The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-06-11
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GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
The New Orleans exposition has closed

The New Orleans exposition has closed
The taxable real estate in New York city has
increased $55, 29l ,2SS during the past year
A train of thirty one cars, lsaded with straw
berries, arrived in Chicago from the 6entralta
fruit district
The Pennsylvania Steel company has 9, 700
men on its pay roll, the wages of whom in the
aggregate amount to $99, 900 per month.
The Hessian fly and chinch bugs are making
sad havoc in Kansas wheat, and it is not be-
lieved that the state will harvest over fifteen
to twenty million bushels.
At Detroit, Judge Chesman granted divorce
to Mrs. Permelia Hopkins, wife of Mark Hop
kins, the St Clair millionaire on the grounds
of cruelty. Hopkins made no opposition
The eleventh tier of stone has been put down
on the Bartholdi pedestal on Bedloes Island
At the present rate of progress the pedestal
may be completed in the last week Of July.
A telegram from c. F. Kindred announces
that he has been successful in negotiating the
loan for the St Paul, Brainerd Northwest
ern The amount is understood to be $7,OO0,-
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There is an organized effort in Vermont to
secure the defeat of Senator Edmunds at the
senatorial election of 1886 Ex-Gov Smyth is
q leading candidate of the opposition to Ed
munds.
Although Commodore Kittson's colt Iuka
failed to capture the two-year-old race al
jerome Park, the commodore had his revenge
in the Metropolitan handicap, which his four
yearo old crack Rataplan won.
The legislature of Massachusetts has Crap
pied with the telephone monopoly, and has re.
duced charges to % q month, requiring the
telephone company to furnish instruments to
any one who will pay for them.
Within the next two weeks every window
glass factory west of the Allegheny mountains
will close down for the summer. A reduction
in wages Of 25sper cent will be insisted upon
when the factories resume.
Gen. Berry, H. R. Wells and H. s. Fart,
Minnesota delegates to the national conferences
of charities arrived recently, and. were in at
tendance, together with W. w. Campbell and
ex- Senator Wilkinson, on the opening session
of the conference.
Thomas Dennison, of Baltimore, was to mar
ry Estelle De Hoven in that city. The people
came to the church; the minister was ready.
Suddenly it WIS announced that the wedding
was of. Dennison eloped with Rose Whitney,
cousin Of Estelle De Hoven, whose brothers
bW06I VcuSoauCos
The old officers of the Northwestern rail-
road were elected at the recent annual meeting.
The gross earnings for the fiscal year ending
May 81, 18S5-those for the month of May
being subject to correction-were ~, 547, 21a
Tse tSss gsSss s.sndags for the
Representative Hewitt Of New York, who ID
large iron manufacturer, speaking Of the
strike Of the iron workers ct Pittsburg, said
he did not believe the strike would affect any
| interest in the vicinity Of New York He does
not blame the striking workmen for opposing
themselves entitled to, but they were i'll id.
vised to strike during such . condition Of trade
~ now existed, and he was now afraid thu
sufficient pains had not been taken TO inform
them Of the true state Of their employers #.
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