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The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-02-28

The frequent invalidations of wills in
courts on the ground of unsoundness of
mind would be remainder to those who
are unwilling to let that natural law OF
inheritance take its course, that they
should make such dispositions as they
wish while in the full enjoyment of
health, and as the unsoundness OF
mind of testators is usually discovered
after their death, it were well for those
who yet in the flesh are possessed with
carmel desire to exercise from the spirit
land a sort of posthumous supervision
over their worldly goods, that they should
initiate the great Barnam, and have
themselves examined by board of ply
sicians as to begin of 'sound and dispos-
ing mind" An affidavit to that effect from
the relatives who are to be losers to any
extent might not be amiss either. The
philanthropist possessing more than a
share of this wor Ids wealth could no
do better than follow the example of the
late Peter Cooper, and apply such
amounts as he destinedto the public good
during his life tim, and under his own
supervision, remembering that none,
however jealous, can carry out his inten.
lions and execute his own will so well as
himself
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General Northwestern Freight Agent Bowden
Of the Milwaukee & st. Paul, on the 2lst inst,
issued the following order:
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul railway
have made arrangements to furnish the farmers
on the lines of the Minnesota, Iowa d Dakota,
Sioux City Il Dakota and Hasting9 q Dakota
divisions with pure Scotch Fife wheat for seed
Without this wheat the reputation of Minneso-
to cannot be maintained for producing the
finest -four in the land The millers must have
II. It is bringing to 10 cents per bushel more
than the soft varieties to-day, and we intend
that on all the divisions above nameda sshard
price, shall be made on the next crop, provi-
ded the farmers will raise Fife wheat and keep
It separate The first 100000 bushel WILDE
delivered on board cars ct 4LO5 per
bushel and shipped at the following low sche-
dule Of rates In car loads: Twenty miles OF
under 3 1-2c per 100 lbs; 50 miles, Sc; IS miles,
40; 100 miles, Sc; $50 miles; &c; 2OO miles, 7ci
$50 miles, &c; 300 miles, &c; over 3Oo miles, l0c
Agents Of the company viii fnrpisl Aarmers
With any quantity oftiis wheat Upper
bishel
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The Criminal Calendars

Love-sick Ed Rail, suicided at Fort Scott
Rams.
Little Rock reports the lynching of negro
ravisher.
A Tombstone, Ariz., dispatch says the FIVE
Bisbee murderers have been sentenced to be
hanged March 20.
The mayor of Fremont, Ohio, marched
through the streets the other night beastly drunk
with brass band preceding him.
Harvey Chapple, aged seventy EIGHT, veal
thy farmer living alone near Lebanon, Conn,
was found murdered in his own house.
At Jersey City, N. j., Dr. Rufus Peacock has
been sentenced to two years in the state prison
for defrauding the American Legion of Honor
Henry Mccullough was killed and Ed. Jones
Trenton, Ohio. Both lived at Wheeling, W.
Va.
Cannon Sander and Rafael Caprone have been
sentenced at Bangor, Me-, to be hanged the first
Friday of April, 1885, for the murder of Pasquale
Coscie on the 7th Of September last.
A telegram from Calgary, N. W. T., announ-
ces that Jess Williams, the murderer Of Adams,
before Judge Mcleod on the charge of murder
in the first degree, was found guilty and SEN
fenced to be hanged March 30
Near Berlin Cross Roads, Ohio, John John
son, farmer aged eighty three, was knocked
down in his house BY two masked men and
robbed of 800 cash and az, 600 in notes, etc.
johnson may die Of his injuries.
Mrs. Haight Of Derryten,N. Y, who shot her
husband at night as they lay in bed, is on trial
at Morrisville. Haight's deathbed statement ia
the chief evidence against her. She had per-
suaded him to take out q large life insurance.
A party Of fifteen raftsmen, returning from
the Licking river 10 their homes in Msgofin
Co., KY, became involved IN drunken dght,
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A Strange Family Quarrel.

