook agents,
people with pet hobbies which they wanted
him to take up and advocate, and other varie-
ties of genus bore.
Mrs. Marion Laverre of New York, offers
part of mausoleum which she possesses al
Eastport L. L, as resting place for the body
of Commander De Long. Mrs De Long re-
piled that she understood that arrangements
were pending to bury her husband in Wood
lawn cemetery and that steps would be taken
to erect a monument over his grave. Other
wise she would gratefully accept Mrs. Laverre's
offer.
Advice from Hampstead, Tex, give meager
details of fearful encounter in which ono
man was killed and two others MORALLY wound
ed. For somesreason or other, wiz Wheeler
and John Ellison, late city marshal, commenced
shooting at each other in Hewes' bar-room
Friday night, the 18th. Capt James I. Brown
ing interfered and tried to make peace. When
the firing ceased it was discovered that Brown
ing was shot dead and Wheeler and Ellison
were in such condition that they win prob
ably die.
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