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The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-02-26
rom the Boston Globe,

From the Boston Globe
If there was q law compelling the
companies to pay for smashing brake
men you couldn't find link and pin
coupler in the county. Dangerous! I
don't suppose you have any idea Of the
dangers Of brakeman's work on
freight train. He's got to have muscle,
activity and Judgment, and if he fails
in one of these, for a moment-why,
they just shovel him Up in d blanket
Married men won't couple cars, except
when they can't get any other job. It's all
done by young fellows-poor boys who
can better afford to get killed. Some
day the poor boy is helping make up a
long train. He's 200 yards away from
the engine. There's the conductor on
top of the train passing signals with his
hands to the engineer. The engineer
don't want to kill any body but he can't
see the whole length of the train, and it's
hard to tell by the motion of mans
hands Just how much more to back.
The brakeman gets in between the cars,
holding pin in one hand and waiting to
lift the link with the other. Along
comes the train like the hammers of
hades; the draw-bar gives way, retreats
clear to the head, or the brakeman loses
his footing in the shock. They carry
him home, tell his folks that Johnny
got killed on the road, and get another
brakeman.
Then in the winter there's ice and
snow on top of the cars. Everything is
slippery, and it's awful easy to miss
step and go down between the cars.
Overhead bridges break good many
heads, too. It's dangerous work. 1t
costs a brakeman $50 year for 81 900
life insurance, about six times what 1t
would cost you. In some parts
of the country the brakemen have
associations, and when one gets
killed the association pays his widow
or his mother or his sister So, 900.
There is no association like that here.
I wish there was, or that the companies
had to pay for us. The only coupler
that will ever catch them will be one
that saves money. That may sound
rough but it's Gods truth.
Get up coupler that doesn't cost
much more than link and pin and
doesn't lose pins, and you'll have EN-
Let me tell you why. Tho average
loss of pins is five year to each freight
car. Boys steal them for junk, and they
get lost in a hundred different ways.
Pins cost 60 cents each; that's So car
per year. There are nearly 100000
freight cars in this country. That's
So, OOO, 900 worth of pins lost every year.
Looks big, don't it? Well, knock off
third for pins that are recovered and
you still have a sum worth saving.
Show the railroads self-coupler that
doesn't cost more than SIS at the most,
and saves pins, and the brakeman will
get better show for his life than seven
chances in eight.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-02-26

One of the principal reasons for the
success of the English Actor Irving, at
home and in this country, is said to be
due to "the gospel of thoroughness," as
esemplifed in his system and manage
ment. The Chicago Times finds
the secret of Mr.. Irving's success in
the fact that he gives. as rule, "ahar-
monious combination, in which there is
excellence in every element" and thei1
success proves that the failure of the
legitimate drama is due to i'll balanc.
ed and poorly equipped dramatic COM
panies, and not to a decline in the
public taste. And our contemporary
truly says that IF stars and managers
do not learn the benefit of rounded
performances, carefully arranged seem
cry, close attention to minute details
and we'll balanced companies, from the
visit OF MIR. Irving, they are beyond
reform"
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-02-26

When Senator Miller, of California,
introduced in Congress bill the other
day to increase the pension being paid
to the widow of General George II.
Thomas from thirty dollars month to
two thousand dollars a year, it was re-
ceived with great surprise. There was
very general impression that Mrs.
Thomas was in receipt of larger pen
sion. There is y list of the widows of
bureau generals and small fry warriors
who have political friends, list almost
as long as the debate on interstate COM
meree, who are receiving pensions much
in excess of that paid to Mrs. Thomas.
Admiral Farragut's widow very proper
~ receives two thousand per annnm. At
the close of the war there vas move
ment to give Gen. Thomas very large
sum by private subscription but "Pap
Thomas" stopped the whole matter at
it's inception by declaring that he would
not accept such gift, He died COM
paratively poor,
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-02-26

A writer in the Cincinnati Journa |
says: Florida is an old fraud The
beautiful scenery consists of pine bar
rens and sand hnmmocks and swamps,
the first named frequented by bull bats
and screech owls and wood lice, the
second by soldier crabs, red spiders,
earwigs, tarantulas, centipedes and liz
ards, and the last by alligators, slugs,
moccasin, garter, water, copperhead
and fourteen hundred other kinds OF
snakes. The "luxuriant tropical vegeta-
ton consists msinly of pine stumps anG
palmetto scrub. The flowers are con.
fined to the ot-bouses and private gar.
dens; the oranges are in the orchards,
the bananas in the kitchen gardens and
the oleander and magnolias are mostly
in your eve.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-02-26

