The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-05-21
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS OF NEWS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS OF NEWS.
Charles Holden was hanged at Petersburg,
Ill, for the murder of his wife.
Bradstreet reports continued dullness in
the movement Of merchandise
The striking quarrymen at Lemont Ill, re-
turned to work, and the trouble is believed to
be over.
At Locust Gap, Pa, Miss Julia Kramer,
eighteen years old, was shot and fatally in
jured by Peter Knobanch, q rejected lover.
The court at Saltwater affirmed the sale of
the assets of the lumber firm of Walker, &
Veazie to certain of the creditors for $7O, OOO
Editor Houston of New Orleans gives Sem
ator Gibson and Representative King lively
raking and gently intimates that they dare not
take it up.
The governors of the Metropolitan club,
Washington, in response to . largely signed
petition from it's members, have abolished
poker playin g in the club.
Gen. Butler is the principal owner of the
Great Falls or rapids water power of the Poto-
mac, fourteen miles from the city, which de-
sends about one hundred feet in mile, and
which, it is claimed, is worth 81 100000.
The management of the Chicago, Rock Island
Pacific railroad has designated DR.. H. h.
Sutherland of Iowa City as veterinary surgeon
to inspect cattle which may be offered for
shipment into or through the state by that line
from quarantined states
The vote taken in the eastern part of Kidder,
Dakota, and the western part of Stutsman in
regard to forming new county and calling it
Stanton was carried by seventy-on majority.
Happen will probably be the seat Of the new
county.
The contract for erecting the main exposition
building on the state fair grounds has been
awarded to Charles Hamilton of St Paul
Architect Brodie declines to state what the
amount of the successful bid was, or to give
out any particulars. The contract for build
ing the barns has not vet been let
The Mccormick reaper company at Chicago
has reaceived answers of 400 correspondents
in the winter wheat states It estimates that,
il the ratio thus far is maintained reports will
show falling OF of 10 per cent, in the condi-
ton of winter wheat compared with the esti-
mate of April, which put the crop At Is per
cent, of q full yield, with decrease Of 20 per
cent in acreage sown.
Miss Jane Holmes Of Pittsburg in her will
left 427O, 600 to fourteen existing institutions
and $4,000 each is left for an institution for
the blind, and . hospital for children; also
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viding that all three institutions are organized
within two years. The residuary estate 10 to
be divided pro rata between all except three Of
the seventeen institutions named. The estate
amounts to over 81 100000
Henry Clews, banker and broker, has ad-
dressed letter to the chairman of the COM
mittee on admission of securities Of the stock
exchange, protesting against listing the new
issue Of Georgia bonds. Clews says he has
suffered to the extent of several million dollars
by Georgia's bad faith in unwarrantably repu-
dating bonds which have ~ full right to equal
standing % representing the credit Of the state
as the new bonds, and protests against the ad-
mission of any new securities until Georgia's
repudiated bonds are recognized and provided
for.
The sixty ninth annual meeting of the Ameri-
can Bible society was held recently at New
York. The issues during the year Of Bibles
Testaments, and portions were ,54S, 175, of
which 50S, no were circulated in. foreign lands
The total issues were As, AZ, 200 Forty -eight
new auxiliaries were recognized The receipts
for the year were 1857, Oh "a, and the experdl
lures 46l0, $50 S. For the foreign work Of the
society to be expended the coming year, $1T2,-
$50 has been appropriated Hon. +. ., Freling-
huysen was elected president and William
o.mnsll IL D., md md Hon Hon John jay vic