The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-12-10
Miscellaneous News Notes.

Insurance rates in Galveston are SO per
cent greater there now than before the
great fire. ~
A small subscription to the Grant monu-
ment fund was received in New York from
st. Peter Minn.
The Southern Illinois penitentiary con-
tains 9S7 convicts, of whom Ill are Unit
ed States prisoners.
The sheriff of Allegheny county, Pa, gets
anominai salary OF 5 800, but he manages
to rake il, SO, 900 a year.
Nicols & La Gaze, produce commission
merchants, New Orleans, have suspended.
Their liabilities are $4,000; assets $685.
600.
Robert CARROTS new house in Baltimore
will cost 81 100000. 1t is a mass OF fine
marble, exquisite stained glass and fresco-
ing, Roman baths, rare woods and wood
carving.
The firm OF Sly & G. c. Ward. New York,
the American agents OF Barring Brothers
e. Co... the London bankers, will be dis.
solved in January. The firm has had the
agency for haH century and will be sue
ceeded by Kidder, Peabody & Co.
r. VI. Hough and VI. II. Dustin, OF Lincoln
Ill.,, will probably erect large slaughter
house at Miles City Mont, with capacity
OF 10000 beeves for the season. Other
contemplated improvements will necessi-
tate the expenditure OF about $3.50, 900.
The supreme court OF Ohio rendered
decision in the Dsggett habeas corpus case
brought up from Cincinnati, dischargina
the defendant, and holding the Cincinnati
and Cleveland registry law to be unconsti-
tutional. The decision OF the court wac
unanimous.
Bartlett Green shipped 40, 900 stand OF
tn, ~, f.~
his Brooklyn, n. Y, warehouse, where they
have been stored fora year. The arms were
brought from Providence by the Drexels as
security for S175, 900 loaned the manufact-
urers. The settlement OF the suit released
the arms.
One OF the most determined prize fights,
ever fought on the Pacific coast took
place at Alvise, Santa Clara county, Cal,
between Billy Hamilton, OF San Jose, and
Young Mitchell, OF San Francisco, both
light weights After twenty-three hard
fought rounds in which both sustained Sc
we're punishment, the fight WAS awarded
to MITCHELL on a foul. =
-- An-uncle of New York 8 ~erratic Juvenile
inancier, Fred Ward, resides at Clear Lake,
in Iowa, and is the owner and occupant OF
pretentious dwelling known as "Shaw's
Villa,'' which is an aristocratic hostelry
during camp meeting season. He has a
son who attended the trial OF his illustri-
Gus cousin in New York, and Immediately
after Wards >convictioni' is said TO have
suddenly departed for England. ~
John l.. Sullivan, the pugiist, was inter
viewed on the subject OF his alleged mar:
riage. He said How can l get married
when already have one wife? ! am well
acquainted with Miss Livingston, and
when heard she was in WashingtonI visit
ed her. We left the city together on th6
evening train with other companions OF
both. She was on her way to New York,
and went straight through. w eI
A horrible and sickening sight was witt
messed at the hanging Of Robert Goodall, a.
market gardener, at Norwich, Eng. ior
the murder OF his wife. at Wisheaoh on Sept.
10 last. A fiitsel.stone weight was used.
and the drop was six feet. When the tran
was sprung tho ropa rebounded Violently,
and Goodall's head was severed from IL.
body, the trunk and ~ -. railing to tho
,~.iu, the head lying at the feet q The
spectators were horror-stricken. eat r.