The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-07-29

Several leading French anarchists in
Guiding Louise Michel. have been commit
ted for trial at the asszes for melting pillage
and riot.
In England the population doubles in
fifty years, in the United States, Canada
and Australia in twenty-five years; in Ger
many, los wears, and in France and it's
counti les using the French language lao
years.
1t is positively stated at Ottowa that
Sir John Macdonald will resign the premier
ship on his return from the Northwest,
owing to ill-health.
The French Republicans have organized
a committee for the propagation Of repub-
ican principles among the people OK
France, and the extirpation OF royalism.
At the Crescent mine near Crooksville,
Ohio, Robert Burton was killed and Edward
Harrier fatally injured by the premature
explosion of blast.
An engine OF peculiar construction has
been built in Philadelphia to make the run
between that city and New York in 80
minutes.
Howard Hines, aged fourteen. deliberate
ly shot and killed Samuel Dean, aged eleven,
The London Standard says Tho new
convention hardly justifies the
the interest which it appears was awaited.
1t fails to provide for the suppression oil
American societies in which horrible pro-
jects are hatched, and by whose support
alone outrages in England are possible.
Public opinion in Great Britain will GER
tainly look to the American government
for the suppression of so gross and palpa-
BILE a conspiracy against the peace and
prosperity OF a friendly nation.
A dispatch from Minden, Kearnsy Co.,
Neb.. says: The recent storm in this coun-
try was very severe. There was q heavy
rainfall. The wind blew down the Da nish
church, three miles south of fredericksburg
aud killed an old lady, Mrs. Nels Monks.
struck n house, killing Ramasus Dilletson,
German farmer, his son AL, seventeen
years old, and a daughter fourteen years
DID, instantly, and severely injured another
child. No damage to crops is reported.
Capt. Mike Hoy was sworn in as deputy
United States marshal by United States
Commissioner Odell. He will make his
headquarters at Minneapolis.
The committee preparing II manual for
the common schools of the state at their
session at the capitol building are at work
upon geography, history, language, civil
government, penmanship, spelling and Ii
brary work. Among the new departures
will be a course OF reading outlined for the
common schools.
Adverse criticisms of the lecture deliver
ed by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher appear in
several papers. The Pail Mall Gazette
says: Mr.. Beecher did not have a first
class send-off. The hall was not filled, and
the great platform was empty. The recep-
ton given to him did not realize expect;,.
tions. The applause was hearty. but lack
ed ferveney. This was partly due to the
character of the audience, the high admis-
sion fee charged being a bar to the presence
OF the people. Mr.. Beecher's magnificent
presence, the mobility OF his face. the mod
ulation OF his voice, his splendid diction
and original thought combined to make
the man greater than the occasion.
Near Columbia, Tenn, on the Louisville
& Nashville railroad a special engine com.
ing north ran into the Columbia accommo-
dation going SOUTH killing Engineer Beech
and Fireman King, OF the light engine;
Henry Lanman, conductor of the accomo.
dation train; Fireman Robert Brown,
Monroe Wilson, baggagemaster; Al B..
Robertson, passenger agent and Section
Foreman Thompson. Two passengers
were slightly injured.
At Chippewa Falls, Wis, L. E. Waterman
and d. Z. Brewster purchased Il tract con-
taining 100000 of standing pine for
$6O, 900. +. Weyerhauser, president OF
the G. L. & B. company, has purchased for
$14O, 600 two tracts containing about so,
600, 900 OF standing pine.
The semi annual meeting Of the Iowa
Sherifs' association closed in Waterloo.
About fifty sheriffs were in attendance.
The business consisted mainly in compar-
ing notes OF service and arranging to work
together in unison. An effort was also
made to establish a uniform system OF fees
throughout the state. The next meeting
will be held at Sioux City in December.
1t costs $500, 600, 900 a year to main
tain the standing armies OF Europe.
The works of the Bradley Fertilizer COM
papy on Pine Island, near Boston, were
burned. Loss, over 500, 900.
A Laporte. Ind, special reports the
drowning in Pine Lake by the capsizing OF
their boat, OF Frank Malloy and Mrs. Rose
Stern. Young Malloy was the son of Mrs.
Emma Malloy, the temperance evangelist.
Mrs. Stern was a daughter of Jacob Vile
OF Laporte.
prairie fire recently started in the Blue
Blanket country, Dak., burned south
through Potter county, covering an area
twenty-five miles in width and sixty miles
long. 1t will create much destitution in
the locality visited.
The extensive grain elevator at East Du.
buque, ILL.,, was burned to the ground. The
building was owned by the Illinois Central
Railroad company and valued at $25, 600
with Il very small insurance.
The British war office announces that in
consequence ofan article published in the
Times OF the 10 inst, charging the officials
OF the ordnance department with corrup-
tion, Generals Campbell, Reilly and Alder
son successfully chiefs OF that department
for the past eleven years, demanded an
inquiry before a competent tribunal, and
that Mr.. Campbell. .Bannerman, war secre
tary, refused to grant an inquiry because
the charges were vague and were not sup
ported by any statement OF facts.
Acting Adjt. Gen. McKeever received a
dispatch stating that Capt. Lawton, with
his command, had surprised Geronimo's s
camp on the Yongi river, 13O miles south
west Of Campasas, Sonora, or nearly 300
miles south OF the Mexican boundary line
capturing all the Indian property, including
q large quantity OF dried meat and nine
teen horses.
1t is positively stated that Almon B.
Thompson, the defaulting cashier OF the st
Louis Provident Savings bank. is in Cana.
da. Several residents Of st. Louis report
seeing him in the dominion.
The wife OF a Pennsylvania preacher re.
Gently gave birth to twins Joined exactly
like the famous pair from Siam. Only one
OF them was alive when born and it soon
died.
The Vermont democratic state conven
tion met at Montpelier, Clarence A. Pitkin
being chairman. The following ticket was
nominated: Governor, s. b. Shurtleff
lieutenant governor, p. NJ. Meldrum; treas
urer, Thomas H. Chubb; secretary of state
w. H. Rider; auditor, ]. A. Wilder.
The new bridge across the Harlem river
at New York will cost 50, O55, 900.
Denver is to have an $50, 900 club house
The steamer Gate City, which went
ashore on the New England coast, will bt
total loss. The insurance is 5000, 900
Nelson White is shot dead in La Cross.
by unknown parties.
The dead body OF Thomas Oscar o
Cumberland, Wis, is found.
suit for $50, 1000 damages was com
menced by Miss Ezrene Fuller in the cir
cult court at Chicago against DR.. Stepher