The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-03-04
General News Notes.

The Indiana supreme court decides that
charges for telephone service can be regulat-
ed by the legislature.
Holman speculated in the wheat mar
kets, and recently put up $4,000 margin on
100. 1000 bushels OF wheat.
Rt. Rev. Thomas A. Becker, D. D., Catho.
lie bishop of Wilmington, Del, has been
transferred to the bishoric OF Savannah,
Ga.
Careful observation shows that the ac-
counts OF the late Florida freeze, instead
OF being accurate, are Is per cent exagger-
alton.
horses suffering with glanders to be shot at
Chicago, and thinks there will be no spread
of the disease.
The Whatcom Wash Reveille estimates
that not less than 60, 900 immigrants will
settle in Washington and Oregon the com.
ing spring and summer.
The Massachusetts house of representa-.
tives has passed bill to amend the con-
stitution by abolishing the poll tax as q
suffrage qualification.
A new law in Washington Territory ex-
empts schools, hospitals, and other chari-
table institutions from taxation to the ex-
tent OF $25, 900 valuation.
The assignment of Midaugh & Beardslev,
grocers at Waupun, Wis, was filed in the
Office of the clerk Of court j. p. Roberts
and Judson j. Kelly are the assignees.
E. B. Childs, dealer in boots and shoes
at Wooster, Ohio, has made an assign
| ment. This was due to the failure OF an
| uncle for whom he was endorser to the ex-
tent Of $50, 900.
vises farmers in that territory to SOW 9TH
ing but hard wheat Of the Minnesota and
Dakota kind hereafter, as it brings q bet
ter price than club.
It is reported that Mr.. Nicholson OF Phil
adelphia has declined the presidency Of
Nashota, Wis.,, college. The trustees will
meet at the Cathedral house, Milwaukee,
March 4, to discuss the question OF the
late President Coles successor.
The Philadelphia Record will publish a
six-column article on the management OF
| the soldiers orphan schools OF Pennsyl-
vania, which alleges not only official dis
elimination, neglect and corruption, but
| also that q syndicate is profiting at the
/ rate Of $50, 900 year in the management
OF the four schools.
A New York dispatch says: Rev. T. G..
| Quinn OF Oseola, Wis.,, was found drunk on
Broadway. His nose was bleeding, his
watch, valued at $50, was stolen, as well
as$13O in money. He told Justice Welde
he was on his way to Europe, and could
not account for his humiIiating condition.
He was temporarily committed.
In the United States district court oi
| Texas, Samuel Kaiser OF Fort Worth was
awarded verdict for $25, 900 against the
| firm Of H. b. Claflin Il Co., OF New York.
Kaiser sued for 800, 900 damages, on the
grounds that the firm had attached his
stock and ruined his business and credit
before hia indebtedness to H b. Claflin
| had matured.
| The Chinese were driven out Of Oregon
| City, thirteen miles south Of Portland, Or.
They were awakened by a mob Of forty or
fifty whites, cuffed about. their qteues
twisted and all their money about their
person stolen. They were thcn escorted
to the steamboat Latona, lying at the
wharf, placed aboard her and brought tc
Portland, the fares being paid out Of the
/ money stolen from them. Forty-two
Cinnamon were driven out.