Tennessee not only has laws to stop
pool rooms and gambling IN margins but
a member proposes to send to the peni.
tantiary anybody and everybody who
plays game of cards, for any stake
even for beer. He takes in "dice throw
ing, pedro seven-up, euchre, Boston,
whist, all hearts, pinochle, sixty six.
cabbage, casino, black jack, black maria,
marbles, base ball, foot ball, hop
scotch, last tag, hide and seek, pussy
wants corner, leap frog, flip, mumbly
peg, funk, backgammon, dominoes,
checkers, billiards, pool, last one over
the fence is niger. bunco, wheel of
fortune, film fans, bluff, kite flying,
jug distemper, and all the other popu-
lar games of the day." His great aim
is to suppress poker, which is undoubt-
edly bad thing, not only in Tennessee
but all over the South. But it is one
thing to enact law-but good deal
more OF trick to execute it.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-02-26

The electric companies have not only
refused to obey the order of the Phila-
delphia authorities to put their wires
under ground, but are said to be con-
stantly putting up new poles. The
matter is therefore now before the
Legislature in the shape Of bill i'm
posing fine of 81 900 for every pole
above ground after Dec. 1, in any place
of 10, 900 inhabitants. If the measure
becomes a law, it will net be executed.
Certain corporations have openly pro-
claimed themselves above the laws, and
have hitherto maintained that position
against any effort to dislodge them. In
the large cities efforts to protect the
public have been abandoned.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-02-26

The grand army camp at Fresno, Cal,
of "blue and gray veterans" recently
passed resolutions favoring placing Gen.
Grant on the retired list. A copy of
the resolutions was sent him. The camp
received letter is response, in which he
said! Coming, as it does from an as.
sociation composed of veterans of both
armies in the great sectional war the
compliment is greater. hope the
fraternity practiced by the veterans OF
Fresno may be patterned after by all
citizens of our country before many
years roll over"
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-02-26

Three men fortuitously stepped into
the electric works in the city of SYRIA
cuse on Wednesday evening, two weeks
ago, at dusk. One Of them was observ-
ed to casually stoop over and reach out
his hands toward thirty-light dynamo
machine. Instantly he was drawn close
to the generator without noise and
without uttering a sound. He had un-
Willingly grasped the positive and mega
tive rods and was dead. A moment be-
fore he had been boasting Of his electri-
cal knowledge. When it was attempted
to remove the body, pieces of the skin
adhered to the rods. The contraction
Of the muscles of the body was so great
that his legs and arms were drawn out
OF shape, and his head drawn forward
SO that his chin pressed tightly against
the chest,
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-02-26

The Spanish consul at Boston, SAYS
that three thousand of his countrymen
lost their lives by the recent earth
quakes in Spain. Some villages have
been almost entirely destroyed, and
families whose only property was their
dwelling are left in destitute condition.
Boston, as usual. came to the front with
handsome subscription for the rellet
Of those people,
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-02-26

