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The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-09-17
Ihe Sun,

!. THE SUN is q weekly newspaper de.
voted to the interests OF Stevens County
and vicinity.
TERMS: $3.50 Year In Advance.
MURPHY & SANDERS.
Publishers.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-09-17

Henry Ward Beecher is still mug
wump.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-09-17

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, 1885-02-22
CASUALTIES AND CRIME.
Fierce Fires do Much Damage
in Philadelphia.
Terrible Explosion of Natural
Gas in West Virginia.
An United States Marshal and
Deputy Murdered in Texas.
THE FIRE FIEND.
Destructive Confagrations Among
the Quakers.

PHnADELPHrA, Feb. 2l.-A fire
broke out this morning in the house OF
John A.. King, on Pine street. The
flames made rapid progress. Three dwell
lings were destroyed. The occupants Of
Kings residence were asleep in the up
per stories, and were aroused by the heat
and smoke only to discover the usual
means of egress clt aft. They ran to the
windows and most of them jumped out.
King appeared at the fourth story win
dow, and was seen to make an effort to
jump, but was overcome by the heat and
fell back into the flames. Three people
who jumped to the ground, two female
servants and a sister of Mrs. King, also
lost their lives. Mrs. King appeared at a
window crying for help. A mattress was
held by iiremen and she was told to drop
her baby first and her to jump herself
She did so, and received severe, but not
dangerous, injuries. The baby was killed.
The body of Mrs. Hamilton. a sister of
Mrs. King. has been recovered. -Four
people in all were killed. The Kings
were among the most fashionable and pop
ular people in the city.
, 1885-02-22

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. GA fire oc-
CURED early this morning in the four
story brick building at 504 Market
street, occupied on the first floor by
Ruth Bennett & Co. dealers in China
aud glassware, and the two upper floors
occupied by Joseph l. Meary x Co,
boot and shoe commission merchants.
The stock of both firms was destroyed.
The stock of Ruth, Bennett & Co. was
valued at $35,000. The flames then
spread to the paper warehouse of S. A
Rudolph, Sons & Co., the contents Of
which were destroyed and the building
No. sos, Market street. the upper floors
ofwhich were damaged. The first floor
and basement was occupied by Lippin-
colt, Son & Co, %auctioneers. The total
loss on buildings and stocks is estimated
at $l25, 900.
, 1885-02-22

STEUBENvTLLE, Feb. 2l.-A terrific
gas explosion occurred at Wcllsburg, w.
Va, seven miles down the river this
morning, by gas leaking in the cellar of a
two story brick occupied by r. Hellesley
& Brothers, cigar makers. This building
and the adjoining occupied by Luke Wei
Ter, saloon, also a substantial brick, were
blown to atoms. The debris took FIRE;
the intense cold gave the fire sway and it
spread rapidly to adjoining buildings
The shock Of the explosion was so terrible
that glass was shattered and plaster
shaken from ceilings in nearly every resi-
dence in the town. The inhabitants ran
in all directions, terror stricken. A great
many buildings were found badly dam
aged quite a distance from the explosion.
So far as learned, four are killed and two
injured.
Later reports from the scencc OF the
gas explosion at Wellsburg, increases the
horrors of the singular disaster. Six
lives are known to be lost, viz. Mr..
Helseley, his wife, mother of Mr.. Hclse-
ley, two children of Mr.. Helseley, one
aged 6 years and the other Is months.
The eldest of the two children was taken
out alive, but so seriously injured that il
died at 4 o'clock this morning. The
youngest child has not been found. Mr.
Lucas Walters, wife and two children
were saved, but the eldest son, aged abouI
IA years, is missing. The missing named
are undoubtedly in the ruins. Miss Lucy
Letzkus, residing Mr.. Walters, was asleeI
on the second floor, and was carried with
her bed by the explosion into an adjoin
inglot. and tremendously escaped injury.
Firemen are busily throwing water oil
the ruins, endeavoring to cool off tn
debris so search can be made for the re
mains of the two missing children.
, 1885-02-22

LONDON. Feb. 2l.-Gen. Buffers re-
lief transports from Gakdul we're expect
ed to reach Abuklea to-day. It is feared
the retreat from Gakdul will be attended
with heavy losses. Water is scarce, cam
els are dying from exhaustion and anu
milton is limited. If the Mahdi's adj
vance should be accelerated. Gen. Bull
ler's entire force will be i~mperilled.
Gen. Sir. Thos. Steele, commander of the
forces in ireland, reports to.the govern
ment against any reduction of the num-
Der of troops in that country. and pro-
tests that it will be necessary to increase
rather than to diminish them. Pearce,
correspondent Of the London Daily Neles.
with Gen. Butler, is missing.
, 1885-02-22
Mexioan Maniac Murderer.