Baltimore Special: George Williams. "a leading
millionaire lawyer and expresident of the Mary
land senate, is defendant in an extraordinary
legal proceeding, commenced here to-day.
The plaintiff is his son, Ernault H. Williams,
a young society man. At the death of John s
Cuttings, plaintiff fell heir to $4,000. He had
as charged, disipated habits, and otherwise in
Cured parental displeasure by engaging him
self to marry young lady said to be beneath
the Williams circle socially. Every effort was
made to prevent the match, but without avail,
and young Williams alleges that he was, while
under the influence of liquor, induced to sign
his interest in the $30000 to his father, in ex-
change for life annuity of $500, and also
that he was taken under duress to Europe.
Upon returning he married the girl since which
time father and son have not spoken, though
frequently passing each other on the streets.
Williams alleges that his sons dissipated course
prompted him to have the transfer made.
Able counsel is employed on both sides, and
the court disclosures promise to prove OF a
highly sensational nature.
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How a Earibau1t Lady Was Robbed in
Chicago.

A dispatch from Chicago says: The Palmer
house was the scene last Monday the 3d. of
a remarkable bold assault and ROBBERY The
hotel manager declines to give the name of the
lady, at her own request She is said, however,
to be Mrs. Dudley or Mrs. Sykes, milliner of
Faribault, Mimi, who arrived in the city ear
ly, and after registering at the hotel, went to
Gage Bros. land purchased Il stock of goods for
her business Returning to the hotel she stop
ped at drug store to get a prescription put up.
Noticing that she was being watched by loaf
er in the ladies' entrance to the hotel, she
asked to have the medicine sent to
her room, preferring not to
expose the sum of money which she had She
then went to her room; a few minutes later,
hearing knock at the door, she opened it to
admit as she supposed, boy from the drug
store. Instead of the boy, she was confronted
by the man who had watched her from the
ladies' entrance few moments before. This
man seized her by the throat, put a handker-
chief saturated with chloroform to her nose,
which soon rendered her insensible, and took
everything he could lay hands ON and left
After a while Mrs Dudley recovered sufficient
ly to ring the bell and make known her situation.
She soon recovered entirely from the assault
and has now left the city. Her loss was $4o0
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The Greeuhack National Convention.

The following is the official call of the Ma
tional Greenback Labor party to nominate can
didates for president and vice president
of the United States, to be voted
for at the coming presidential election, will be
held in the city of Indianapolis, Ind, on We'd
nesday, May q, 1884. Each state is entitled to
four delegates and four alternates at large,
each congressional district two delegates and
two alternates, each territory two delegates and
two alternates, and the District of Columbia
two delegates and two alternates Therefore,
all who are in accord with the views set forth
in the platform of said party in 1880 are re-
spectfully requested to meet in convention In
their several states, territories and districts on
or before May l and select delegates and alter
mates to said convention.
ISigned] JESSE HARPER, Chairman,
LEE CRANDALL, Secretary.
The following are the names of committee
appointed to assist the chairman and secretary
in arranging details:
H. T. Leonard, chairman, Logansport, Ind. !;
John M. Potter, secretary, Lansing, Mich. B.
". Terlinde treasurer, Elizabeth, n j.;
worthy, Oskaloosa Iowa.
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4 passage in Queen Victories diarys
lately published has created something
more than passing interest, in view OF
certain expressions showing that all the
sympathies of her majesty went out to
the Germans in the Franco-P russian
war, and that had she possessed the
power to direct it, the strength of Eng
land would have been thrown into the
scale against France, yet she was pow
erless. Says the queen, apropos OF
sermon which she attended at Crathie
Church, and which was preached by
one of her favored and most favorite
pastors: doctor Mcleod gave a
splendid war sermon. Without men
tioning France, he said enough to make
every one understand what he meant
when he pointed out how God would
punish wickedness and vanity and SEN
suality The chapters he read were
really quite wonderful for the way in
which they seemed to describe France
This passage has stirred bad
blood in France, and a feeling of irrita-
ton which will continue to rankle In
the minds of Frenchmen, and which al
ready finds expression.
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was involved, hanged himself. A banker
Radille suspended Liabilities, 1900, 900 francs,