Milwaukee Special Telegram, Feb 1a-This
afternoon the Will of the late Sherburn g. Mer-
rlll was filed in the probate court together
with an application for its probate, made by
Mrs. Mary E. Merrill, the widow. The petition
recises that the deceased left personal proper
y worth Cor sss5. ooo. and real estate. worth
ing children, Sarah Merrill Becker,
aged thirty-three; Marion Merrill Smith,
aged twenty three; Fred F. Merrill, aged
twenty, and Richard Merrill aged Jristerih
The will IS dated July On 1854 9ehn !. John.
ston David @ Green, benjamin. 9, Isnnox, and
VIII the Homestead on Grand avenue and the
konsehold furniture, etc, were given to Mrs.
Merrill, together With ehS beqnest of 100000
The executors Are also directed to set apart $500
600 and pay Mrs Merrill the interest on the
s ss1S sas S1 year sss 'i Heath Of
Concord. Masa., and Chastina Walker Of
this city, sisters, and Moses N. Merrill
a brother to the testator. The tes-
tator having, during his lifetime, given
property worth $40, 900 to his eldest daughter
avenue and Wells strsst and Western avenue
and Twenty f6urth street ia given to Mrs Grant
smith, the other daughter, and the executors are
instructed to erect a house upon the same at q
cost OF So GOO All the residue Of the estate
iucluQlIE the reVefslQn III tne homestead ans
the $40 QOQ aleesdt mentioned is to be turned
over u the executors who are empowered to dc
with it as they may deem best in order to
invest it probably The testator then gives
directions for the final disposition of his estate
One-fourth of the residuary. estate il tt, go to
Mrs. Becker, and II she shall die without issue
the said one fourth is to be divided into thres
equal ehares and given to the testators other
children. The same provision is made. in re-
gard to Mrs, Smith, the other daughter: The
two other one-fourth shares are bequeathed t.
the two sons, Richard and Fred F. Merrill. II
the four children should die leaving no issue
the Residue to be paid over to the next Of kin in
the proportion fixed by law. If at any time thu
number of executors is reduced to less thar
three, the judges of the supreme court are tc
select successor The executors are not t
be required to give bonds The will is attest
ed by P. NJ. Myers, s. w. Green and D. s. Wegg.
The genuineness of two unimportant correc-
tons is attested by Benjamin G. Lennox, W. R.
Morrison and D. s. Wegg. Judge Mann Sc,
the matter for hearing at the April term, and
appointed w. J. Turner guardian nd Item, OF
the minor son. The estate is generally con-
sidered b be Worth about 81, 0OO,0O
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G. ]. EDDY,
General Freight and Pass. Agent, Farg

Two through passenger trains daily, morn
ing and evening, between Fargo and st. Paul.
Leave Fargo for the east and south at 1880 ..
m. and p. m. Arrive at Fargo .. m. and
$40 p. m,
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-02-26

We Keep Plug Stock hand but will furnish you with
stylish turnout either for pleasure or business, at
any hour Of the day night.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-02-26
Fatally Stabbed.

ROCHESTER,, Special, Feb. 2O.-A bloody
and probably fatal stabbing ARRAY took place
on the farm of Jack Sullivan In Haverhil1
township, near here. jeremiah DAILY and the
Mackin brothers, John and Tom, are rival
rag peddlers. and fell into dispute over the
profits they had made Words ran high, and
ugly wound in Days side The blow was
returned, Tom Mackin came TO his brothers
aid, and savage fight ensued Some farm
ers passing saw the melee and came to the
spot The Mackins disappeared, but DAILY
was fearfully lacerated and unable to move
several of them serious, and he will probe-
bly, die, The Mackin brothers are 6till =
liberty. 80.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-02-26
SENSATIONAL ASSAULT,

OTTAWA. Ont, Special Telegram. Feb. 20.
"A sensation took place in the corridors of
the house this evening. Landry of Mont
magny, NJ P, made cowardly attack on
Charles Langlier, brother of Langlier, NJ p
leading Quebec journalist and politician.
Langlier was in conversation with the
minister of customs when Landry came up
and asked if he wrote certain articles in
lie Lecteur. Langlier said he did not want
anything to do with him. Thereupon Landry
took from behind his back a riding whip,
having the lash rolled around his hand
two or three times, and struck Langlier with
the butt on the forehead, stunning him.
Dealing couple more blows, he sneaked
into the house fer protection. Beside Lam
dry stood Trudel, chief of the river police of
Quebec. who also made a wordy attack on
Langlier. Landry. after entering the house,
handed his whip round among his friends
The excuse made by Landry for attacking
his opponent was that he accused him in his
paper Of being in open adultery with his sis
ter-in-law. The case will be ventilated in
the courts. Lundry edits the Nouveliste.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-02-26
TWO WIDOWS AND TWO WILLS.

Boston, Special Telegram, Feb. 2O-Spe-
cial to the Herald: Mrs. Annie E. Hurd and
Mrs Ella E. Hurd both mourn the loss of
Augustus H. Hurd, who recently died at
Jamestown, Oak, leaving handsome estate,
which consists principally of real estate in
Boston. Both OF these ladies claim to be his
widow. and both claim the estate Each
presented through counsel in the Suffolk
probate court to-day document purporting
to be the last will and testament OF Mr. Hurd
Mr. Hurd was resident OF Boston previous
to 1888. and had been married for several
years to his first wife. Desiring to obtain q
divorce from her, and there being no sufa
Gent ground in Massachusetts. Mr. Hurd
went to Bismarck, OAK began proceedings
at once, and speedily obtained divorce
without any notice to her. He soon married
a second wife, Mrs Ella E., fair Dakota
widow. Hurd died on Aug. 20, 1884, and
left two wills, which are now in contest
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-02-26
The Milwaukee & st Paul Managers.