DENVER, Col, Feb. 2l.-The Tribune
Republicans Las Vegas special says; A
later report of the murder OF Don Miguel
Montana and wife, last Tuesday, at their
ranch at Las Nariss, is to the effect that
Jose Gallegos, a ranchero and desperate
character, killed Montana in a fit of in
sanity. After assuring himself that his
victim was dead, he went to his own home
aud cut the throats of his entire family;
consisting of his wife, two daughters and
a young son. A posse OF citizens have
organized to surround the house and cap
ture the maniac.
, 1885-02-22
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.
New Britain, Conn. had a fire. Loss
500, 900. Insurance sl25, 900.
A Baton Rouge dispatch says the peni-

R''hss Aoo hits A4Oo'
soc, 900. Insurance $685. 00.
A Baton Rouge dispatch says the peni
Tertiary is on fire, and from appearance.
the whole building will be destroyed.
President Arthur gave his last public
reception last night. The number Of
callers was greater than at any previous
reception.
Chicago cattle receipts, Feb. 81, $500.
Trade slow. Shipping steers. "a SO(a
6 40; stockers. 50 s0a4 10; feeder, "a 10
@o 90; Texans, 81 6O(a4 30.
Turks at Jeddeh are circulating reports
to the effect hat the British troops in the
desert have been massacred and Gen.
Lord Wolseley committed suicide.
Dick Short was arraigned at Yorkville
police court to answer the charge of stab
bling Phelan. Judge Patterson denied the
motion for Il discharge of the prisoner,
and refused to reduce his bail. .r
The Oregon Legislature, after t~ustling
for forty days with the senatorial success
sion, yesterday adjourned without elect
ing a successor to Senator Slater. There
is much excitement at Portland.
A passenger and freight train collided
on the West Shore road, New York;
three locomotives were smashed. One
engineer and fireman killed, the others
severely injured Loss, $l00, 900.
An accident occurred on the Lake
Shore and Western railroad, near Arrow
smith Several passenger cars were
and passengers more or less in
iured. They were taken to Blooming
, 1885-02-22

CHAPPAoUA, Feb, 2l.-The Chippa-
qua Mountain Institute burned at 3
o'clock this morning. The seventy-6ve
scholars were all safely removed although
there were some narrow escapes. Many
Of the children were carried insensible
through the smoke and flames upon the
frozen s~now-covered ground in their night
clothes, bare-footed and partly naked.
Neighbors soon arrived at the scene and
the halt frozen children were cared for.
The institute was started sixteen year.
ago as 4 Quaker school for boys and
girls.
, 1885-02-22
Firo and q Fatal Flght.

CHARLOTTE, N. G., Feb. 2l.-The
SchiT block burned this morning. Loss,
$4,000; insurance, $47 1000. In the
room where the fire originated, Grace
Howard, a disreputable woman, was
found lying helplcssly drunk in a bed,
which wa on fire. She was burned from
her hips to her feet and cannot recover.
Sam Richardson, eolored, ran against
Isaac Bronson, also colored, and broke
twoseggs in the %latter's pocket. Bron-
sou t%hereupon cut Richardson's throat.
Richardson walked across the street to a
drug store and fell dead. Bronson was
arrested.
, 1885-02-22