chiefly peasants earnings
Tricon, formerly French minister to China,
has just arrived hese from Saigon He states
that the Black Flags always place Cinnamon in
front of them If they refuse to fight He says
400 Chinese were killed in that way in the bat
tie of Sontay. Tricon has gold cup from
which Hiephoa, late king Of AMMAN, drank
poison at the bidding Of the regent
In Paris the current topic of gossips is the
dispute of Mrs. Mackay and Meissonier in regard
to her portrait painted by the latter. The
price paid was 5000 francs. Mrs. Mackay
was dissatisfied with the likeness, which her
friends called a caricature and she burned it.
Messonier, resenting remarks of the Gaulois
wrote the editor, that he would fight
Meyer, the Gaulois critic, if he
seventy three years old. Meyer replied that
Messonier's son should take his fathers place
and fight
| banquet was given on the ed. by the Stan
| ley club at Paris. Sixty guests were present, a
| majority Of whom were American and English
| journalists and artists. Blowitz, correspondent
of the London Times, presided Walker, Am
erican consul general, represented Minister
! Morton. Blowitz in proposing thu toast "Wash-
| ington," said Washington not only -ounded Am
| erican freedom, but opened to humanity new
| era of universal Independent &c. Blowitz eulo-
| gized Lafayette as an associate of Washington,
| and quoted Lafayette's words: Humanity gains
case; liberty is no longer without asylum.
| Mile. Nevada, the American artistic, sang 'sThe
| Mocking Bird, "and the evenings entertainment
| closed with the singing of 'The Star Spangled
| Banner"
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The $4,000, 900 people of the country
may congratulate themselves that they
can buy the most powerful fever rem
edy, the drug known as quinine, at
S1.25 to 81, 35 per ounce. The ring has
at last been broken and healthy compe-
titions, as in other things, has done its
good work It is well known that for
many years this drug was subject first
to duty of 45 per cent, and during
later years to 20 per cent, which
strange as it may seem, gave a virtual
monopoly of the market to two great
establishments. For years this drug
was selling at So and 81 an ounce, and
so close was the quinine ring kept, that
in 1S76-77, when the South and South
west was stricken by epidemic fevers,
the scarcity of quinine was such that
great distress, and no doubt loss of life,
was the result. The profits made by
the few great houses that manufactured
quinine were enormous, while the duties
kept out foreign manufactures.
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Democratic National Convention.

A meeting of the democratic national COM
mittee was held in Chicago on the I'D
The first thing done which was regarded
with special significance was the first ballot on
the time for holding the convention. Dates from
early in May to the middle of August were pro-
posed, the earlier dates generally being regarded
as in the interest of st. Louis and as these dates
were taken up and acted upon, there was COR
responding interest on the part of representa-
tives of the rival cities The first ballot for
the 10th of May, the vote begin II to 20
The final vote on the location showed that
the vote on this date really indicated the
and Chicago, the latter getting twenty one votes
for location and the former seventeen The
next ballot on the date fixed it on the Oath OF
June, but this was changed, after the location
was agreed upon, to the 9Th of July. Three
ballots for the location were taken the last re-
suit was Chicago II, St Louis IL
The following call was presented by the ex-
ecutve committee, and agreed upon:
The national Democratic committee, having
met in the city of Washington on the ed of
February, 1854, has appointed Tuesday, the
Sth day of July next, at noon, as the time, and
chosen the city of Chicago as the place, for
holding national Democratic convention
Each state is entitled to representation therein
equal to double the number of senators and
representatives in congress of the United States
Inc democrats OF cacn organized territory
and the District of Columbia are entitled to
send two delegates, subject to
discretion of the convention as to
their admissisn. All Democratic citizens of the
United States, irrespective of past political asso
Citations and differences, who can unite with US
in an effort for pure, economical and consti-
tutional government, are cordially invited to join
in sending delegates to the convention.
The call is signed by all the members of the
national Democratic committee. On motion of
McHenry of Kentucky, it was resolved that the
next meeting of the committee be held at the
Palmer house, Chicago, July It'll next. The COM
mittee then adjourned
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rinertv's Great objection.