general manager of the Chicago. Milwaukee &
St. Paul as the successor to the late General
Manager 3. s. Merrill, was previous to May,
aooI, secretary ana genera superlntenoenn, sue
The latter Office he accepted under the charge Of
the receivers having been chosen for his eminent
fitness. From May, 1882, to April, 1888 he was
second vice president and treasurer of the Chi
cago & Western Indiana Railroad company;
from April, 1888, to March, 1884, he was assist
ant to General Manager Merrill Of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul. Since March, 1884, he
has been assistant general manager Of the road
By those who know him, Mr.. Miller is described
an able railroad official, and is considered one
of the smartest of the rising men Of the country.
He is about forty years old: hair dark; eyes
keen in expression. He is clear-headed, quick
to grasp the scope Of intricate questions, and con-
else in action. It is said that he executes what
he undertakes TO do, and can admirably fill the
position Of general manager Of the Milwaukee
road, to which he has inst been APPOINTED.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-05-28
WHITNEY WANTS TO KNOW

1 why 1T Has Cost $500, 900 to Reconstruct
the Mohfcan When q New Vessel of the
Same Glass Could be Constructed for One
Third the Sum-The Mare Island Navy
Yard to be Investigated.
WAsHINGroN, D. c., May 22.-Secre.
| tary Whitney has convened a board OF
Ave naval officers, to meet At the Mare
| Island Navy Yard, and inquire into the
expensive manner in which repairs to
vessels have been made at that yard.
In his letter to Commodore Russell,
Commandant of the yard, informing him
of this action, the Secretary says:
st1n the line of the suggestions con.
tanned in my letter to you of April 18th,
I have made such Investigations as
my limited time would permit into the ex.
penditures made at the Mare Island Navy
Yard of late years, for the purpose OF
satisfying myself as to it's condition as u
place for the efficient performance Of
public work. Taking certain lines of In
quiry as tests, am compelled to express
the greatest establishment at the results
indicated. The steamship ''Mohican''
was taken out of commission in 1872.
Since that time she has remained in the
Mare Island yard undergoing reconstruc-
ton, including the substitution of new
machinery for the old. She is now SUBJ
stantially ready for sea, and within the
next sixty days will Ne-enter the service.
From the accounts of this department it
appears that there has been spent on her in
the Mare Island yards $S45,000, which,
with further amounts to come in, will
raise her total expenditures to about
$500, 900, and this upon wooden vessel
of about 300 tons displacement. More
than two-thirds of this has been spent
within the last three years. For the fact
that she is of a class now obsolete as an
affective weapon of war, and sub
stant1aIIy worthless, the yard can not hs
held responsible. But that the expense
of this reconstruction in the Mare Island
yard has cost the Government at least
three times what a new ship of the same
character and class could have been built
for, does certainly indicate the most ex-
traordinary mismanagement and waste
fullness.
Similar indications appear to me in the
case of partial repairs and requirements
made upon other vessels not necessary
to comment upon in detail. It may be
said that the economy, or lack of econo-
my, with which repairs are conducted, is
in general, a thing difficult to prove.
But circumstances like these exhibited
in the case of the Mohican are entirely
incapable of explanation, except upon
the ground that either through fault
of system or for some other reason the
public money spent in the Mare Island
Yard, is, in the main, thrown away"
Secretary Whitney has also directed
the officers responsible for the repairs to
the ''Omaha' to explain why so large a
sum, a half million dollars, was expended
in repairs to that vessel in the Ports
mouth IN. H. yard.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-05-28
Interstate Commerce COMMITTEES.

