The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-03-18

There is bill before the house committee
on the judiciary which provides: All manu-
facturers OF boots and shoes who use in
such articles paper or any other material
except leather, and all dealers in such boots
and shoes shall cause them to be distinctly
marked or branded, and invoiced as paper
soled boots or shoes, as the case may be.
Its provisions are to apply only where said
boots are manufactured for sale or are sold
to citizens or other than citizens ofthe state
in which they are made or to a citizen OF a
foreign country. Violation of the act is
punishable by fine and imprisonment, the
fine being placed at $50 to $500, and ten to
one hundred days
The debate on Dillwyn's motion in the
commons brought out the fact that there
is a strong leaning in parliament toward
the serious consideration OF the disestab.
lshment OF the Church Of England. Many
Libarals oppose the motion, not from lack
OF sympathy, but merely because it was an
infraction OF the pledge given by the govern
ment on assuming power not to deal with
the church question in the present parlia-
ment. The Liberal press, however, re-
fiecting the real opinion and purpose oi
the Liberal party predict that dsestab-
lishment is certain to be considered in the
next parliament and bill passed severine
the official connection between state and
church.
Gustave George Wolfram, proprietor OF
q railroad and steamship ticket Office and
collection agency in New York, has alb
seconded, and is supposed to be in Cana.
da. His liabilities are about $4, 600 and
his assets So 900 or $4,000.
P. n. Pitman, an employe OF G. W.
Moore's insurance agency OF Detroit, Mich.
has been arrested at Kalamazoo on a
charge of embezzling 81, 900 from the New
York Life Insurance company.
Samuel c. Schaeier, real estate agent ol
Kansas City, who was recently sentenced
to the penitentinry for swindling John F.
Blair, the Blairsville IN. J.) millionaire
was bound over in the criminal court at
Independence, Mo-, to answer a charge ol
conspiracy for the murder OF Mr.. Blair and
the employment OF an assassin. Schaefer
is in the Kansas City Jail in default OF 81 O,-
900 bail.
Washington Special: The bill to allow
Col. Steele OF Dakota to buy section 16,
which is a school section, in the town OF
Steele, On the Northern Pacific, has met
with terrific reverse. Col. Steele secured
from the house committee on public lands
and also from the senate committee favor.
able reports on q proposition to let him
buy that section at $3.50 an acre, the fact
being that he had settled on it tsupposing il
was section II, and he had put $50, ,O0C
worth of improvements on it. The Other
day Chairman Cobb, OF the house commit
tee on public lands, received budget oil
affidayits from Steele going to show that
Col. Steele knew he was settling on the
wrong section, and did SO with the inten
ton Of defrauding the government. etc.
etc.
A postoffice has been established at Gro
u
Hidden made postmaster. The following
postoffices have been established: Da
kota--Holmes, Grand Forks county
L. p. Hampstead postmaster; Thorson
Day county, M. Thorson postmater
Postmasters Commiss ssioned-Dakota-
Steele, F. 8. Corwin; Tower City, F. Vallan
dieham. Minnesota-East Grand Forks
T. p. Geissrt; Geneva, Elizabeth Reed
Grove Lake, A. Harrington; Sherburn, NJ
N. Jenkins. Wisconsin-Leland, F. Kip
stein. n
The Dolph bill establishing regulation
for bridges over navigable waters has beer
amended in committee SO as to fit such {
case as that OF the Stickney bridge at st
Paul and the bridges over the st. Croix.
A senate committee begins to investigate
Pension Commissioner Blacks charge tina
his predecessors made the office q politica
machine.
Mai. William Ludlow, Of the corps OF en-
gineers, u. 8. A., is appointed engineer com
missioner ofthe District OF Columbia.
The report OF the committee on com
merce upon the interstate commerce bil
presented to the house says: 1t ts be
Iieved that the enactment and enforcement
Of such q law will provide for the just ant
necessary abridgement Of the monopol,
powers Of these corporations and protec
the people against unreasonable charge
and extortionate actions, and will at th'
aame time not interfere with or embarrasl
the management OF railroad corporation
n Anything that il reasonable or just
The COMMITTEES believe it wiser and bette
to provide Tor the endorsement Of such I
lav through the instrumentality Of the or
iIinary course Of Justice and BY the judgs
and juriss Of the country than BY the or