Washington Special: Congressman Finerty is
determined to place the house on record on the
Irish question, and he will probably have a
chance to do it when the question of accepting
ment has rendered for the Greedy relief expedi-
ton, comes up. The only question that can
come before the houseis whether congress shall
return vote of thanks, and this Finerty is de-
termined to prevent He takes the position that
the acceptance of the vessel is an insult to the
Irish-American citizens of the country, and
every congressman who expressed his approval
will find himself opposed by the Irish American
vote. The representatives from Irish districts
are already beginning to feel little nervous
aboutit, and will probably vote with Finerty:
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MMwAuKEE-Wheat, No. 2, 94c; bid May
s1.G019
Corn-No. 2, 541lc.
Oats-No. 2, 33c
Rye-No. l, SOC.
Barley-N6. 2, 5Sc@5sH.
CmcAGo.-Wheat No. 2spring, 92%c@941Sc;
No. spring, 82@S31ac
Corn-54cM545sc
-32Ac@3Sc
Rye-5Sc
Barley~62@6scc
Flax Seed-$1.A
Pork-$1z 621S@1z7a
Lard-$9 55@$960.
Hogs-$6 COOLIES.
Cattle-$5. 00@575.
ST. PAu1-Wheat, No. 1 hard, $1OO; No.
hard, 93@95c, No. 1 regular, 90@95c; No 2
6orn-No. 2 51c@5sc; new mixed, 45c@4sc;
oatsINo. mixed, 311lc@321Sc
Barley-No. 2, Coo; No. extra, 4Se; No. 3,
3Sc.
Rye-No 2, Sc.
Ground Feed-$8 00@4O0
Corn Meal-$20O0
Bran-$12 50@1300
Baled Hay-Wild, $5D@6@; timothy,
$500
Live Hogs-$550
Dressed Hogs-$ZQ0.
Timothy Seed-$E150L2
Clover Seed-$5. 50@650
Potatoes-42c.
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Aw,sconsin Wedding Scene.

The all-absorbing topic in social circles at
GAINESVILLE, Wis, is sensational incident at tile
wedding of Hiram d. Murdoch and Allie B.
Childs Thursday the 21st During the pro-
gress of the festivities the discovery was made
that ono of the presents, consisting of $50 in
gold, which had been given by the groom's un-
Gle, was missing. Great CONSERVATION pre-
vailed among the guests, eighty in number,
each and every one of whom imagined that the
finger of scorn was pointing in his direction.
Finally to relieve the embarrassment, it was de-
cided to make q search of the guests, which
was accordingly done. The money was not re-
covered
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-02-28

The old Credit Mobilier, supposed to
be dead and buried, with the regulations
of not few statesmen concerned in it,
is revived in the United States circuit
court at Boston, in a suit involving $16,-
100000 The opinion of the court is in
substance, that the trustees, Thos. G.
Durant and six others, to whom was as
signed the contract between Cakes Ames
and the Union Pacific Railroad, have
failed to account for many millions OF
dollars due under that trust to the stock
holders of the Credit Mobilier of Amer
lea. and that the trustees have been
guilty of wilful negligence and miscon-
duct in the arrangements of the trusts.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-02-28

Companies for cremation of the dead
have been organized in Eastern and
Southern cities, and spots selected fol-
the erections of furnaces. This dispo
sition of the remains of the dead was
somewhat revolving at first to relatives
hnd friends. but time is gradually wear
ing away objections, and cremation may
eventually come into general practice
Stranger things have happened in this
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-02-28

The papers report that many people
who have suffered by the loss of proper
ty from the floods of the Ohio and it;
tributaries. are proposing to sell ou'
and $50 west" They could stand s
flood occasionally on alternate years. but
drowning out every year is beyond en-
lurance.
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w,se nrurder in wisconsin.

A horrible murder and attempt at suicide oc-
CURED at Boahe, small village ten miles from
Richard Centre. At o'clock on the Goth B. T.
Barnes cut his wife's throat from ear to ear,
and made desperate attempt to kill himself
by cutting his own throat. Tue woman died in
a few moments, but the man is alive and likely
to recover. The murderer is one, of the lead
ing citizens of the county No cause is assigned
for the terrible deed except dependency over
the continued illness of his wife.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-02-28

