The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-09-30

months ol this year aud thAsa mslast 3ear
ia as follows: Duluth-August, 1886: Inn.
ports, $12, 169; exports, $685.. 795. Eight
months, 1886: Imports, $38. 500; exports,
$1,S26, 500. Same period last year: Inn
..,s ssRsss gSSs. .sos M
937; no exports. Same period last year:
Imports $2S0.o7O; exports, $5S, 447.
District OF Minnesota-August, 1886: Inn
ports, $116 .6O1 exports. 983, 554. First
eight months of this year: Imports, $537,-
294; exports, 1854, TAG. Corresponding
period last year: Imports, $343, ATS; ex-
ports, $942.357.
Out OF thirty-two state sena tors elected
recently in Vermont only two are lawyers.
The iollo wing were nominated for Con-
gress: w. II. F. Lee. democrat Sth Va;
James Laird, republican. I'd Neb.; Thomas
8. Hodson, repnblican, 1st Nd. w: II.
Mattine, republican,, 2dsAd.; w. c. Tuck.
republican, 9th Md; George Hines. repub-
lican. lat N. j.; J. F. Storey, prohibition
ist. 7th N. Y; William Warner, republican.
5th Me.
Postmasters commissioned: Dakota;
Tyner, E. J. Curris. Iowa; Bear Grove, E.
L. Prior; Bochlsy, A. Hamilton; College
Springs, z. j Hopkiag Fletcher, w. H.
Mong. Fourth -class n btmasters appoint
ed-Minnesota: Gordo. g. Telleison.
George Hartley, express agent and post
master at Lyon, Miss, who absconded
several days ago. turns out to be default
er to the postofiics department. All the
stamps and cash arc missing. and nine re-
gistsred lsttersA have been rlfied soi their
contents.
South Bend, Ind, lost sec, 900 by hail
storm.
During the present year about 16. 900
sv.~ 4 LII - Xx,rR
than during the same time last year.
The topography OF the region about Au.
gusta Ga, has been very materially changed
by the earthquake Of Aug. 81.
DR.. Seth Buttermore, Of Fayette coun.
ty, Pa, the ex-representative convicted OF
an attempt to defraud the state OF $12,-
500 for q bogus hospital at Connelsville,
was sentenced to pay fine OF $500, costs
OF prosecution, and be imprisoned In jail
for sixty days.
Poetmasters commissioned: Dakota:
Northwood. ]. II. Berg; Quincy, G. w. Nc
Carthy. Iowa: White Cloud, j. B. Mears.
| Minnesota: Leech Lake, J. A. Thompson.
Fourth-class postmasters appointed
Minnesota: Beech Lake, Mary A.. A.Kennsdy;
Danewood, D. s: Strong; Fond du Lac. A.
p. Anderson. Wisconsin; Bienker, J. Blen-
ker; Montreal, j. r. Wood.
Joseph Baker, acook in William Dryers
restaurant, Chicago, has been arrested in
Michigan. He killed Dwyer.
Judge Clifford was nominated by the
Dakota Republican territorial convention
at Yanktop. Sw
The President and Mrs. Cleveland arrived
in Washington on the 22d from his Adrion-
| dack vacation.
| Workmen engaged o-day in tearing the
| v,1u hiuu ont ~ Monuiu0sa nri-
| vate room found in a little closet in the
| corner u pipe four inches in diameter
| besides several smaller pipes leading direct
| ly to the sewer without any trap or con-
| trivance to prevent sewer gas from coming
into the room. These pipes strike the
sewer just at its head, where the greatest
amount OF gas is formed. In the winter,
when the doors and windows were shut,
the air was most oppressive, and some
times in the coldest weather Mr.. Manning
was forced to open the window. His ply
sicians pronounce his disease blood poison
from sewer gas, and say that it WAS brought
on, beyond doubt, by his sitting in that
little room.
| The following congressional nominations
we're made on the 22d: Benjamin F. Ham
Democrat, 9Th Indianna; c.. B. Caswell
Republican, 1st Missouri; s. N. Dickinson
Democrat, 7th Wisconsin; O. 8. Clifford Re-
publican, Dakota; H. H. Cobb Democrat.
9Th Illinois; A. P. Bulls Democrat, I'd
Minnesota; John Black Democrat Sd Wis
consin; Henry A. Robinson Republican,. lst
Michigan Church Howe Republican, LIST
Nebraska; Gilbert T. Rafferty, Democrat,
! 21st Pennsylvania; John E. Hutton Demo-
crat, 7th Missouri; Seth C. Moffat Republic
can, 11th Michigan; Hugh j.. Mcclure
Democrat, Sd Wisconsin.
Alfredo de Ronceray, twenty-five years
OF age, the son Of a former United States
consul at Porto Rico, committed suicide
by shooting himself through the head. He
| recently lost his position in the postoffice
department, and to TX his life while despond
ent.
The conscience fund in the national treas
ury aggregates nearly $25O.OOO.
Mrs. Ella T: Hough, Margaret A. White
and Edward White, husband Of the latter
were arrested at their homes at Fayatte
City, Pa, charged with forming 4 conspir
acy to place their brother, William H
Todd, in an insane asylum in order to de-
prive him OF his patrfmony in an estate
valued at 81. SOC, 600,
In the criminal court at st. Louis the
dates fixed for the. execution OF Hugh M
Brooks, alias Walter H. Lennox Maxwell
the chloroformer, Chic Chiayick and Chic
Coon, the Chinese highbinders. were post
poned, the former for sixty and the latter
for thirty days, in order to allow Q tran
script of the cases to be made before tht
appeals are taken to the supreme court.
Nothing is yet known in official circles
at Ottawa regarding the alleged new treaty
between England and the United States
rumor has been current, however. tina
arrangements have been completed for tn
issue OF a Joint commission to settle tn
fishery question. The minister OF justic
in speaking of the matter. said: II hav
not heard OF it, and my only regret is tina
matters have not reached the state desired
The question is still in statu quo"
DR.. Theodore Barth, distinguished lead
or OF the Liberal party OF the German par
lament, is in New York. He has come tt
study the American political and indus
trial system ~ -
Two men hired livery rig at Marion
Iowa, drove out into the country eigh
, miles, robbed q farmer named Jack Wy
soff Of $3.50, and skipped out. No clue.
. Lord Rosebery, speaking at Linthgow
said He thought no greater calamity coul
beiall the country than the continued ruin
ing OF provincial life by the ABSORPTION Q
, the best labor into great cities, especiall
London. He feared thnt when the enci
+ nous mass Of people in the metropoli
ties would find it too late to deal with tn
problem.
The city marshal at Marshalltown, Iowa
!. has been arrested for failing to enforce til
7 prohibitory law.
Judge Gray, at Victoria, B. c.. has Il
: fused an applicstion to respite Sproule.
!. The Bulgarian government has been Ii
. formed that q hostile demonstration ]
!, Sofia against Gen. Kaulbars will iurnis
. an excuse for Russian interierpnce.
ghav Leievre, Gladstoniap member fc
Bradford, writes to the Times; He col
!: siders the case Of Father Fahsy, the In
!. . pFisOned Irish priest, 3 gross lniscarriaa
n 81 justice. This action Or We t16hservs
!. 81 yes Mill d. mach tofweaken the author
ty and prestige 81 the Eps1ish scYernmen
!. and Irsland will make Father Fahoy laI
i pear q martyr to patFiotism SDd Irish Il
tereAts,
81 A piece oi land was sold In the city.
!. London the other day at the rate OF $40
600. GOO peF acrs.
The asricdltural departmspt Il in feclel