The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-03-11
General News Notes.

Chicago has increased the may or salary
to 81 900 per annum.
Maxine Bouiler Of Salem, Mass, drank
sixteen glasses Of whisky, and died in few
hours.
Lewis Olson, general merchant at Gale
donia, has assigned. Assets, $40, 900; lia-
bilities, $4,000.
Work on s1O,O 900 guild hall for Episco
pal students will be commenced at Ann
Arbor this spring.
The eight-hour movement is said to be
assuming formidable proportions among
Chicago workingmen.
Gov. Rusk OF Wisconsin has appointed
Capt. George B. Carter OF Plattville coun-
ty judge OF Grant county.
Mrs. Suite, a Winnipeg midwife, is ar
rested for causing the death Of a married
woman by an operation.
Rev. G. G. Lullins. chaplain at Fort
Smelling, has been ordered by his physician
to spend the remainder of the winter in
Florida.
James II. Reid OF Cincinnati abducted
his daughter from his divorced wife house,
and, it 10 thought, fled with her to Mime
apolis.
The Thomas Bradford company, Cincin-
natl, manufacturers OF milling machinery,
assigned. Assets, $4,000; liabilities,
$35, 900.
The +. Meyer Boot and Shoe company of
Milwaukee agree to the scale demanded by
the strikers, but the other manufacturers
still hold out.
Since Grants tomb was located at River
side Park property in the vicinity has ad-
vanced rapidly, unimproved twenty-five
foot lots selling for Sic, 900 each.
The Houston (Texas) Savings bank sus-
pended, and on petition of the stockholders
d. F. Stewart was appointed receiver. 1t
had paid-up capital OF 100000.
The Connecticut legislature has taken q
complete somersault on the liquor ques-
tion by voting to indefinitely postpone the
bill closing the saloons at IL o'clock at
night.
A dispatch from Houston, Me-. says:
This section is experiencing the worst snow
storm known for twenty y-fve years. 1t
has stormed continuously for four days.
The roads are impossible and trains have
been Cancelled.
The notes OF alarm sent out by the Sec
retary OF the Illinois state board OF health
in regard to cholera are regarded by the
officials OF the New York board OF health
and those attached to the quarantine de-
partment az timely. OF course they say
there is no immediate cause for anxiety.
There were 2OS failures in the United
States reported to Bradstreet's during the
week ending the 26th, against 214 in the
preceding week, and 27O, 237, EGO and 1876
in the corresponding week Of 1885, 'S4, 'S3
and 'S2, respectively. About - per cent.
were those OF small traders whose capital
was less than IS, 600.
The employees OF the Nettlefelds screw
works at Smethwick, q suburb OF Birming-
ham, struck work. Subsequently a num-
ber Of sympathizers Joined the strikers and
a small riot occurred, during which the
windows of the establishment were smash
ed. Three Thousand men are thrown idle.
The strike is against reduction OF 90 per
cent in wages.
The official announcement has been made
that A. L. Mohler had been appointed land
commissioner OF the Manitoba road, sue
ceeding j. B. Power, who retires to devote
his entire attention to his private business.
Mr.. Mohler has been connected with the
Manitoba road since October, 1882, az gen.
eral freight agent, and has proved an ac-
ceptable and efficient official.
The spring immigration to Dakota has
commenced. The trains are beginning to
bring in cars OF emigrants' movables and
there 10 every indication Of an Increased
growth this year over 1885 and 1884.
Several Of the railroad companies report a
| larger number Of inquiries during this win
ter and now coming in than have been re-
ceived since the period Of the boom oi
1883.