forth and forever it shall be lovingly as
sociated, net only with the memory o
him in whose honor it has been erected
but with an era Of assured peace, unity
and concord, which would have beer
dearer to his heart than the c~ostliest per
sonal memorial which the toll and treas
ure Of his counirymen could have con
structcd. The union is itself the all-suf
ficient and the only sufficient monument
10 Washington. The union was nearest
and dearest to his great heart. THE
union in any event were the most en-
phatic words of his immortal farewell
address. Nothing less than the union
would ever have been accepted or recog-
nizel BY him as a monument common
surate with his services and his fame.
Nothing less ought ever to be recognized
as such by ms, or by those who shall rise
up, generation after generation. to do
homage to his memory
Is y x 4
Our matchless obliesk stands proudly
before us to-day, and we hail it with the
Civilizations Of a united and glorious ma
ton. It may, or may not, be proof
against the cavils of critics, but nothing
of human construction is against the cas-
ualties of time. The storms Of winter
must blow and beat upon it. The light
uings Of heaven may scar and blacken it.
An earthquake may shake its foundations.
Some mighty tornado, or resistless
cyclone, may rent its massive blocks
asunder and hurl huge fragments to the
ground. But the character which it com-
memorates and illustrates is secure. 1t
will remain unchanged and Interchangeable
in all its consummate purity and splendor.
and will more and more command the
homage Of succeeding ages in all regions
Of the earth. God be praised, that char
acter is ours forcVcrl
As, Mr.. Long ceased speaking the band
struck up Columbia, Gem of the Ocean,
and asthe strains of the air ended, Mr..
Edmunds introduced Hon. John w.
Daniel, who was greeted with long con
tinued %clapping Of hands. Mr.. Daniel
proceeded to deliver his Grafton. He was
frequently interrupted by rounds of APP
plause, elected by his clear-cut and well
balanced periods and his eloquent style of
uttering them. As he closed, Senators
Edmunds and Sherman, Speaker Carlisle
and Representative Long warmly con-
graduated him. while once more the au-
evinced their appreciation of the
eloquence
After benediction by the chaplain of
the house, the distinguished guests de-
parted and the speaker called the house
to order, which Immediately adjourned
until Monday.
, 1885-02-22

SAN FRANcIsco, Feb. 2l.-A new
phase in the Sharon divorce case devel-
oped to-day. Sharon's counsel notified
Miss Hills attorney that the court will
be requested Feb u, to annul the award
of alimony and counsel fees granted the
plaintiff, on the ground that the court
signed the findings, which, inadvertently
decided that no marriage, valid under
the laws of California ever existed be-
tween the plaintiff and defendant.
, 1885-02-22

New BRAUNsFTELD, Tex, Feb. 2l.-
Hal Casting, United States marshal for
the western district of Texas, and his
deputy, Manning, were. killed here this
evening by mail robbers whom the officers
were attempting to arrest. The author
tiles have telegraphed to Huntsville for
bloodhounds to track the robbers.
, 1885-02-22

TExARKANA, Ark. Feb. 2l.-The Marx
block burned this morning. The loss is
estimated ut $4,000, but may reach a
quarter of n million. Insurance, $liS,
DOC. The largest individual suffer is. j.
N. Daugherty. whose stock was valued at
$32, 600. His insurance is S22. 00O.
, 1885-02-22
Three Generations Burned
naofh-

OC0lA.
NEW YORK, Feb. 2l.-At a fire early
this morning at Beaver, six lives were
lost, as follows: Mrs. Annie Murray,
aged 30; James Murray, Jr., aged 4;
David Murray, aged 9; Maggie Murray,
aged ,; Mrs. Venus, Murray's wife's
mother, who WAS 55 years old, is also
dead. james Murray, father of the fam
lily, was Il policeman attached to the first
precinct. His wife attended to the jani-
tors duties of Litehield's building. He
was doing patrol duty near the scene and
he rushed to the burning structure, his
first thought being to save his wife and
children. He was seen to enter the
house, but has not been seen since and it
is thought he was suffocated by somke,
and subsequently burned to a cinder.
Three generations in the persons of Mrs.
Murray, her children and her mother,
lay dead on the station house floor at the
same time. To render the disaster more
d~eplorable, Mrs. Murray was shortly to
become a mother. Several persons in
the building were rescued by means Of
lo1dora
, 1885-02-22
chieago conspiritors Convicted

CHICAGO, Feb. 21.-The trial of JOS
c. Mackin, VIM. j.. Gallagher, Arthur
Gleason and Henry Bichl, on the charge
of conspiracy to effect the result of the
election for congressman in the 4th Hi
nois district at the presidential election
last November, was concluded to-day and
resulted in the conviction at $3.50 this
evening Of Maxim, Gallagher and Glea-
son; and the acquital Of Biehl.
, 1885-02-22
London Frightened Again.