New YORK, May 22.-The select com.
mittee on Interstate commerce consist
Ing OF United States Senators Shelby M.
Cuilom' OF Illinois; Warner Miller, Of
New York; Orrville H. Plat, of Connect
icut; Arthur P. German, of Maryland,
ana isnam G. Harris, Of Tennessee, was
in session at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yes-
terday morning. Simon Sterne appeared
before the committee and stated his views
upon the subject under consideration,
and a remedy for the present evils in the
management of interstate commerce AZ
carried on by the railroada.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-05-28
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

ENERAL GRANTS condition on the Path
was reported as favorable.
A TERRIFIC explosion took place under
train near Denver on the oath.
The remains of Victor Hugo were laid
in state in the Arc de Triomphe, Paris.
Hon. E. B. EWING, newly appointed
Consul General to Mexico, is at Washing
ton.
| FRENCHY, a noted craftsman, has been
captured at New York.
THE night express on the Pan Handle
Road was wrecked on the oath near Mount
Vernon, o.
COMMITS sIoNER GOTHAM is investigating
dairy pr oducts, butter limitations, etc.
| MATTERS are assuming a violent shape
in the railroad strike at Denver.
| COMMISSIONER CoLMAN will be present
at the Wool Growers Convention in st.
Louis.
| AT Cincinnati the United States treas
ure has been removed from the old quar-
tiers to the new building.
The sanitary conference TAT Rome has
declared land quarantine useless.
A RECEIVER has been appointed for the
Havana, Rantoul & Eastern division of
the Wabash sytem.
| CAPTAIN INNE, owner of the steamer
John Greenaway, on La Ike Onondaga, n.
Y, was killed on the oath by the explosion
of boiler.
THERE was a serious communistic riot in
Paris on the cath.
Mr. O'BRIEN, editor of United Ireland,
addressed the Nationalist at Cullaville,
County Armagh, on the 23d. and de-
nounced the Governments land purchase
bill.
Two hundred thousand dollars have been
voted by the people of Pine County, Ari-
IONA, in aid of a railroad.
The New York Times attacks Mr. Lor-
ing's administration of the Agricultural
Department.
NJ. II. PHELAN, of st. LOU S, has been ap-
pointed Consul at Halifax, Nova Scotia.
FIRE destroyed 1.-THE principal business
block at Lansing. Mich, on the pa.
VICTOR HUG bequeathed $4,000 to the
poor.
Al FRANKS killed an Italian scissors.
grinder at Cedar Rapids, Ia, on the I'D.
SECRETARY WHITNEY insists en- another
and thorough test of the Dolphin.
THIRTY THOUSAND Russian Poles are
being expelled from Germany.
President CLEvELAND's French cook
has been superseded by an Irisbman.
RECEIVERS have been appointed at New
York for the Postal Telegraph Company.
REL has been turned over to the police
authorities at Regina, Northwestern Ter.
ritory. His American citizenship will cut
no figure in his trial or punishment.
PEOPLE of Washington are greatly agi-
tated about the alleged impurity of the
water supply of the city.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-05-28
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England's Tolerance Denounced,

LONDON, May 22.-Dispatches from
Vienna indicate some i'll feeling against
England in official circles. Count Won
Tafe, President of the Ministry, Is re-
ported to have said for publication
recently: "London is the great
center for the printing OF the
revolutionary literature circulated on
the continent. Until England becomes
less tolerant toward alien conspirators,
she should not expect any reciprocal ac-
ton from the United States toward crush
ing out the anarchism OF dynamiters who
are giving so much trouble"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-05-28
Mormon Elders Arrested.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, May 2l.-There
Is much excitement at Elizabethton over
the Imprisonment of Christian and
Gatner, the Mormon Elders, on the charge
Oh preaching poivgamy. The Elders made
many converts in that section last year
before the passage Of the anti-polyramv
law, and their converts sta.e that they
WI protect them at all hazards. Senator
oimmeriy's father has been converted,
anu the former is working up public
sentiment against the Mormons. The
eherin refuses 10 release the prisoners,
anu the Governors attention has been
Saileu 70 the matter. The people say the
Mormons must 90,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-05-28
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.
Typos, Attention!

The following prizes will be offered at the
annual meeting of the Missouri Press As
sociation at Columbia, June I'd and Sd next
FOR BEST DISPLAY OF JOB PRINTING.
First Prize.-$25 in gold, by the Associa
ton.
second PrZe-The Snider & Holmes Colo
Medal, for annual competition. now in pos.
session of Hamilton Neirs- Graphic.
FOR BEST SPECIMEN OF JOB PRINTING.
First Prize-S25 in gold by the Associa
ton.
second PriZe.-The Central Type Foundry
Gold Medal, for annual competition, now
in possession of the Montgomery Standard.
None but members of the Association are
eligible to this contest. st. Louis, Kansas
City, st. Joseph, Hannibal and Sedalia are
barred from competing.
The specimens competing for these prizes
must be in the hands of the Awarding Com
mittee the first day of the Convention.