The tenth annual grand encampment of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Mime
sofa was opened Wednesday, the Goth, at 9
o'clock, at Odd Fellows hall, St Paul There
was a full attendance of delegates.
The report of the grand patriarch was pre-
scented. 1t showed very favorable state of
affairs from twenty-six deputy district grand
patriarchs.
The report of the grand representative to the
sovereign grand lodge was presented 1t
showed that the report of the sovereign grand
sire denoted net gain the last official year of
1S,050, making total membership of 49,, 997
in the United States; encampment member
ship, S. TO- net gain, 467.
Mr.. Williams report as grand treasurer
shows receipts, $7S6.72; expenditure of grand
encampment for the year, sos 46; in treasury
at close of term $685.
The encampment proceeded to the election Of
officcrs-with the following result:
Grand Patriarch-Thomas Riley, St Paul
Grand High Priest-W. X. Read, Lanesboro.
Grand Senior Warden-E. L. French, Brain
erd
Grand Scribe and Treasurer. F. Williams,
St Paul
Grand Junior Warden-J. hinges, Wilton.
Grand Inside Sentinel-A- G. Long, st. Paul.
Grand Representative. W. Smith, Mime
apolis, elected 1888, for two years.
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Fire at Mayaguse, Porto Rico, destroyed
forty houses The loss is estimated at Csc, COO.
The Dentsches Tagblatt says the Lasker res
olutions were merely dodge to catch German
votes.
Mr.. Buckle, thirty years old, is editor-in-
charge of the London Times until some great
man can be found for the place
The Dutsches Tagbatt, Of Berlin commenting
upon Bismark's reply to the Lasker resolutions,
repels the interference of forcing legislature
in the internal affairs of Germany, and criticises
the diplomatic intermediary method employed
in the transmission of the resolution.
The inquiry of the royal commission into the
housing of the poor is limited to England. The
commission is composed of the prince of Wales,
Cardinal Manning, earl Of Brounlow, Baron
Darlington, and several members of parliament
The only workmen's representative is Henry
Broadtwist, member, Of parliamentfor Stoke
on Trent
Emile h Cordier, shippers of Rochefort
France with branch at Bordeaux, have failed
Liabilities, 5,5Oo,O00 francs. The failure in
wolves firms at Angonleme, La Rochelle and
Mort A stock broker named Maynier, who
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-02-28

A resident of Dubuque, Charles Lu-
ther, who for many years has run a CT
gar store in Dubuque, has instituted a
suit in the Chicago courts for the own
ership of sixteen lots lying near the
mills on the Calumet river, in South
Chicago. The lots are at present occu-
pied by lumber yards. Mr.. Luther
claims to have bought the lots in 1866,
and lost the deed there. He was in
Chicago last week to investigate his
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-02-28

The lists of failures are growing short.
er and the signs of improvement in bus
mess are becoming more frequent. Con-
fidence is being restored, and that means
better times. Nobody expects revival
of speculative booms but the outlook
for legitimate business is much better
than for months past, This is especially
true of the northwest, where the field is
open for labor and capital, and is not
glutted with the one or the other.
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-Four hundred dollars worth of hq-
uor owned by Mike Norris. at McGreg-
or, was seized, and he has commenced
proceedings against the other saloon
keepers insNorth McGregor, when they
quietly shipped their soft hardware into
Wisconsin
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Sixteen Russians, including the authoress
Kinnizakaja, have been banished since the be-
ginning ofJanuary. The perfect Of the district
of Lischen has been arrested on charge OF
socialism. Many students have been arrested
in Kasan, owing to the publication Of apamphlet
hostile to the government
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MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.


On Aug. %, Ole Rogn, Sr., of the
town of Wang, Renville county, told
his neighbors that his wife, Gertrude
o. Rogn; had committed suicide by
throwing herself down the well that he
tried to save her, but as he was drawing
her up the rope broke, and before he
could get another one she was dead.
None OF the neighbors seemed to doubt
her husbands story as to the cause of
her death. No inquest was held, as
there should have been, the people
about there being ignorant of the law,
and the woman was buried. A few
days ago it had begun to be whispered
about that Rogn had murdered his wife.
This coming to Rogn's ears he sold his
farm and all his personal property, and
on the 18th inst, took the train at Sa-
cred Heart for ST. Paul He was ares
ted at Bird Island by Officer Lewis up.
on receipt of telegram from Sheriff
H. O. Field.
Rogn used to abuse his wife, and on
on the morning of her death he struck
her with stove-lid, cutting q
large cash in her arm, knocked her
down and kicked her in the head and
body, took her by the feet and dragged
her about the room. Finally, the WON
an, dazed and blinded by the blood
flowing from the wounds in her face
escaped from his clutches and ran out
of the house, her husband after her
Not knowing where she was going, she
ran into the open well, which was
usually covered with loose board
Whether Rogn made any effort to gel
her out is not known by the sheriff
The whole performance was witnessed
by Mrs. Anna Lumkum, who was work
ing for Rogn, her eleven-year-old girl
and by four or five others, but strange
as it may seem, none of them ever sai(
word about it until few days ago
They did not want to get into trouble
and have to 60 to court as witnesses, /:
the reason some of them give for NO
speaking at the time.