LONDON, Feb. 2l.-Rumors are cur
rent here to-day of a serious disaster to
the force of Gen. Butler, entrenched at
Abu Klea wells; but neither the wal of
fee, nor any of the several news agencies
have anything to confirm the report.
, 1885-02-22

courteously handed him by Speaker Car
isle. In calling the assemblage to order,
Mr.. Edmunds made a few appropriate
remarks. Prayer was then offered by
Rev. s. A. Wallis, of Pohick Church.
near Mt. Vernon, Va. The Marine band
played "Hail Columbia, and then Mr..
Edmunds, expressing his regret hat Mr..
Winthrop was necessarily absent intro
duced his representative, John D. Long,
of Massachusetts,. who proceeded TO read
Mr.. Winthrop's Grafton, as follows
Reyidea arthur. Senators and Rep
r~esenfafres Of the United STATES; By a
joint resolution Of congress, you have
called upon me to address you in this hall
to day, on the completion of yonder colos-
sal monument to the Father Of his Coun-
try. Nothing less imperative than your
call could have brought me before you for
such an effort. Nearly seven and thirty
years have passed away since it was my
privilege to perform a similar service at
the laying of the corner stone Of that
monument. In the prime of manhood,
and in the pride of official station, it was
not difficult for me to speak to assembled
thousands, in the open air. without notes,
under the scorching rays Of n midsummer
sun. But what was easy for me then is
impossible for me now. | am here 10
day, as ] need not tell you, in far other
condition for the service you have assign
cd Unchanged, changed in almost
everything, except an inextinguishable
love for my country and its union, and an
undying reverence for the memory of
Washington. On these alone | rest for
inspiration, assured that, with your IN
diligence, and the blessing of God which
l devoutly invoke, they will be sufficient
to sustain me in serving as 4 medium for
keeping up the continuity between the
hearts and hands which laid the found
ton of this gigantic structure, and those
younger hearts and hand switch have at
last brought forth the capstone with
shoutings. It is for this you have sum
moned me. 1t is for this alone | have
obeyed your call.
y y 4 Il II
, 1885-02-22

Ferris moves houses and safes, and al.
ways has houses and rooms, furnished and
unfinished. for rent at the very lowest
rates. Inquire at 1878, fifteenth street
, 1885-02-22

Later on came the long, long disheart-
ening pause, when-partly owing to the
financial embarrassments of the times,
partly owing to the p%olicital contentious
and commissions Of the country, and partly
owing to unhappy discussions in the asso-
iation itself-any contributions failed to
be forthcoming, all interest in the monu-
ment seemed to flag and die away, and all
work on 1t was suspended and practically
abandoned. Adeplorable civil war soon fol-
lowed, and all efforts to renew popular in
terest in its completion were palsied.
And well might that crude and undi-
gested mass have stood 80 forever, or
until the hands of man or the operation
of the elements should have crushed and
crumbled into dust, if our union had then
persisted. An unfinished, fagmentary,
crumbling monument tow ashington would
have been a fit emblem of a divided and
ruined country. Washington himself
would not have had it finished Ile
would have desired no tribute, however
imposing, from either half ola disunited
republic. He would have turned in alb
horrence from being thought the fathei
of anything less than one country. witt
one constitution and one destiny.
And how cheering and how inspiring
the reflection, how grand and glorious thu
fact, that no sooner were our unhappy
contentious at a end, nc sooner were unioi
and liberty, one and inseparable, once NOR,
aud, as we trust and believe. forever reas
serted and treasured, than this monumen
to Washington gave signs of fresh life
began to attract new interest and new
effort, and soon was seen rising agar
slowley but steadily towards the skies, =
stone after stone, course upon course
piled up in peace, with foundations eS
tended to the full demand Of the enoi
nous weight to be placed upon them M
til we can now hail it ascompletel Hence
, 1885-02-22

Little Joker is the best smoking
tobacco.
, 1885-02-22

Knights of Labor meet every Monday
night at 7:30 in the ldelnan block.
, 1885-02-22

Try EIlis's fresh homemade taffy.
Only 30 cents a pound.
, 1885-02-22

Schuttler wagons, and a full line Of hard
ware at Arp & Conway's.
, 1885-02-22

Nearly fifteen years, however, elapsed
before the plans or the funds of this as
sociation were in a state Of sufficient for
wardness to warrant them even in fixing n
day for laying the first foundation stone of
the contemplated structure. That day
arrived at last,-the 4th of July, ls4s.
And a great day it was in this capital of
the nation. There had been no day like
it here before, and there have been but
few, if any, like it here since.
, 1885-02-22

Frazier's Root Bitters are not a dram
shop beverage, but are strictly medicinal
in every sense. They act strongly upon
the Liver and Kidneys, keep the bowels
open and regular, make the weak strong,
heal the lungs, build up the nerves, and
cleanse the blood and system from every
impurity. Sold by druggists. BLOC.
, 1885-02-22

DIR. Frnzier'~ Magic Ointment.
A sure cure for little grubs in the skin,
Rough skin, etc. 1t will move that
roughness frsm the hands and face and
make you beautiful. Price SOC. Sent
by mail. Gray 4 Pearse, Sole Agents.
, 1885-02-22

! FoR RENr-A six-room house on Sew
enteenth street; in fine order and the
best location in town. Inquire at LEADER
office.
, 1885-02-22

1t is now, Mr.. President, Senators and
Representatives, more than half a centu-
~ since a voluntary association of patriot.
ic citizens initiated the project Of erecting
a national monument to Washington in
the city which bears his name. More
than a whole century ago, indeed-in that
great year Of our Lord which witnessed
the treaty of peace and Independence,
17S3,-congrcss had ordered an equestrian
statute of him to be executed, Ito testify
the love, admiration, and gratitude of his
countrymfn;'' and again. Immediately
after his death, in 1899, congress had
solemnly voted a marble monument to
him at the capital, 80 designed as to
commemorate the great events Of his
military and political life But our be-
loved country, while yet in its infancy,
and, | may add, in its indigency, with-no
experience in matters of art and heavily
weighed down by the great debt of the
revolutionary war, knew better how to
vote monuments than how to build them,
or, still more, how to pay for them.
Yorktown monuments and Washington
monuments, and the statutes of | don't
know how many heroes Of u struggle
for independence, made a fine show on
paper in our early records, and were
creditable to those who ordered them; but
their practical execution seems to have
been indefinitely postponed.
The Washington Monument association,
instituted in 1888, resolved that no such
-postponement should longer be endured,
and proceeded to organize themselves for
the work which has at length been com
Melted.
, 1885-02-22

FoR RENT-Two new houses. Inquire
at Cheyenne House..
, 1885-02-22

To RENT-A four room house. Inquire
Of DIR. Wyman.
, 1885-02-22

For RENT.-Two furnished rooms in
the TGlden block, corner Of Sixteenth
street and Warren avenue.
, 1885-02-22

House for rent, by VIM. Murphy, cor
ner O'Neil and Twentieth street.
, 1885-02-22

5 & Historical Dept; Cheyenne, Hyo.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-05-23
rHEIArEsT ExPEpIENT.

The democratic brain has been Sc
vereIy racked during the past few
months in devising plausible reasons
for ousting republican, officials.
At last, after twentE four years. the
- unwashed " baye performed the
phenomenal freak of taking q
bath. putting on clean socks and
vending their way TO the nations
capital. FhuS eQngFegated in large
swarms they inpQrtupe the admins
tration for pap" until the machine
is strained to its utmost tension.
The last expedient used. and one
that has been worked with great sue
cess. is to remove the officer because
he is "au offensive partisan" This
prhase sounds we'll to holy mugwumps
and they smile complacently while
poised upon their pedestal of reform.
But in the removal Of Mr. Joseph
Nimmo. Jr., of the Bureau of statis-
tics, thu administration. has clearly
defined the term IAN offensive parti-
san" Mr.. NimmO nearly created this
bureau which has been of invaluable
service to the industries of the cOun-
try. AS a statistician, Mr.. Nimmo is
almost a prodigy, in fact he has made
it for years II speciality and his sole
business. He has lived in Washing
ington for many years. taking no part
whatever in politics, not even voting,
and yet he is removed on the grounds
of being AN offensive PARTISAN" The
fact is this, "A careful compilation OF
statistics viudicated the financial and
industrial policy Of the republican
party, and Mr.. Nimn'O was guilty OF
gathering together group of facts
In other words, he should not have
told the truth In this. PR. Cleve-
land requires more of AIr. NimmC
than he did of his strikers in the
Maria Halpin affair, for he told them
to "teU the truth"
After this, when no other cause is
discernable with the naked eye, whole
focks of post masters will get the
grand bounce, for the startling reas
ons that they are Offensive parti
sans" while such righteous mug
wumps as Geo. William Curtis and
Henry Ward Beecher Will gaze with
open moIthed amaZanlent at these
stupendous exhibitions of tefOFIn.